{"id":154891,"date":"2021-11-04T07:29:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T08:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=154891"},"modified":"2021-11-04T10:56:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T10:56:58","slug":"controversial-afl-president-to-step-aside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=154891","title":{"rendered":"Controversial AFL president to step aside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Controversial <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/hawthorn-hawks\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Hawthorn \">Hawthorn<\/a> president Jeff Kennett has reportedly agreed to step aside from the role before his tenure officially expires.<\/p>\n<p>Kennett is currently locked in to the role until December 2023, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/sport\/afl\/jeff-kennett-to-stand-down-early-from-hawthorn-presidency-20211104-p5964z.html\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"a report from The Age\">a report from The Age<\/a> says the veteran administrator has told the board and club members he is willing to step down prematurely.<\/p>\n<p>He has not yet signaled a date when he may end his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>A faction of Hawks supporters have been petitioning for Kennett to step down and former the &quot;Hawks for change&quot; group. They gathered 2900 signatures calling for the president to quit his post.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"a7c875b4-b87e-462e-99f0-64af7c74610c\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/a7c875b4-b87e-462e-99f0-64af7c74610c\" alt=\"Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett.\" data-width=\"1930\" data-height=\"2235\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/rugby\/melbourne-cup-betting-dividends-first-four-morgan-turinui-relives-epic-2003-win\/880f6184-e56a-444e-b336-b4db2b4119e9\"><strong>Former Wallaby Morgan Turinui shares epic Melbourne Cup story from 2003<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/news\/packers-qb-aaron-rodgers-in-covid19-protocol-out-sunday\/b9c11711-1604-4f1b-86a4-cd4640eaae28\"><strong>NFL superstar MVP caught up in COVID scandal<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/ashes-2021-shane-warne-says-tim-paine-very-poor-mitchell-starc-nowhere\/44beccf0-f1a4-4a22-97f8-c8d85423ac1d\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\"><strong>Shane Warne takes aim at &#x27;poor&#x27; Tim Paine<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Hawthorn board has agreed to form a nominations committee which will decide the next president.<\/p>\n<p>Kennett told club members the preferred candidate will be decided on by June 30, suggesting he will step down from the job by the end of next AFL season.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Controversial Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett has reportedly agreed to step aside from the role before his tenure officially expires. Kennett is currently locked in to <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=154891\" title=\"Controversial AFL president to step aside\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154893,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154891\/revisions\/154893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}