When it came to effective team leadership, Charlesworth told me, he didn’t believe that one person could ever possess all of the necessary qualities. “Some people do inspirational things on the field, some people set a tone at training, some people are very emotionally aware and gregarious off the field,” he said. “All of that stuff is leadership, but not everybody does it all.” Hawkes, he said, was “a bit superficial and scattery,” and wasn’t socially adept enough, or intellectually engaged enough, to be the team’s “permanent” leader.
