The Boys' Club

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The Boys' Club is the must-read inside story behind the power and politics of the AFL, Australia's biggest sport.
Revealing how a fledgling state administrative body evolved into the Australian Football League and its meteoric rise to become one of the richest and most powerful organisations in the land, award-winning…

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John Carroll

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This book exposes the breathtaking transformation to by far the most successful sporting organization in Australia, the Australian Football League, over the last twenty years. Warner’s is a cautionary tale relevant to all sports, and especially to the football codes around the world.

The Boys’ Club catalogues unethical behaviour of breath-taking scope and gall, imposed by three men. Warner recounts numerous cases of vindictive threat, intimidation, lying, and bullying. And a misogynistic culture at AFL headquarters.

Ex-Victorian Premier, Jeff Kennett, lamented they don’t report to anyone. They appoint puppets and yes-men to highly paid positions around them, forming a Praetorian…

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