New AFL Commissioners Major-General Simone Wilkie (left) and Jason Ball (right) with chairman Mike Fitzpatrick. Source: Supplied
AUSTRALIA'S most senior female army officer Major General Simone Wilkie and former Sydney and West Coast ruckman Jason Ball have joined the AFL Commission.
The AFL announced late on Monday after the final Commission meeting of the year that Chris Langford and Bill Kelty have retired after serving for more than a decade. Union heavyweight Kelty joined the commission in 1998 and Hawthorn champion Langford a year later.
Major General Wilkie has served in Iraq and Afghanistan, is chair of the ADF Sports Council and daughter of Ian Burt, who played four games for Essendon in 1959.
Based in Canberra, she is a passionate Bombers fan.
Ball played in premierships at West Coast in 1994 and Sydney in 2005.
The powerful AFL Commission, led by chairman Mike Fitzpatrick, was heavily criticised over its handling of the Essendon drugs scandal.
It ticked off on a suite of penalties that saw Bombers coach James Hird suspended on full pay and sent to Paris to study at an elite international business school.
It was also revealed Australian Sports Commission chairman John Wylie had been drafted in, with the approval of Fitzpatrick, to help convince Hird to accept his AFL-imposed ban.
Former Victorian premier and Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett has repeatedly called for a clean out of the AFL's hierarchy.
Bill Kelty has retired from the AFL Commission. Picture: Michael Klein Source: News Limited
Kelty, a friend and business associate of former Bombers chairman David Evans, recused himself from the commission's deliberations over the Essendon saga.
He was photographed visiting Hird's Toorak home at the height of the scandal last April.
"Both Jason Ball and Major General Wilkie are people of exceptional quality, and they will bring new strategic insights to the game," Fitzpatrick said yesterday.
"Our game should feel very privileged to attract such a high standard of leadership to our commission."
The pair were recommended by a nominations subcommittee including commissioner Linda Dessau, Fremantle president Steve Harris, Fitzpatrick. and Western Bulldogs president Peter Gordon.
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