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AFL Side Richmond Tigers Board Rejects Focus On Footy Group's Requests 'In Its Entirety'

Australian Football League side Richmond Tigers' board has "stared down its challengers, rejecting a request that four or five existing directors stand down to be replaced by Focus on Footy members," according to THE AGE. Tigers President Peggy O'Neal and CEO Brendon Gale met with Focus on Footy members Martin Hiscock, Mag Kearney and Richard Amos on Tuesday to "hear their concerns and offer." The board then met for several hours and later released a statement rejecting the group's request "in its entirety." O'Neal said, "Our members are perfectly entitled to run for the board and we have processes in place to allow them to do just that." The Focus on Footy group had "launched with a plan to replace all but two positions on the board." The "central plank" for election was that Richmond appoint GM of Football Neil Balme as football CEO. In another development, '80 premiership captain Bruce Monteath is "understood not to be seeking a position on the board and is looking to withdraw from the Focus on Footy group" (THE AGE, 9/20).

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