AFL<\/a> club to commence a governance review.<\/p>\nAt the time, Tredrea said on social media he was not \u201cin any way, shape, or form, an antisemite\u201d, and considered it \u201cdefamatory for anyone to accuse me as such\u201d.<\/p>\n
After the governance review, the Port Adelaide board formally requested Tredrea agree to an apology to the club and anyone who took offence to the comments made on the podcast. The club revealed today the 46-year-old had refused, triggering his removal.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe board has afforded Mr Tredrea numerous opportunities to reconsider his position, which he has not changed,\u201d a statement released on Friday stated.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter exhausting all reasonable avenues for resolution, the board determined that Mr Tredrea\u2019s continuation as a director was not in the best interests of the club.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tredrea posted to X on Friday after the club\u2019s announcement, saying it had been \u201can enlightening couple of years\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am concerned about the actions taken by a number of important people at our club which have led to my dismissal today,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will be making further and fuller statements in the future but for now I\u2019d just like to wish Josh [Carr, AFL coach], Lauren [Arnell, AFLW coach] and the entire AFL, AFLW and SANFL playing group every success going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
He had been elected to the Port Adelaide board last year for a three-year term, edging out another former player, Bruce Abernethy, by just 199 votes in a ballot of 10,405 members.<\/p>\n
At the time, president David Koch said of Tredrea: \u201cIt will be terrific to have his knowledge and experience around the board table.\u201d<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s club statement said the board wanted to \u201cmake clear\u201d this was a governance matter relating to \u201cits expectations\u201d of directors.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not, and should never be interpreted as, a reflection on Warren Tredrea\u2019s extraordinary contribution to Port Adelaide as a player,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
The former centre half-forward played 255 games for Port, and led the side to its only premiership in 2004 when he filled in as captain for injured ruckman Matthew Primus.<\/p>\n
He became full-time captain in 2006 when Primus retired, and led the Power back to a grand final in 2007, before hanging up his boots in 2010 for a career in the media.<\/p>\n
Tredrea took Channel Nine to court for unfair termination after his refusal of the Covid vaccine, but his case was dismissed last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cWarren Tredrea is a premiership captain, club champion, and one of the greatest players to represent the club. His legacy as a player is secure and will forever be celebrated by this club and our members,\u201d the club said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat legacy remains untarnished and separate from this governance decision.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Port Adelaide has removed Warren Tredrea from its board after the former club great refused to apologise for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-252621","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\/252621","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=252621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}