I know we often talk about "politics in footy" but this article puts a whole new light on it!
I'm a labor man thru and thru, but I still would not be at all opposed to having someone a bit more right wing within the upper echelons of the AFL if it would help our cause!
<B>AFL on the left wing, needs to centre the ball</B>
http://www.realfooty.theage.com.au/real ... 10357.html
"THE AFL Commission decided that it needed some belated gender balance, and so the game's ruling body cast the net and finally settled on Sam Mostyn, a Sydney lawyer with impressive political and business connections in NSW.
In bringing a woman into the game's government, football injected some femininity into a game that had more than enough testosterone. But in doing so, the AFL created another imbalance that must be corrected"...