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

 

[STANTS]

Browne appartnely reporting Andrew Thorburn is the favorite for CEO now.


Interesting choice, caught up hard in the banking RC,....is on how external review team...

Or in other words Tom Browne has no idea and the only person he has seen at the hangar with any CEO experience is him

 

[Lore]

Browne appartnely reporting Andrew Thorburn is the favorite for CEO now.


Interesting choice, caught up hard in the banking RC,....is on how external review team...

Would be a bit of a pay cut too I should think

 

[Mercurial89]

Or in other words Tom Browne has no idea and the only person he has seen at the hangar with any CEO experience is him

Curious he reports that just after Watson on send spoke about his dealings with him.

 

[BrunoV]

Last time I remember checking in:

1. Coach no one listens to gone.

2. CEO who has botched every appointment gone.

3. Board members who were part of the suicide pact gone.

Now:

4. We have a very safe pair of hands, proven coach whose teams have largely been our polar opposit, and 3 days with said coach to start throwing around about 7 million in salary cap space before trade period formally commences.

5. External review has been upsetting staff.

As I've said before, change is always ugly - the politics makes that inevitable. Circumstances made anything clean impossible. Dont judge change for the reality that it was messy, judge it for where it ends up.

 

[dank420_]

As I've said before, change is always ugly - the politics makes that inevitable. Circumstances made anything clean impossible. Dont judge change for the reality that it was messy, judge it for where it ends up.

Apart from the weird press conference before Rutten was sacked, I’m not sure Barham has done much wrong.

 

[fairbump_playon]

Jeez Welsh got down to work and sorted out this coaching malarkey huh

 

[Nifft]

Apart from the weird press conference before Rutten was sacked, I’m not sure Barham has done much wrong.

The Rutten sacking wasn't a high point.

I'm happy with the coach appointment, and the fact there's no leaks at the minute, so we'll see where he takes it from here. Looks like he wants to make the right sort of changes.

 

[ghostdog]

Browne appartnely reporting Andrew Thorburn is the favorite for CEO now.


Interesting choice, caught up hard in the banking RC,....is on how external review team...

No

 

[Lore]

Ah here we go, Barham speaking words that make sense in an order that makes sense.

Sheedy had his say in the board meeting yesterday, he's an important part of the club and will be behind Brad the same as he's been behind all the coaches.

Also said that McKinnis made a huge contribution and was really impressive, which is interesting. I wish we could know more about that given her background is in netball, so it'd have to be around transferable skills and stuff I guess?

 

[faible]

Ah here we go, Brasher speaking words that make sense in an order that makes sense.

Sheedy had his say in the board meeting yesterday, he's an important part of the club and will be behind Brad the same as he's been behind all the coaches.

Also said that McKinnis made a huge contribution and was really impressive, which is interesting. I wish we could know more about that given her background is in netball, so it'd have to be around transferable skills and stuff I guess?

Barham! Marginally less old and decrepit.

 

[Lore]

Barham! Marginally less old and decrepit.

shuddup I thought I was quick enough with the ninjaedits

I did that like three times and only just realised

 

[faible]

Also said that McKinnis made a huge contribution and was really impressive, which is interesting. I wish we could know more about that given her background is in netball, so it'd have to be around transferable skills and stuff I guess?

I suspect good coaching is good coaching across all sports, she might not be able to actually go out and coach AFL specifically but I'd think someone with her resume as a coach - Craig Bellamy would be another - can identify what traits a good coach needs to have.

 

[Lore]

I suspect good coaching is good coaching across all sports, she might not be able to actually go out and coach AFL specifically but I'd think someone with her resume as a coach - Craig Bellamy would be another - can identify what traits a good coach needs to have.

Yep. Whereas the other people on the board are probably looking for goodness of fit and some of the sport/league/club specific stuff... list, tactics, strategy, and also things like handling coteries and board members and such.

I wonder how many of these panel members might be put up for some other roles at the club or if they'll go back to what they were doing.

 

[Lance Uppercut]

**** this old muppet off

 

[dank420_]

I cannot tell you how happy I am the Hird did not become coach.

May it be a sign we have exited our ten year era of doing the most stupid shit possible.

 

[Howard Moon]

I cannot tell you how happy I am the Hird did not become coach.

May it be a sign we have exited our ten year era of doing the most stupid s**t possible.

i reckon we've bottomed out on stupid and have taken the first step up

 

[dank420_]

i reckon we've bottomed out on stupid and have taken the first step up

We could have gone to sub levels of stupid. Narrowly avoided.

 

[RearNaked]

* this old muppet off

Agree barham needs to go as if he knows more than a 4 time premiership coach

 

[tandino]

* this old muppet off

The board fully endorsed the recommendations. They were accepted in full.

 

[frodos gardener]

Yeah not cool by Sheeds if he came out and said how he voted. I know Barham needs to keep him close but you also can’t have that crap on the board. I hope the rest of them sit around the table and tell him never to do it again.

 

[thepokey]

Everyone upset at "Brad not dropping his favourites" better have the same anger at Sheedy doing the same for Hird now

 

[Red Black and Blue]

Shreds has lost the plot, more so than previously anyway. Time to move him on.

 

[BomberManU]

Time to clear out your desk, Kevin.

 

[Howard Moon]

We could have gone to sub levels of stupid. Narrowly avoided.

if you keep doing stupid do you eventually break thru the stupid core and come out the other side a genius?

edit: looks at old man sheedy

 

[DonsRule]

* this old muppet off

This is part of the reason I was uncomfortable with Hird; not that I don't think he couldn't have won over the panel; not that I don't think Hird isn't capable of turning us around. But prior connections still at the club Hird may be loyal too (or them loyal to Hird) SHeeds, Dodoro I wonder how much Hirdy could put them in their place; where as I don't think Brad had that issue; I think Hirdy is capable of it too if he didn't have that loyalty (I remember the drunk Fev brownlow Hird was probably one of the very few that didn't play along or ignore it and let Fev get away with it (not aggressive abouit it but Fev knew where he stoood)

Some outside experience may have helped with the above too

I cannot tell you how happy I am the Hird did not become coach.

May it be a sign we have exited our ten year era of doing the most stupid s**t possible.

That was a pretty cracking presser, Brad. Think you covered over any small bits of lingering doubt I had.