Jeff Kennett says he's been approached to take over Melbourne board Former Victorian Premier and Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett says he has been asked to take over Melbourne. JEFF Kennett has called for Melbourne's board to stand down and says he is prepared to take over the battling club. The former Hawthorn president and state premier says he has been approached by Melbourne figures to put together a challenge, and he is prepared to take on the job of chairman. Kennett called on Demon supporters to call an extraordinary general meeting to oust President Don McLardy. "There's Melbourne members out there who have approached me in the past few weeks who have asked me would I be part of a group to run against the incumbent board," Kennett said on 3AW. I've called on the board to go, I can't believe they still sit there with so many failures on their hands. If I could get the Melbourne supporters to say, 'Enough's enough' and allow us to put together a board of five we'd give them 6-7 years to rebuild. Melbourne is a strong brand. It will survive but it needs a winning culture, it needs some passion and it needs good governance - it doesn't have any of that. You can keep fiddling while Rome burns but at some point the Melbourne supporters themselves are going to have to decide if they are going to let their club simply bottom out at the bottom of the ocean, or rise up and start rebuilding. The Demons today declined to comment on Kennett's ambitions. Schwarz: Neeld goes or fans leave Demetriou suggests AFL House is bugged Kennett rejected suggestions by Collingwood president Eddie McGuire - and supported by Hawthorn - that the Demons be given extra cash in their salary cap to allow them to recover on the field. The solution proposed by Hawthorn and Collingwood is immorally wrong and I hope the AFL doesn't agree to it because that would simply be condoning failure. He also controversially labelled GWS the "AFL's Gallipoli." "I fear GWS is to Australian rules football what Gallipoli was to Australian forces in the First World War," he said. I don't think GWS will ever work. If we continue to push I fear the money brought in to support it will continue to cripple the rest of the clubs that run the competition. Do we continue to back this mistake out of pride, or say it doesn't work? I fear we are on the verge within the AFL of committing our own Gallipoli where leadership is not flexible enough to say we've made a mistake.