{"id":851296,"date":"2026-08-11T10:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T10:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851296\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T10:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T10:02:22","slug":"jeff-kennett-slams-afl-chairman-craig-drummond-and-club-presidents-over-geelong-concussion-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851296\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Kennett slams AFL chairman Craig Drummond and club presidents over Geelong concussion scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett has blasted the AFL Players Association and St Kilda president Andrew Bassat for defending AFL chairman Craig Drummond over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/topic\/concussion-crisis-1n2z\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">game\u2019s concussion crisis<\/a>, as the escalating fallout splits club presidents and powerbrokers.<\/p>\n<p>Geelong Football Club has until the end of Tuesday to submit its response to the AFL\u2019s investigation, after the club\u2019s board held a crisis meeting on Monday to shape its reply and the Cats braced for a potential massive penalty over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/work-and-careers\/workplace\/afl-s-craig-drummond-tackles-tv-deals-concussion-gambling-and-9-pies-20260804-p60lej\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">secret concussion deal<\/a> with player Jake Kolodjashnij.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett has blasted the AFL Players Association and St Kilda president Andrew Bassat for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-851296","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\/851296","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=851296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}