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

 

[Beerfish]

Chuck in the price of player sponsorships Beerfish and I think we know why the club is fairly resilient financially.

Also why they can afford to treat supporters like dirt when they're not treating them like open cheque books.

 

[DERO]

The $200 or $250 to secure a grand final ticket irks me. You don’t get it back if the club does not make the GF and you have to pay it before a certain date. It really is just a donation.

 

[Lore]

Also why they can afford to treat supporters like dirt when they're not treating them like open cheque books.

They know which side the bread is buttered.

 

[Beerfish]

The $200 or $250 to secure a grand final ticket irks me. You don’t get it back if the club does not make the GF and you have to pay it before a certain date. It really is just a donation.

It'd irk me more when/if we're thereabouts again.. easy decision these days at least.

 

[DERO]

It'd irk me more when/if we're thereabouts again.. easy decision these days at least.

I reckon I paid for it the year we got rubbed out for doping. I think it was presented as an increasing amount that increased the longer you left it and had to be paid by a certain cut-off date well before the end of the year.

It is actually included in the 1872 membership as one of the benefits.

 

[Beerfish]

I reckon I paid for it the year we got rubbed out for doping

Club should've refunded everyone who paid it.

 

[Lore]

Couple more coteries not advertised anywhere...

 

[DERO]

Couple more coteries not advertised anywhere...

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Purple Bombers?

 

[Lore]

Club 1872 info. Handy 1500 bucks.

Club 1872

The best way to show your passion and pride for the red and black is with a 2024 Essendon Football Club membership, so Don the Sash today!

membership.essendonfc.com.au

 

[Lore]

Purple Bombers?

It's from the 2009 annual report, I think they were formed after?

 

[DonsRule]

That is some serious coin.

The 1872 membership is not cheap either.

And just how much of it is for a status symbol, My seats at the G are a bay away from the presidents lunch seats (so much so security once came and said I wasn't supposed to be sitting there, showed my membership they moved on quickly, its a High Mark membership but just shows the markup for wel.

 

[frodos gardener]

I would rather just buy an overpriced GF lunch + ticket package than hoping based on an “if we make it” premise. Probably cheaper in the long run based on the last two decades lol

 

[Squeaky]

The $200 or $250 to secure a grand final ticket irks me. You don’t get it back if the club does not make the GF and you have to pay it before a certain date. It really is just a donation.

Donation for the last 20 years!

 

[LB#16]

The $200 or $250 to secure a grand final ticket irks me. You don’t get it back if the club does not make the GF and you have to pay it before a certain date. It really is just a donation.

It was $50 only four seasons ago and jumped to $80-something to $120 to $150 and now $200. Disgraceful.

 

[fairbump_playon]

Most clubs would have an ultra-high tier of membership, from memory that's a small coterie above the Essendonians called The Coleman Club that's not advertised anywhere.

I refuse to join a club that would have me as a member. And the ones that wouldn't.

 

[andleanback]

“Isn’t going to be pretty”: Essendon great's mail on external club review

“It is going to be quite damning.”

www.sen.com.au

 

[STANTS]

And just how much of it is for a status symbol, My seats at the G are a bay away from the presidents lunch seats (so much so security once came and said I wasn't supposed to be sitting there, showed my membership they moved on quickly, its a High Mark membership but just shows the markup for wel.

I looked at 1872 today and thought how is this really better than high mark which I currently am as well

 

[Beerfish]

“Isn’t going to be pretty”: Essendon great's mail on external club review

“It is going to be quite damning.”

www.sen.com.au

Lloyd warned that when the full review is made public, it wouldn’t be favourable on how the club has operated in recent years.

 

[citizen-erased]

“Isn’t going to be pretty”: Essendon great's mail on external club review

“It is going to be quite damning.”

www.sen.com.au

things Brasher said we'd do in 2020 and earlier this year, but clearly didn't.

But it's not a 2 year thing either.
We've not been great since the end of the last century. small hangover early, but it tapered off.
Review sounds like it was a much needed slap across the face. Let's hope it's heeded. And credit to Barham for committing to this process.

 

[DonsRule]

I looked at 1872 today and thought how is this really better than high mark which I currently am as well

Looks like it includes some food at all Ess home games(probable some saucage rolls/pies/something cheap) can buy guest passes (don't think you can do that with most reserve seat memberships; probably some value but not all that much. Also probably a less populated bar than the HM one but not a huge difference

 

[Corleone]

We should start our own coterie group - The BigNuffy's

 

[DERO]

Looks like it includes some food at all Ess home games(probable some saucage rolls/pies/something cheap) can buy guest passes (don't think you can do that with most reserve seat memberships; probably some value but not all that much. Also probably a less populated bar than the HM one but not a huge difference

What is the high mark a year?

 

[DonsRule]

What is the high mark a year?

$840. So not cheap by any means. There is access to a bar at the G and Marvel. More the level 2 seats.

 

[STANTS]

Back on topic funny the review found what every Essendon supporter who goes week in week out has been saying for a minimum of 5 years. Could have just walked into the Nixon Hotel pre game for the major findings so far released.

 

[Lore]

Not surprised. (The tweet, not the article).


edit: Which now seems to have been deleted. Sam Landsberger, Herald Sun. The two new appointments today were apparently already determined in the internal review from months ago