AFL chief executive Andrew Dillon stood beside a bar in the Steve Waugh Room at the Sydney Cricket Ground and cracked open a cold bottle of Carlton Draught.

Parked up in a busy corner of the AFL’s official Opening Round function on level two of the Victor Trumper Stand on Thursday night, Dillon was in buoyant mood, surrounded by the game’s movers and shakers, all in town after the AFL’s AGM in........

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