Still not sure what I think about it.

The more I think about it, I’d prefer to see Trippier get the armband.

An obvious leader on the pitch, talented player and an England international.

I’m starting to think our captain should be someone who plays on the pitch, and is a first team regular… if Lascelles etc are good ‘leaders’ in the dressing room and training pitch, they can carry on doing that right?

Only thing I can think of that might explain it, is for now (and that’s the part I’d stress) we still have a dependency on the likes of Lascelles, Richie, Fraser etc as back up players… maybe this is a way to keep that faction on-side… or maybe I (we) are reading far too much into who’s picked as captain and why 🤣