The AFL’s chairman is defending its “incredibly competitive” global search for a new chief executive which landed on Andrew Dillon, a man in an office near incumbent Gillon McLachlan.
Dillon, currently the AFL’s executive general manager football operations, legal and integrity, as well as the organisation’s general counsel, will take over from McLachlan on October 2.
AFL chairman Richard Goyder said Dillon was the “standout candidate” from a prolonged search which began when McLachlan announced in April last year he was quitting.
“(Dillon) is an exceptional football person. He has been a key leader in the AFL, he has been involved in every major decision of the AFL for many years,” Goyder told reporters on Monday.
The chairman said there was “a field of high-quality candidates in what was a very, very competitive search process”.
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