AFL boss Andrew Demetriou. Source: Herald Sun
THE AFL will have a hand in selecting Melbourne's board and its coach, league chief Andrew Demetriou has confirmed.
Demetriou met board candidate, former Victorian treasurer Alan Stockdale on Thursday and said the league was helping select and approve candidates.
He also said the AFL would have a say in who coached the Demons next season and expressed his admiration for Sydney premiership coach Paul Roos, who has been touted as a possible replacement for Mark Neeld.
"Not personally (approving candidates), but the AFL Commission will be, absolutely," Demetriou told 3AW. " ... We made it very clear that on the basis that the AFL would support the club financially - a significant amount of money - that that would be highly conditional and one of those conditions is approving the composition of the board.
"We're talking to prospective board members and people are offering up names and suggestions, we're welcoming all that.
"We've got several people that we're looking at who I think would add significantly (to the board)."
One of those appears to be Stockdale, who Demetriou met on Thursday.
"He's very passionate about being involved with the board and he's someone I suspect should continue to be spoken to," he said.
When asked if he would like Roos to coach Melbourne, Demetriou said: "We don't recruit players and we don't recruit coaches but Paul Roos, as a general comment, is an incredibly gifted and talented coach and, as an industry, we are the (poorer for) not having a person of Paul Roos' talent coaching in the AFL ranks."
He said while Demons chief executive Peter Jackson and the board appointed the coach, the AFL "will obviously be consulted on that".
"We would have a say I guess, but we're not experts in coaches."
Demetriou said there was a possibility Melbourne could move to a new base at Docklands.
"There is a piece of land at Docklands that is being targeted for a community facility," he said.
"It would be good to have a club down there, call it Melbourne, that would attract more people to the Docklands precinct. We're there, it's a good piece of dirt."
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