{"id":515724,"date":"2026-03-03T09:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/515724\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:51:10","slug":"grand-final-timeslot-to-be-reviewed-under-new-commission-chairman-craig-drummond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/515724\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand final timeslot to be reviewed under new commission chairman Craig Drummond"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cThat\u2019s a decision for the commission,\u201d said Dillon. \u201cWe\u2019ll have a new chairman in Craig Drummond, and we\u2019ll work through that, but it will be a decision that we\u2019ll come to sooner rather than later.\u201d<\/p>\n

The AFL chief executive said Drummonds\u2019s vision was about making the fans central to decisions.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis vision for the game is not dissimilar. It\u2019s about growth in NSW and Queensland. It\u2019s about having the fans at the centre of everything that we do.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what Craig also will bring as a chairman is someone with really recent senior club experience, having been a president of Geelong only a couple of years ago. Just a different view, and we know how important the clubs are for us to grow our game.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe kids here are wearing their Giants shirts, not AFL shirts, and we know that. The clubs are our way to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked whether the AFL had any plans to take the game to India, where he visited recently, Dillon didn\u2019t rule out international expansion.<\/p>\n

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Craig Drummond (left) is expected to replace Richard Goyder as the new AFL Commission chairman on Wednesday.Credit: Getty<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to continue to grow the game,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got so much opportunity within Australia, but it doesn\u2019t mean you close your mind to opportunities offshore. As we looked into India, we found that we had nearly 10,000 Indian nationals playing our game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Geelong captain Patrick Dangerfield is stepping down from the AFL Players Association board after 12 years, six of them as president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Loading \u201cThat\u2019s a decision for the commission,\u201d said Dillon. \u201cWe\u2019ll have a new chairman in Craig Drummond, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-515724","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\/515724","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=515724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}