Former Bermuda captains Arnold Manders and Gladstone (Sad) Brown say they fully support the call for Stephen Outerbridge to be named as the new Bermuda captain following David Hemp’s resignation.But they are also calling on the new crop of players to step up and seize opportunities ahead of next year’s World Division Three Championships.Brown and Manders were appointed to the newly-formed technical committee in 2007 and advised the Board on all cricket-related matters, while Manders also worked at the Board as development director. He captained Bermuda from 1985 to 1991 and then came back to captain the team in the Red Stripe tournament in the Caribbean in 1998.He believes now is a good time to begin rebuilding the team under a new captain.“You’ve got to start looking towards the future,” said Manders. “Stephen is probably the closest we have to a professional in Bermuda, he takes care of his body, he’s a student of the game, he believes in the principles that if you train you play, if you don’t you don’t and he doesn’t care who it is.“I think most of the players look up to him. The Board has invested in him, sending him away to school, so to me he seems like the next logical choice. The players respect him. If somebody is going to follow you they have to believe in you. Stephen has that from most of the players.”Hemp stood down as captain last week and now the Board will begin the process of appointing a new captain. Outerbridge, who led Bailey’s Bay to their first league title in 18 years and led by example in scoring 448 runs in the league which also earned him the Player of the Year award, is the clear favourite for the post.“Hemp has given us some good years but I think a clear-out meeting is needed to decide where Bermuda goes from here,” said Manders. “You have to make a choice whether you want to play the young ones and groom them or keep playing with the same players and still lose. It is a decision that has to be made by the Board or the national coach. If they are losing anyway they might as well keep a young team together and rebuild, that’s what most teams are doing right now.”Brown, Bermuda’s first captain in the ICC Trophy in 1979 and the first Bermuda player to score a century in the tournament four years later, also feels it is a good time for the Board to move forward with a new captain and a new crop of talented young players.He admitted he has concerns about selecting overseas based players to a training squad knowing they won’t be able to attend training sessions.“If we’re going to rebuild we’ve got to rebuild, not piecemeal,” Brown feels. “Hemp’s not playing cricket, not a professional cricketer anymore, not based here and I have a problem selecting people to train who are abroad.“I say if we’re going to rebuild then let’s rebuild, give the captain a new side. It’s long overdue. They’ve also got to want to do it. I don’t know why the indifference to training, we just need to sit the fellas down and see who buys into the programme. It doesn’t make sense naming people and they are not buying into it. Where do we get 30 players from? If we’ve got 30 or 40 good players then our cricket shouldn’t be where it is. The squad will cut itself down.”Manders also urged the players to make a commitment to the national programme with more opportunities existing than during his playing days.“These players need to start going into a team concept instead of individuals, that’s where Bermuda is falling down and I’m not scared to say it,” said the former captain.“You’ve got to do what you need to do for your country, they put club and Cup Match before their country. Bermuda going into the World Cup has taught us a lot about preparation and different parts of the game we never thought about. The Board need to make a decision what they want to do. Do they want to be content to play in Division Three and play a tournament every now and then and save money or do they want to get back to the World Cup?“Then you will need funding and a decent programme put in place. Sometimes you have to sever ties to make progress. They’ve got a good young crop, they just need a programme in place and the players need to commit to training. They have to want to be there and do the extras in order to make themselves better. I think we have a good young crop but mentally they need a lot of work.”