Troubled AFL club Melbourne’s chief executive officer Cameron Schwab has resigned on Tuesday, the 2013 AFL campaign claiming its first victim.
Schwab’s departure comes after Melbourne’s disastrous start to the season, in which they have been heavily beaten in the opening two matches.
The Demons were booed off the MCG for the second consecutive week following a 148-point thrashing at the hands of Essendon on Saturday.
Melbourne’s season had looked ugly even before that loss, when it was hammered by 79 points by Port Adelaide in its opening clash six days earlier.
“[President] Don [McLardy] put it to me that it was in the best interests of the Melbourne Football Club that I resign of chief executive of the club and … I have tendered my resignation,” Schwab told reporters at the MCG.
McLardy said the Melbourne Football Club board would meet in the next 24 to 48 hours to discuss Schwab’s replacement.
“It was a difficult discussion with Cameron but I want to pay tribute to the mature way he handled the discussion,” McLardy said.
“We’ve been through a lot together, some of those things self-inflicted and some of those no problems of our own … but we fought those through.
“But we came to a point where I felt we had to put the best interests of our club first going forward.
“Our footy club off the field has endured an unbelievable two or three years, the business has grown in that time despite our on-field performance.”
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