Gillon McLachlan has emerged as an unlikely contender to return to the AFL as chair of the commission.

The league’s former CEO, who stepped away in 2023 after nine year in the role, could return to the AFL as part of a three-man ticket alongside former Collingwood president Eddie McGuire and former Western Bulldogs president Peter Gordon, according to The Agenda Setters’ Caroline Wilson.

WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: AFL presidents revolt against chairman succession process.

“For the first time in AFL history, the presidents have today met and chosen to actively rebel against an AFL chairman,” Wilson said on Monday night’s show.

“So this all began last week when Richard Goyder, the outgoing AFL chairman, blindsided the selection committee for his successor and said he would be putting f

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