SOMETIMES the most intriguing line-ups at football games take place off the field. Or, in the case of the A-Grade amateurs, on the grassy rise at Elsternwick Park..
That’s how it was six days ago at the Victorian Amateur Football Association’s Premier division grand final between Collegians and Old Xaverians. Among the spectators stood the AFL’s second most powerful executive and the man favoured to replace Andrew Demetriou, Gillon McLachlan. Beside him stood another member of the AFL executive and a rising star at the game’s headquarters, Simon Lethlean.
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Although not a Xavier College old boy, Lethlean - who was educated at Camberwell Grammar - played in five premierships for Old Xaverians. While Lethlean has been promoted on his merits at the AFL, there is no doubt his Old Xav connections originally opened the door.
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