It was a long, exhaustive search that ended when Gillon McLachlan stepped into the office next to his at AFL headquarters and asked Andrew Dillon if he would do him the honour of being the next AFL boss.
More than a year after McLachlan announced he was standing aside after arguably the most successful stint a CEO has had sitting atop the red leather throne at Docklands, the AFL has finally settled on handing the job over to the league's executive general manager football operations, or in non-corporate speak, one of the other big dogs already on the chief executive committee.
