In 2020, soccer journalist Duncan Alexander made a joke that has become a meme among fans of the English Premier League: “Each day there is one main crisis club. The goal is never to be it.”That goes for all sorts of sporting codes and never more so than for fans of AFL. Because while the “crisis club” is rightfully Andrew Pridham’s Sydney Swans, there’s a low rumbling in the boardroom at the Melbourne Football Club.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles