{"id":29363,"date":"2017-07-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/caro-wilson-why-afl-honchos-had-to-go-over-affairs-scandal\/"},"modified":"2017-07-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T00:00:00","slug":"caro-wilson-why-afl-honchos-had-to-go-over-affairs-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/caro-wilson-why-afl-honchos-had-to-go-over-affairs-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Caro Wilson: Why AFL honchos had to go over affairs scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The AFL had no choice but to force the resignation of two senior execs caught up in scandal this week, says Caroline Wilson.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/Two-AFL-execs-resign-days-after-affair-claims\">On Friday Gillon McLachlan announced<\/a> Simon Lethlean and Richard Simkiss has resigned over \u201cinappropriate relationships with two younger women who work in the AFL industry\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s the abuse of power,\u201d Caro Wilson told the FIVEAA sports show. \u201cIt\u2019s the potential for the abuse of power. The words Gillon McLachlan used, he certainly used the words \u2018respect\u2019 and \u2018responsibility\u2019, but he also used the terms \u2018caring for each other\u2019 and \u2018integrity\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the end the view of the commission was that these affairs showed a lack of integrity because both men were married.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>LISTEN HERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/333139868&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Caro said she had been \u201ccompletely shocked\u201d by the news.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI just didn\u2019t think this would be the case in this day and age at the AFL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really sad it\u2019s happened to them, I particularly have always really liked and enjoyed working with Simon who I rate as a performer and as a person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I heard his name on Monday I really couldn\u2019t believe it\u2026 but I did think it was going to go this way because I know Gillon McLachlan has been really forced to grow up in this area.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\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>The AFL had no choice but to force the resignation of two senior execs caught up in scandal this week, says Caroline Wilson. On Friday Gillon McLachlan announced Simon Lethlean and Richard Simkiss has resigned over \u201cinappropriate relationships with two younger women who work in the AFL industry\u201d. \u201cIt\u2019s the abuse of power,\u201d Caro Wilson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14611,"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":[247,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-29363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiveaa-sports-show","category-show"],"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>Caro Wilson: Why AFL honchos had to go over affairs scandal - 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\/show\/caro-wilson-why-afl-honchos-had-to-go-over-affairs-scandal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Caro Wilson: Why AFL honchos had to go over affairs scandal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The AFL had no choice but to force the resignation of two senior execs caught up in scandal this week, says Caroline Wilson. 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