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

 

[Mr Mojo Risin]

By enjoyable i mean not going every week expecting a loss.

Not just pure attack.

I'm in agreement with that, but I don't think we fix that short term until we've got through the ugly phase. I guess we should expect what you're saying by the end of 2-3 years.

 

[lenny2013]

Internal review with the good old boys doing the reviewing.

Sheeds is legend but we need to move in new and different direction.

 

[windyhill]

Connolly makes the same points I do in regards to us the supporters. To have to cop OUR team being embarrassingly forced out of a finals series, to cop our team to sit out a whole season and watch a virtual reserve team for the year, through NO FAULT of our own doing and to still respond in huge crowd and membership numbers is incredible. And then to sit through **** up after **** up since that drug shitstorm.........
They truly don’t deserve us.

 

[bombreys]

He'd be regretting saying anything at all now, wouldn't he?

To even call it a 'review' is a stretch. No one's job is at risk and it's all internal/being conducted by people already within the club.

Isn't considering new positions/employees/etc. just day-to-day work/management?

 

[brain taylor]

Isn't considering new positions/employees/etc. just day-to-day work/management?

you'd think so, and announcing "we're going to look at how we can better support the coach, as well as look at what to do with our cap space and trade capital" is pretty hilarious because you're effectively telling the world you've just not been doing your job.

 

[faible]

you'd think so, and announcing "we're going to look at how we can better support the coach, as well as look at what to do with our cap space and trade capital" is pretty hilarious because you're effectively telling the world you've just not been doing your job.

I would have thought the mid-season bye was the exact time you should be doing that stuff every year

 

[Dan26]

A review conducted by the people who are the problem isn't a review. The only way to do this is to get people who have no connection to the club whatsoever to analyse the club.

 

[andleanback]

Great piece from roco and shawry.

 

[silk]

Calm down, everyone! Everything is fine. The president has confirmed it. Dodoro is safe!

Essendon president backs Dodoro, lauds "really impressive" recent off-season moves

“I think the list and recruiting team deserves a lot of credit for that.”

www.sen.com.au

 

[citizen-erased]

Calm down, everyone! Everything is fine. The president has confirmed it. Dodoro is safe!

Essendon president backs Dodoro, lauds "really impressive" recent off-season moves

“I think the list and recruiting team deserves a lot of credit for that.”

www.sen.com.au

Sums us up.

We have no chb. Our FB has played less than 10 games.
Our chf is a kid who's had a couple of injuries (something we can't cover)
Down to one small fwd
Midfield can't compete
Our rucks are project kids

Hind was on our VFL list for how long?
Wright we were forced into taking as the only viable resort after daniher left (was a top 10 pick ffs)


Good job list team

 

[Schnitzengruben]

Calm down, everyone! Everything is fine. The president has confirmed it. Dodoro is safe!

Essendon president backs Dodoro, lauds "really impressive" recent off-season moves

“I think the list and recruiting team deserves a lot of credit for that.”

www.sen.com.au

No doubt they'll sack RFK despite Dodo's 20 year track record.

 

[The Prosecutor]

No doubt they'll sack RFK despite Dodo's 20 year track record.

RFK better keep an eye out for Dodoro on the Hanger's grassy knoll.

 

[windyhill]

I feel for the old boy but he is truly

 

[jmoo wan]

Calm down, everyone! Everything is fine. The president has confirmed it. Dodoro is safe!

Essendon president backs Dodoro, lauds "really impressive" recent off-season moves

“I think the list and recruiting team deserves a lot of credit for that.”

www.sen.com.au

there’s so much wrong with Brasher’s comment here, in the context of our ladder position.

lauding the “hidden gems” means he’s ****ed up the bread and butter picks.

saying he’s recruited well and citing the first rounders who are injured or haven’t progressed lands our medical and development teams in the shit.

 

[carloss]

Trasher, Dodo & X out.

 

[Burzum]

there’s so much wrong with Brasher’s comment here, in the context of our ladder position.

lauding the “hidden gems” means he’s ducked up the bread and butter picks.

saying he’s recruited well and citing the first rounders who are injured or haven’t progressed lands our medical and development teams in the shit.

Never mind the fact that even the shittest list manager in the league can pluck "hidden gems".

 

[silk]

Never mind the fact that even the shittest list manager in the league can pluck "hidden gems".

Not only that, but if your MSD pick becomes one of your better players in that season, that kinda suggests your list is in a shit place.

 

[fairbump_playon]

A fiasco for the ages at Essendon but meaningful change remains unlikely | Craig Little

A full-scale review of the embattled AFL club appears to lack resolve to turn over every stone

www.theguardian.com

When the Guardian writes about Essendon it means our failures are so bad they’ve started infringing on human rights

 

[Lore]

A fiasco for the ages at Essendon but meaningful change remains unlikely | Craig Little

A full-scale review of the embattled AFL club appears to lack resolve to turn over every stone

www.theguardian.com

“At the time of writing, Essendon has not won a final for a particularly disappointing period of 924 weeks (or even 213 months). Now in his ninth year as CEO, Campbell has presided over the club for close to half that time.”

****ing lol

 

[FlyingV]

It’s all bottom line stuff and it’s all pandering, which is why X got extended, membership looks good and the books look good. Which they do so fair play to him in that regard tbh.

In that context of his tenure it does make the whole ‘competing for a flag in 2-3 years’ timeline but also internal review thing that much more galling.

He’s not going to be there to see it through and frankly I’m sick of shrivelled old white blokes in charge running the joint with all the vigour of a ham sandwich.

Vigour of a ham sandwich.

 

[Burzum]

When the Guardian writes about Essendon it means our failures are so bad they’ve started infringing on human rights

Brasher as recently as Tuesday lauded Adrian Dodoro, the club’s list boss who has been at the club for nearly a quarter of a century. Brasher praised Dodoro for finding several “hidden gems” in the last few years. Clearly not enough to build a list capable of winning a final since Shrek 2, but apparently enough to skate through the review.

 

[citizen-erased]

“At the time of writing, Essendon has not won a final for a particularly disappointing period of 924 weeks (or even 213 months). Now in his ninth year as CEO, Campbell has presided over the club for close to half that time.”

******* lol

tepid bath should be translated into latin and posted all over the joint.

 

[Jack Richards]

I honestly believe Brasher and Campbell no nothing about football. I could scout the EAFL and VFL and find hidden gems by sitting on my backside and use google stats..

 

[Jade]

Brasher joined the Board in 2011, was there when Campbell was appointed CEO, signed off on the ludicrous (and failed) 2017-2021 five year plan, took active part in the de-democratisation of the Board, and has resigned Campbell as CEO.

He is utterly contemptible, and needs to be forcibly removed along with the rest of his impotent, disgraceful Board.

 

[FlyingV]

Brasher looks a cooked noodle.