Club Mgmt. Board of Directors as led by President Dave Barham

[Lore]

Spoiler: Timeline of events

• 15/8: President, Paul Brasher resigns, replaced by Dave Barham who foreshadows external review
  • Votes for Brasher: Peter Allen, Simon Madden, Sean Wellman
    Sean Wellman

    Age

    50

    Ht

    193cm

    Wt

    90kg

    Pos.

    Def

    Career

    Season

    Last 5

    D

    14.1

    4star

    K

    9.7

    4star

    HB

    4.5

    3star

    M

    4.5

    4star

    T

    1.0

    3star

    No current season stats available

    D

    8.0

    2star

    K

    4.4

    2star

    HB

    3.6

    3star

    M

    2.6

    3star

    T

    0.8

    3star

  • Votes for Barham: Andrew Muir, Dorothy Hisgrove, Melissa Green, Kate O’Sullivan, Kevin Sheedy
• 21/8: Senior Coach, Ben Rutten
  Ben Rutten

  Age

  41

  Ht

  190cm

  Wt

  98kg

  Pos.

  Def

  Career

  Season

  Last 5

  D

  13.4

  3star

  K

  6.3

  2star

  HB

  7.0

  4star

  M

  5.3

  5star

  T

  1.3

  3star

  No current season stats available

  D

  10.6

  3star

  K

  6.2

  3star

  HB

  4.4

  4star

  M

  3.6

  4star

  T

  1.0

  3star

  sacked
• 24/8: CEO, Xavier Campbell resigns
• 24/8: Directors to resign
  • Paul Brasher, immediately
  • Simon Madden, immediately
  • Sean Wellman, after new football director is appointed
  • Peter Allen, after AGM & finance portfolio handover in December
• 26/8: Details of coaching selection committee appointment
  • Sub-committee of 6: Josh Mahoney
    Josh Mahoney

    Age

    47

    Ht

    180cm

    Wt

    83kg

    Pos.

    Fwd

    Career

    Season

    Last 5

    D

    11.3

    3star

    K

    6.8

    3star

    HB

    4.5

    3star

    M

    3.5

    4star

    T

    1.6

    4star

    G

    0.9

    4star

    No current season stats available

    D

    9.2

    3star

    K

    5.4

    2star

    HB

    3.8

    3star

    M

    2.2

    3star

    T

    1.6

    4star

    G

    0.4

    3star

    (Chair, GM-Footy), Robert Walls, Jordan Lewis
    Jordan Lewis

    Age

    38

    Ht

    186cm

    Wt

    86kg

    Pos.

    D/M

    Career

    Season

    Last 5

    D

    23.5

    5star

    K

    12.1

    4star

    HB

    11.5

    5star

    M

    5.5

    5star

    T

    2.7

    4star

    MG

    310.5

    4star

    No current season stats available

    D

    15.0

    4star

    K

    6.8

    3star

    HB

    8.2

    5star

    M

    4.8

    5star

    T

    2.8

    5star

    , Simone McKinnis OAM, Andrew Thorburn and Dorothy Hisgrove (board member).
• 26/8: Details of external review process
  • Ernst & Young to coordinate with support from Andrew Thorburn, working closely with Nick Ryan (Acting CEO) & Dorothy Hisgrove (board member)
  • Focusing on four areas: (1) Board effectiveness & composition, (2) a review of leadership, operations and culture including the footy department, (3) the senior coach appointment and (4) the new CEO appointment.
• 26/9: Andrew Welsh appointed to the board of directors, replacing Simon Madden
• 29/9: Brad Scott appointed as Senior Coach
• 30/9: Kevin Sheedy claims decision to appoint Brad Scott was 6-1 against him
• 3/10: Andrew Thorburn appointed as CEO - alternative link
• 3/10: “External review to be handed to the board next week”: Andrew Thorburn, Crichton Medal Address
• 4/10: Andrew Thorburn resigns as CEO
• 11/10: External review preliminary findings
• 24/10: External review preliminary findings II
• 2/11: Dan McPherson appointed as General Manager of Performance & Cam Roberts as Head of Development
• 11/11: Dean Rioli appointed to the board of directors, replacing Paul Brasher
• 14/11: Tim Roberts & David Wills appointed to the board of directors, replacing Sean Wellman and Paul Allen respectively
• 28/11: Dorothy Hisgrove announced as first female vice-president (at the Essendon Women's Best and Fairest night)
• 1/12: Craig Vozzo appointed as CEO
• 13/12: Board director election results: Andrew Welsh and Andrew Muir elected
• 15/5: The club's First Nations Advisory Council established, to be led by Dean Rioli (chair, Indigenous board member), and including: Leanne Brooke (EFC EGM – Community & The Long Walk. Essendon FC), Dorothy Hisgrove (EFC VP and National Manager Partner KPMG), Kane Ellis (CEO of Illawarra Aboriginal Medical Service), John Evans (Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Engagement at Swinburne) and Che Cockatoo-Collins (EM, Indigenous Affairs NBN, EFC Past Player)
• 16/5: Board of Directors declare support for the First Nations Voice to Parliament, after consultation with the new First Nations Advisory Council
• 28/8: EGM - Football, Josh Mahoney has accepted a role as GM Football Operations at the AFL
• 10/10: GM - Performance Daniel McPherson, and Head of AFLW/AFL Operations Manager Aysha Ward have been elevated to the club executive as joint leaders of the club's football department, as GM-AFL and GM-AFLW respectively

 

[Lore]

Interview with Andy Welsh about everything that’s happened, I think because he needs to be re-elected soon.

Nothing revolutionary but it’s wide ranging, Sheedy Thorburn Little Development VFL program all addressed.

‘It is hard’: Essendon football director Andrew Welsh up for challenge

Andrew Welsh has laid out a plan to make Essendon successful again as he begins his term as the club’s football director after a shambolic period for the Bombers.

www.theage.com.au

 

[The Donners]

Interview with Andy Welsh about everything that’s happened, I think because he needs to be re-elected soon.

Nothing revolutionary but it’s wide ranging, Sheedy Thorburn Little Development VFL program all addressed.

‘It is hard’: Essendon football director Andrew Welsh up for challenge

Andrew Welsh has laid out a plan to make Essendon successful again as he begins his term as the club’s football director after a shambolic period for the Bombers.

www.theage.com.au

Boys club.

 

[Lore]

Boys club.

People hate the boys club and they also hate appointed directors but if we didn’t have appointed directors the boys club problem would be even worse

 

[DonsRule]

Saw the Essendon email yesterday with the 2 positions to be filled, Muir and Welsh standing for doe re election for the 2 places to be filled.

I wonder if we've dropped the number of places on the board?

 

[Lore]

Saw the Essendon email yesterday with the 2 positions to be filled, Muir and Welsh standing for doe re election for the 2 places to be filled.

I wonder if we've dropped the number of places on the board?

I think there’s something in the constitution about filling multiple spots at once that might make it a bit tricky to prevent a take over.

Technically I think Peter Allen and Sean Wellman still occupy a seat each too, as their resignations were dated to the AGM rather than effective immediately.

 

[Lore]

Probably it becomes a casual vacancy after the AGM and then they’ll appoint someone

 

[frodos gardener]

People hate the boys club and they also hate appointed directors but if we didn’t have appointed directors the boys club problem would be even worse

Agree. There NEEDS to be a couple of Essendon boys on the board to represent that part of the fan base, otherwise they won’t feel they have representation and will forever be agitating for a “clean out”.

Damn politics

 

[frodos gardener]

By the way Lore , what is the duck emoji?

 

[DonsRule]

I think there’s something in the constitution about filling multiple spots at once that might make it a bit tricky to prevent a take over.

Technically I think Peter Allen and Sean Wellman still occupy a seat each too, as their resignations were dated to the AGM rather than effective immediately.

Ah that sounds tight. Guess a little interesting they didn't parashute Welsh into one of those positions.

 

[Lore]

Ah that sounds tight. Guess a little interesting they didn't parashute Welsh into one of those positions.

He was parachuted into Madden's spot, and comes up for election straight away anyway

 

[Lore]

By the way Lore , what is the duck emoji?

Mods can choose a personal react, mine's a duck and it means whatever I feel like it means at the moment that I click on it

 

[DonsRule]

People hate the boys club and they also hate appointed directors but if we didn’t have appointed directors the boys club problem would be even worse

Welsh to me has at least achieved some good success outside of football. I think hat differentiates him a little from someone in a low lying position that falls back on, remember that premiership Essendon won in 1984.....I played in it. Vote for me.

No doubt Welsh will rely on that too and it gave him a good kickstart into his business career but I think hes moved beyond the area most ex players go.

 

[Lore]

Welsh to me has at least achieved some good success outside of football. I think hat differentiates him a little from someone in a low lying position that falls back on, remember that premiership Essendon won in 1984.....I played in it. Vote for me.

No doubt Welsh will rely on that too and it gave him a good kickstart into his business career but I think hes moved beyond the area most ex players go.

The way the board nominations thing is written up now they have to fit into the required director skills matrix, and the football expertise area can't be the only one you have. Also no more than 2 are supposed to have the football expertise one as their option

Actually they're amending the constitution again at the AGM too but as far as I can tell it doesn't have any particular consequences unless you're a pedophile or have a dodgy criminal history.

 

[Lance Uppercut]

People hate the boys club and they also hate appointed directors but if we didn’t have appointed directors the boys club problem would be even worse

 

[jmoo wan]

By the way Lore , what is the duck emoji?

it means she thinks you can go and get ducked, is what it means.

 

[Lore]

1. The motto of the Club is “Sauvitor in modo fortiter in re” which is translated as “Gentle in manner, resolute in deed”.

ha

 

[frodos gardener]

it means she thinks you can go and get ducked, is what it means.

I knew it!!

 

[Mr Mojo Risin]

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[citizen-erased]

1. The motto of the Club is “Sauvitor in modo fortiter in re” which is translated as “Gentle in manner, resolute in deed”.

ha

sums up the on-field

 

[Lore]

sums up the on-field

On-field has the former but not the latter, and off-field, lately, the latter but not the former.

 

[Nifft]

As an aside. that was a great movie.

 

[Lore]

The point of this review was to see what Geelong and others are doing that we’re not doing… apparently Richardson at Melbourne is GM Football Performance, which sounds kinda familiar.

Was appointed to the role right after Mahoney left so not sure if Mahoney was across those plans at Melbourne but yeah;

Alan Richardson - General Manager of AFL Football Performance​

An experienced tactician, Alan Richardson joined Melbourne's football department ahead of the 2020 season.

After spending the 2020 season as the club's Director of Coaching, Richardson was later appointed to the position General Manager of AFL Football Performance in preparation for 2021.

In his role, Richardson oversees the performance-based elements of the AFL program including coaching, high performance, medical, performance psychology and skill development.

Alan Richardson | Melbourne Football Club

www.melbournefc.com.au

 

[ghostdog]

Where can I read the review? I don't see it on the webpage. Good thing seems to be the media not reporting anything beyond the appointments, so maybe no leaks is really a thing now.

 

[Lore]

Where can I read the review? I don't see it on the webpage. Good thing seems to be the media not reporting anything beyond the appointments, so maybe no leaks is really a thing now.

The full findings aren’t out yet, we only have the preliminaries from the last president email;

Letter from the President

President Dave Barham addresses members and fans.

www.essendonfc.com.au

Stuff is linked in the timeline in the sticky post too if you’re trying to find anything

 

[ghostdog]

The full findings aren’t out yet, we only have the preliminaries from the last president email;

Letter from the President

President Dave Barham addresses members and fans.

www.essendonfc.com.au

Stuff is linked in the timeline in the sticky post too if you’re trying to find anything

Cheers Lore. I've read the preliminaries so probs posting with a tinge of whinge. I've also been looking forward comments from Dodoro re: the trade period but haven't been able to find anything on the club's page about that either. Wondered if he'd been muzzled.