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

 

[TheWeapon]

What a crazy week. The club needed a real shake up but the way it played out was very unprofessional
The positive of Brasher going is the plan now for an external review - this is essential
The desperate bid for Clarko was a bit silly, could people seriously see him crossing to us when he was a part of the "line in the sand" game, too much history there
Rutten has been admirable this week but I think he is dead man walking
A few others have said Ross Lyon here and honestly I think we could do worse with his experience, leadership and proven capability of building a strong defensive unit
Hird should not be even considered as we need to move on from that era, if there are board members angling for this they need to be overthrown
Xavier Campbell should be our marketing guy and need to find a CEO who can actually run the footy aspect

 

[Eleven 38]

Sheedy/board clearly knew Tuesday that Clarkson was going to North, so any comments after Tuesday is stock standard normal Sheedy.

 

[Cup_o_Jobe]

If there were to be a board spill, who would you want on it?

Anyone: (I) with extensive experience on boards of successful, high performance organizations, that (ii) have nothing to do with the current mob.

 

[baz_machine]

If there were to be a board spill, who would you want on it?

 

[Burzum]

Don't tell me Truck is the one to blame for how bad we are on-field. The players were so wounded by how Truck was treated AND it was a beloved players return from a serious injury while also being his final game and the team still couldn't get up for it.

 

[Lore]

Don't tell me Truck is the one to blame for how bad we are on-field. The players were so wounded by how Truck was treated AND it was a beloved players return from a serious injury while also being his final game and the team still couldn't get up for it.

We don't have the cattle to play Truck's game plan. Although I'm not sure we have the cattle to implement any finals-worthy game plan at the moment, to be honest...

 

[Eleven 38]

Anyone: (I) with extensive experience on boards of successful, high performance organizations, that (ii) have nothing to do with the current mob.

The board also has to be essendon people a mixture of footy people and business people, you can't change that.

The role of the board is to hire people to be in the jobs to run the football club.

You can't just have those people on the board. It would be good if you I use could.

We need less people on the board, 10 people is too many, the less people on the board the easier it is to have everyone on the same page. I assume you'd need a vote on constitutional change for that.

 

[DallasCrane316]

Don't tell me Truck is the one to blame for how bad we are on-field. The players were so wounded by how Truck was treated AND it was a beloved players return from a serious injury while also being his final game and the team still couldn't get up for it.

We obviously need a strong, experienced coach to address the cultural issues as well.

External review (I hope) also addresses our physical preparation, fitness etc.

 

[Bjchan13]

his game plan is horrendous. I want to see us at least score a goal or 2

His gameplan is defence first. His sides are well drilled. His record is 163 wins-118 losses -4 draws

 

[bonedry]

We don't have the cattle to play Truck's game plan. Although I'm not sure we have the cattle to implement any finals-worthy game plan at the moment, to be honest...

This is horse-shit...you implement a plan based on the team you have not the team you want. Truck is a moron, happy to see the back of him. Cya mate

 

[Fear Boner]

Don't tell me Truck is the one to blame for how bad we are on-field. The players were so wounded by how Truck was treated AND it was a beloved players return from a serious injury while also being his final game and the team still couldn't get up for it.

The players all year haven’t been up too standard and really do not want to run both ways and do the hard stuff

 

[Lore]

This is horse-s**t...you implement a plan based on the team you have not the team you want. Truck is a moron, happy to see the back of him. Cya mate

What finals-worthy game plan do you think we could possibly implement with a team that has no mature KPPs, no small forwards, one small defender and a bunch of front-running midfielders

I mean he could let them play shootout footy and fall into finals on 11-12 games and percentage each year, then get bailed out as the pretenders we are. That'd work while we rebuild the list, just stick around the fringes for 4-5 years while the talls mature and they recruit to flesh out the 22.

But then you get 4-5 years into a rebuild without ever having learned the stuff you need to do to contend. so...

 

[bonedry]

I mean he could let them play shootout footy and fall into finals on 11-12 games and percentage each year, then get bailed out as the pretenders we are.

You're kidding yourself if you think we could fall into the finals playing any other game plan. I'm not phased by losing, it's about how you lose. I would mind if we lost every game of the year if we were competitive and had a structure that was scalable. Rutten has had 3 years to build a structure...he's failed

 

[Lore]

You're kidding yourself if you think we could fall into the finals playing any other game plan. I'm not phased by losing, it's about how you lose. I would mind if we lost every game of the year if we were competitive and had a structure that was scalable. Rutten has had 3 years to build a structure...he's failed

Every final we've made for the last 20 years was exactly that, 11-12 wins, front running footy, and bailed out with a 60-point interstate drubbing

I'm not kidding anyone, and honestly I think we're actually in agreement

 

[Lore]

 

[Zach Package]

Well they ****ing deserved that didn’t they?

 

[goal kicking wingman]

Sorry to intrude, but Chocco would be on top of my list. Look at recent successful clubs and he’s been there. Touted to be a great development coach and a relationship builder.

Put some tactical assistants around him and I think you have the perfect team.

If I was 100% sure Chocco would take our job if we offered it to him, I would take him before Clarko.

Chocco is cooked mate he is a part time coach the game has passed him bye 10 years ago. He is more a personal one on one sort of guy teaching the younger players about the game.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Probably more for the Rutten thread, but

What was being built that was looking stable and sustainable?

Where have we improved over the past 23 weeks/2 years?

If a new coach ends up taking over, what might be areas of improvement we've seen glimpses of that you might credit the current regime?

There have been some improvements in isolated things, but I’ll assume you’re being rhetorical (which is fair enough)…

Obviously there’s issues but who’s to say it is Rutten? It could be any magnitude of things inside this mess of a club. We can of course sheet everything home to the coach and go with another, but we’ve done that multiple times. Perhaps he is on the right track but can’t implement things permanently because of issues with the playing group and deeper cultural issues?

Rutten has seen success. Caracella has seen plenty and so has Giansiracusa.

How can we say we’re doing an in depth review and sacking these blokes first? Huh?

 

[goal kicking wingman]

Don't tell me Truck is the one to blame for how bad we are on-field. The players were so wounded by how Truck was treated AND it was a beloved players return from a serious injury while also being his final game and the team still couldn't get up for it.

They are not wounded they haven't played for him all year occasionally turn up if they feel like it. Tonights unispiring performance shows this team is nothing but talk. Talk is cheap we need to go get some real bulls that don't take a backward step. Some junk yard dogs just not danielle

 

[yodellinhank]

There have been some improvements in isolated things, but I’ll assume you’re being rhetorical (which is fair enough)…

Obviously there’s issues but who’s to say it is Rutten? It could be any magnitude of things inside this mess of a club. We can of course sheet everything home to the coach and go with another, but we’ve done that multiple times. Perhaps he is on the right track but can’t implement things permanently because of issues with the playing group and deeper cultural issues?

Rutten has seen success. Caracella has seen plenty and so has Giansiracusa.

How can we say we’re doing an in depth review and sacking these blokes first? Huh?

Wasn't rhetorical. Looking for the positives and/or the signs a sacking would be a mistake. I liked a lot of the calls Rutten made over the past couple of years, the attempt to reconnect to the history, his lack of excuses.

People point to sides like Tigers & Demons hanging in through the tough times and coming out the other side. Don't think you can flick a switch and have it click all of a sudden. Surely there's some sort of incremental progression? I don't think we saw anything across the past 23 weeks, but others who follow it more closely might be able to say

 

[JayJ20]

This is horse-s**t...you implement a plan based on the team you have not the team you want. Truck is a moron, happy to see the back of him. Cya mate

You’ll be the same one that cries when we get smacked in finals playing a game style that suits our list. Attacking, flair and defenceless football isn’t going to get us anywhere.

 

[Duckworth]

There have been some improvements in isolated things, but I’ll assume you’re being rhetorical (which is fair enough)…

Obviously there’s issues but who’s to say it is Rutten? It could be any magnitude of things inside this mess of a club. We can of course sheet everything home to the coach and go with another, but we’ve done that multiple times. Perhaps he is on the right track but can’t implement things permanently because of issues with the playing group and deeper cultural issues?

Rutten has seen success. Caracella has seen plenty and so has Giansiracusa.

How can we say we’re doing an in depth review and sacking these blokes first? Huh?

Barham strikes me as quite the simpleton. A basic understanding of sack the coach, and everything will be fixed. (The equivalent of blaming the goalie in soccer)
Only after approaching Clarkson did he seek out Rutten to better understand the game plan. Should have been the other way around, and even then I’m certain he couldn’t comprehend a thing.

 

[Bombermania]

If there were to be a board spill, who would you want on it?

Would keep the three women, maybe make one of them president. This wouldn't be for gender reasons but to try and move away from the stale group currently running the club.

Add Charlotte Miller due to her role in successfully developing the women's program.

Allocate an area for each board member to oversee.

One or two board spots for past players, with the requirement that players are premiership players and extensive experience outside of the EFC, people like Andrew Walsh and Jobe Watson.

The rest don't need replacing leaving a board of 5 or 6.

 

[ant555]

So

This is horse-s**t...you implement a plan based on the team you have not the team you want. Truck is a moron, happy to see the back of him. Cya mate

what plan do you implement for a bunch of front running flat track bullies with very little physical presence and no leadership. ?
Please do tell us.

 

[Nuggs Bunny]

Barham strikes me as quite the simpleton. A basic understanding of sack the coach, and everything will be fixed. (The equivalent of blaming the goalie in soccer)
Only after approaching Clarkson did he seek out Rutten to better understand the game plan. Should have been the other way around, and even then I’m certain he couldn’t comprehend a thing.

Barham strikes me as an empty suit that's taken the top job at the behest of rich nuffies that think their contributions to the club entitle them to a say in how it's managed.