The Geelong Football Club may have been unceremoniously thumped by the Brisbane Lions in this year’s grand final, but its influence on the AFL’s machinations appears to now outstrip any other team.
That’s down to the likely ascension of former club president Craig Drummond to lead the league, after the AFL’s commissioners unanimously backed him to replace Richard Goyder as their chair this week. After a fraught, and at times farcical, recruitment process, it still depends on his election to first the commission and then to chair next March.
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