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

    46

    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

 

[fishardansin]

Who is your favourite genius... James Hird or James Joyce?

C'mon pal what are ya?

 

[jag001]

After this much of a * up, there's every chance people try to save their own and turn to Hird again in the blind hope that 'populism' will fly with enough nuffies to survive.

Its not about populism or anything else - I'd rather support a club I can be passionate and have heart about as opposed to being a vanilla corporate entity with a football team full of marshmallows. Bring him back I say. I'm all in for it. Its hard to fully extrapolate the data given the other factors around it but can the guy inspire and install effort in a team - absolutely... can he think tactically - pretty sure he was fairly astute in these areas... does everyone deserve a second chance - everyone thats ever been perfect might say no, the rest of us rely on second chances...

 

[fairbump_playon]

This is all so salacious.. so dramatic and exciting.

I've waited 18 years for Essendon to be relevant again.

Feels great doesn't it!

 

[fishardansin]

I'm posting this 3 times a day now.
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[The Dustbin]

The review will be used as leverage to remove the CEO and Dodoro. Mahoney probably survives.

 

[Mootsy]

 

[DonsRule]

Barhams presser

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

I thought oh theyve told Rutten and he just wants to coach out the season, bot no we really did leave him hanging and treated him like shit

 

[LB#16]

 

[Mootsy]

I know I’d be there til’ the end…

 

[The Donners]

Robbo has just finished his morning beers, I look forward to his mid afternoon cask port Hirdy articles

A deck of smokes too I’m sure.

 

[faible]

The review will be used as leverage to remove the CEO and Dodoro. Mahoney probably survives.

I'd be onboard with this outcome.

 

[RearNaked]

barham presser probably cancelled gonna act like nothing happened

 

[calyam]

In regards to Clarko, the man literally chose an absolute basket case list over ours. A list that can't even put a leash on an 18 year old, who is by all signs ready to gtfo.

If that's the kind of pursuit he's choosing then it's quite clear he's not in the right frame of mind to coach us. Dodged a bullet.

He had a choice between two basket cases. He chose the one he has stronger ties to and the one that didn't implode earlier this week.

Whether we want to admit it or not, the Essendon football club is a complete shit show and has been for a very long time. We may be one of the worst run 'professional' sporting teams in Australia. The idea that we are somehow better than North - or better placed for long-term success - seems horribly misplaced and just typical Essendon entitlement.

 

[andleanback]

To make things better rama is ruttens manager

 

[The Donners]

In regards to Clarko, the man literally chose an absolute basket case list over ours. A list that can't even put a leash on an 18 year old, who is by all signs ready to gtfo.

If that's the kind of pursuit he's choosing then it's quite clear he's not in the right frame of mind to coach us. Dodged a bullet.

This could be the most positive Effington post today.

 

[KeilorUnder9s]

You guys still have that manure truck lying around?

Can we please borrow it?

Borrow it? **** it mate you can have it I will drive it over to the hanger personally!

 

[fishardansin]

He had a choice between two basket cases. He chose the one he has stronger ties to and the one that didn't implode earlier this week.

Whether we want to admit it or not, the Essendon football club is a complete s**t show and has been for a very long time. We may be one of the worst run 'professional' sporting teams in Australia. The idea that we are somehow better than North - or better placed for long-term success - seems horribly misplaced and just typical Essendon entitlement.

I don't think it is that. I think that his head was turned with a more monied club and probably a quick rebuild. However, it would be crazy to jump at that considering how detailed the process was going to Norf. He's going to have the team he wants and will walk into it early next week. He'll get to be part of the exit meetings and start with the list build from the draft.

If he was to come to Essendon he doesn't know who his staff is etc. What is their list management strategy for the upcoming off-season etc?

 

[Blind Turn]

Sheeds doesn’t make jibes at other clubs unless he knows something. As soon as he bagged North about Clarko taking them to Tassie it was a given that we weren’t getting him.

When Robbo mentioned earlier this year that we shouldn’t be surprised if Hird returned I was gobsmacked that such narrative would arise at all.

You do wonder about the machinations going on behind the scenes. At this point, from an optics perspective, we are so far gone that a Hird return is almost the shot in the arm I need to even care about our direction. Something irresistibly against the grain sort of gets my juices flowing, unlike the sense of ‘meh’ I’ve had about this club since Damien Cupido left.

 

[citizen-erased]

Borrow it? * it mate you can have it I will drive it over to the hanger personally!

Cheers

Drive it through the front window while you're there

Manure is kept at the core of the club

 

[Duster]

The presser isn't happening is it?

 

[Doss]

In regards to Clarko, the man literally chose an absolute basket case list over ours. A list that can't even put a leash on an 18 year old, who is by all signs ready to gtfo.

If that's the kind of pursuit he's choosing then it's quite clear he's not in the right frame of mind to coach us. Dodged a bullet.

Bruh

 

[Beerfish]

a Hird return is almost the shot in the arm I need

 

[Cold Sober]

Clarkos decision has nothing to do with who's on the board, our list is too good to pass up.

Didn't see that coming, maybe he does hate us as much as they're saying.

 

[Halloween Jack]

So guys, how many minutes in the microwave do you recommend to property cook a membership card?