{"id":247154,"date":"2025-10-28T21:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/247154\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T21:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:15:08","slug":"why-the-new-afl-chairman-was-the-compromise-option-to-succeed-richard-goyder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/247154\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the new AFL chairman was the &#8216;compromise option&#8217; to succeed Richard Goyder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Geelong President Craig Drummond has been unveiled as the new AFL Commission chairman, taking over from Richard Goyder after 15 years at the helm.<\/p>\n<p>Senior sports writer with The Age, Michael Gleeson, was questioned as to what made Drummond the preferred option.<\/p>\n<p>But Gleeson claimed he was the \u201ccompromise option\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to hear him explain why (including why the appointment is still a win for AFL clubs)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a safe, sort of easy appointment,\u201d Gleeson said on Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n<p>3AW Breakfast sports reporter Jon Anderson then had his say, stating he spoke to someone recently who worked for Drummond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis CV is extraordinary,\u201d Anderson said.<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to hear why he was \u2018confidence\u2019 in the new AFL chairman<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Image: Daniel Pockett\/Getty\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Geelong President Craig Drummond has been unveiled as the new AFL Commission chairman, taking over from Richard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,14676,85],"class_list":["post-247154","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-football-featured","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247154","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=247154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}