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

 

[TheGrizz]

Just keep the momentum going I say. If they can sustain it for the rest of today who knows who ends up getting sacked.

FEED THE FIRE

 

[VelvetSledge]

I said this before, but someone posted here in July saying rutten will be sacked end of year and Clarko will be named
maybe this has been planned for a long time?

Heppellfreak is Alastair Clarkson confirmed

 

[DapperDon]

Gonna be awkward when they send us Rutten wallpaper this week.

 

[silk]

"Barham heavily in favour of an external review"

Congratulations on your new position Peter Allen

I'm Craughing (cry-laughin) at this this.

 

[DeezNuts]

One bad year and the coach is gone, 20+ years of dreadful list management and Dodo remains…

 

[DallasCrane316]

 

[dank420_]

This is f***boi activity and we deserve to die old and lonely

 

[nylexbandit]

Lol

 

[yodellinhank]

This is f***boi activity and we deserve to die old and lonely

Everybody dies lonely, it's inevitable.

 

[therealCHAD]

IT's happening . gif

 

[TheGrizz]

I feel sorry for Truck. The club could not have handled this worse.

 

[horj89]

What a difference 24 hours make. I feel sorry for Rutten if all this is true. He was never really a chance with all our faults behind the scenes.

 

[yodellinhank]

I feel sorry for Truck. The club could not have handled this worse.

**** him. Got shown what not accepting it actually means.

 

[Inspecta Gadget]

****ing amateur hour again from this club. Makes it very hard to continue pouring money into it

 

[BomberFan355]

I feel sorry for Rutten and Cara, players we have are just weak af.

If this is true, we MUST get Clarkson now.

 

[Howard Moon]

poor fellow.

 

[TheGrizz]

If we don't get Clarkson, this is going to get very dark, very quick.

 

[eth-dog]

If we don't get Clarkson, this is going to get very dark, very quick.

I hope that North announce Clarkson very soon.

Which means we'll actually have to run an actual, proper process.

 

[justlookingaround]

I feel sorry for Truck. The club could not have handled this worse.

I feel really bad for him. I remember thinking back in 2020 that we'd probably ruin him.
Surely he'll slide in somewhere as an assistant again.

 

[VelvetSledge]

If we don't get Clarkson, this is going to get very dark, very quick.

Waiting for the "Bring back Hird" brigade to latch on

 

[tigerfan1961]

What a difference 24 hours make. I feel sorry for Rutten if all this is true. He was never really a chance with all our faults behind the scenes.

Sorry to intrude but feel so sorry for your coach. He inherited a list and has been given nowhere near the time required to build his own team. My mob could easily have done the same after a shocking 2016, but stuck fat and allowed him to build his own list. A poor move if proven to be true.
I’m outta here having had my say

 

[mike14]

If all the quittings, sacking and rumours are true, the onfield leadership team need to accept their fair share on the blame and criticism and stand-down/move on to. It's clear that there's been no unity all season, so if we are running a broom through the place make sure we get into all the corners

 

[Darealrath]

If Truck goes but the likes of Campbell and Dodoro stay then I can't see anything improving.

 

[TheGrizz]

Waiting for the "Bring back Hird" brigade to latch on

Oh, God no.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

anyone that's been there longer than 5 years

* off.

im sick of this jobs for the boys bullshit.

Ha it’s a loooot more complex than that.

There’ll be people there doing a good job and others doing a shit job.

That’s why you can’t just make rash calls… but that’s what we do best really.