MAYBE its a West Australian thing, but Richard Goyder cant help but shake his head and chuckle when chatting about his elevation to the most powerful position in Australian sport.
At the kitchen table of his beautifully renovated Toodyay homestead, relaxed in a blue Sloppy Joe, grubby work jeans and thick socks any country boy worth his wheat leaves his boots on the veranda Goyder leans into a question about what a Tambellup farmers son can add to the AFL juggernaut leaving every code in its wake.
I was in Melbourne the other Saturday and I was staggered how many Victorians said to me, So youll be moving to Melbourne? What, because Im the chairman of the AFL? Its a national competition! he says incredulously.
Weve lived in Sydney, Melbour…
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