St Kilda is set to reinstate Nick Riewoldt as captain following recent trades St Kilda is set to reinstate Nick Riewoldt as captain for 2014. NICK Riewoldt could become the club's longest serving captain next year, destined to again lead the Saints given the lack of replacements. The star forward is yet to have official talks with the club over the role, but is likely to be asked to take it on again given the departures of several obvious contenders. Ben McEvoy was seen as a future captain and Nick Dal Santo has left for North Melbourne, with both players in this year's eight-man leadership group. Neither of David Armitage and Jarryn Geary, also in the leadership group, would be ready to step up to the plate. It means Riewoldt, 31 last week, could go past the 177 games as captain of long-serving Saints skipper Danny Frawley. Riewoldt has been captain or co-captain of the Saints for eight seasons and 160 games, so only needs to play 18 games in his 14th season to go past Frawley. Coach Scott Watters responded angrily when Collingwood's Eddie McGuire tried to lure Riewoldt to the Pies in the post-season. But while Riewoldt has been upset with some aspects of the club in recent months, he will not be traded in his final years. The Saints are offering him another contract for 2015, and see him as the only man to captain while they breed some young leaders. Of the club's 2012 leadership group, Brendon Goddard, Dal Santo and McEvoy are gone, and Sam Fisher is seen as an unsuitable candidate given his off-field issues. Goddard would have been the captain this year had he stayed, with Riewoldt keen to hand him the leadership. St Kilda yesterday said it did not have an issue with Fisher meeting with Richmond's Dustin Martin in Bali in recent weeks. It was reported the pair were sighted together, after St Kilda warned Fisher off an American holiday with Martin. But St Kilda said yesterday while it had advised against a large group of St Kilda players heading to Las Vegas, it would not dictate who Fisher was friends with. It had issues with a large trip to Las Vegas given St Kilda's stated cultural problems, with the death of Port Adelaide's John McCarthy also fresh in the minds of AFL club officials. St Kilda believes Fisher can respond well next season after an injury-marred 2013 that saw him playing from Round 1 with a painful toe injury. He had surgery in June to repair the issue after playing just nine games for the season. But St Kilda's confidence in him is reflected by the fact it is refusing to trade him to Greater Western Sydney in the Josh Bruce deal.