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

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  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

 

[Runk]

If you think Barham isn't currently the right guy to lead the board after that then you're a clown. He was spot on.

 

[Happyskeret]

7 minutes to go on my 3rd attempt listening to the Weston interview View attachment 2182182

It was basically make winners of time trial run faster. How um……. we need more underpants.

 

[Lore]

Former players should be asked to come present to the players as part of motivational speaking each week. They can also vote, assuming they are club members.

 

[Lore]

If you think Barham isn't currently the right guy to lead the board after that then you're a clown. He was spot on.

Looks like they've taken grabs of the RSN interview someone linked to earlier, here's an embedded version:

 

[justlookingaround]

The worry is that members who aren't all that tuned in will see the name of an old champion and vote blindly.
And tbh, I think that's their plot.

 

[dank420_]

I actually didn't know who he was.

Maybe Sheeds is getting hung up on by a few better known players/

 

[Lore]

I actually didn't know who he was.

Maybe Sheeds is getting hung up on by a few better known players/

Same.

2000 premiership team:

B:	1 Mark Johnson	31 Dustin Fletcher	6 Sean Wellman
HB:	11 Damien Hardwick	21 Dean Wallis	7 Dean Solomon
C:	26 Chris Heffernan	24 Joe Misiti	33 Blake Caracella
HF:	2 Mark Mercuri	25 Scott Lucas	5 James Hird(c)
F:	9 Adam Ramanauskas	18 Matthew Lloyd	13 Michael Long
Foll:	22 John Barnes	32 Justin Blumfield	14 Jason Johnson
Int:	8 Darren Bewick	16 Paul Barnard	27 Steven Alessio
	29 Gary Moorcroft
Coach:	Kevin Sheedy

Looking at that list idk who would even be available. Wellman, Hird, Lucas, Lloyd, Long, Caracella, Ramanauskas, Hardwick, Solomon all still have pretty solid post-playing careers as coaches, player managers, in the media etc, and are probably recognisable names for those who were too young to remember much of their playing careers. Wellman has had his shot on the board and resigned, Solomon has his hand up, and I can't imagine the rest of them even contemplating it.

1993:

B:	4 Gavin Wanganeen	31 Dustin Fletcher	21 Dean Wallis
HB:	29 David Grenvold	1 Mark Harvey	26 Mark Thompson(c)
C:	47 Rick Olarenshaw	38 Sean Denham	11 Paul Hills
HF:	2 Mark Mercuri	5 James Hird	24 Joe Misiti
F:	32 Tim Watson	3 Paul Salmon	13 Michael Long
Foll:	19 Peter Somerville	10 Gary O'Donnell	8 Darren Bewick
Int:	7 Chris Daniher	48 David Calthorpe
Coach:	Kevin Sheedy

Can just imagine GO'D on the board





I think I'd like Tim or Jobe Watson on the board. Having a poster child for everything that went wrong in that era (or his dad) would probably put an end to a lot of the nonsense.

 

[boncer34]

I actually didn't know who he was.

Maybe Sheeds is getting hung up on by a few better known players/

Only the old fossils like windyhill do and Sheeds ain't winning his vote.

 

[dank420_]

Only the old fossils like windyhill do and Sheeds ain't winning his vote.

He should have won The Scales for his Dodoro posting alone

 

[boncer34]

He should have won The Scales for his Dodoro posting alone

Maybe in 2025

 

[Donflicted]

As a supporter whose seen zero success and is confident in the current administration since pretty much ever.

I am not sure if i can sit and continue to eat shit from the old regime if they get back in i am 6 years away from 30 i would like some success and stability before then.

 

[fairbump_playon]

Not really. It is a 100% ploy to try and remove Barham by voting him out. What happens next depends on 2025. Are you saying that with Barham gone and two new board members in the Hird camp that if we do not play finals Scott will still be safe ? The pressure will be enormous to get Hird in as coach after he spends a year at Port Melbourne working on fine tuning his skillset. It is not jumping at shadows. If Barham does not get back in it is a real possibility. Of course if Barham gets the votes then it is done and dusted before it began.
I have a few sources telling me it is 100% what their plan is. Problem for them will be I suspect Barham will keep his spot and it will be line ball between Solly and Verner Green. Solly will support the current board but you can almost guarantee that he would be in a Welsh / Weston camp with Sheedy behind the scenes with Barham out of the way.
There is still plenty of coterie support for Hird as coach.

Let’s say Port win the VFL flag and Essendon fade out to 13th

Imagine the heat

 

[Squeaky]

Let’s say Port win the VFL flag and Essendon fade out to 13th

Imagine the heat

Port have to come through Essendon...
Makes the VFL clash more interesting now, doesn't it.

 

[justlookingaround]

As a supporter whose seen zero success and is confident in the current administration since pretty much ever.

I am not sure if i can sit and continue to eat shit from the old regime if they get back in i am 6 years away from 30 i would like some success and stability before then.

I'm 28 and didn't really get deep into footy until I was about 10 or 11, I have precisely two memories of Essendon experiencing success -
1. Asking my dad who was on top of the ladder around 2000 or 2001 and him saying we were
2. Watching the 2003 EF against Freo on a CRT monitor that depicted every colour as a different hue of green

Everything else is some measure of failure, or even worse a false dawn in which the great wins are sullied by the knowledge of the abyss that would follow soon after.

I still hold out impatiently to see us win something, but deep down I know it probably won't be as gratifying as if I got to experience it as a kid or teenager. Or who knows, maybe I'll get absolutely plastered and it'll be the best day of my life...

Either way, I think the twenty-something year old Bombers supporters in a way have it the worst. Cursed to follow the least successful club of our generation.

Anyway, I think our current administration is the best foundation we've laid for success in my whole time watching footy. I'm not sold it's going to work out, but I'm trusting the process right now. Chucking out Barham is going back to square 1, make no mistake. We might need to go there in 3 years time, but for now I think it's definitely in our best interest to give this build a shot.

 

[Lance Uppercut]

The worry is that members who aren't all that tuned in will see the name of an old champion and vote blindly.
And tbh, I think that's their plot.

that's absolutely the play. Solly is nothing but a stalking horse.

Sad but true

 

[Beerfish]

Can just imagine GO'D on the board

Now this I can get around

 

[Old Campaigner]

I think I'd like Tim or Jobe Watson on the board. Having a poster child for everything that went wrong in that era (or his dad) would probably put an end to a lot of the nonsense.

the smart ones who’d probably be a great board member are probably too smart to be sticking their noses into footy club politics

 

[bombadeer]

2 of the 3 challengers are ex-football players from our glory days.

Sheedy really is a sly old fox… I have a begrudging respect for his machiavellian political machinations.

Really hope he doesn’t pull it off though

 

[justlookingaround]

So does Sheedy want to be president?

 

[DERO]

So does Sheedy want to be president?

I think he just needs to feel like he is involved in a meaningful way.

 

[Agronomus]

What qualification - in your opinion - does Weston have for sitting on a board of directors for an organisation generating ~ $78.9m in revenue per annum?

Did we not have Dean Rioli on the board at one time? What were his qualifications?

 

[Agronomus]

I think he just needs to feel like he is involved in a meaningful way.

He was a board member until retiring recently. All you millenials have to get used to Sheedys DNA being part of Essendons culture. Sheedy is Essendon and Essendon is Sheedy.
It's the same as Elon Musk and X

 

[Agronomus]

As a supporter whose seen zero success and is confident in the current administration since pretty much ever.

I am not sure if i can sit and continue to eat shit from the old regime if they get back in i am 6 years away from 30 i would like some success and stability before then.

Do you think 30 is old? That's cute

 

[Vindicater]

Just listened to the Weston interview...

**** me. He lost me as soon as he started talking about the 2k time trials...

 

[joey_jo_jo]

Just listened to the Weston interview...

**** me. He lost me as soon as he started talking about the 2k time trials...

I wish the interviewer responded with this: