Essendon recruit Brendon Goddard models the No.9 jumper he will wear next year. Picture: Michael Klein Source: Herald Sun
ESSENDON star recruit Brendon Goddard feels he can take on a greater leadership role with the Bombers than he had with his former club St Kilda.
The two-time All Australian, who was touted as a potential future captain of the Saints before joining the Bombers through free agency in October, said he was only just coming to terms with how young and inexperienced Essendon's list is.
Goddard, part of St Kilda's Grand Final sides in 2009-10, says the lack of players with similar experience levels at Essendon could make his leadership skills more in demand.
"St Kilda had the luxury of having a large core group of players that are really experienced," Goddard said today at Essendon's partially-built new training base near Melbourne Airport. .
"In saying that, there are some great leaders already or potential leaders as well at Essendon.
"You've got Jobe (Watson) as the obvious standout, but you've got guys coming up like Jake Melksham and Dyson Heppell and David Zaharakis, guys that can take their leadership to a new level."
Goddard said it was only after spending time with his new teammates that he fully appreciated the different age demographic at Essendon.
"Hanging around with the boys, I actually realised how young they are as players and as men as well and looking through the profiles in the list how inexperienced they are," he said.
Goddard, who has said previously there were reasons behind his departure from the Saints that he is unwilling to make public - on top of the longer contract and permanent midfield berth the Bombers were offering - was again guarded on that front today.
But he said his relationship with his Saints teammates was strong and he had no ill feeling towards St Kilda coach Scott Watters, who said publicly at the time of Goddard's defection that it was motivated purely by money.
"There's always two sides to the story and they're entitled to their opinion and their thoughts," he said of the Saints.
"Scott and I, I thought we had a pretty good relationship, so I don't have a bad word to say about Scotty."
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