{"id":852516,"date":"2026-08-12T10:50:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/852516\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T10:50:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:50:48","slug":"afl-news-2026-eddie-mcguire-commision-rumours-grilled-on-potentially-replacing-craig-drummond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/852516\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL News 2026: Eddie McGuire Commision rumours, grilled on potentially replacing Craig Drummond"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eddie McGuire<\/a> has thrown his support behind the embattled chairman of the AFL<\/a> Commission Craig Drummond, saying he has no interest in replacing him in the league\u2019s top job.<\/p>\n

Drummond, who has only recently started in the role, replacing the outgoing Richard Goyder, has found himself in hot water given he was president of Geelong<\/a> in 2024 when Jake Kolodjashnij signed a waiver making him responsible for any future concussion-related injuries suffered playing for the club<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Eddie McGuire speaks on links to joining the AFL Commission.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

This waiver was not lodged with the AFL, AFLPA or his management<\/a>, but was revealed in a bombshell story by News Corp last week.<\/p>\n

The AFL is currently weighing up how to sanction the Cats, with Drummond awkwardly now caught between both parties.<\/p>\n

Journalists and former players, including former Collingwood captain Tony Shaw<\/a>, have called for Drummond to resign, saying they feel his position is untenable.<\/p>\n

On Monday, it was floated by SEN that McGuire would be sounded out as a potential replacement for the chairman role, should it come to that.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, James Hird<\/a> and Cal Twomey grilled McGuire about his links to the role on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n

The former Collingwood<\/a> president confirmed he has been contacted about potentially joining the commission, but not as chairman.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes I have,\u201d he confirmed on Nine\u2019s Footy Classified.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut people always ring up.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the great thing about journalism. Jay Clark breaks the story, everyone else then goes \u2018what\u2019s the next story\u2019, so they\u2019re sacking Drummond and I was the chairman by Sunday and I wasn\u2019t even in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

McGuire clarified that Drummond has his full support as chairman of the AFL Commission.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot the chairman. I said tonight, Craig Drummond will be the chairman,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said this last time when Richard Goyder was leaving. I love football. If I was offered, if they thought I had some skills to provide football, of course I\u2019d give myself up every time.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce it becomes a paid position I\u2019d think about it really,\u201d McGuire joked.<\/p>\n

Geelong could face a six-figure fine for the indiscretion, though it appears unlikely Drummond himself will face any scrutiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie McGuire has thrown his support behind the embattled chairman of the AFL Commission Craig Drummond, saying he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-852516","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\/852516","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=852516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}