{"id":14616,"date":"2017-07-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/two-afl-execs-resign-days-after-affair-claims\/"},"modified":"2017-07-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T00:00:00","slug":"two-afl-execs-resign-days-after-affair-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/two-afl-execs-resign-days-after-affair-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Two AFL execs resign days after affair claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan announced the resignations of senior executives Simon Lethlean and Richard Simkiss on Friday afternoon.<\/h3>\n<p>He said the two executives \u201chad inappropriate relationships with two younger women who work in the AFL industry\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast night I accepted the resignation of Simon Lethlean and Richard Simkiss&#8230; they were quite separate matters but caused distress and concern to a number of people,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI expect that my executives are role models and set a high standard for the rest of the organisation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McLachlan said he hoped those involved would be left alone to deal with their personal issues in private.<\/p>\n<p>His announcement follows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/sport\/afl\/afl-press-conference-days-after-affair-claim\/news-story\/745e542e22dcd4fa1d9e4f0ce0b31618\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Herald Sun reports<\/a> that two AFL managers had been accused of having affairs with young female employees.<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/Adelaide-media-identity-takes-a-job-with-Nick-Xenophon\"><strong>ADELAIDE MEDIA IDENTITY TAKES A JOB WITH NICK XENOPHON<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/Adelaide-will-bear-the-brunt-of-temperature-drop-this-weekend\"><strong>WEATHER CHANGE ON THE WAY, AND ADELAIDE WILL \u201cBEAR THE BRUNT\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan announced the resignations of senior executives Simon Lethlean and Richard Simkiss on Friday afternoon. He said the two executives \u201chad inappropriate relationships with two younger women who work in the AFL industry\u201d. \u201cLast night I accepted the resignation of Simon Lethlean and Richard Simkiss&#8230; they were quite separate matters but caused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-14616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Two AFL execs resign days after affair claims - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/two-afl-execs-resign-days-after-affair-claims\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Two AFL execs resign days after affair claims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan announced the resignations of senior executives Simon Lethlean and Richard Simkiss on Friday afternoon. 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