Co-captains an option for Port Adelaide as it looks to replace Travis Boak as skipper

Port Adelaide is open to following Adelaide’s historic move to appoint co-captains for the first time as it looks to replace long-serving skipper Travis Boak.

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Port Adelaide is open to following Adelaide’s historic move to appoint co-captains for the first time as it looks to replace long-serving skipper Travis Boak.

Power assistant coach Michael Voss said the club wasn’t tying itself to any captaincy model and was in no rush name a successor to Boak, who relinquished the role and the No.1 guernsey in November after a record six seasons as club leader.

Michael Voss talks to Travis Boak during the Power’s preseason camp in Noosa. Picture Sarah Reed

“I think the stance that we’ve really taken from the start is that we certainly haven’t tied into anything,” Voss said.

“We’re pretty determined to use the whole period here.

“We’ve had Travis Boak in that role for such a long period of time, it’s a really prestigious and a very important position in any club, but certainly Port Adelaide.

“We’re going to make sure that we take our time, we’re certainly not tying into anything.”

Vice-captain Ollie Wines and fellow 2018 leadership member Tom Jonas are the favourites to replace Boak but coach Ken Hinkley has already said he had three or four potential candidates to wear the club’s prized No. 1 jumper, including star small forward Robbie Gray.

Port’s 2018 leadership group featured Brad Ebert, Hamish Hartlett, Charlie Dixon and Tom Rockliff alongside Boak, Wines and Jonas.

Port Adelaide’s 2018 leadership group, from left, Hamish Hartlett, Tom Jonas, Ollie Wines, Captain Travis Boak, Charlie Dixon, Brad Ebert and Tom Rockliff. Picture: Sarah Reed

Adelaide on Tuesday announced Rory Sloane would share the captaincy duties with Taylor Walker in 2019. The big forward led the club in a solo capacity for the past four seasons, and took it to its first grand final in two decades in 2017.

GWS (Callan Ward and Phil Davis), Gold Coast (Tom Lynch and Sam May) and Melbourne (Jack Viney and Nathan Jones) all had co-captains last season with Carlton (Patrick Cripps and Sam Docherty) announcing a similar move earlier in the preseason.

Voss said clubs were working out what personnel they had and determining what model might work best for the playing group.

“I think what most clubs are doing now is that they’re recognising what’s their best fit and that could be the one, or the two, or that could be just the personality type they need,” Voss told SEN SA’s Dwayne’s World on Tuesday.

“We’ll look at all those things, obviously get some feedback from the players, and then make some decisions as a club from there.”