{"id":127848,"date":"2025-09-08T13:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T13:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/127848\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T13:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T13:22:08","slug":"fresh-twist-in-the-search-to-replace-afl-commission-chair-richard-goyder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/127848\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh twist in the search to replace AFL Commission chair Richard Goyder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Browne\u2019s long stint as the AFL\u2019s external legal adviser, coupled with his experience as managing director of Nine Network and later replacing Eddie McGuire as Collingwood president, was viewed as a favourable apprenticeship among some clubs.<\/p>\n

Now in his early 70s, he\u2019s taken this year off to concentrate on his health, but did not rule himself out of contention for the top job when asked by The Age in May, nor again at a Collingwood president\u2019s dinner only a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n

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Richard Goyder at this year\u2019s hall of fame function.Credit: Getty<\/p>\n

Drummond, a former CEO of Goldman Sachs JB Were and Medibank Private, is now chairman of Transurban.<\/p>\n

Goyder, the former Qantas chairman, had initially indicated he intended to seek another term before handing over to the next chair.<\/p>\n

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The lack of succession planning at AFL headquarters has been a source of angst among critics, who point to Gillon McLachlan\u2019s protracted farewell as league chief executive under Goyder\u2019s tenure.<\/p>\n

The AFL is governed by a commission of 10, which elects a chair from within its own ranks.<\/p>\n

The commissioners are chosen by a nominations committee, but once Goyder confirmed his departure, it meant the nominations committee was, in effect, being asked to choose the chair.<\/p>\n

To hear Age football writers Jake Niall, Caroline Wilson and Michael Gleeson detail the \u201cbackroom manoeuvres\u201d in the search for the next AFL Commission chair, The Age Real Footy podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Browne\u2019s long stint as the AFL\u2019s external legal adviser, coupled with his experience as managing director of Nine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-127848","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\/127848","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=127848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}