Thursday’s opener between Carlton and Richmond is likely to be greeted at AFL House with a certain sense of relief
Of all the people waiting for the AFL men’s season to start, none could be hanging out for Thursday night more than league boss Gillon McLachlan and his suited workforce. When Carlton and Richmond players start crashing into each other in the now-traditional season opener, the coverage will start to lay some paint over the cracks of the administration’s mistakes.
You’d think it would be difficult to have a worse summer than the other major sports. Cricket Australia prepared for its season with a damning self-investigation that pointed out a profound failure of culture, and the resignation or sacking of the chairman, the CEO, the most prominent board member and two of the senior-most executives.
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