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

 

[Doss]

Let’s hope Dodoro really is on the nose at Essendon.

Cockroaches do generally have a certain stench about them.

 

[Mr Mojo Risin]

Cockroaches do generally have a certain stench about them.

My cat loves eating cockroaches, he might be a touch big for her though sadly.

 

[Doss]

My cat loves eating cockroaches, he might be a touch big for her though sadly.

Is your cat skinny and a back flanker? He'll try and turn her into a midfielder.

 

[The Donners]

Is your cat skinny and a back flanker? He'll try and turn her into a midfielder.

At the least the cat might chase!

 

[Mr Mojo Risin]

Is your cat skinny and a back flanker? He'll try and turn her into a midfielder.

LOL no the cat in my picture is my much loved previous cat, she was big framed, so development as a forward flanker in the VFL for her.

My current cat is small however, so clearly a midfielder.

 

[The Donners]

LOL no the cat in my picture is my much loved previous cat, she was big framed, so development as a forward flanker in the VFL for her.

My current cat is small however, so clearly a midfielder.

So from Dean Rioli to David Bain?

 

[Proper Gander]

LOL no the cat in my picture is my much loved previous cat, she was big framed, so development as a forward flanker in the VFL for her.

My current cat is small however, so clearly a midfielder.

My favourite avatar on BF, Mojo. That is an excellent cat

 

[Mr Mojo Risin]

My favourite avatar on BF, Mojo. That is an excellent cat

Thank you!!! That means a lot. She was an awesome friend, I miss her.

 

[EnolaGay]

Well, I'll give our new board credit, they've now managed to once again embarrass our Club and simultaneously divide the supporter base.

Bravo.

 

[outersanctum]

This is what happens when there is no due process. We have now given a disgraced ex-banker the platform he needs to push back into the limelight.

Our club is now the rally call for religious freedom. I hope the club holds firm. The bigger issues are the arms length and NAB roles. Why was club willing to overlook that? Seems like they were prepared for backlash against unfair process but not gay issues?

 

[HirdsTheWord]

wait does Gil now have to resign because he’s friends with thornburn?

 

[Doss]

wait does Gil now have to resign because he’s friends with thornburn?

Yes. And the guy who served Thorburn a soggy hotdog at the Rowville pub in 1994 needs to as well. All taint needs to be removed.

 

[HirdsTheWord]

Yes. And the guy who served Thorburn a soggy hotdog at the Rowville pub in 1994 needs to as well.

yeah. Too right

who serves a hot dog in a pub. ****ing animal

 

[Doss]

yeah. Too right

who serves a hot dog in a pub. ******* animal

Anything’s possible in Rowville.

 

[HirdsTheWord]

Anything’s possible in Rowville.

all I can picture is the hotdog apu gave homer rofl

 

[Westlo]

I have no issue on your point about him not being suitable due to things that he did or was overseeing in his role as CEO of NAB.
The practices there must have been a s**t show.
I'd rather have this conversation about his suitability to the job based on what he actually did rather than base it on his 'beliefs' (or not... it might just be the beliefs of the church)
I thought he sounded like a good candidate who could bring people together at the EFC and get the workplace humming along as he did when he was at NAB - NAB was in fact voted a particularly safe employer in relation to these LBGTI issues while he was at the helm. He has been in charge of a fairly progressive workplace.
But rather than look at how he behaved (in relation tot he staff) he has been cancelled on account of his Church...

Now if you argue that he shouldn't have been selected based on the immoral practices of NAB under his watch - then that is fine with me and I might agree with you.

Using the same argument I hope you didn't prefer Hird as coach just recently...

Wanted Yze if he was able to bring Choco with him but who knows if that was part of his pitch and hard to see Choco come back here after being ****ed around last time when we appointed JW. Don't mind Scott and he's growing on me, have to laugh at Sheeds backstabbing his former players (who wanted to keep Rutten) to side with Barham on the pretense of wanting Clarko but really wanting Hird. That worked out well for him, was ****ed the moment he torpedo'd any chance of Clarko and saw Walls appointed to the panel.

Yes he's been cancelled on account of his church, he never should've been appointed in the first place because of the bullshit he pulled while in charge of NAB but these people tend to always fall upwards.

You can't pull the I don't have all the same beliefs as my church, mention nothing while also being a chairmen of said church, you would think he was just a regular Christian going to church weekly the way people are acting here. He's chairmen of an extremist Christian church which has said some despicable stuff, which he doesn't actually agree with some of it but won't exactly mention what that is.

He was told us or the church and he choose his faith, **** him and anyone who feels sorry for him please read up on him, he's not someone you should ever feel sorry for.

 

[Westlo]

Let’s hope Dodoro really is on the nose at Essendon.

The way he's clashed with CEOs and multiple GM and coaches and played politics against them should mean he's finished, don't even need to go into recruitment..... but **** me do people think Wells and the Sydney bloke do any of that bullshit? No all they do is ****ing win.

I would expect that from any competent review, but our review when from a guy looking for CEOs before going I'll do it so who the **** knows.

I'm 39 in a few weeks, if I live to 70 I'm not sure I'll see another flag, **** me.

 

[Lore]

I assume the 'board member' in that hypothetical has a spectacular love of red wine and is still learning how to be a board member.

Muir

That “comprehensive” process saw Thornburn appointed on Monday. He was gone by Tuesday after his links to a church organisation, the City on The Hill, were exposed.

Ripped that one straight from bigfooty, typos and all.

Meanwhile, that external review is due to be handed down next week and word has it that long-time recruiting manager Adrian Dodoro is finally on the nose, even though he’s currently trying to negotiate deals for the future of the club in trade week.

I wonder if that’s why they want to roll the board again. Sigh.

Barham has set the tone for change and I’m grateful for that but he can’t stay. Not moving Sheedy on (whatever means necessary) is another mistake in such a short period of time.

There’s no useful mechanism in the constitution for a board member to be removed from their position.


As much as he acts like he’s of unsound mind, I don’t think we’re at the point of being legally able to prove it, which would be the purview of his family and his doctors anyway.

The only other option is to revoke his membership. I can only imagine how that would go down with the general supporter base.

Short of asking him to resign, and him refusing, and then going to the media to trash each other and drag the club through even more mud in the process, I’m not sure what else can be done.

 

[MarkJohnson#1]

Has Barham stood down yet..?

 

[frodos gardener]

As stupid as Sheedy has been lately, he’ll be more destructive off the board than on it. He needs to be managed and controlled, not cast out.

 

[Lore]

As stupid as Sheedy has been lately, he’ll be more destructive off the board than on it. He needs to be managed and controlled, not cast out.

I don’t think he’s manageable and controllable but if he stays in California or Canada or wherever he went, that might be useful.

 

[Lore]

Has Barham stood down yet..?

Patience

 

[Zach Package]

Now that Peter Dutton has come out and called for Thorburn to have his job back at least we can unequivocally say that we have done the right thing here.

Fair dinkum Godwin’s law stuff

 

[Doss]

I don’t think he’s manageable and controllable but if he stays in California or Canada or wherever he went, that might be useful.

Buy him a house set among some Napa Valley vineyards.

 

[frodos gardener]

I don’t think he’s manageable and controllable but if he stays in California or Canada or wherever he went, that might be useful.

Keep him on a drip of shiraz.