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

 

[jmoo wan]

Cancel culture strikes again.

i recently bought a hat online - when it was delivered i found it was the wrong hat - completely different style and colour. i’m returning it, per the stores returns policy. is that “cancel culture”?

 

[Howard Moon]

So if old mate was unfit to run a football club does that also render him unfit to chair an external review?

Let's start again ppl

 

[Old Campaigner]

We've done pretty well over the last few months I'd say.

- Dodged an absolute nuke by missing out on Clarkson.
- Avoided gifting Hird the coaching gig.
- Managed to convince Sheedy to out himself as the demented old crank he is.
- Get rid of a fundie CEO after a day in the job.

Admittedly it's almost all more by accident than design but outcomes are outcomes

 

[Dave]

Sacked for doing what banks did. Use dodgy policies to make money.

I think charging fees for no service, and
to dead people to boot qualifies as somewhat more than dodgy….

 

[MarkJohnson#1]

Is this on Dave Barham or what..?

 

[carnthedons]

Sacked for doing what banks did. Use dodgy policies to make money.

Organised religion is basically just guilt based multi-level marketing

 

[Bunk Moreland]

I’ve said before I’m not sure if Barham is a buffoon throwing his weight around randomly or a smart operator - well now I’m sure.

For all the reasons raised on here, he reeks of incompetency. But worse, for me, is that nothing in his actions so far - from the way he hung Rutten out to dry to the circumnavigating of proper process to hire his mate who we all knew had questionable ethics from the banking royal commission and also turned out to be the chairman of a religious organisation spouting horrible views and values - make me think he is a good person.

That might sound a little silly but if I’m going to passionately support a football club, the least I expect is for it to be filled and led by good people.

Barham has fallen at every hurdle in his short tenure and in my opinion he needs to go before he does more damage to the club.


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He strikes me as a cowboy. Not in the folksy, likeable way… but in terms of being rash and careless. (He may well be likeable as a person, I dunno).

He’s always worked in large corporate environments and in them you have many buffers, filters and checks and balances. If somebody is a pretty good operator who gets things done (I think he’s definitely a “doer”), you can surround him with other people, resources and processes to save him (and the business) from himself and make up for his shortcomings.

Football clubs don’t have this. Here he’s the one trying to put some process in!

For all the talk of footy being big business, it’s not. Footy clubs are ~$50m businesses, not the multi billion dollar organisations with all the resources that many of these people usually operate in.

So often really big business types get a bit exposed. Others have been crossing their Ts and dotting their Is for a very, very long time.

 

[MarkJohnson#1]

How’s Barham going at the moment? Seriously…

 

[faible]

The less people like this in positions of power the better off society will be.

I wish all our religious people in positions of power kept their faith so far from their professional actions personally.

 

[Essendonia]

I am shocked to be sitting here, but I think I preferred the relative stability of August.

 

[kelvin_sheedy]

How’s Barham going at the moment? Seriously…

If he was a horse, the curtains would be drawn

 

[carnthedons]

I think I'll just stick just to footy chat from now on.

Brother you’re a good egg. Enjoy your faith in your own way.

The challenge as always is where anyone feels their faith and belief structure should be imposed on innocent others, as if you know better what they should be doing. Spoiler, you don’t, and even if you did they should have the autonomy to make their own decisions and live their life with whatever consequences that entails, earthly and otherwise.

 

[Jager bombers]

What an inclusive world we live in. Yay!
Remember everyone, you're all entitled to your own opinion. Just make sure it's the right one.

 

[Howard Moon]

i recently bought a hat online - when it was delivered i found it was the wrong hat - completely different style and colour. i’m returning it, per the stores returns policy. is that “cancel culture”?

Nonsense, you knew the hat you were buying , but when you put it on everyone pointed and called you a weirdo so you sent it back telling them it wasn't what you thought it was.

 

[carnthedons]

What an inclusive world we live in. Yay!
Remember everyone, you're all entitled to your own opinion. Just make sure it's the right one.

Your right to swing your fists stops at the tip of my nose. Have an opinion by all means but make it about how you live your own life, not demonising others. I’d be saying the same thing if we’d appointed someone who said religion is dumb, you shouldn’t be allowed to go to your place of worship and you should live lawlessly following a hedonistic lifestyle of wanton disregard for everyone.

 

[Kong]

Scott must be thinking, what the actual * have I walked into.

I’ve had two days this week where I’ve woken up to:

Sheedy undermining the board and brand new coach

Our new CEO resigning

 

[fairbump_playon]

It's EFC - you just get in and have a crack. Can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs LOL.

Wow, Barham feels like a loose unit.

Somehow I still believe he could work out though. He's trying to get out of the harbour and keeps running into debris from stuff he's blown up. Could sink, but at least there's a clear desire to get moving.

 

[nipst@r]

He was holding two conflicting positions and was given the choice between the two.

He chose the other role - pretty common in all businesses that if a conflict arises you may need to step aside.

Can still have his beliefs and values but holding two conflicting senior positions would prove difficult.

Probably why scomo and Dom getaway with it as not sure they formally hold powerful positions in the church.

 

[Howard Moon]

I’ve had two days this week where I’ve woken up to:

Sheedy undermining the board and brand new coach

Our new CEO resigning

You reckon that's cool?. Wait til tomorrow!

 

[Nifft]

i recently bought a hat online - when it was delivered i found it was the wrong hat - completely different style and colour. i’m returning it, per the stores returns policy. is that “cancel culture”?

That's funny, we recently ordered some t-shirts and some socks turned up instead. Maybe it's a conspiracy...


Jokes aside, it's been a flustercluck of a day, again. You'd think all us supporters would have thickened skin by now after the last ten years, but here we are. Hopefully the next appointment is a very safe and non-controversial one. I wonder if Sonja Hood is available yet...

 

[tha Freak]

From Cluster F$&k to Cluster F$&k, at least it so ain't boring following this club.

 

[nipst@r]

You reckon that's cool?. Wait til tomorrow!

Our list manager being sacked mid trade week when we don't get a deal done for Bowes or Francis?

 

[Nifft]

Our list manager being sacked mid trade week when we don't get a deal done for Bowes or Francis?

Just sack him now, I'd be surprised if any deals get done after the last few weeks. Go to the draft and put our faith in youth.

 

[mike14]

Is this on Dave Barham or what..?

Pretty much. Buck stops at the top and this has been a total shambles

 

[Dave]

Can we double check the next CEO isn't a homophobe or racist please? Find something less topical maybe.

homicidal serial killer ok?

asking for a friend