Firstly - Dan - Harrison is not souths chosen captain, fletcher is, one a lot more than monas, harrison fell into the job, like monas last year. That said harrison is on good money, dont kid yourself there, he would be on 200K plus.
Im not saying a captain should be paid 240K but they should be paid some extra for their extra responsibilities.
Ryan i wouldnt be able to rate all of manly's captains as my father wasnt even born in 1947 - If you are rating a captain you need to do it based on what you have seen, not through someone elses eyes, ie media, books, annecdotes from other players/commentators etc.
As a child i saw fatty take us all the way but didnt have much of an idea that he was captain bar him being carried aloft around the SCG. This really limits me to to few captains, tooves, beaver and monas are the only ones i can properly comment on. Tooves was great, but as a catain beaver was no better than monas. Monas is over the top, beaver would let us get anal raped by the refs and then turn around shake his hand and ask for more. Neither are our greats but to say he doesnt bleed manly is a pretty stupid comment. His commitment on the field is second to none, if anything he is too committed and cant let things go but hey ryan wants someone who bleeds manly and is more committed than that - lets just punch out the ref next time he makes a bad decision.
As for watmough and Stewart, that would be great. watmough who needs BK to hold his hand or he goes back to 2004 blue arsed days or stewy who struggles to organise the defence at the back let alone a team.
Both these players will get better with experience and maturity but why dont we just put chad in as captain. Manly name through and through, coulnt affect his game, oh wait bad idea, he would be bugging the ref to see how his hair was.
The only other option for captaincy is BK, who has a record that isnt the best when filling in up at newcastle, not sure if that would change, also his form would probably suffer like all recent captains and we cant afford that.