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

 

[MightyDon]

Where's Heppellfreak?

8chan

 

[Darealrath]

Can we squid game the board + Campbell and Dodoro? But one where noone wins?

 

[thaibomber]

afl.com has a live presser from our president. atm... waiting for it to start...

 

[jcmelb]

 

[andleanback]

Don't forget we hired Knights instead of Hardwick because the former used a PPT in his presentation and the latter did not. This ******* club.

Hardwick would’ve failed
Only 3 years experience before getting a senior job at essendon. Yeh he would’ve been out the door by 2011.

 

[Zach Package]

Hardwick would’ve failed
Only 3 years experience before getting a senior job at essendon. Yeh he would’ve been out the door by 2011.

Hardwick did fail, consistently. They just backed him, assembled talent around him and let him grow into it.

 

[Duster]

Where's Heppellfreak?

Just landing with Xavier Menzies.

 

[BrewSmackerVeiny]

Ive been away since Sunday, did I miss anything?

 

[joey_jo_jo]

Would really like rutten to stay but if he (justifiably) tells the club to eff off I would love if we tried to pry dimma away from the tigers.
Other than Clarko he is the only current coach who would have the runs on board and personality to deal with our playing group/board. Plus it would have the romanticism attached to appease the nuffs like sheedy.

 

[lenny2013]

Boys club breaths a sigh of relief.

 

[Lore]

External review not just footy but of the board as well.

I wish he'd quit shuffling his feet.

 

[andleanback]

I loving this from barham
Straight shooting

 

[Lore]

Is this person actually admitting to his **** ups...

 

[sacka]

Not sure how to feel, ashamed the way the club has conducted itself over the last weekish, or the fact that this has shined a bright enough light externally on how bad things are at the club that surely it has to go through some serious changed now instead of ****ing around pretending to fix shit like it has the last 15 years.
Not sure where I stand on Rutten as a coach, but the treatment of him especially this week has been deplorable, and anyone that thinks any less is ****ing kidding themselves, if this club had half the dignity he has shown this week we would be in a greatly better position.

 

[Duster]

External review not just footy but of the board as well.

I wish he'd quit shuffling his feet.

I can't hear anything because I'm in a meeting at work. Watching him is giving me motion sickness. And other sicknesses I can't quite pick yet.

 

[Mercuri Rising]

History says you need a complete mess to move forward anyway.

We've completely decoupled being a basketcase from actually getting better afterwards

 

[Lore]

No positions under review. Wants direct comparison with other clubs. External review should be telling us what is Geelong doing, what is Collingwood doing, what did Richmond do. Why are Geelong getting x prelims in x years? What are they doing differently?

Add that to internal review.


(Doesn't mean it won't come back and say the thing they're doing differently is not having ex-footballers on their board)

 

[Ati Tude]

I must say watching Barham for the first time in action, he is really really - unimpressive.

 

[Lore]

Sounds like they'll make a decision on Rutten on Sunday. Trying to give the game tomorrow some clear air (which it won't get of course)

 

[bonedry]

I must say watching Barham for the first time in action, he is really really - unimpressive.

Absolutely.

This is more than a joke.

 

[andleanback]

If 1+1+1=5
Back in your box tommy

 

[Lore]

Who will conduct the review?

One of the big four, PWC or one of those. Got Hisgrove on the board. Experienced person. She will conduct it from the board's point of view and bring in some football people.

 

[kelvin_sheedy]

Holy smoke Batman.

Looks like pretty much no one in management is going to lose a job.

"We are trying to work out why Geelong has played in 8 prelims and we haven't". I can tell them that and all I require is a coffee and a croissant.

 

[Lore]

Media manager just told them they're done and 'come on Dave lets go'

and Dave stayed to answer one more question. XD

 

[Arctic fox]

Am i listening to the president of Tootgarook football club?