{"id":289826,"date":"2023-04-26T09:05:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T09:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=289826"},"modified":"2023-04-26T09:57:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T09:57:58","slug":"embarrassing-hunt-for-new-afl-boss-finally-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=289826","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Embarrassing&#039; hunt for new AFL boss finally over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Dillon\ufeff will replace Gillon McLachlan as chief executive of the AFL.<\/p>\n<p>Sam McClure broke the news on 3AW radio on Wednesday night, reporting that Dillon had beaten Travis Auld to the position.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment follows a messy search for\ufeff McLachlan&#x27;s successor, with the AFL boss announcing his resignation in April last year and initially planning to step down at the end of the 2022 season.<\/p>\n<p>The length of the search for his replacement has been heavily criticised.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Caroline Wilson called it &quot;embarrassing&quot; and &quot;unprofessional&quot; on a recent edition of Nine&#x27;s <em>Footy Classified<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>MORE TO COME.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/3AWisfootball\/status\/1651138172615806981\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/3AWisfootball\/status\/1651138172615806981<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Andrew Dillon\ufeff will replace Gillon McLachlan as chief executive of the AFL. Sam McClure broke the news on 3AW radio on Wednesday night, reporting that <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=289826\" title=\"&#039;Embarrassing&#039; hunt for new AFL boss finally over\">[&#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\/289826"}],"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=289826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289827,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289826\/revisions\/289827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}