The Phoenix Rises - Amazing Story of the Salvation of Australian Football - Hardcover

Ross Oakley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0987420593 ISBN 13: 9780987420596

Publisher: The Slattery Media Group, 2014

Synopsis

The Phoenix Rises is the remarkable story of the transformation of ‘Australia’s Game’ from a troubled Victorian Football League to the Australian Football League powerhouse of today, told by the man who pulled the levers for drastic change.

In 1986, Ross Oakley was appointed chairman and CEO of the struggling VFL. During the 10 years that followed he oversaw the revolution of the game and its administrative structure, and took the League from all but broke into a massive business. Often faced with very public and emotive opposition and criticism, he took brave decisions to take the game to new frontiers. His legacy is the national competition, and Australian sport's most professional administration, led by the AFL Commission.

Told from Oakley’s unique vantage point, The Phoenix Rises revisits the 80s, a turbulent and divisive era in AFL history, and reveals, for the first time, the off field tumult that took place, often behind closed doors. From never before revealed insights taken from the confidential minutes of the League, to the faltering steps behind the AFL’s ground-breaking Racial and Religious Vilification laws, The Phoenix Rises exposes the full picture, and the truth behind the drive to the national competition and the independent Commission.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Slattery Media Group
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0987420593
• ISBN 13: 9780987420596
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304