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

 

[Lore]

 

[Engimal v3]

That's why you hire Hird before you initiate the external review, duh

That said, probably a media beat up. They might want him but he'd have to be completely daft to accept the job.

Appointing Hird would mean there is no external review, because we haven't gone through a proper process and haven't learnt a damn thing.

I reckon he'll enjoy another few years in peace at the Giants. If he is a head coach again, it'll be somewhere other than the Bombers. I feel like that'd be best for both him and Essendon, from a PR/pressure standpoint.

 

[Doss]

Surely it's media beat up. There's no way this external review can end in a recommendation of "well, how about Hird again?"

Never, ever underestimate the ability of Essendon to pull the completely inexplicable out of its arse.

 

[The Devils Advocate]

AFL making the Tasmania call in August.
Clarko signs with North in August.
All signs point to Tassie Roos. Clarko knows.

I'm starting to actually consider North a rival at the moment, a thought that hasn't crossed my mind since 1999. This must mean they don't view us as rivals now, because they're the big club, not us.

 

[MarshawnLynch]

So, no presser and we're just gonna hang Truck out to dry at 11:30?

 

[Engimal v3]

Never, ever underestimate the ability of Essendon to pull the completely inexplicable out of its arse.

I'm almost feeling bad, what the hell is going on?!

 

[Engimal v3]

So, no presser and we're just gonna hang Truck out to dry at 11:30?

Was that actually announced by the Bombers, or was that just reported by that 1 Fox Footy host? I wasn't clear on that. No way he'd just ghost the presser, right?

 

[Nuts4Bolts]

I seriously want to hear from Heppell and the players on their thoughts of this shemozzle.

“Yeah, look it’s not ideal but it is what it is. We still get paid though don’t we? Speaking off which, any news on that contract extension. Need stability at all…’

These bunch of self entitled so and so’s are the last people I want to hear from.

 

[thaibomber]

• Monday at 10:15 AM
  SHEEDY... Essendon... Gws... Essendon. HIRD... Essendon... Gws.... ?
  could be a push by the cunning old dog for his favorite pup.

CALLED IT! LOL.

 

[JayJ20]

I’m feeling sick already
The most Essendon moment ever is to chase Hird following no coaching selection process. Are we really doing this? Really?

 

[bonedry]

AFL making the Tasmania call in August.
Clarko signs with North in August.
All signs point to Tassie Roos. Clarko knows.

If I was a Tasmanian...I'd be totally pissed off with this.

As if you want some minnow, hand me down club with North. Tassie fans deserve a new franchise. Maybe they'll just delete North and spin up something completely new in Tassie...now that'd be smart.

 

[MarshawnLynch]

Was that actually announced by the Bombers, or was that just reported by that 1 Fox Footy host? I wasn't clear on that. No way he'd just ghost the presser, right?

Not sure, but even if it wasn't announced in the first place - why not? Surely as a board you'd feel like you need to clear the air before Truck is thrown to the wolves

 

[The Devils Advocate]

If I was a Tasmanian...I'd be totally pissed off with this.

As if you want some minnow, hand me down club with North. Tassie fans deserve a new franchise. Maybe they'll just delete North and spin up something completely new in Tassie...now that'd be smart.

Well it's the difference between me not being a Bombers fan anymore and going for Tassie.
Or hating the Tasmanian team.

 

[Engimal v3]

Not sure, but even if it wasn't announced in the first place - why not? Surely as a board you'd feel like you need to clear the air before Truck is thrown to the wolves

Given Rutten's managers' comments, I reckon Truck might throw Essendon to the wolves in his presser lol

 

[jag001]

Sheeds doesn’t make jibes at other clubs unless he knows something. As soon as he bagged North about Clarko taking them to Tassie it was a given that we weren’t getting him.

When Robbo mentioned earlier this year that we shouldn’t be surprised if Hird returned I was gobsmacked that such narrative would arise at all.

You do wonder about the machinations going on behind the scenes. At this point, from an optics perspective, we are so far gone that a Hird return is almost the shot in the arm I need to even care about our direction. Something irresistibly against the grain sort of gets my juices flowing, unlike the sense of ‘meh’ I’ve had about this club since Damien Cupido left.

Yep - Sheedy is no fool despite whatever Caro says. Hird back would be just the us vs the rest that Sheedy has always brought to the table. He hates the fact we bowed before the AFL overlords and maybe his final act of sporting greatness is masterminding the return to the days where we were difficult to predict, difficult to play against, and difficult to ignore.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Sheeds doesn’t make jibes at other clubs unless he knows something. As soon as he bagged North about Clarko taking them to Tassie it was a given that we weren’t getting him.

Sheedy is half-senile old coot who's often pissed.

That's really all there is to it.

 

[tandino]

If his name wasn't Hird, would he be allowed near the joint?

It's an 80's VFL mindset in a professional national competition. It's the mindset that has gotten us in this mess, and the man who helped it along the way.

There's not much more to say really. I don't begrudge the romantics, but the world has moved on.

 

[MarshawnLynch]

Given Rutten's managers' comments, I reckon Truck might throw Essendon to the wolves in his presser lol

Lol he's way too professional and high character to do that, but **** I would love to see it

 

[Mercurial89]

So, no presser and we're just gonna hang Truck out to dry at 11:30?

Is it possible the players threw their support behind truck?

 

[jag001]

Yep just give him a cheque and show him the door.

Lets no pretend like Rutten has been a good coach. Just because he's had a crappy week why should we all suddenly feel sorry for him...us supporters have had a crappy year...a crappy 20 years.

No one is bigger than the club...get rid of him.

Good bloke is one thing - and yes he's held himself well - but he hasn't;t been able to sort out the main issue he was brought to the club for... even if our list isn't great enough then there needed to be far more effort put into building a sustained defensive style - and if players don't buy into it then drop them and not just drop them in the media, make them the medi-sub and then bring them back in as cover.

 

[bonedry]

Given Rutten's managers' comments, I reckon Truck might throw Essendon to the wolves in his presser lol

Good, he can pack his bags and get out. Can't coach. Can't motivate. Should've been sacked by round 8

 

[84859300]

Is it possible the players threw their support behind truck?

ha ha ha - they haven't for the last 22 rounds - why now?

 

[bonedry]

Is it possible the players threw their support behind truck?

This would be a contributing factor to getting rid of him. The players are soft, just like Truck. Change means that they may have to pull their fingers out and start earning their pay cheques. They'd much rather prefer to keep coasting, liking each other instagram stories.

 

[jag001]

“Yeah, look it’s not ideal but it is what it is. We still get paid though don’t we? Speaking off which, any news on that contract extension. Need stability at all…’

These bunch of self entitled so and so’s are the last people I want to hear from.

All said with a huge smile on his face.

 

[Atavistic]

Is it possible the players threw their support behind truck?

Just get rid of Hind and say he's the only problem we have. But do it with a straight face.