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

 

[Beerfish]

Anyone seen Houmani ?
Since he came to north board sprouting bullshit on Wednesday he seems to have gone missing?
I know we have some peanuts ourselves , but that clowns a disgrace

Good luck moving forward

Who?

 

[fairbump_playon]

I blame all of you that hung s**t on Richmond and Carlton supporters for being feral .

Someone said to me the other day we are Richmond at the Terry Wallace stage.

SO TRUE

 

[Don Won]

At least we’ve perfected a coaching move that will resonate through the league, we are calling it The Clarkson Clusterf$&k

 

[eth-dog]

I've got no idea how he's been treated this week and neither do you. I really don't understand this moral high-ground crap.

Its a tough game. Don't perform, pressure comes on hard no matter who you are. Truck hasn't performed. He is actually directly contradicting the entire philosophy he set when he arrived..."Blue collar football".

He should never have been hired in the first place. Our incompetent board and leadership were completely reactionary.

Sorry Ben. Sorry you'll be payed out 600k for doing a crap job.

Dude, stop.

You clearly have a dislike of him and can't appreciate that on a human level the circus this week has been horrible for him. Regardless of whether or not he should have been hired or not he's had a terrible week and a disappointing year.

 

[STANTS]

I kind of feel like this scenario would be the only saving grace from what has been a shambolic disaster of a week for the club.

It would be everything as fans to seethe players come out united and said 'We are backing Truck.'

The media focus is then is squarely placed at the feet of the CEO, the board members that backed him and anyone else attached to the CEO.

I'm sorry words are rubbish the players don't back the coach we saw that Sunday

 

[DapperDon]

Who?

No it's Hou

 

[Runk]

Truck is going to stay coach and the club is just going to pretend this never happened

 

[andleanback]

I blame all of you that hung s**t on Richmond and Carlton supporters for being feral .

Someone said to me the other day we are Richmond at the Terry Wallace stage.

Wouldn’t we be hawthorn missing out on Wallace and going through a process and signing an untried coach who came through the process as the best candidate.

 

[Great8]

Every single member of the board needs to go immediately

 

[bonedry]

Dude, stop.

You clearly have a dislike of him and can't appreciate that on a human level the circus this week has been horrible for him. Regardless of whether or not he should have been hired or not he's had a terrible week and a disappointing year.

Nah I'm alright, this is just my opinion. You have yours...I don't ask you to stop or censor yourself.

 

[DapperDon]

Truck is going to stay coach and the club is just going to pretend this never happened

 

[mike14]

Truck is going to stay coach and the club is just going to pretend this never happened

"We committed to Ben 2 years ago and that commitment hasn't changed. He's coach of the EFC and we hope will be for quite some time, bringing us much success on the field.
Once we learned that Alaistair was interested in coaching again of course we had a chat with him, we're talking about probably the greatest coach of the modern era, who wasn't available when we hired our last coach. To not sound him out would be gross negligence on our part.
I can't comment on the media circus this week, that's been you lot running around in circles. We've talked to Clarskon, we never formally offered him a contract, and we're excited to see how Ben and the boys approach 2023"

 

[Lance Uppercut]

now where's that black pill avatar again?

 

[ant555]

Wouldn’t we be hawthorn missing out on Wallace and going through a process and signing an untried coach who came through the process as the best candidate.

No . We still rate our list.

 

[bonedry]

"We committed to Ben 2 years ago and that commitment hasn't changed. He's coach of the EFC and we hope will be for quite some time, bringing us much success on the field.
Once we learned that Alaistair was interested in coaching again of course we had a chat with him, we're talking about probably the greatest coach of the modern era, who wasn't available when we hired our last coach. To not sound him out would be gross negligence on our part.
I can't comment on the media circus this week, that's been you lot running around in circles. We've talked to Clarskon, we never formally offered him a contract, and we're excited to see how Ben and the boys approach 2023"

 

[brain taylor]

hahahahahaha this ****en club

 

[dank420_]

Truck is going to stay coach and the club is just going to pretend this never happened

Remember that time we expected Hird to resign via video and it ended up being something about Brent Stanton’s hammy and if he was ok to play this week?

 

[andleanback]

No . We still rate our list.

I was being facetious

 

[ant555]

I was being facetious

Where is the emoji for that

 

[Eleven 38]

I thought it was all a joke that Hird could come back, but if Rutten wants his payout Hird might be the only person in Australia that would want to coach us.

 

[jcmelb]

 

[Arctic fox]

Hard coaching again is just click bait.

 

[Doss]

Hard coaching again is just click bait.

We are, indeed, hard to coach.

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

Remember that time we expected Hird to resign via video and it ended up being something about Brent Stanton’s hammy and if he was ok to play this week?

Don't forget we hired Knights instead of Hardwick because the former used a PPT in his presentation and the latter did not. This ****ing club.

 

[Mercuri Rising]

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.

I can think of another club that should be folded to let Tassie in