Sean Pope was the best captain in my cricket career.

His open and transparent approach to captaincy made you feel at ease within the team environment and he was a great man manager and treated us all equally and that is all you can ask from a captain.

His was a very aggressive player and captain and set fields that captains wouldn’t dare set in a game situation. Fields like 3 or 4 short covers, just very different that wouldn’t only confuse the batsman, but sometimes even his own teammates
Sean had a great ability to bring players together in social settings and this helps win on the field in tough situations, we never felt beaten in a game and this was born about by the closeness of our team.

I remember Peter Burkhart come up to me at the races one day (we were washed out) and said “you guys will win the comp this year, I have never seen a team as close as mates as you are” Peter was a good judge, as we won the grand final pretty easily over North Sydney six months later.

Sean led from the front, he was a funky captain, but one I wouldn’t swap and I played with some very handy other captains along the way.