Port Adelaide have sacked Warren Tredrea from the membership’s board after the Energy’s solely AFL premiership captain refused to apologise for an antisemitism row.
Port triggered a overview into Tredrea’s board position after he hosted a podcast with a visitor who allegedly promoted far-right views.
The visitor, British Military veteran AJ Roberts, was criticised by the Jewish Council of Australia for selling “far-right anti-semitic conspiracy theories” and Holocaust denials on the podcast.
Tredrea responded to the controversy in June by saying he was solely in search of to “share different views” than mainstream media.
Port’s board requested Tredrea “conform to a membership assertion which included an apology to the membership and anybody who took offence to the feedback made on his podcast by Mr AJ Roberts”.
“Mr Tredrea refused to agree with the general public apology request to shut out the matter,” the membership stated in an announcement on Friday.
“The board has afforded Mr Tredrea quite a few alternatives to rethink his place, which he has not modified.
“After exhausting all affordable avenues for decision, the board decided that Mr Tredrea’s continuation as a director was not in one of the best pursuits of the membership.”
Tredrea captained Port to its solely AFL premiership in 2004 and is the membership’s all-time main goalkicker, with 549 in his 244 video games.
Port’s assertion careworn Tredrea was eliminated as “a governance matter referring to its expectations of membership administrators”.
“It isn’t, and will by no means be interpreted as, a mirrored image on Warren Tredrea’s extraordinary contribution to Port Adelaide as a participant,” the membership stated.
“Warren Tredrea is a premiership captain, membership champion, and one of many best gamers to signify the membership.
“His legacy as a participant is safe and can eternally be celebrated by this membership and our members.
“That legacy stays untarnished and separate from this governance determination.”
Tredrea, an inaugural Port participant on the membership’s entry to the AFL in 1997, retired on the finish of the 2010 season.
Publish-playing, he carved a profitable media profession together with stints as a sports activities presenter on Channel 9 information in Adelaide.
Tredrea was sacked from that place in 2021.
He claimed the sacking was on account of his refusal to take a COVID-19 vaccine and sued Channel 9, in search of virtually $5.77 million in misplaced wages.
However Tredrea misplaced a Federal Court docket trial which resulted in March final 12 months, with 9 sustaining he was sacked due to poor efficiency.
In June, he stated he began his podcast as “a results of some private {and professional} developments in my life over the previous few years – non-public issues which have performed out in a public discussion board”.
“These issues have made me sceptical, and even cynical, about huge authorities, huge enterprise and large media,” he posted on social media on June 25 this 12 months.
“In an effort to work my method by means of this, I’ve discovered myself interested in individuals who have taken an analogous life path … I’ve been curious to speak to those individuals in a public discussion board about uncomfortable points.”
