{"id":126167,"date":"2025-09-07T19:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T19:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/126167\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T19:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T19:35:06","slug":"richard-goyder-leaves-afl-as-memories-of-qantas-come-back-with-alan-joyces-final-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/126167\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Goyder leaves AFL as memories of Qantas come back with Alan Joyce\u2019s final bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sheer volume of bad news stories Richard Goyder has overseen in his various roles means that if there\u2019s one thing he should be good at, it\u2019s burying negative coverage. Yet even he couldn\u2019t stop the fallout of his past and present governance debacles splashing across the media.<\/p>\n<p>When news broke on Friday night that he had finally seen sense and was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/sport\/goyder-to-stand-down-as-afl-chairman-20250905-p5msu3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">retiring as AFL chairman<\/a>, it was a couple of hours before the bounce of a blockbuster qualifying final and after most journos\u2019 deadlines. It\u2019s a testament to how frustrated fans are about what the league\u2019s administration has become under his reign.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sheer volume of bad news stories Richard Goyder has overseen in his various roles means that if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-126167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}