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]

The Spike and Hird show . Nooooooo I did not just say that .

From one noob to another

 

[Phone]

we're doing 2010 all over again but this time 38 players won't get doping bans.

we're gonna aim for all of them this time

 

[yodellinhank]

Could Sheeds be envious of Clarko?

Absolutely

 

[yodellinhank]

What does he have to envy besides his relative youth?

Sheedy is big on records, premiership tallies...

 

[ant555]

I suspect Sean Murphy may be feeling nervous .

 

[yodellinhank]

No, he was an abusive campaigner to many at North. The role he had shouldn’t excuse that.

All the best have been abusive campaigners.

 

[Lore]

Sheedy is big on records, premiership tallies...

So to preserve Sheedy at 4, Essendon will be potentially preserved at 16.

 

[citizen-erased]

I suspect Sean Murphy may be feeling nervous .

Darren burgess please

 

[lmaohelp]

How is Sheedy still involved at this footy club and holds a decent amount of power ?

Maybe that is 90% of our problem.

We have deep cultral and respect issues among the entire organisation, we need Clarkson to come in, strip it back and almost start fresh.

That 'Line in the sand moment' that Bahram spoke of, how is that going to eventuate if Sheedy is potentially stopping the move for Clarkson and potentially bringing Hird back in. I laugh, I seriously laugh at the thought of that...

 

[ant555]

Darren burgess please

May be hard. It is only his first year at the Crows.

 

[citizen-erased]

May be hard. It is only his first year at the Crows.

But we're essendon

 

[TheGrizz]

As well as doing the dumbest thing in the history of Australian football.

Well that seals it then, I suppose

 

[RearNaked]

bring back hird and the weapon

 

[Mr Mojo Risin]

bring back hird and the weapon

Dank for head coach?

 

[RearNaked]

Dank for head coach?

Maybe ceo our one looks like he only injects soy lattes

 

[Engimal v3]

bring back hird and the weapon

Essendon's villain arc lol

 

[Lore]

Essendon's villain arc lol

Y’all would hate on us so bad if that happened


Especially if he won a preeemiership flag

 

[The Prosecutor]

What's the bet Clarkson will fall through and we'll end up with the likes of Welsh/Wellman/Sheedy advocating and probably getting Spike as coach and Solomon as an assistant.

 

[RearNaked]

Essendon's villain arc lol

Everyone is saying we are vanilla should bring back the dream team

 

[RearNaked]

What's the bet Clarkson will fall through and we'll end up with the likes of Welsh/Wellman/Sheedy advocating and probably getting Spike as coach and Solomon as an assistant.

Spike wouldn’t be as bad as hird or Lyon which it’ll probably be if we miss out on clarko

 

[Howard Moon]

Maybe Eddie heard sheedys troll on radio about wanting clarko to go to north and ran with it as a fact,, he's flipped!

 

[Engimal v3]

Maybe Eddie heard sheedys troll on radio about wanting clarko to go to north and ran with it as a fact,, he's flipped!

These ****wits hear nothing but each other, don't listen to them. This whole thing has exposed the AFL media and how amateurish it is.

 

[Old Campaigner]

What's the bet Clarkson will fall through and we'll end up with the likes of Welsh/Wellman/Sheedy advocating and probably getting Spike as coach and Solomon as an assistant.

This is Essendon we're talking about and much like anything involving Donald Trump you can generally put money on the dumbest possible thing happening (except when it's somehow even dumber)

 

[Lads2023]

 

[yodellinhank]

So to preserve Sheedy at 4, Essendon will be potentially preserved at 16.

There's no denying his ego. His book 500 Club is all about who has how many what, there's no doubt he'd be keeping track.