Club captaincy just the start for Thurston
Margie McDonald
March 09, 2007
THE elevation of Johnathan Thurston to Cowboys captain could be an audition for leading Queensland and even Australia, according to club chief executive Peter Parr.
Darren Lockyer captains the state and national team and has indicated he might give away representative football after the 2008 World Cup.
It is a role Parr thinks the 23-year-old Thurston could capably fill, even though he made his Kangaroos debut only last year.
"If he does all the right things around our captaincy and really embraces it, I think he'd be a natural then for the Queensland captaincy and who knows after that," Parr said.
"Certainly, it's not beyond him."
Thurston said he was honoured to have the role and to have hooker Aaron Payne as deputy, hoping they would form a union like that of Andrew Johns and Danny Buderus at Newcastle. He had good memories of what he learnt under Travis Norton, who retired last season, and his Bulldogs captain, Steve Price.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21348818-2722,00.html
WTF, How does that sound arrogant?