Posts Tagged "Jeff Kennett"
Kennett expects major changes at Demons
By AAP, 14 Jun 2013Jeff Kennett expects some big changes at Melbourne after the embattled club meets on Friday with the AFL Commission.
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Demons AFL push not personal: Kennett
By Sam Lienert, 12 Jun 2013Former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett says he’s determined not to let his battle with Melbourne AFL president Don McLardy turn into a personal slanging match.
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I can fix AFL’s Demons, says Kennett
By Sam Lienert, 7 Jun 2013Former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett wants Melbourne members to oust the AFL club’s board and make him president.
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Kennett apologises to Hawks coach Clarkson
By Roger Vaughan, 3 Apr 2013Hawthorn missed out on the chocolates against Geelong, but they have been granted a belated Easter miracle – Jeff Kennett has said sorry.
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AFL CEO succession plan appears in tatters
By Redb, 26 Feb 2013In July 2012 Andrew Demetriou took an extended break from the game – during the season, no less. Sure, the Olympics were on and that explains two weeks, however the break was more like two months.
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Kennett slams AFL summit as copout
By Guy Hand, 31 Jan 2013Former Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett has savaged the outcome of the AFL’s drugs summit as a “copout” after no immediate changes were made to the three-strikes illicit drugs policy.
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AFL’s storm in a prayer room
By Vince Rugari, 24 Apr 2012“Treat others the way you would like to be treated.” They call that the golden rule. It’s high time that a certain few of those inside the AFL bubble started to actually listen to that mantra.
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AFL’s prayer rooms will harm nobody
By timmy_morgs, 23 Apr 2012With Ross Lyon’s first game against his former side, a potential grand final preview in Hawthorn and West Coast, bitter rivals Carlton and Essendon, and new a feud in Gold Coast and Brisbane, this week should have just been about football.
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AFL’s massive tax break won’t stop them crying poor
By ItsCalledFootball, 12 Jan 2012Andrew Demetriou and Eddie Maguire recently came out in the press to declare war on the Federal Government’s proposed mandatory pre-commitment legislation for poker machines.The main concerns for the AFL is the growing revenue that comes from club-owned poker machines.
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Don’t augment the AFL season, reduce it
By Ben Waterworth, 31 Aug 2011‘Less is more’. It’s such a well-known proverb. Whether you’re writing an article, designing a website, or hosting a wedding reception, content seems more efficient when it’s produced succinctly. Now the AFL must employ the same approach to its home-and-away season structure.
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Jeff Kennett says ‘no’ to AFL proposal
By Roger Vaughan, 28 Aug 2011Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett claims he has turned down an approach to put his name forward for the AFL Commission.
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2012 the most exciting for the AFL in years
By Damo, 25 Aug 2011As season 2011 rapidly heads to its end, with the final eight shored up and the AFL world looking to the grand final, I can’t help but look further afield.
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Jeff Kennett provokes female question
By sexton1, 19 Aug 2011Jeff Kennett’s wild suggestion that a woman may, one day, play in the AFL has rightly been ridiculed.
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AFL becoming EPL in debate over dollars
By JackBoard, 19 Aug 2011Picture this for a moment. An AFL competition where Collingwood, Hawthorn, West Coast and Geelong dominate every season, without fail.
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Women playing elite AFL? Forget about it
By Michael Filosi, 15 Aug 2011Is there any matter – sporting or otherwise – that Jeff Kennett does not have an opinion on? If ever an editor is light on for copy, he or she need only put a call through to the Hawthorn Football Club President and within seconds be sure Kennett will provide tomorrow’s headline.
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AFL should run failing clubs: Jeff Kennett
By Sam Lienert, 14 Aug 2011Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett has called for AFL club boards to be removed and replaced by independent commissioners if they fail to make good use of financial assistance.
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AFL presidents clash over increasing class divide
By Sam Lienert, 10 Aug 2011A slanging match involving three of the AFL’s highest-profile club presidents has erupted over the league’s plan to narrow the spending gap between rich and poor.
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Time for Jeff Kennett to put a sock in it
By Andrew Silverman, 9 Aug 2011Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett seems to have made rubbing people up the wrong way into an art form.
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Kennett points at AFL clubs’ financial woes
By Sam Lienert, 8 Aug 2011Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett says the proportion of AFL clubs that rely on league handouts to stay afloat raises questions about the competition’s financial stability.
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Garry Lyon fires back at ‘bully’ Kennett
By Roger Vaughan, 5 Aug 2011Melbourne great Garry Lyon has returned fire at Hawthorn’s Jeff Kennett, saying the AFL club president has “bully tendencies”.
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