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
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  • Votes for Barham: Andrew Muir, Dorothy Hisgrove, Melissa Green, Kate O’Sullivan, Kevin Sheedy
• 21/8: Senior Coach, Ben Rutten
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  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
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    (Chair, GM-Footy), Robert Walls, Jordan Lewis
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    , 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]

It is but...

We had an open letter from him a couple of weeks ago and other than that he's been vewy qwiet

It was a crap joke because it read like you were calling him the thing.

 

[Lore]

It was a crap joke because it read like you were calling him the thing.

 

[Lore]

Scott and Dodoro now report to Vozzo instead of Mahoney, so there's that.

Bombers reshuffle: New boss makes his mark to defuse football department tension

Recruiting boss Adrian Dodoro and football chief Josh Mahoney are at the centre of a restructure at the Bombers.

www.theage.com.au

Essendon CEO Craig Vozzo has stamped his authority on his new club restructuring the football department for its three most important figures.

Long-time list manager Adrian Dodoro will now report directly to Vozzo instead of football boss Josh Mahoney

Josh Mahoney

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, after the new chief executive became aware of growing tension between the pair.

Vozzo’s first three months in the job have allowed him to closely analyse the club and its inner workings, with a particularly close eye on the football department.

It’s no secret across the competition that Mahoney and Dodoro have endured a frosty relationship in their short time at Tullamarine together.

So much so that Vozzo has executed a mini-restructure that will see Dodoro report directly to him instead of Mahoney, which had previously been the case. According to a club source, who was not authorised to speak publicly, the decision was made at least in part to alleviate tension between the pair.

In a further change, new coach Brad Scott will also answer directly to Vozzo. Under previous chief executive Xavier Campbell, ex-coach Ben Rutten

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reported to Mahoney. It is rare for a senior coach to report directly to the CEO and not to the head of football.

Mahoney will remain in the list management and total player payment groups as part of his executive role.

A club spokesperson confirmed the restructure of the football department to The Age but declined to comment further.

The Age also put questions to Dodoro and Mahoney about the restructure and their relationship but Dodoro declined to comment and Mahoney did not respond.

Club insiders suggest Mahoney is once again considering putting his hand up for the vacant head of football role at the AFL. Mahoney went for the same role two years ago, which was eventually given to his now coach Brad Scott.

The AFL will hold off on finding a replacement for Scott until a successor for league CEO Gillon McLachlan is appointed, which league sources believe will happen before round five.

Essendon’s recruiting has drawn mixed reviews with the Essendon faithful during 18 seasons without a finals win, with the club’s decisions to trade first round draft picks for the likes of Dylan Shiel

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and Devon Smith

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a point of contention.

But the recently revamped list has given Essendon fans something to smile about. The addition of elite talent - like Archie Perkins, Harrison Jones and Nik Cox - through the draft has Bombers insiders hopeful the list in solid shape for the long term.

Essendon have also had six Rising Star nominees in the last two seasons, which is an impressive haul.

As for Scott, it’s been an interesting beginning.

Within weeks of getting the job, Scott’s football director Kevin Sheedy, who is still on the board, stated that he’d voted for James Hird.

Next, Scott had to watch on as the club’s new chief executive Andrew Thorburn arrived and departed within a 24-hour period.

 

[Lore]

How do we do a full review like 3 months ago, decide that this set up is fine, just add the GM-High Performance role etc, and then the new CEO gets in there and goes 'nope'?

 

[Dave]

How do we do a full review like 3 months ago, decide that this set up is fine, just add the GM-High Performance role etc, and then the new CEO gets in there and goes 'nope'?

Because Essington.

 

[TheGrizz]

How do we do a full review like 3 months ago, decide that this set up is fine, just add the GM-High Performance role etc, and then the new CEO gets in there and goes 'nope'?

My only theory as to why this is a smart idea is that they have gotten an inkling that Mahoney is gonna get Scott's old job at the AFL.

Occam's razor though is that Dodoros inexplicably considerable support from the board/coteties has somehow already castrated a new CEO after 3 months, and now has removed the one guy with the gonads to tell Dodoro to shove it.

 

[Lore]

My only theory as to why this is a smart idea is that they have gotten an inkling that Mahoney is gonna get Scott's old job at the AFL.

He's applied for it before and not got it, and I don't think anything that has happened since commends him for the role, especially not this.

My new theory is that they really don't want him to get that job and are trying to tank his resume

Occam's razor though is that Dodoros inexplicably considerable support from the board/coteties has somehow already castrated a new CEO after 3 months, and now has removed the one guy with the gonads to tell Dodoro to shove it.

ha. this is my cynical, but at this point almost indisputable, favourite theory

 

[Vander18]

Just reflecting on Scott’s appointment….not sure it was ever clear that he would report to Mahoney. My recollection is that the language was vague and suggested they’d work together etc.

I feel like it stood out to me at the time as a little odd….but I may be misremembering.

 

[BrunoV]

This is a horrible outcome.

The club has deluded itself into thinking that it's development which is the problem.

Everything is lining up behind Dodoro.

Who are the gun players who haven't kicked on?

The problem is that the list never makes sense. Under Dodor we have ignored every evolution of the game.

 

[Bjchan13]

He's a slippery customer

 

[EnolaGay]

Dodor!


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[Squeaky]

My only theory as to why this is a smart idea is that they have gotten an inkling that Mahoney is gonna get Scott's old job at the AFL.

Occam's razor though is that Dodoros inexplicably considerable support from the board/coteties has somehow already castrated a new CEO after 3 months, and now has removed the one guy with the gonads to tell Dodoro to shove it.

Scary - If this is the case we're ****ed.
May as well wind up the joint, leave it to the coteries & their power trips.
When will this shit ever end?

 

[Chief Hopper]

From the sounds of this new arrangement, it is leading to who out of Dodoro and Mahoney that CEO Vozzo turfs out.

 

[mike ross]

I'm wondering when a statue of dodo will be put on display at the Hangar?



I mean the only way I see him leave is when he finally kicks the bucket...



We all see what's going on, the whole industry can see it except for our lovely 'powerbrokers' etc ..



Wow EFC I'm so proud

 

[Lance Uppercut]

Rabble

 

[Pweter]

From the sounds of this new arrangement, it is leading to who out of Dodoro and Mahoney that CEO Vozzo turfs out.

If it comes down to leveraging people of power to put the screws on the CEO then it's a fait accompli

 

[Pweter]

Are the board the yes-men of the power brokers?

It seems that no matter who comes and goes from the board that the power broker influence is oppressive, it breaks the will of the new members, and we then proceed to continually Essington shit up.

 

[Squeaky]

I'm wondering when a statue of dodo will be put on display at the Hangar?



I mean the only way I see him leave is when he finally kicks the bucket...



We all see what's going on, the whole industry can see it except for our lovely 'powerbrokers' etc ..



Wow EFC I'm so proud

Spot on.

 

[Lore]

Is McPherson head of performance or GM-Performance?

This was from the AGM and says he's a GM, but I think other things said his title was Head of Performance. Maybe I'm mixing him up with head of development.

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www.bigfooty.com

Anyway I guess Mahoney still has another GM reporting to him for the time being... how the footy department has three GMs idk. presumably they're not all on the executive

 

[yodellinhank]

Is McPherson head of performance or GM-Performance?

This was from the AGM and says he's a GM, but I think other things said his title was Head of Performance. Maybe I'm mixing him up with head of development.

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www.bigfooty.com

Anyway I guess Mahoney still has another GM reporting to him for the time being... how the footy department has three GMs idk. presumably they're not all on the executive

McPherson is the guy who works closely with everyone, isn't he?

 

[Lore]

McPherson is the guy who works closely with everyone, isn't he?

I think that’s what they said yeah

 

[Call Me Cake]

It's quite ironic that a man nicknamed after a bird that went extinct is someone we can never get rid of.

 

[Burzum]

Bizarre that he was on the match committee to begin with.

 

[yodellinhank]

I think that’s what they said yeah

I wonder if he keeps Mahoney close, and Dodoro closer.

 

[ghostdog]

All I know is that Dodoro remaining is taking the joy out of football.

In all seriousness, a trailer load of manure and news cameras may be required to wake people up. And vote with wallets.