and the captain of the 2024 AFL all Australian team is Marcus Bonton [Applause] Pell twice Vice Captain and for the first time captain of the all Australian team ladies and gentlemen warm Round of Applause from The Champ for the Western Bulldogs Marcus Bonton Pell than congratulations um firstly what do you think the key to captaincy is well the thing I probably learned more and more um as I've been in the position is is probably how well you're able to listen I think uh you probably got no doubts um most guys who who are sitting up here especially know how to play the game and talk about it but I think what you're hearing coming back the other way is probably the most important so uh definitely something I've I've tried to do as as well as I can you're a far and brimstone man pregame what what you at the last moment we we see you hle around what are you rolling with uh whatever comes to mind most of the time um it becomes something I think as you definitely grow older and grow more comfortable with it is you don't try to reinvent the whe too much I think you you learn from others uh who've tried and failed maybe before you and uh and try to sort of roll with maybe some stuff that that just lands and and you probably realize that in the end most guys aren't probably listening um and you just try and swear a lot um and get through and look a few BLS in the eyes and typically that seems to do the trick it's no different country but we'll just have a bit of a look at this team how would you Captain some of this team you've got Crips you've got Doos they want to be in the middle you've got song You've Got Loy Neil back there you sort of Whitfield F tror wants to be in the middle so me as he he look at me he wants to be in the middle so how you going about sorting that lot out it it's hard looking at them at the same time trying to work it out yeah no I think it'll just be get out of their way I think that's been the the answer I've heard the best over the last few years is uh like I said you got a lot of good footballers sitting before us um I think most of them will know what to do um and just follow the lead of some others and then I'm looking at the forward line big Jesse Hogan he's got the common around his neck Jess is coming off nine and Jakie Waterman he's a genuinely tough looking man so like he's smiling now but I'm not going actually anywhere near him so who who gets full forward in your mind it might be maybe just the the olden days Style just roll the ball out and see who uh see who wants it the most um but I think you'll be do pretty well with with any one of them um and especially at the fielders midfielders um just kick it and see what happens watch probably like like everyone else would how do you think it'll go actually playing a game with this team you there' be some Sizzle wouldn't there yeah I think it'd be hard to stop I think that's probably the key thing um good luck trying to find probably enough that can compete against it but as you know that the squad was pretty packed and pretty deep this year um once once again it's always the hypothetical um I think it'd be a pretty good show mate congratulations uh good luck to you and everyone here and particularly for you on the western Bulldogs W I'm being named captain of the Australian team now thank you very much H Jah cheers