{"id":636577,"date":"2026-04-28T16:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/636577\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T16:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:46:12","slug":"afl-melbourne-ceo-paul-guerra-axed-brian-cook-appointed-interim-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/636577\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL: Melbourne CEO Paul Guerra axed, Brian Cook appointed interim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne has confirmed its decision to sack chief executive Paul Guerra after just seven months in charge.<\/p>\n<p>Guerra will be replaced in an interim capacity by former Geelong and Carlton chief executive Brian Cook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrian is a highly respected operator, and with over 35 years of experience in AFL clubs he will provide much needed leadership and guidance through this period,\u201d Demons president Steven Smith said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased that Brian has agreed to step into the role in an interim capacity until a permanent CEO can commence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of Melbourne Football Club, I thank Paul for his contribution to the club and wish him all the best for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement also said that the Demons expected to \u201cbe in a position to make an announcement on a permanent CEO shortly\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It has been reported that Guerra, started working for the Demons last September after being appointed 12 months ago, would seek legal advice following his sacking.<\/p>\n<p>Originally published as <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/sport\/afl\/brian-cook-named-interim-melbourne-boss-after-paul-guerra-sacking\/news-story\/94d5c85cd35543bae7f79f0c783412f5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Cook named interim Melbourne boss after Paul Guerra sacking<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne has confirmed its decision to sack chief executive Paul Guerra after just seven months in charge. Guerra&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,146524,307975,11387,2105,216729,66258,306761,126089,7804,43961,31723,85,18784],"class_list":["post-636577","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-brian-cook","tag-ceo-paul","tag-chief-executive","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-interim-capacity","tag-interim-chief-executive","tag-kick-clear","tag-legal-advice","tag-melbourne-demons","tag-newswire-sport","tag-paul-guerra","tag-sports","tag-steven-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636577","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=636577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}