{"id":483028,"date":"2026-02-16T05:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T05:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/483028\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T05:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T05:16:12","slug":"brisbane-lions-settle-on-captaincy-call-after-lachie-neales-departure-from-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/483028\/","title":{"rendered":"Brisbane Lions settle on captaincy call after Lachie Neale\u2019s departure from role"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brisbane have made the bold call to enlist three players to share the captaincy this season in the wake of Lachie Neale\u2019s departure from the role following his off-field drama.<\/p>\n

The Lions will deploy a trio of co-captains, with existing skipper Harris Andrews joined by Hugh McCluggage and Josh Dunkley at the helm.<\/p>\n

Neale had shared the captaincy with Andrews for the past three seasons, leading the club to successive premierships, but last month made the call to step down amid his much-publicised marriage breakdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was quite unique to have three guys that are more than capable of being great captains at your one club at the one time,\u201d Lions coach Chris Fagan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you have three good people, than why not have three captains?<\/p>\n

\"HughCamera IconHugh McCluggage and Josh Dunkley will take over from Lachie Neale. Credit: Adam Trafford\/AFL Photos<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us, leadership is a teamwork thing so to have three captains reinforces that philosophy and we work really hard to build leadership density at our footy club.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese three are our best trademark players, they are fine young men, they are different personalities, so they bring different strengths to the table.\u201d<\/p>\n

It marks a return to more than two players sharing the captaincy at Brisbane for the first time since 2007, where a whopping five players were named co-captains.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, St Kilda have also opted for a dual-player captaincy model, with Callum Wilkie and Jack Sinclair to share the role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brisbane have made the bold call to enlist three players to share the captaincy this season in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,588,85],"class_list":["post-483028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}