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

 

[Its Manbearpig]

Coopers Stout is life.

Is that you Dad?

 

[KeilorUnder9s]

Coopers are a bit of a funny one. They're trying to push into new territory to take market share from other breweries who are doing new-world style beers (hop forward, more aromatic craft beers like XPAs/IPAs/some Pale varieties/Pacific Ales etc) but their production setup doesn't facilitate those kinds of beers, so they're kind of trying to shoehorn the production methods they know (for slower fermented, bottle conditioned, 'traditional' beers) into these more modern styles and the result isn't great.

They also have their house yeast strain which is basically their signature and a huge part of the 'Coopers-ness' of all of their beers, which they're persisting with using on modern beer styles (which generally should have minimal yeast character) even though it doesn't lend itself to those kinds of beers at all

So they are ****ing idiots?

 

[The Donners]

I must be boring, just drink Carlton Draught on tap wherever I go and the same in tins at home.

If I’m at a bar and it’s packed and not sure what’s on tap (perhaps I’m just awkward in these situations) I’ll go Carlton Draught. Or if I’m going to a family gathering (on the in-laws side) I’ll bring a slab of Carlton Draught to share. It’s not a bad drop.

 

[The Donners]

Coopers Stout is life.

It’s not actually bad at all. Stouts aren’t my thing but can handle Coopers. If I’m going for a meal in a beer it’ll be Kilkenny.

 

[citizen-erased]

So they are ******* idiots?

wasn't Coopers the ones that ran a particularly tone-deaf ad during the SSM plebiscite, and nearly ended the company overnight.

 

[KeilorUnder9s]

wasn't Coopers the ones that ran a particularly tone-deaf ad during the SSM plebiscite, and nearly ended the company overnight.

Yep and that answers my question. ****ing idiots

 

[KeilorUnder9s]

I see a bender in my near future in part because of this thread.. thanks in advance.

 

[silk]

I suspect a few us sorry gluten feee folks are feeling left out. So I feel obliged to point out that Two Bays Pale Ale and IPA are genuinely good brews of you like that style. If you drinking with a gluten intolerant/allergic mate, get a slab and drink it with him. He'll appreciate it and you'll enjoy it.

 

[Duckworth]

Is that you Dad?

careful what you google

 

[DERO]

What type of Whiskey?
on the rocks or neat?

Is this a rhetorical question?

 

[DERO]

careful what you google

the xpa is a very nice drop

 

[Duckworth]

the xpa is a very nice drop

But why is Doss spanking Manbearpig ?
Edit: or worse!

 

[Old Campaigner]

But why is Doss spanking Manbearpig ?
Edit: or worse!

Is it not Doss getting a blockage removed?

 

[Doss]

 

[threeleggedgoat]

wasn't Coopers the ones that ran a particularly tone-deaf ad during the SSM plebiscite, and nearly ended the company overnight.

That's a gentle way of describing the ad. They aligned themselves pretty clearly with straight up bible bashing bigots and copped a fair bit (probably still less than they deserved) of backlash for it

 

[BrunoV]

Heaven forbid that anyone dares to hold a view that doesn't conform to the religion of secularism/scientism.

It's a tremendously ironic view of the world.

 

[madrigal]

It's a tremulously ironic view of the world.

What is ironic or tremulous about the world view?

 

[citizen-erased]

That's a gentle way of describing the ad. They aligned themselves pretty clearly with straight up bible bashing bigots and copped a fair bit (probably still less than they deserved) of backlash for it

diplomatic is how i'd describe it

this thread has been derailed enough already

 

[threeleggedgoat]

This is interesting and explains a lot.

The XPA is just too much and its almost like the hops hasn't had a chance to react with the beer. The hops in the XPA and even diluted as it is in the Pacific grates.

They did, however, nail this: Liquorland | Buy Beer, Wine, Spirits & Ciders at Great Prices

They should rebrand the XPA as the Australian IPA with the purple label. It's everything I expected when I tried to think what green/coopers would task like as an IPA.

Interesting that you don’t like the XPA but did like the IPA - a lot of the feedback was that people didn’t like it for the same reasons they weren’t into the XPA, ie it was too yeasty, soapy, unbalanced, and generally just suffered from very poor use of hops.

It was only released as a one off so they could test the response and the market’s appetite for it but they learned that Coopers drinkers don’t really want an IPA, and IPA drinkers don’t really want Coopers’ version of an IPA.

You seem to know a lot about their beers. Given your username I thought you might prefer cheap wine.

I’ve been trying to tell Jimmy for years that ‘cheap wine and a three legged goat’ is a way better and more intriguing lyric but he’s not interested

There will be a video in the news of one of the players dancing on a table with a gram bag of white powder tomorrow, and Kane Cornes saying I told you so.

Tbh I’d be disappointed if it was only a gram bag. Sad to see the boys party about as hard as they play

 

[BrunoV]

What is ironic or tremulous about the world view?

The way blind faith is placed in secular/scientific causes by a society that believes it has transcended religion.


My one hope that the machines are a long way from taking over is how useless auto correct is.

 

[BrunoV]

Interesting that you don’t like the XPA but did like the IPA - a lot of the feedback was that people didn’t like it for the same reasons they weren’t into the XPA, ie it was too yeasty, soapy, unbalanced, and generally just suffered from very poor use of hops.

It was only released as a one off so they could test the response and the market’s appetite for it but they learned that Coopers drinkers don’t really want an IPA, and IPA drinkers don’t really want Coopers’ version of an IPA.

I suppose that XPA is characteristically Coopers which is why I think it doesn't work. It's too much.

I thought the IPA was a really well balanced Indian pale ale with a Coopers twist, exactly what I thought the XPA would be.

 

[footyfanatic111]

Aren't the players going to Spain for a wedding or is that just the cover story?

I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure they are going for dev smiths wedding. I remember stringer mentioning it during dev’s retirement video.

Would explain why so many are going and you can’t knock them for attending a good mates wedding whether it be overseas or not. Geez they’re allowed some time to unwind after a terrible year.

Just better come to work come pre season!

 

[faible]

The way blind faith is placed in secular/scientific causes by a society that believes it has transcended religion.

Yeah... nah.

 

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[TheGrizz]

That's a gentle way of describing the ad. They aligned themselves pretty clearly with straight up bible bashing bigots and copped a fair bit (probably still less than they deserved) of backlash for it

It was literally a gay MP (Tim Wilson) and a Christian MP (Andrew Hastie) debating the plebiscite in a pretty tame fashion. The backlash was over the top, to be honest.

It really was a microcosm of the fact Australia is somehow no longer mature enough to debate opposing view amicably.