Kennett’s achievements as president were not insignificant but the task facing his successor Andy Gowers is enormous
. It would be sorted out by Christmas, he said, sounding like a first world war general. None of this had happened on his watch. Hawthorn wasn’t racist. Case closed. Let’s all move on.We’ll be right here. We’ll come out of this looking good. We’ll put Collingwood to shame. We can marvel at our own magnificence. We can talk about Silk, and Chance, and all the Aboriginal blokes who had positive experiences.
But they quickly lost control of it. Kennett was on the way out, and way out of his depth. He doubled down, which has always been his way, and which is always a worry. And then there were his tweets. Twitter brings out the worst in most of us. But some of Kennett’s late-night offerings were ridiculous. They were incomprehensible. They were costly. The Victorian premier was in his head. Kennett and his News Ltd columnists couldn’t lay a glove on him.
And it is true, to a point. Kennett’s achievements at Hawthorn were not insignificant. He secured the Tasmanian government as a major sponsor in 2007. He was good at drumming up publicity. He was one of the few club presidents to really take on theGet a daily roundup of the latest sports news, features and comment from our Australian sports deskNewsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties.
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