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AFL next CEO
There is some speculation that AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan will stay on throughout 2023 and perhaps the Hawks Racism issue, Tassie football license and some other challenges mean that the timing isn't right for him to depart.
The is also some speculation that our Kylie Watson-Wheeler is still very much in the mix to replace Gil along with Andrew Dillon and Brendan Gale.
Who would be best placed to replace Gil and could KWW be that person?
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Re: AFL next CEO
Originally Posted by
GVGjr
There is some speculation that AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan will stay on throughout 2023 and perhaps the Hawks Racism issue, Tassie football license and some other challenges mean that the timing isn't right for him to depart.
The is also some speculation that our Kylie Watson-Wheeler is still very much in the mix to replace Gil along with Andrew Dillon and Brendan Gale.
Who would be best placed to replace Gil and could KWW be that person?
Yes. If KWW is prepared to use her power to unfairly advantage her supported club like Ian Collins and co.
New mega sweet deal at Docklands, WO redevelopment and AFEL games there, further investment into Ballarat, guaranteed 10 Friday Night games, Bonts & Naughton paid $1M each year as AFEL ambassadors outside our salary cap, funding us to play a USA game to expand our international reach/fan base, rig the Tassie player acquisition strategy so we don’t lose guns again, make sure we get super awesome Free Agency compo every year, another 3 or 4 Blockbuster games, guaranteed to play finals at Docklands, influence to make sure more major sponsors come our way, going after other clubs good players to get them suspended and Brownlows stolen, upgrade food retailers at Docklands, and so on.
So I can see some merit in KWW in getting the job.
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It'll be one of the boys. One of the lads from the Melbourne Club most likely. Hob hob.
Either that or Lethlean. Sure he's due a bit more failing upwards.
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Until the smell of burnt toast dissipates Sedat can only "like" posts in this thread.
Nobody's looking for a puppeteer in today's wintry economic climate.
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Originally Posted by
EasternWest
It'll be one of the boys. One of the lads from the Melbourne Club most likely. Hob hob.
Auld or Dillon $1.01 and firming. Lethers would be amusing for the lols, but even that might be a bridge too far. He will fail up again eventually.
Couldn't possibly consider external operators from city hall like Bryan Cook or Brendan Gale. What have they ever achieved?
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There were whispers Kylie Rogers had the nod but you could hardly blame her for suddenly feeling a little hesitant to take the baton while Gill continues to dip it in cronyistic shit.
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AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan will remain in the role until Round 5 of the 2023 season.
The Age is reporting that clubs were informed on Wednesday of his delayed departure, following the launch of the league’s new Magic Round.
McLachlan announced he would depart the league early in 2022, but a lack of a clear successor and looming issues including the racism allegations at Hawthorn, Tasmanian expansion and collective bargaining agreements delayed his exit.
Caroline Wilson told The Don’t Shoot the Messenger Podcast in November that the AFL CEO should move on from the top job as quickly as possible.
“He should go and he should go fairly soon,” she told the Don’t Shoot the Messenger Podcast.
“This notion from Richard Goyder that only Gillon McLachlan can solve the current problem is crazy.
“Now I understand in most ways he has been a brilliant CEO of the AFL, but he announced his retirement from the game in March and we’re now in November and the suggestion is and even Gillon is saying to people ‘I’m being told I have to stay to get all of this solved and I’ve got to get Tasmania sorted’.
“I understand that he did say he would stay until Tasmania was done and dusted. He would stay until the collective bargaining agreement for the next five years was done, but this is crazy.”
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Strange timing to be departing such a senior role.
How do you rate Gil's performance?
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Here's an article from Jake Niall evolving shit show that is the AFLs inability to let go of Gillon and anoint a successor:
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/...22-p5c874.html
OPINION
The AFL drops the ball on McLachlan’s successor
Gillon McLachlan first announced that he would be exiting the AFL back before Easter this year. As Christmas beckons, McLachlan remains chief executive and the country’s most powerful sporting body has been unable to nominate his successor.
In what should be viewed as an embarrassing turn of events, McLachlan has been asked by the AFL commission to stay on in his role until late April or May of next year, in effect giving McLachlan a farewell tour of sorts.
Jeemak comment - One of the most interesting elements of the article relates to the commission's chair Richard Goyder - the guy who mollycoddles Alan Joyce at QANTAS in his entitled efforts to extract a living out of Australians and screw those same Australians in the process (sound anything like what's happening in the AFL?).
The third key difference between Demetriou/Essendon and McLachlan/Hawthorn is that Demetriou’s chairman Mike Fitzpatrick was a more forceful figure, in terms of keeping the CEO on a leash, than the current chairman Goyder.
The impression given has been that Goyder is in thrall to Gillon, in the same way that Goyder, the Qantas chairman, has extolled Alan Joyce as a CEO nonpareil. He has let McLachlan run the show with minimal push back.
Unfortunately, this adoration of McLachlan – yes, a highly effective CEO on key measures such as COVID-19, government relations, sponsorship, club equalisation, broadcast deal, AFLW; less so on cultural matters – is also casting a shadow on his successor, whether that is Dillon, fellow AFL senior executive Travis Auld, Richmond CEO Brendon Gale or another left-field choice.
Unfortunately, this adoration of McLachlan – yes, a highly effective CEO on key measures such as COVID-19, government relations, sponsorship, club equalisation, broadcast deal, AFLW; less so on cultural matters – is also casting a shadow on his successor, whether that is Dillon, fellow AFL senior executive Travis Auld, Richmond CEO Brendon Gale or another left-field choice.
The notion that McLachlan is needed to remain in the job to deal with various tasks – the players’ CBA, club funding, the Tasmanian licence and the Hawthorn investigation – necessarily means removing important decisions from the next CEO’s domain.
And, within the AFL, there’s perpetually a crisis of one kind or another. The next CEO will be confronted with a fresh disaster soon enough.
Goyder’s commission, meanwhile, is still running two short – three if you count the temporary leave of Andrew Newbold, the ex-Hawthorn president (who has stepped aside, as a matter of governance, for the Hawthorn probe). Jason Ball, the ex-Swans premiership player, and ex-News Corp CEO Kim Williams have been gone from the AFL board for almost two years.
Jeemak comment - So essentially what we have is a commission short on cattle, and possibly dissenting/ alternative voices, overseeing a corporate organism that is fat and happy, bereft of talent and perpetually engaged in crisis management due to the nature of its major assets and its startling ability to shoot itself in the foot due to a lack of integrity.
If you're wondering (which I know you're not but I'll say it anyway) the only reason this competition is still as strong as it is comes down to its lack of natural predators. The people running it are average in the extreme.
Nobody's looking for a puppeteer in today's wintry economic climate.
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jeemak
The people running it are average in the extreme.
A few years ago (precovid), I went to a football function and Goyder was guest speaker. It was the first time I had heard him speak and he was stepping down from West Farmers at the time. To say I was under whelmed is an under statement.
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Andrew Dillion should be given the role and I would imagine there will be a few departures after someone is appointed.
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What sort of God complex is happening at the AFL if they believe McLachlan is that hard to replace. Please. What a joke.
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What sort of God complex is happening at the AFL if they believe McLachlan is that hard to replace. Please. What a joke.
He knows where the bodies are buried.
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This week a couple of the radio stations have been asking the questions given the delay in announcing Gils successor if this might be an indicator that Australian GP CEO Andrew Westacott is in contention.
Westacott is a Bulldogs supporter and is stepping down from that role after the GP.
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Originally Posted by
GVGjr
This week a couple of the radio stations have been asking the questions given the delay in announcing Gils successor if this might be an indicator that Australian GP CEO Andrew Westacott is in contention.
Westacott is a Bulldogs supporter and is stepping down from that role after the GP.
There was a John Westacott who played with us in the mid to late 50's. Father?