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

    46

    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

 

[The Devils Advocate]

The results of the independent review have come in and the big findings were:

We need a coach with similar attributes to Chris Scott

Chris Scott

Age

48

Ht

182cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.6

4star

K

11.2

4star

HB

5.4

4star

M

5.1

5star

T

1.6

4star

G

0.4

3star

No current season stats available

D

13.2

4star

K

10.2

4star

HB

3.0

3star

M

2.2

3star

T

2.8

5star

G

0.4

3star

. [Brad, tick]
We need to nab a CEO that runs the club like Hawthorn was in their Premiership era, and can exorcise the demons within the club. [Thorburn, tick]

 

[Kong]

but is he a good labor man ?

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Because it’s the AFL and optics are everything.

I look forward to him justifying his churches views on homosexuality when pride week roles around next season…not sure all our AFLW girls will love it either.

It’s in the Hun now - this will become a thing.

The AFLW and his church is definitely a problem.

I think there’ll be many of the players who have an issue with him, and probably with justification.

 

[jmoo wan]

we’ve got a few card carrying happy clappers on this board.

 

[lenny2013]

Are they making it public?

Sheeds will leak it via Robbo.

 

[fishardansin]

I am not buying a membership next year. Nor will I ever again while we promote a person like this. I'd rather appoint Clarkson as out coach.

 

[Lore]

I am not buying a membership next year. Nor will I ever again while we promote a person like this. I'd rather appoint Clarkson as out coach.

Based on what?

 

[fishardansin]

Based on what?

The church he works for and banking royal commission. What's his position called? Ayatollah?

 

[Vander18]

You'd think having spent his entire period in high profile positions during the internet era, someone, somewhere would have caught him saying something about it, if he was ever going to.

I googled everything I could think of and I can't find a single comment from Thorburn about LGBTQI, abortion or any of that stuff. The closest you'll find if you dig really really deep is this live blog from a leadership summit during the SSM plebiscite:



And specifically his comments quoted here, in a separate blog post:

BOSS leadership summit: Alan Joyce, Andy Vesey, Andrew Thorburn

NAB boss Andrew Thorburn told the BOSS leadership summit today's same sex marriage result provides a "decisive result".

www.afr.com

Respectful disagreement. Decisive result. What a horrible thing to say.


Meanwhile, NAB have an entire social impact program for Pride which has been ongoing since before Thorburn started and continued throughout his entire tenure and beyond. In that time they've renewed their partnership with the Midsumma Festival, and launched several more Pride initiatives within the organisation, as well as winning Workplace Equality Awards and that sort of stuff.

NAB Pride

NAB Pride is our Employee Resource Group to support and advocate for the LGBTI+ community. Learn about what we do and how we celebrate the LGBTI+ community.

www.nab.com.au

NAB also continue to be major partners of the AFLW, which also started during his period as CEO.


I have no idea why this is a thing, but beyond one dickhead on Twitter and a clickbait article in the Herald Sun derived from the same, there's literally nothing to indicate the man is that unprofessional that his beliefs, whatever they may be, will suddenly be shoved in your face or become defining features of the Essendon Football Club during his tenure as CEO.

You are looking at this through the lens of how the world should be, not how it is.

The problem is that he’s more than just a rank and file church goer, he’s there chairman - as chairman it will be very difficult for him to disown there more controversial stances. So much low hanging fruit for the presss here, they won’t pass it up.

 

[Bombermania]

The church he works for and banking royal commission. What's his position called? Ayatollah?

The banking royal commission's findings raise questions however his actions at the NAB suggests he supports diversity where it matters.

 

[thepokey]

The more I hear about this guy the more I don't want him anywhere near the club. Whether he is a good or bad CEO, I just fundamentally do not like him.

 

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These aren't exactly conservative organisations.

 

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These aren't exactly conservative organisations.

you don't need to be a conservative to be a crazy Christian.

 

[Lore]

you don't need to be a conservative to be a crazy Christian.

You don't need to be a Christian to be crazy either

 

[jmoo wan]

You don't need to be a Christian to be crazy either

whataboutism

 

[yodellinhank]

Based on what?

Stance on abortion?

 

[Gabe251]

Ehhh. Idk if this guy is good but that could just be my prejudice against large scale Churches.

Hopefully we don't hear too much from this guy and he doesn't send us broke.

 

[Zach Package]

The knives are out already, this will be fun.

It’s simply not possible he was the best candidate by enough distance to justify having to deal with this 1000% inevitable shitstorm. Why make it more difficult for yourself if you don’t have to?

Like I said, keep the position description handy, we’re gonna need it.

 

[DapperDon]

While I am completely against his beliefs and views, the hypocricy of the Herald Sun never ceases to amaze me. They have no leg when it comes to such subjects.

 

[brutus76]

Kevvy will leak a copy surely

 

[fishardansin]

The only positive out of this unnecessary self scat ... he'll never insist a player tells their partner to have an abortion. These sorts of crazy Christians are always faithful husbands until you find them snorting lines of coke off a large brown penis.

 

[Lore]

AFL website article has this photo... looks like he's met Maddy P before!

Essendon appoints former NAB boss as new CEO

After originally joining the Bombers to facilitate the club's external review, Andrew Thorburn has been appointed as CEO

www.afl.com.au

 

[Lore]

Is the President building a wall around the footy department? Will part of Thorburn’s role be to keep the influential club benefactors away from Mahoney and the coaches? The coteries get access to players through sponsorships and arrangements… there’s no stopping that, but there is something to be said for allowing Scott and co to focus on footy.

I eagerly await the “sit down with new CEO” video the media guys will be madly pulling together.

Here you go!

https://www.essendonfc.com.au/video/1232782/hear-from-new-essendon-ceo-andrew-thorburn?videoId=1232782&modal=true&type=video&publishFrom=1664782503001

 

[Vander18]

Essendon broadens church by nabbing former banker

New Essendon chief executive Andrew Thorburn also holds a senior role at a church that preaches against gay sex and abortion.

www.theage.com.au

The Age are on it now.

 

[TheGrizz]

Essendon broadens church by nabbing former banker

New Essendon chief executive Andrew Thorburn also holds a senior role at a church that preaches against gay sex and abortion.

www.theage.com.au

The Age are on it now.

I'm surprised a Murdoch rag beat Fairfax to the punch tbh