Caroline Wilson has sent another barb the AFL’s way in providing more context to her bombshell report surrounding Patrick Dangerfield and the AFL commission.
Reporting in The Age on Monday night, Wilson revealed that the Geelong captain had been approached by AFL chairman Richard Goyder and CEO Gillon McLachlan about joining the commission while he is still playing.
It’s unknown what Dangerfield plans to do but if he says yes, it’d mark a distinct point in league history.
The story stretches back to 2021 when two commissioners, Jason Ball and Kim Williams, elected to retire from the commission. Ball was the only ex-player on the AFL board and given both positions are yet to be replaced, it’s the first time in the commission’s history there is no former footballer. No one on the commission has ever worked at a football club, aside from director…