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

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    Career

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    Last 5

    D

    14.1

    4star

    K

    9.7

    4star

    HB

    4.5

    3star

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    4.5

    4star

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    1.0

    3star

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    D

    8.0

    2star

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    4.4

    2star

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    3.6

    3star

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    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

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  Def

  Career

  Season

  Last 5

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  13.4

  3star

  K

  6.3

  2star

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  7.0

  4star

  M

  5.3

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  1.3

  3star

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  D

  10.6

  3star

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  6.2

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  4.4

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  3.6

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  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

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    4.5

    3star

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    3.5

    4star

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    1.6

    4star

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    0.9

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    9.2

    3star

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    5.4

    2star

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    3.8

    3star

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    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

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    11.5

    5star

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    5.5

    5star

    T

    2.7

    4star

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    310.5

    4star

    No current season stats available

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    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

 

[citizen-erased]

Still don't want Clarko.

I just can't stomach it. After spending my 20's hating the guts out of him and Hawthorn...do I have the neuroplasticity to get around him? I don't think I could see it as "our" success, it would be "his".

Feel like that girl who has to take Naploleon Dynamite to the prom...

for me i had enough respect that i liked the clarkson hawks.
they were quality in their competitiveness and ruthlessness. i hope that's what's to come for us.

a brand of run through walls to win games of football.
Where it's physical, intimidating and quality.

Also, 3peat would be nice.

 

[Doss]

The rate this is all getting wound back, shouldn't be long til we find out who the new director of coaching is going to be
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Why stop there. Go back to Corcoran I reckon.

 

[citizen-erased]

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

im tired today, but it was worth it. despite the result, i enjoyed the game
Im taking it as a sign this will be a good day for Essendon.

 

[Phone]

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

well that's simply not true

it took us to the lowest points in the clubs history and probably any vfl/afl clubs history except for straight out fold/merge/relocation

 

[Yoda_]

im tired today, but it was worth it. despite the result, i enjoyed the game
Im taking it as a sign this will be a good day for Essendon.

one can only hope it bodes well for both the teams we support

 

[ghostdog]

I think Truck is gone by tomorrow.
I thought it would be today, but you're surely untenable now.
Really poor result. Two board meetings in less than 24 hours. Leaks that you're gone on the back of it. Not quite done yet, CEO confirms you're coach now but more to review.

Barham probably backs Campbell as he would have had a hand in extending him
Rutten goes. I reckon Caracella is off to GWS.
Dodoro v Mahoney. you pick that one. I have NFI

Question becomes -> do we throw what we can at Clarkson to sell "hope" again to the masses. Or is it time we do a proper process
Both have failed us (Knights & Hird/Bomber)

Sadly, I agree. With Brasher gone, I don't see how Truck survives. Campbell should be gone as well.

Barham is interesting. If he was in favour of an external review, would he also be opposed to parachuting a coach in? If he's fair dinkum about the integrity of process, Clarko is invited to apply... or that doesn't apply to Clarko.

 

[Ati Tude]

The Norf board is funny. They are so antsy about the Clarkson situation, they have now reached "Oh we should go for Ross Lyon" stage.

 

[ghostdog]

Same article:

So, part of the solution is to simply give a job to an EFC old boy.

 

[oldandslow]

Correct me if I’m wrong but was it Campbell that got Rutten to Essendon without a rigorous process of his suitability as senior coach?
If so, and Brasher falls on his sword, why is Xavier still there? Dodoro still there also? Im super confused.

 

[Albertross]

Not only that, but no one would question it. If Rutten had dropped Parish there'd be an outcry.

If he told the head of the football department that x, y and z were *ed and needed to be changed it'd get done. No one at our shitty club that's done nothing of note (except get a bunch of players banned by WADA) in the last 20 years is going to push back against someone like Clarkson.

Not even if he is in his 2nd year a achieving the same results as Truck?

Where does the club go if this doesn't work out? Sheeds turned our club around and turned us into a powerful club again, Clarkson will need to do the same.

 

[Heppellfreak]

Heard anything about Dunkley coming to Essendon?

Looks very unlikely.


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[tesla1962]

for me i had enough respect that i liked the clarkson hawks.
they were quality in their competitiveness and ruthlessness. i hope that's what's to come for us.

a brand of run through walls to win games of football.
Where it's physical, intimidating and quality.

Also, 3peat would be nice.

One of the things that was impressive about the Clarkson hawks was their skills across the board, particularly by foot - our list has a fair way to go I reckon

 

[Yoda_]

Correct me if I’m wrong but was it Campbell that got Rutten to Essendon without a rigorous process of his suitability as senior coach?
If so, and Brasher falls on his sword, why is Xavier still there? Dodoro still there also? Im super confused.

yep, the common denominator or our last 15 years are being completely avoided

 

[Ati Tude]

Correct me if I’m wrong but was it Campbell that got Rutten to Essendon without a rigorous process of his suitability as senior coach?
If so, and Brasher falls on his sword, why is Xavier still there? Dodoro still there also? Im super confused.

Give it a couple of weeks. think you will see the end of them too.

 

[The Airing of Grievances]

lol man you are bonkers. yesterday wouldn't even be in the worst 20 games in the post-sheedy era. the bulldogs kicked a million goals in a row against us once.

The fact there is plenty of scope for reasonable debate on the topic of crappiest performance of the last 20 years says plenty on where we find ourselves

 

[windyhill]

Looks very unlikely.


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What about dodoro ?

 

[Here_we_come]

Am I the only one who thinks “due process” is overrated? To think we would follow “due process” and then arrive at a decision that another coach is more qualified and suited is ridiculous to me. Clarkson has the runs on the board and that is clear for all to see. Who else would even come remotely close?

That said, I honestly feel bad for rutten. I would have liked to see him continue and succeed and don’t think he really got a good shot at it. I really hope he continues in coaching if it’s not with us.

Our list is atrociously inept in my opinion and no coach to ever hope to succeed with that. I really hope that whoever is there next year does a massive clean out aka clarkson’s first few years at hawthorn.

 

[citizen-erased]

Sadly, I agree. With Brasher gone, I don't see how Truck survives. Campbell should be gone as well.

Barham is interesting. If he was in favour of an external review, would he also be opposed to parachuting a coach in? If he's fair dinkum about the integrity of process, Clarko is invited to apply... or that doesn't apply to Clarko.

i think Campbell stays because i imagine Barham and the board endorsed his extension. Also, from a pure organisation perspective we're doing well minus the football results. Which i feel he's largely been removed from

I can square appointing Clarkson and doing an external review afterwards.
If you were to do a review, who from the not currently coaching ranks do you get? Clarkson tops the list.
We've clearly now made the call on Rutten, so it's been identified that coaching is a problem.

If Clarkson is the guy you want to review the club, and also acknowledged as the best coaching option, then get him in and get him to review what he's about to take custody of.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Sadly, I agree. With Brasher gone, I don't see how Truck survives. Campbell should be gone as well.

Barham is interesting. If he was in favour of an external review, would he also be opposed to parachuting a coach in? If he's fair dinkum about the integrity of process, Clarko is invited to apply... or that doesn't apply to Clarko.

The thing I don’t get is apparently this has “simmered” for months. Why wait til now? Why not take on Brasher back then?

 

[citizen-erased]

One of the things that was impressive about the Clarkson hawks was their skills across the board, particularly by foot - our list has a fair way to go I reckon

we have good ball users

Merrett, Langford, Redman, Ridley, Zerk (who knew), Laverde, Massimo.
Parish used to be ok but he's been f'd for years now.

Reid & Cox are good too.
So there's stuff to work with.

 

[citizen-erased]

The thing I don’t get is apparently this has “simmered” for months. Why wait til now? Why not take on Brasher back then?

some good results i guess kept things at bay

Last week was bad. This week probably the worst in a long time.

 

[Engimal v3]

The Norf board is funny. They are so antsy about the Clarkson situation, they have now reached "Oh we should go for Ross Lyon" stage.

You've only been on the Clarko wild ride for a day, we've been doing this shit for a month and have gone mad!

Don't even ask about the Giants supporters...

 

[TheGrizz]

The thing I don’t get is apparently this has “simmered” for months. Why wait til now? Why not take on Brasher back then?

Probably because the last two months we have had reasonable results, the last two weeks aside.

The pro-truck/internal review/Brasher side of the board could justify the status quo because we had improved on the first half of the year (though that wouldn't have been hard).

The last two weeks I imagine were the sticking point.

 

[Old Campaigner]

Not even if he is in his 2nd year a achieving the same results as Truck?

Where does the club go if this doesn't work out? Sheeds turned our club around and turned us into a powerful club again, Clarkson will need to do the same.

I would think that if arguably the best coach of the modern era can't get our list to function then the problem lies elsewhere.

Which is why even though I think Rutten deserves a) another year and b) considerably more respect than what he has been shown this year, Clarkson would be a huge boon for the club. With a coach like Rutten there's always the questions - is he up to it? Is he lacking in some aspects and causing us to underperform as a club?

There's none of that with Clarkson. If after a couple of years we're still shit you can point the finger anywhere but at him. Is it the football department, is it the list, is it the list management, is it the administration, is coteries meddling, and so on. It removes 'sack the coach' from the arsenal of excuses shitty clubs have on hand and forces us to maybe address our issues.

 

[Albertross]

Correct me if I’m wrong but was it Campbell that got Rutten to Essendon without a rigorous process of his suitability as senior coach?
If so, and Brasher falls on his sword, why is Xavier still there? Dodoro still there also? Im super confused.

After today's events, do we have a process in place to decide who our next coach is? After all, we've just announced an external review. How long will that take? Should we not wait for that to be completed before deciding on a coach?

It can't be Truck now, we've laid a giant turd in his bed and told him to sleep in it. Can we announce Clarkson this week based purely on credentials? Do we look at and interview anyone else?

A lot of people have been seduced, cause, Clarkson! Our problems as a club run far deeper than Truck. If we dont fix them, history will repeat in a few years time. Maybe Hepp can coach us then, cause Essendon.

**** off the shadow puppets in the background who are pulling the strings of this club. Haven't they done enough damage in the last 10 years!!!