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

 

[HirdyLannister]

Must give Heppellfreak some credit, he/she is backing themselves in. Hasn't gone to ground like the spineless EFC

 

[boncer34]

Must give Heppellfreak some credit, he/she is backing themselves in. Hasn't gone to ground like the spineless EFC

Except their mail was it's been done. And it hasn't been.

Sooooooo

 

[Heppellfreak]

So when will it be announced? Nail that one.

Haha when EFC feel like it I guess? Like they do with everything. Was told at seasons end but looks like might be earlier.

 

[citizen-erased]

Must give Heppellfreak some credit, he/she is backing themselves in. Hasn't gone to ground like the spineless EFC

and seems to be right.
We wouldn't do this now and the way we have if we haven't opted to offer clarkson the role. and i doubt we've not been doing this over recent weeks/months.

 

[HirdyLannister]

Except their mail was it's been done. And it hasn't been.

Sooooooo

We don't know what has or hasn't been done behind closed doors.

 

[Old Campaigner]

Haha when EFC feel like it I guess? Like they do with everything. Was told at seasons end but looks like might be earlier.

Our season was over by round 6 so it looks like your mail is shit

 

[Heppellfreak]

Must give Heppellfreak some credit, he/she is backing themselves in. Hasn't gone to ground like the spineless EFC

Never doubt this guy that gave me this info a month back, going off what he’s told me. He’s usually 95% spot on.

 

[nipst@r]

Hardwicke is the best coach of the so called modern era. He actually coached sides to premierships.
I could've coached two of Hawthorns flags from my shed, and don't forget the Cats major choke gifted him another one.

BS. They literally changed the rules of the game due to one clarko tactic that won them a flag.

The clarko cluster is the base for most modern team defense structures.

Think your understating it. Hardwick also pretty good as bought the relentless fwd press but Clarkson better by any measure.

 

[citizen-erased]

Except their mail was it's been done. And it hasn't been.

Sooooooo

optics.

this has to play out in a certain way
First, board meetings & back the coach as empty as you can. tick
Second, let the cycle permeate. If it's not a review, you want everyone touting Clarkson to Essendon as a coup.
Third, sack Rutten
Fourth, announce Clarkson.

Tipping Thurs or Monday. Monday might work best cos we'll get pumped this weekend.

 

[The Ghost of the KPF]

Much as I hate you guys and it would shit me if you get Clarkson, the thought of Norf being jilted at the altar yet again is too delicious to deny. They will end up like some sort of Miss Havisham shut away in Arden street with a wedding cake eaten by rats unwilling to confront the world from shame.

 

[boncer34]

We don't know what has or hasn't been done behind closed doors.

Yes. I'm sure the club found today's shitshow palatable.

 

[boncer34]

and seems to be right.
We wouldn't do this now and the way we have if we haven't opted to offer clarkson the role. and i doubt we've not been doing this over recent weeks/months.

Yes. Instead of announcing Clarko today we decided to look like a rabble.

Makes sense.

 

[Heppellfreak]

optics.

this has to play out in a certain way
First, board meetings & back the coach as empty as you can. tick
Second, let the cycle permeate. If it's not a review, you want everyone touting Clarkson to Essendon as a coup.
Third, sack Rutten
Fourth, announce Clarkson.

Tipping Thurs or Monday. Monday might work best cos we'll get pumped this weekend.

Some people think a club is going to just come out and announce a coach prior to sacking their current coach I guess…


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[Old Campaigner]

Yes. Instead of announcing Clarko today we decided to look like a rabble.

Makes sense.

We're just sticking with what we know. I'd hate to see the club bite off more than it can chew.

 

[Heppellfreak]

Our season was over by round 6 so it looks like your mail is s**t

At the end of the afl season, that better?

 

[citizen-erased]

Yes. Instead of announcing Clarko today we decided to look like a rabble.

Makes sense.

we are a rabble.
i don't think any announcement is going to fool people of that.

 

[HirdyLannister]

Yes. I'm sure the club found today's shitshow palatable.

They genuinely don't care, football clubs are the wealthy's toy thing. The people who genuinely care are us, the supporters.

 

[Duckworth]

Surely you can’t hit Sheil, Saad, Caldwell and clarko and call it luck?

I never looked at the timing of those statements and what was available in the media already at that time. I've also seen a poster (not you) seem to have good inside info, then go and start trolling with completely made-up stuff. My apologies, as it is always good when people come on to share their knowledge, but I remain a bit overly cautious.

 

[boncer34]

They genuinely don't care, football clubs are their toy thing. The people who genuinely care are us, the supporters.

Yes I'm sure the ego's of the board means they're perfectly fine with today's events.

 

[windyhill]

Yesterday was the first time EVER I have turned the game off willingly, with no other arrangements because of the insipid performance we had put up in the first 40 minutes. Absolutely disgusting. Didn't even get to half time it was that embarrassing.

For the first time in my life (34 in a couple of months) I have genuinely lost the love for my football club. Feels like a monotonous cycle of the same bullshit we have been dishing up for 20 years.

For the first time I woke up and couldn't care less about the result, I saw the news after meetings all day at about 2pm and quickly scattered to social media, to BigFooty but could not care despite forcing myself to want to like it. IS one of the strangest feelings right now. The proposition of a new coach, a new dawn, I couldn't care less because probably the two most important, influential and power positions at our football club will remain the same.
It's like a narcissistic cult where it is everyone else's fault but ours with these two men I question.

IT will simply be rinse, wash, repeat with these two men still in there positions of power. Im more excited about an external review than getting arguably the greatest coach of the modern era. Sad I know but that's the empty feeling right now.

People trying to rib me all year about my club and right now, I could not care less. Give it to me. We are the laughing stock of the AFL. Genuinely couldn't tell you what we stand for (football related). We are too busy trying to give positive optics, the learnings, the better systemic club. On field we are weak, lazy and have lost our identity as a football club.

We have talent which is the most frustrating thing, we have the talent to compete, we just don't have the drive, the desire, the will to win to even get out of the middle parts of the ladder.

It is frustrating to the point I want to sign out of BigFooty, de activate socials, I love football to much that I probably won't but it has become very tempting the last 24 hours with how little care there is for this football club I have defended so staunchly through some of the shittest periods in AFL history.


Tl;dr

Follow through with the external review and do what is needed to improve this ******* club and us supporters may very well begin to believe the rubbish the club spouts

You should’ve gone Yoda, the train ride home was fantastic !

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Have been here before. Hird / Bomber was as big a get. Took us nowhere. Of course I hope it works out but it’s far from a certainty. Clarkson being a bust is very much a possibility.

Ah well, here we go again

 

[yodellinhank]

Think that is pretty easy.
Parish , Merrett , Heppell. Learned the soft culture from our previous leaders.
Not a popular thing to say but Jobe was a great player but he was not a hit you between the eyes leader.
Brendan Goddard was a player who spoke well and tried to lead but was also a player who could not follow any instructions from the coach as far as defending goes and it cost him his list spot when he still had some footy left in him.
Brent Stanton was a me footballer. So was Hooker. So was Hurley.
It pretty much started under Lloyd and has kept going.

People don't want to hear it.

 

[citizen-erased]

Yesterday was the first time EVER I have turned the game off willingly, with no other arrangements because of the insipid performance we had put up in the first 40 minutes. Absolutely disgusting. Didn't even get to half time it was that embarrassing.

For the first time in my life (34 in a couple of months) I have genuinely lost the love for my football club. Feels like a monotonous cycle of the same bullshit we have been dishing up for 20 years.

For the first time I woke up and couldn't care less about the result, I saw the news after meetings all day at about 2pm and quickly scattered to social media, to BigFooty but could not care despite forcing myself to want to like it. IS one of the strangest feelings right now. The proposition of a new coach, a new dawn, I couldn't care less because probably the two most important, influential and power positions at our football club will remain the same.
It's like a narcissistic cult where it is everyone else's fault but ours with these two men I question.

IT will simply be rinse, wash, repeat with these two men still in there positions of power. Im more excited about an external review than getting arguably the greatest coach of the modern era. Sad I know but that's the empty feeling right now.

People trying to rib me all year about my club and right now, I could not care less. Give it to me. We are the laughing stock of the AFL. Genuinely couldn't tell you what we stand for (football related). We are too busy trying to give positive optics, the learnings, the better systemic club. On field we are weak, lazy and have lost our identity as a football club.

We have talent which is the most frustrating thing, we have the talent to compete, we just don't have the drive, the desire, the will to win to even get out of the middle parts of the ladder.

It is frustrating to the point I want to sign out of BigFooty, de activate socials, I love football to much that I probably won't but it has become very tempting the last 24 hours with how little care there is for this football club I have defended so staunchly through some of the shittest periods in AFL history.


Tl;dr

Follow through with the external review and do what is needed to improve this ******* club and us supporters may very well begin to believe the rubbish the club spouts

Conte and Clarkson

maybe after long suffering, the gods are smiling on us finally?

 

[Lads2023]

Surely you can’t hit Sheil, Saad, Caldwell and clarko and call it luck?

Heard anything about Dunkley coming to Essendon?

 

[Yoda_]

Conte and Clarkson

maybe after long suffering, the gods are smiling on us finally?

did you see highlights of the UFC bout after the final whistle? bloody brilliant