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

 

[Lads2023]

Why has he met with North multiple times in the past 5 weeks?

To troll them for us hopefully

 

[Duckworth]

Legend
Thought I’d just share what I heard from someone pretty reliable, and sometimes you get s**t on for it, oh well, probably better to keep things to yourself in this place.

I agree with Corleone I thought you would have backed down a bit, but instead you doubled down. So credit for backing yourself in.

It is a bit of an emotional time on here. Probably some more to play out before everyone makes their peace.

 

[Heppellfreak]

I agree with Corleone I thought you would have backed down a bit, but instead you doubled down. So credit for backing yourself in.

It is a bit of an emotional time on here. Probably some more to play out before everyone makes their peace.

Cheers man, guess we’ll just have play the waiting game.


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[citizen-erased]

Him ending up at Essendon doesn't mean the deal was done 5 weeks ago.

The process we are watching is the doing of the deal.

i think what we're seeing is the process of locking it in

You don't suddenly have 2 board meetings in 24hrs, get all the board members together in that time, then spend the day doing what we've done while the media speculates if the end goal isn't within grasp.

transition from Brasher to Barham
Barham symbolic of the switch from team Rutten to team Clarkson
Announce Ben is our coach via non-board leader (CEO)
Meet with Clarkson

Next will be sack Rutten, then Clarkson announced. Probably monday morning after Tigers trounce us.

But all going to a plan set in motion weeks ago.

let's be honest. this is Knights Mk2 & everyone was right. we didnt have the patience to see this one through, and we're into messiah mode again

 

[citizen-erased]

I don't think Clarko would be stringing North along for weeks if the deal was done, I really can't see the logic there.

keep your options open.
perfectly normal when you're being head-hunted.

 

[Nifft]

I agree with Corleone I thought you would have backed down a bit, but instead you doubled down. So credit for backing yourself in.

It is a bit of an emotional time on here. Probably some more to play out before everyone makes their peace.

I could believe certain elements within the club reaching out a while back to Clarkson and telling him they want him, but I have trouble with the thought that Clarkson signed a deal weeks ago. If Clarkson had been reached out to then I could certainly see him waiting to see how the dust settles before making his decision, with him knowing there was going to be a powerplay at our club that would shake things up.

But if Clarkson had signed the dotted line weeks ago I can't see why him and the club would play all this cloak and dagger crap. It's more respectful to everyone to just announce it and say he's the new coach going forward. Because the board would've all had to be totally behind bringing him in, otherwise a contract would never have been drawn up in the first place. And why would Clarkson want to waste his and North/GWS's time by doing useless meetings if he was already signed with us?

 

[citizen-erased]

Clarkson might be the right guy for the job but the club doing the bidding of coterie groups chasing the latest shiny toy is the exact opposite of proper process.

this was my thinking.
Perhaps a little jaded now as i've accepted what's about to happen.

Maybe they're right this time.
But if they're wrong, should teach them to stfu. Also, we're pretty much out of messiah's now. Dimma remains the last potential one.

 

[Duckworth]

I could believe certain elements within the club reaching out a while back to Clarkson and telling him they want him, but I have trouble with the thought that Clarkson signed a deal weeks ago. If Clarkson had been reached out to then I could certainly see him waiting to see how the dust settles before making his decision, with him knowing there was going to be a powerplay at our club that would shake things up.

But if Clarkson had signed the dotted line weeks ago I can't see why him and the club would play all this cloak and dagger crap. It's more respectful to everyone to just announce it and say he's the new coach going forward. Because the board would've all had to be totally behind bringing him in, otherwise a contract would never have been drawn up in the first place. And why would Clarkson want to waste his and North/GWS's time by doing useless meetings if he was already signed with us?

I choose to believe that it is an elaborate scheme to result in an epic trolling of North.

 

[Arctic fox]

So what happens if we beat the Tiges?

 

[tandino]

keep your options open.
perfectly normal when you're being head-hunted.

Oh I think that's exactly what it is.

There's clearly been a pathway in the flowchart that gets Clarkson to Essendon and the powerbrokers have managed to thread that needle. Just because they've met their objective doesn't mean Clarkson has been signed for weeks.

 

[Its Manbearpig]

Let’s not treat heppellfreak like zavier Menzies or whoever it was with the stories.

A lot on this board hung on that guys every word and obviously it didn’t pan out time and time again.

But we’re yet to see if heppellfreak is right, let’s give them a chance before we make a sacrificial lamb.

 

[Nifft]

So what happens if we beat the Tiges?

 

[Call Me Cake]

Do want to point out that this isn't really about who's right or not, this is about the football club and how crucial a moment like this is in terms of our long-term future. Everything that happens from this day on will be an enormous butterfly effect to our whole path forward. This is history in the making.

 

[Ati Tude]

So what happens if we beat the Tiges?

Buy a jacket. Hell will have frozen over.

 

[Don the stash]

Clarkson dropped into my mates work the other week and gave him this. I didn't think much of it at the time but now I'm not so sure.....

 

[Bombermania]

Comment from the blitz that if true might confirm Heppellfreak's source was right but had misunderstood. Bacchusfox "Five weeks ago Clarkson was approached by Essendon group unnamed to me, but allegedly included a Director. Clarkson is interested but wanted a offer from Board." This could be taken to mean Clarko had agreed to sign if he was happy with the offer.

 

[BratPack]

So what happens if we beat the Tiges?

 

[andleanback]

Comment from the blitz that if true might confirm Heppellfreak's source was right but had misunderstood. Bacchusfox "Five weeks ago Clarkson was approached by Essendon group unnamed to me, but allegedly included a Director. Clarkson is interested but wanted a offer from Board." This could be taken to mean Clarko had agreed to sign if he was happy with the offer.

There were rumblings that a few essendon people had sounded out clarko a couple months back and he was open to the idea of coaching essendon. Brasher wanted stability wanted to keep rutten, but rutten had heard the talk that his job was really on the line. That week we came out and beat Sydney and you could really see that win meant something to him. If I recall correctly there was that footage in the rooms where he walked in early and had a moment to himself.

 

[raskolnikov]

Much as I hate you guys and it would s**t 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.

I'll be camped out on the Norf board for quite a while if it happens.

 

[Arctic fox]

Do want to point out that this isn't really about who's right or not, this is about the football club and how crucial a moment like this is in terms of our long-term future. Everything that happens from this day on will be an enormous butterfly effect to our whole path forward. This is history in the making.

What, changing presidents and coaches is going to change our losing ways? Same was said when Tanner/Worsfold started. Same was said when Brasher/Rutten started.Same old yada yada. Get the right cattle and your pasture and milk will be healthy.

 

[yodellinhank]

If we get Clarko I doubt Stringer will be allowed to be fat

He has a fat clause as it is

 

[yodellinhank]

So what happens if we beat the Tiges?

Gia on a 5 year deal, torn up after 2. Get Hardwick.

 

[Call Me Cake]

What, changing presidents and coaches is going to change our losing ways? Same was said when Tanner/Worsfold started. Same was said when Brasher/Rutten started.Same old yada yada. Get the right cattle and your pasture and milk will be healthy.

Never said it would be changing our losing ways. But for better or for worse, there's change, and it will impact us heavily for the next decade. And I'm not just talking about today, I'm talking about this week, and going into the external review. It will be a true fork in road.

 

[yodellinhank]

Let’s not treat heppellfreak like zavier Menzies or whoever it was with the stories.

A lot on this board hung on that guys every word and obviously it didn’t pan out time and time again.

But we’re yet to see if heppellfreak is right, let’s give them a chance before we make a sacrificial lamb.

But Sacrificial Lamb is in season?

 

[yaco55]

Don't forever think for a minute that a new coach is an immediate panacea - We have had enough good coaches in the system for the last ten years to suggest the bulk of the problems come down to the playing group - It's likely that Clarkson will bring in an effective game plan BUT it's still 80% on the players.