Captjns/Fireflybob,
At this point it's highly highly unlikely i'll ever get to make the leap to employed pilot. Combination of factors and it's not certain, things can always change, but thank you. Sincerely. Thankyou for showing a human side and I consider it a great shame that in all likelihood I will never get to fly with the likes of you.
The Captain is clearly the master of the ship. Clearly it is the skipper that carries ultimate responsibility, but I would suggest that even the greenest of FOs has a vital role to play on the flightdeck. I get so tired of people's short memories, when they slate the newbies and their lack of experience - there seems a lack of understanding that even the most grizzled of 20000+ hour captains was once also that 200hr newbie (albeit quite possibly not in the RHS of an MRJT at that point)