{"id":252790,"date":"2025-10-31T08:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/252790\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T08:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:22:10","slug":"port-adelaide-sack-premiership-captain-from-club-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/252790\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Adelaide sack premiership captain from club board"},"content":{"rendered":"

Port Adelaide’s sacked board member Warren Tredrea says he’s concerned at the actions of “a number of important people” at the AFL club.<\/p>\n

Tredrea, the club’s sole AFL premiership captain, has been dismissed from the Power’s board after refusing to apologise for an anti-Semitism row.<\/p>\n

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Port reviewed Tredrea’s board role after he hosted a podcast with a guest who allegedly promoted far-right views.<\/p>\n

The guest, British Army veteran AJ Roberts, was criticised by the Jewish Council of Australia for promoting “far-right anti-Semitic conspiracy theories” and Holocaust denials on the podcast.<\/p>\n

Warren Tredrea captained Port to the first AFL Premiership in 2004.\u00a0Photo by Mark Dadswell\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Tredrea said he had spent “an enlightening couple of years” on the Port board.<\/p>\n

“I am concerned about the actions taken by a number of important people at our club which have led to (my) dismissal today,” Tredrea posted on social media.<\/p>\n

“I will be making further and fuller statements in the future.”<\/p>\n

Tredrea then wished coaches and players of Port’s AFL, AFLW and SANFL teams “every success going forward”.<\/p>\n

Port’s board requested Tredrea “agree to a club statement which included an apology to the club and anyone who took offence to the comments made on his podcast by Mr AJ Roberts”.<\/p>\n

“Mr Tredrea refused to agree with the public apology request to close out the matter,” the club said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n

“The board has afforded Mr Tredrea numerous opportunities to reconsider his position, which he has not changed.<\/p>\n

“After exhausting all reasonable avenues for resolution, the board determined that Mr Tredrea’s continuation as a director was not in the best interests of the club.”<\/p>\n

Tredrea captained Port to their only AFL premiership in 2004 and is the club’s all-time leading goalkicker, with 549 in his 244 games.<\/p>\n

Port’s statement stressed Tredrea was removed as “a governance matter relating to its expectations of club directors”.<\/p>\n

“It is not, and should never be interpreted as, a reflection on Warren Tredrea’s extraordinary contribution to Port Adelaide as a player,” the club said.<\/p>\n

“Warren Tredrea is a premiership captain, club champion, and one of the greatest players to represent the club.<\/p>\n

“His legacy as a player is secure and will forever be celebrated by this club and our members.<\/p>\n

“That legacy remains untarnished and separate from this governance decision.”<\/p>\n

Tredrea, an inaugural Port player on the club’s entry to the AFL in 1997, retired at the end of the 2010 season.<\/p>\n

He then carved a successful media career, including stints as a sports presenter on Channel Nine news in Adelaide.<\/p>\n

Tredrea was sacked from that position in 2021.<\/p>\n

He claimed the sacking was due to his refusal to take a COVID-19 vaccine and sued Channel Nine, seeking about $5.77 million in lost wages.<\/p>\n

But Tredrea lost a Federal Court trial, which ended in March last year, with Nine maintaining he was sacked because of poor performance.<\/p>\n

In June, he said he started his podcast after becoming “sceptical, and even cynical, about big government, big business and big media”.<\/p>\n

“In an effort to work my way through this, I have found myself attracted to people who have taken a similar life path … I have been curious to talk to these people in a public forum about uncomfortable issues,” he posted on June 25. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Port Adelaide’s sacked board member Warren Tredrea says he’s concerned at the actions of “a number of important…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-252790","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\/252790","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=252790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}