{"id":248963,"date":"2025-10-29T15:55:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/248963\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T15:55:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:55:27","slug":"craig-drummonds-anointment-as-richard-goyders-successor-at-the-afl-means-geelongs-takeover-is-nearing-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/248963\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Drummond\u2019s anointment as Richard Goyder\u2019s successor at the AFL means Geelong\u2019s takeover is nearing completion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Geelong Football Club may have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/rear-window\/heavy-hitters-turn-out-for-the-afl-grand-final-commission-lunch-20250926-p5myab\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unceremoniously thumped<\/a> by the Brisbane Lions in this year\u2019s grand final, but its influence on the AFL\u2019s machinations appears to now outstrip any other team.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s down to the likely ascension of former club president Craig Drummond to lead the league, after the AFL\u2019s commissioners<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/sport\/craig-drummond-endorsed-as-new-afl-chairman-20251028-p5n5yn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> unanimously backed him<\/a> to replace Richard Goyder as their chair this week. After a fraught, and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/rear-window\/afl-chair-race-finally-enters-interview-stage-20250917-p5mvx0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> at times farcical<\/a>, recruitment process, it still depends on his election to first the commission and then to chair next March.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Geelong Football Club may have been unceremoniously thumped by the Brisbane Lions in this year\u2019s grand final,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-248963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248963","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=248963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}