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Foxfooty.com.au highlights the early front-runners to be the next AFL chief executive.
BRENDON GALE
AFL 360 host Gerard Whateley told his SEN program on Tuesday that there was “no man more qualified in clubland to be the next CEO of the league” than Gale. After playing 244 AFL games with the Tigers from 1990 to 2001, Gale practised law with a leading Australian commercial law firm prior to serving as chief executive of the AFL Players’ Association. He was then appointed as Richmond’s chief executive in August 2009. Multiple reports linked Gale with a run for the top AFL job when it was last vacant in 2014 — a vacancy McLachlan ultimately filled.
TRAVIS AULD
There were suggestions last year the AFL was beginning to position Auld as McLachlan’s successor. Auld is the AFL’s executive general manager of finance, clubs and broadcasting, with the Marvel Stadium and Docklands Precinct redevelopment, as well as other AFL major projects, also included in his portfolio. It’s a portfolio that’s grown significantly since he arrived at AFL headquarters via clubland. Auld joined Essendon in its finance department in 1996, progressing through the club’s administration to become Chief Operating Officer. In 2009, he was appointed as the Gold Coast Suns’ chief executive before joining the AFL in 2014. Would have very strong relationships at club level.
CHRISTINE HOLGATE
The former Australia Post chief executive emerged as a potential candidate for McLachlan’s role last year. Holgate is now the boss of Toll Logistics firm Global Express and is a member of Collingwood’s board. She would be a strong candidate to be anointed as the AFL’s first female chief executive.
ANDREW DILLON
The AFL’s legal boss turned executive general manager of football, Dillon is highly regarded internally at the AFL since joining the league in August 2000 as Legal Counsel. Dillon has worked his way up the chain, from legal and business affairs manager and general manager of legal, integrity and compliance to the responsibility of game development then, in September last year, officially becoming executive general manager of football operations, legal and integrity. Right in the mix.
KYLIE ROGERS
A bit of a bolter after joining the AFL’s executive as general manager of customer and commercial. Described on her AFL profile as “one of Australia’s leading commercial and media executives” following her 17-year tenure at Channel 10, as well as a stint at Mamamia. Since joining the AFL, Rogers has overseen membership, ticketing, events, corporate hospitality and sponsorship.
KYLIE WATSON-WHEELER
A lifelong Bulldogs supporter, Watson-Wheeler became the second female club president in the AFL — after Richmond’s Peggy O’Neal — when she was unanimously voted in by the Bulldogs’ directors at a board meeting in late 2020. Watson-Wheeler, who’s been a board member since late 2013 and served as the Bulldogs’ vice-president for four years, is the Australia and New Zealand managing director of the Walt Disney Company.
JAYNE HRDLICKA
We may have gotten a sneak peek of the AFL CEO handover in 2021 without realising, when Virgin Australia CEO Jayne Hrdlicka stood alongside Gillon McLachlan to announce a new five-year deal with the code. Hrdlicka‘s time as Virgin Australia CEO began in late 2020. Prior to that, she was CEO of the Jetstar Group between 2012 and 2017 and the company nearly doubled its profits during her tenure. An 18-month stint as CEO of A2 Milk followed, during which the company’s share price rose by 40 per cent before she left at the end of 2019. Additionally, Hrdlicka became the first female chair of Tennis Australia and was re-elected unopposed in 2019 for an additional three years.
https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-news-2022-candidates-to-replace-gillon-mclachlan-as-ceo-travis-auld-andrew-dillon-brendon-gale/news-story/3399906e118b4453b3e1bc4a75344894
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The woke crowd will get want to get a woman(can we say that anymore?) in to prove how progressive the AFL is :rollin
Maybe if Benny joins Danielle Laidley and decides he is a woman(can you say that anymore?) than he will be an absolute front runner and might also win the woman(can you say that anymore) of the year award too :rollin
I personally don’t really care who gets the job as long as whoever it is deserves it and is great at it.
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You can count out all of the women. The AFL is a boys club that is not ready for a woman at the helm.
That leaves three men two of which already work for the AFL and would mean another position to fill (too much change all at once).
Only person left is Brendon Gale. A top performer with the added bonus that the RFC would suffer for the loss. A done deal methinks.
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You can count out all of the women. The AFL is a boys club that is not ready for a woman at the helm.
That leaves three men two of which already work for the AFL and would mean another position to fill (too much change all at once).
Only person left is Brendon Gale. A top performer with the added bonus that the RFC would suffer for the loss. A done deal methinks.
Hopefully gain if he gets it tho
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The woke crowd will get want to get a woman(can we say that anymore?) in to prove how progressive the AFL is :rollin
Maybe if Benny joins Danielle Laidley and decides he is a woman(can you say that anymore?) than he will be an absolute front runner and might also win the woman(can you say that anymore) of the year award too :rollin
I personally don’t really care who gets the job as long as whoever it is deserves it and is great at it.
I don’t think it is woke to put a woman in this role, did you think it was woke when we put Peggy in as Richmond president?
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If Brendon leaves then we straight out go and get Andrew Dillon from the AFL. Tigers man and done great at the AFL and is a lawyer as well.
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The reason I believe Peggy got the job was that 2 other directors were fighting for the top job and the club needed to bring a leader that would bring the factions together .
Got the admin right and the rest is history
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Time to get a football player back at the helm, no more corporate creatures.
Apparently the AFL want Auld, the clubs want Benny???????????????
That is like the Australian voters wanting prime minister A and the public servants wanting their prime minister B.
Who is ultimately running the AFL? the clubs or the AFL swamp.
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If Brendon leaves then we straight out go and get Andrew Dillon from the AFL. Tigers man and done great at the AFL and is a lawyer as well.
Maybe Daniel Jackson would be the heir apparent highly credentialed and an ex Richmond player.
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If Brendon leaves then we straight out go and get Andrew Dillon from the AFL. Tigers man and done great at the AFL and is a lawyer as well.
Maybe Daniel Jackson would be the heir apparent highly credentialed and an ex Richmond player.
Probably needs to work at COO level in club land first
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The woke crowd will get want to get a woman(can we say that anymore?) in to prove how progressive the AFL is :rollin
Maybe if Benny joins Danielle Laidley and decides he is a woman(can you say that anymore?) than he will be an absolute front runner and might also win the woman(can you say that anymore) of the year award too :rollin
I personally don’t really care who gets the job as long as whoever it is deserves it and is great at it.
I don’t think it is woke to put a woman in this role, did you think it was woke when we put Peggy in as Richmond president?
No, not in that instance she has been very good.
Certain things do raise my eyebrows though, ie. Kamala Harris, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Rachael Levine
And the very colourful flag in our cheersquad this year and on the pole at our AFLW home games
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If Benny goes then there is an obvious replacement
A former RFC official, who was mentored by Benny, got a CEOs role at another Club and was dumped in powerplay by incoming President
This bloke negotiated record sponsorship for that Club. Though I am sure the president will give all the credit to the new CEO
At Richmond this bloke put together the membership program that set us on the path to 100k members regularly
Blokes name is Cain Liddle
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Peggy is the obvious replacement for Gil, does she want it though?
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Grant Thomas would be amazing as he would bring footy back the way we all love it. I wouldn't say no to Eddie either.
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Grant Thomas would be amazing as he would bring footy back the way we all love it. I wouldn't say no to Eddie either.
Grant Thomas LMAO
Surely you are taking the pee
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Grant Thomas would be amazing as he would bring footy back the way we all love it. I wouldn't say no to Eddie either.
Grant Thomas LMAO
Surely you are taking the pee
Have you talked to him recently about the game and his views on the game?
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Grant or Eddy??
No chance
Buffoons
Mind you Gil is not far in front of them so wtf knows
I don’t care who it is as long as they scrap standing the mark
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Grant Thomas would be amazing as he would bring footy back the way we all love it. I wouldn't say no to Eddie either.
Grant Thomas LMAO
Surely you are taking the pee
Have you talked to him recently about the game and his views on the game?
No. And zero interest in doing so
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Grant Thomas would be amazing as he would bring footy back the way we all love it. I wouldn't say no to Eddie either.
Grant Thomas LMAO
Surely you are taking the pee
Have you talked to him recently about the game and his views on the game?
No. And zero interest in doing so
Okay- then would you believe i am not joking...he would fix the current game within a week.
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Grant Thomas would be amazing as he would bring footy back the way we all love it. I wouldn't say no to Eddie either.
Grant Thomas LMAO
Surely you are taking the pee
Have you talked to him recently about the game and his views on the game?
No. And zero interest in doing so
Okay- then would you believe i am not joking...he would fix the current game within a week.
Stick him in Shockings old role then
He’s not capable of being the head of the game
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MIKE SHEAHAN NAMES HIS “PRE-RACE” FAVOURITE TO REPLACE GILLON MCLACHLAN
Veteran AFL journalist Mike Sheahan believes Brendon Gale should be the future CEO of the AFL, should they side with someone that has clubland experience.
Following Gillon McLachlan’s sudden resignation from the role on Tuesday afternoon, Sheahan says there’s no question that Gale is the number one candidate.
Touted as being McLachlan’s potential successor for some time, Gale has been the CEO of the Richmond Football Club since 2009, taking the Tigers from a “basket case” to a “powerhouse”, winning premierships in 2017, 2019 and 2020 and topping 100,000 members.
Gale’s experience as a past player, lawyer, chief of the players’ union and CEO has him as the pre-race favourite, according to Sheahan.
“I can’t give you any (names) that haven’t been canvassed but I think from clubland, Brendon Gale’s CV is impeccable,” Sheahan said on SEN Breakfast.
“I don’t know if he’ll get the job or not, but he certainly has to be the pre-race favourite, given his background as a player, 250 games, lawyer, ran the Players’ Association and took Richmond from being a basket case to a powerhouse.
“There’s no question in my mind that on the candidates that we know, Brendon Gale is my number one.”
Sheahan feels experience at club level shouldn’t be underestimated when choosing McLachlan’s successor, given their knowledge of the game and the intricacies that come with it.
“I think football’s big enough to say it can spawn its own people capable of running the competition, Gillon has done it well and I think Brendon or if there’s a better candidate at club level, they would do it well,” he added.
“I think it’s fashionable to say we’ll do this worldwide search, get these head-hunters in and come back with someone we’ve never heard of. I think it’s important to understand what happens in this industry because running the AFL is similar to being Prime Minister, except more people care about the AFL job.
“I can’t see how anyone at club level gets near him (Gale) in terms of his credentials.”
https://www.sen.com.au/news/2022/04/12/mike-sheahan-names-his-pre-race-favourite-to-replace-gillon-mclachlan/
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You wouldn’t begrudge him for doing so but I would hate to lose a president and CEO in the same season.
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I can see Benny saying no. He seems happy at home. Losing Pretty I can see him thinking it's really poor timing to leave the club. After everything he's done I think he'd see it as a huge risk losing president and CEO in same year.
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Peggy is the obvious replacement for Gil, does she want it though?
Peggy is the least obvious person for the CEO role, she is a governor not an executive.
Peggy would replace Goyder, not Gill
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Caro reckons Benny Gale is the "hot favourite" but Eddie chipped in and said not amongst the non-Victorian presidents he has spoken to.
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FO Eddie ya flog
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‘He just signed for three years’: AFL duty-bound to talk to Gale, but there’s a catch
Michael Gleeson
The Age
April 14, 2022
Richmond president Peggy O’Neal admits the AFL is duty bound to talk to her club’s highly regarded CEO as a possible replacement for the outgoing head Gillon McLachlan but said Brendon Gale had just re-signed with the Tigers and the AFL should cast its recruiting net beyond league headquarters and clubs.
The AFL’s first female president said gender should be irrelevant to the AFL CEO appointment and the league should consider a female for the top job, adding the AFL had long passed similarly dated notions that presidents and CEOs needed to have come from a sport background or played at the highest level.
“Of course, they should talk to Brendon and see whether he is interested in talking to them, that’s another thing,” O’Neal said.
“He is a very talented person, he is very smart, he always has the view of the many stakeholders you have to balance. Brendon is great in all those things you would want in a CEO and he has given us wonderful service and everyone acknowledges how talented he is or we wouldn’t be talking about him this way.
“But right now he is our CEO and that is it.
“I know people like to speculate but in the meantime he is our CEO and we have a lot going on and he is committed to that. He just signed for three years through to 2025.”
On Thursday, Richmond coach Damien Hardwick praised Gale’s leadership and backed him to success should he get the job.
“Brendon is a star in my opinion. Whatever Brendon puts his mind to, he’s going to succeed,” Hardwick said at Punt Road.
“He is an aspirational leader, which I love. I love working for him here.
“He’s been such a strong supporter of our football department and our club in general.
“I’m sure the AFL will have a very, very good look at him.”
And if Gale does get the top job, one thing Hardwick would like his current boss to fix is the soft cap on football department expenditure because the Richmond coach stressed there was “no question” that it was becoming harder to attract staff such as medical professionals.
“They’ve been asked to do a hell of a lot more work for less money and they put in long hours,” Hardwick said.
“Coaches put in long hours but medicos are there 24/7 and we’re asking them to take less pay.”
O’Neal said the priority now should be congratulating McLachlan on the job he had done rather than rushing to name a successor.
“I think if you make the pool wide enough, there will be an equal number of meritorious people no matter what the gender,” she said.
“In every business, you look for someone like the person stepping aside and that is often too narrow so I would hope that there is an extensive search and more lateral thinking.
“It’s like what they used to say about presidents: do you have to have come from a sporting background to be a president? Do you have to have played at the highest level to be a CEO? I think you need to have knowledge or acquire that knowledge but I think the skills are skills applicable to most businesses.
“Businesses all the time look outside (the organisation). The CEO jobs, top jobs or chairman, they don’t go to internal candidates. You need to go to the market and see what is out there even to test the proposition of your internal candidates.
“You need to be sure you have exhausted your search of the pool of talent and rather than wait for people to apply to go out and find people that might be suitable.
“That is not to say anything about the people who are senior at AFL House and get mentioned because I hold them in high regard, too. It’s just if you want to say are we doing the best by the organisation, then you need to look far and wide.”
The AFL has appointed Bruce Williamson of executive recruitment firm Spencer Stuart to conduct the search.
Gale will no doubt be among those approached. O’Neal said that in her first year as president, Andrew Demetriou stood down and Gale’s name was raised as a possible replacement, and he had annually since been spoken about as future AFL CEO.
Williamson’s list of candidates will certainly contain AFL executives Andrew Dillon, Travis Auld and Kylie Rogers while Western Bulldogs president Kylie Watson Wheeler, who is senior vice president and managing director of Disney Australia and New Zealand, is a high-calibre candidate along with MCC CEO and former Hawthorn CEO Stuart Fox.
O’Neal scoffed at the idea she could throw her own hat in the ring, saying she had sated her sporting appetite with her work at Richmond.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/he-just-signed-stuff-to-gale-but-there-s-a-catch-20220413-p5ad94.html
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If Benny goes then there is an obvious replacement
A former RFC official, who was mentored by Benny, got a CEOs role at another Club and was dumped in powerplay by incoming President
This bloke negotiated record sponsorship for that Club. Though I am sure the president will give all the credit to the new CEO
At Richmond this bloke put together the membership program that set us on the path to 100k members regularly
Blokes name is Cain Liddle
Whats he doing these day?
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Suns’ chief seeks to block Gale’s path to game’s top job
Tony Cochrane has reportedly commenced a campaign to halt the ‘Tiger King’ succeeding Gillon McLachlan.
Ed Carmine
zerohanger.com
April 16, 2022
Outspoken Gold Coast chairman Tony Cochrane has reportedly commenced a campaign designed to keep current Richmond CEO Brendon Gale from succeeding Gillon McLachlan as league boss due to claims that the AFL is already too Victorian-centric.
As first reported by Caroline Wilson of The Age, the vociferous Cochrane has made contact with each of the league's non-Victorian clubs in an effort to rally support for his crusade against the revolutionary Tigers' chief.
Wilson stated that Cochrane has already touched base with the respective presidents of the Fremantle, West Coast, Adelaide, Port Adelaide, Sydney, Greater Western Sydney and Brisbane Football Clubs to pitch his particular case.
Even prior to McLachlan's announcement that he would be stepping down from his role as the game's head at the cessation of the 2022 season, Gale was seen as one of - if not the - prime candidates to succeed the South Australian at AFL House.
Although Gale has recently put pen to paper on a three-year extension to remain at Punt Road, the 244-game Tiger's prospects of presiding over each of the competition's 18 clubs refuse to be dulled.
While claiming that the elevation of Gale would only see Victorian clubs offered what is perceived to be a cushy ride, it must be noted that the 53-year-old is a born-and-bred Tasmanian.
And given Cochrane has long remained a vocal critic of an expansion side from the Apple Isle being given the green light, the Queensland-based promoter is in direct opposition to Gale, with the Burnie-native already throwing his, and Richmond's, support behind the island state earning the AFL's 19th licence.
A decision on whether or not the footballing state will be granted an invite to join the league is expected to be made when each of the competition's 18 presidents officially convenes in August.
A complete list of candidates to succeed McLachlan is yet to be made public, however, Gale is expected to contend with incumbent AFL employees Andrew Dillon, Travis Auld and Kylie Rogers for the role.
https://www.zerohanger.com/suns-chief-seeks-to-block-gales-path-to-games-top-job-118693/
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Add Tony Cochbrain to the salt locker thread
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Giants boss backs rival to replace AFL chief amid Sun’s ‘highly unusual’ move
Catherine Healey
Fox Sports
April 22nd, 2022 7:48 pm
GWS chief Dave Matthews has thrown his support behind Brendon Gale as the man to potentially replace Gillon McLachlan as head of the AFL, after rumours of a non-Victorian club campaign to keep the Richmond CEO from the top job.
Gale, who was appointed Tigers CEO back in 2009 before taking on the role of executive director in 2015, is one of the frontrunners to take over as AFL CEO - despite a reported campaign by Gold Coast Suns chief Tony Cochrane against the appointment.
It was reported this week Cochrane had made contact with each of the league’s non-Victorian clubs against Gale’s move as potential AFL CEO, but Matthews said the “highly unusual” move was news to him.
“I thought it was odd. It’s an odd thing to do. Clearly the appointment is the responsibility of the AFL Commission. If what was reported was accurate, I just found it very unusual,” he said on 3AW.
“Anybody who has observed Brendon Gale or seen what he’s been able to achieve knows he’s incredibly well respected.
“I thought it was highly unusual, if that’s what took place.”
It was rumoured Cochrane believed Gale was too Victorian-centric - even though he is a Tasmanian native.
Matthews said he hoped the new CEO would prioritise making the AFL a “national game” and wanted someone with “vision” to fill McLachlan’s shoes.
“The CEO of the AFL has got to be a great leader - got to be someone with vision,” he said.
“I just think Brendon’s been an outstanding leader - this is someone who has set the vision for Richmond and then delivered exactly on it.
“I think his track record is there for everyone to see.
“As someone sitting in Sydney, I still think there’s significant work for us to do to become the national game.”
When asked directly if he had any aspirations for the AFL’s top job, Matthews didn’t emphatically rule it out, but stated his commitment to the Giants moving forward.
“No, I don’t think that’s one to answer at the moment,” Matthews said when asked if he was interested in the CEO role.
“I’m absolutely loving being at the Giants and really enjoyed this challenge and having left the AFL executive to take it on, it’s been something that you become incredibly passionate about.
“Not just from a club point of view, but also what we are trying to achieve in Sydney.
“Clearly Gill’s done an outstanding job and I think there will be a strong field and strong candidates.
“Clearly Brendon Gale is somebody who’s one of the better leaders in the industry so he’d have to be strongly considered. Others will be, too.
“I haven’t really turned my mind to it, too much, at this stage.
“We’ve got a hell of a lot of work to do here.”
https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/giants-boss-backs-rival-to-replace-afl-chief-amid-suns-highly-unusual-move/news-story/81872974e2c6fa2ba57dd1342a2cdfc6