Will Jesse Bromwich be the Dolphins' inaugural captain?

The Dolphins have had a few misses in the recruitment market, but they might just have signed their first captain. 

The club announced on Friday it had signed Jesse Bromwich, with the Melbourne Storm stalwart to join Felise Kaufusi, Jamayne Isaako, Ray Stone and fellow veteran Mark Nicholls in Wayne Bennett's inaugural squad for 2023. 

But while Kaufusi, Isaako and Stone could conceivably be long-term Dolphins, Bromwich is different. He'll turn 34 just a couple of months after the expansion side plays its first game in March of next year.

Bromwich is the biggest name the club has landed so far, and it has the bones of a solid squad, but there's still a long way to go. It's yet to land a slam dunk, a true superstar, the kind of signing that makes everyone sit up and take notice. 

The Dolphins haven't found their Scott Prince, who changed things for the Titans when they signed him for their first season in 2007. Prince was one of the best players in the league at the time and he made everyone take notice of the new guys. 

The Dolphins will sign someone like that. But in Bromwich they might have found their Glenn Lazarus, who was reaching the end of his career when he joined Melbourne in 1998 as the team's inaugural skipper. 

Like Bromwich, Lazarus had won multiple premierships and was a representative mainstay. Like Bromwich, Lazarus had once been the top prop in rugby league but had begun to slow down. Like Bromwich, Lazarus turned 33 the same year he played his first game for the expansion club and, like Bromwich, Lazarus signed a two-year deal. 

Lazarus gave good service to the Storm even though he was not the force of earlier times and ended his time in Melbourne hoisting the club's first premiership trophy in 1999. Asking