How much difference does captain really make these days? Seems to me they are mostly there for when the ref wants to hear the sound of his own voice so calls the captain over to tell them how to play football "now go back and talk to your team" which inevitably ends with the captain running back into position and not passing on anything the ref just said.
The Bulldogs should just draw the captain out of a hat before each game for all the difference the captaincy actually makes, or better yet, don't name one at all, just to mess with the refs.