Already a subscriber?The new CEO of the AFL, Andrew Dillon, may have worked at the league for over 20 years – and held almost every executive job in headquarters – but he admits there is nothing quite like sitting in the CEO’s hot seat.
“To have four games sold out in NSW and Queensland, if you thought back 10 years ago, it wouldn’t have been in anyone’s contemplation,” Dillon told reporters on Wednesday.and given a five-month transition period, after a painful year-long search which saw internal candidates Kylie Rogers – who has been promoted under Dillon and Travis Auld, who has left to become CEO of the Australian Grand Prix Corporation – miss out.
Announcement of the opening AFL round in Sydney with AFL players Jeremy Howe , Taylor Adams , Toby Greene and Max Gawn with Auskickers.As the AFL season kicks off this weekend, the long-time, backroom fixer will be put under the microscope like never before., the AFL is hoping to steal a march on its cross-code rival whose revenue topped $700 million for the first time last year.
Dillon says Qld is its fastest-growing region while the game has seen strong growth in Sydney’s northern and eastern suburbs. “This year we have three games in the NT, Hawthorn played an AFLW game in north Qld last year, we’ll continue to grow the game in those markets, whether it’s an AFL team one day, yeah maybe, but we’ll play games .”
At the same time, Dillon is also dealing with claims that the Melbourne Football Club has an illicit drug problem. A handy defender known for wearing his long sleeves, he played in Old Xaverians’ six consecutive A-grade amateurs premierships from 1995 to 2000. It is said he never lost a game to McLachlan who rucked and later captained the Melbourne University Blues.Xavier in Kew is a Melbourne Catholic boys school whose alumni include Morgan Stanley chairman James Gorman and politicians Bill Shorten and Tim Fischer.
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