Jeff Browne could succeed Fitzpatrick

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MOMENTUM is building for former Channel 9 boss Jeff Browne to join the AFL Commission and succeed Mike Fitzpatrick as chairman.

Browne has the backing of influential football figures and is seen as a highly credible option to take charge of the game when Fitzpatrick steps down.

The push for Browne, a former AFL legal adviser and TV rights specialist, would see him join the commission this year and replace Fitzpatrick at the end of 2015.

AFL club chiefs yesterday backed Browne's credentials.

Concerns have also been raised over the next AFL chief executive being given a seat at the commission table.

Andrew Demetriou's dual role as chief executive and commissioner was a point of conjecture during last year's Essendon drugs scandal. "I don't have my CEO on the board," one club president noted yesterday.

Deputy league chief executive Gillon McLachlan is the frontrunner to replace Demetriou ahead of Richmond chief executive Brendon Gale.

Recruitment firm Egon Zehner is heading the search to fill the $2.2 million post.

Browne, an AFL life member, is living in Perth and recently became engaged to Australia's second-richest woman, Rhonda Wyllie.

He knocked back an approach to join the AFL Commission earlier this year by a nomination subcommittee including Fitzpatrick, Collingwood president Eddie McGuire, West Coast chairman Alan Cransberg and commissioner Linda Dessau.

Former News Limited chief executive Kim Williams filled the vacancy.

But Browne, 60, will be available to join the commission after returning from a European vacation in August.

His expertise in TV rights would greatly assist the AFL in its next round of broadcast negotiations.

Browne was a player manager in the early 1980s and the AFL's legal adviser for 21 years before being lured into television. In 1983 he engineered the $1 million move of Brownlow medallists Peter Moore and Kelvin Templeton to Melbourne from Collingwood and Footscray. He joined the AFL during the Ross Oakley era and played a key role in many of the game's most significant developments, including the draft and salary cap.

Carlton dual premiership captain Fitzpatrick, 61, succeeded the late Ron Evans as commission chairman in 2007 after four years as a member of the governing body.

Fitzpatrick's performance was criticised in December after the Herald Sun revealed a secret deal offered to Bombers coach James Hird had been struck between Essendon chairman Paul Little and Australian Sports Commission chairman John Wylie, with the AFL chairman's knowledge.

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