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

 

[Foxx]

Nice in theory. Practically though, can you not see any problems surfacing? I think it would waste another year at least.

The problems i see would be, where does it leave our teams on field fortunes? Will there be player confusion for the pre season and going into next year? Why keep working at a gameplan that is going to be changed again? Why even stay at the club when theres so much uncertainty? Should i back Truck and go 100% or should i have another half arsed year, i get paid either way.

You can say oh the players are professional it'll be business as usual but we've already seen Hurls and Merrett this week complaining about lack of transparency from the club. Its a mess right now and would be next year trying to pretend Truck is our man.

Pretending this week has been good business would be classic Essendon though.

After thinking about that, I can't see why not. If the players are behind him, they should perform well. Results will dictate the rest.

 

[kelvin_sheedy]

Ah no
He’s not going to come out and say people are going to get sacked today
They run the review and if the review says people should be sacked, then they will leave.

He was pretty defensive about Xav and the whole board, Rutten, not so much.

Basically said we'll see what happens to Ben on Sunday. All roads point to the sacking on Sunday which doesn't make a lot of sense as it'll be difficult to get PWC to run an external review on Saturday and get an outcome.

 

[The Donners]

What a trainwreck of a presser.

How so?

 

[Mootsy]

How do they not know why Richmond and Geelong have been successful by 2022. Oh my god

 

[Arctic fox]

He was standing at the local having a beer and a chin wag with a mate.

 

[andleanback]

He was pretty defensive about Xav and the whole board, Rutten, not so much.

Basically said we'll see what happens to Ben on Sunday. All roads point to the sacking on Sunday which doesn't make a lot of sense as it'll be difficult to get PWC to run an external review on Saturday and get an outcome.

He said the review and coach is separate. Review is of whole of club executives and of football operations. It’s clear Ben won’t be coaching next year.

 

[naraku]

So Rutten will go, Brahser just got demoted really and nothing else will change ?

 

[TheFrenchCut]

How so?

Not having a laugh but thought i'd check, did you watch it

 

[Schnitzengruben]

Was a trainwreck as soon as he went off script but honestly, no matter who was being asked the questions, nobody could've done a good job there.

I don't mind him. Seems like an honest enough dude with good intentions. First of many steps I hope.

 

[Call Me Cake]

On one end, there's some human in him, as opposed to just corporate robotics.

But on the other end, I can smell the cheap perfume from here and he looks as if he's about to sell us all a used car.

This must be the twilight zone and I'm all for it.

 

[Ati Tude]

If there is a replay or transcript of that rubbish, i would love to see it. Did he say they make a decision about the coach on Sunday. Did they say they would look for a new coach if needed in parallel to the external review, did he say positions are not being reviewed, is PwC (or you know, one of those Big 4) running the external review?

 

[thaibomber]

He was standing at the local having a beer and a chin wag with a mate.

found that refreshing actually.

 

[Fear Boner]

Expecting Essendon to do anything of note was anyones first mistake

 

[Aussie Assault]

He was pretty defensive about Xav and the whole board, Rutten, not so much.

Basically said we'll see what happens to Ben on Sunday. All roads point to the sacking on Sunday which doesn't make a lot of sense as it'll be difficult to get PWC to run an external review on Saturday and get an outcome.

He said Xavier has a contract in place - basically backing his position. One of the journo's then jumped into say so does Rutten. Annnnnd he danced around it.

Rutten is gone on Sunday.

 

[Runk]

So...........this new President isn't filling me with a lot of hope

 

[84859300]

Was a trainwreck as soon as he went off script but honestly, no matter who was being asked the questions, nobody could've done a good job there.

I don't mind him. Seems like an honest enough dude with good intentions. First of many steps I hope.

The best part was when he shut down Tom Browne

I **** with that

 

[Darealrath]

The coaching role needs closure one way or another, you can't let Rutten hang in the breeze for a month or six weeks while a review is conducted.

I totally get that. It's just unfortunate as hypothetically the review could find that he was on the right path.

I expect Rutten will be gone on Sunday after being given the chance to exit gracefully on Saturday night. I also expect he'll land on his feet like Knights did and I wish him all the best. Hopefully the players show some fight for him and Hurls.

 

[andleanback]

On one end, there's some human in him, and less of corporate robotics.

But on the other end, I can smell the cheap perfume from here and he looks as if he's about to sell us all a used car.

This must be the twilight zone and I'm all for it.

You know his history yeh? One of the best operators in aus media. Agent for change.

 

[Fear Boner]

Aslong as Dudoro and Xav are gone by the time 2023 starts im cool

 

[Arctic fox]

Is Truck still going to have his presser?

 

[mike14]

I don't really get what Saturday night has to do with whether we keep Rutten or not? The decision must have already been made, no?
6 goal win, 6 goal loss, 100 point smashing, what actual difference does the result of round 23 in an underwhelming season actually matter?
Either we don't like what Rutten's doing and he's out the door; or we are confident the foundation is still being laid and he'll be the coach next season

 

[Lance Uppercut]

wtf was that? **** me hahahahahahahahahaha

 

[TheFrenchCut]

Is Truck still going to have his presser?

Supposed to be 20 mins away

 

[Loonerty]

I don't really get what Saturday night has to do with whether we keep Rutten or not? The decision must have already been made, no?
6 goal win, 6 goal loss, 100 point smashing, what actual difference does the result of round 23 in an underwhelming season actually matter?
Either we don't like what Rutten's doing and he's out the door; or we are confident the foundation is still being laid and he'll be the coach next season

The decision has been made I reckon.
He's gone on Sunday.

 

[ant555]

I did say X had plenty of credits in the bank from steering the off field into a strong position after the saga.
It may suck but it is how it works.