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

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    49

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    193cm

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    90kg

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  • Votes for Barham: Andrew Muir, Dorothy Hisgrove, Melissa Green, Kate O’Sullivan, Kevin Sheedy
• 21/8: Senior Coach, Ben Rutten
  Ben Rutten

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  41

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  98kg

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  13.4

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  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

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    46

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    180cm

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    83kg

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    Fwd

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    11.3

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    (Chair, GM-Footy), Robert Walls, Jordan Lewis
    Jordan Lewis

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    38

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    186cm

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    86kg

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    23.5

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    2.8

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    , 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

 

[Mr Bultitude]

Of course he’s a leader of his church. What a stupid comment.

It's not stupid because board members aren't seen as leaders in a church environment. Ordained ministers/pastors/etc are.

 

[andleanback]

I only just listened to his interview on sen 30 minutes ago. The last 5 minutes of it was a car crash. Horrible due-diligence, horrible appointment. It’s actually a good thing he never set foot in the club.

 

[jmoo wan]

I have a mental image of Barham literally throwing him out of the Hangar.

more like this

 

[Doss]

We are Essendon.

 

[Call Me Cake]

I don't think this really stops him doing his job... I'm just trying to work out how he manages the cognitive dissonance.

I'll stop short from playing wordplay gymnastics and calling it "cognitive dissonance", but I will tell you he can be tolerant, and it's actually pretty easy.

Because firstly,

The main priority of the Essendon football club is football. Playing sport. Memberships. Financial efficiency in making it viable and the stability of it from a governance point of view. It's primary role is not gay rights activism (like in your farfetched example of bringing up corporations where their primary goals are the points you made). All Andrew needs to do is ensure his involvement doesn't curb the freedom of gays to be openly gay and to deal with those that do. It is a literal footnote in the running of the club and his job as a CEO.

Secondly, for someone who follows rules in a religion, there's a thing called free will. He can follow those principles on a personal level, advise those who willfully participate in a forum dedicated to it, i.e; a church and let it be up to his maker to decide on the rest. Andrew would say it isn't his job to structure people's lives in a physical way as if to coerce, or change them.

That is essentially the backbone of being tolerant of each other, and the definition of inclusiveness. Inclusivity begins with yourself first.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Oh and one more thing… before we appoint a new CEO, let’s Google him first

 

[andleanback]

This is the former CEO of one of the largest businesses in Australia. The second biggest bank of the BIG4. CEOs at this level are employed because they can identify the talent that they need in place in every position, and they are also the people who do not tell people how to do their job, but remove them in a heartbeat when they don’t execute on the vision.

If that is not enough for you, who in the coterie groups is going to bully this guy?

I think it is an outstanding appointment.

Amen.

Outstanding appointment !!!

 

[Lore]

Statement on behalf of Dave Barham

The Board of the Essendon Football Club has accepted the resignation of Andrew Thorburn as CEO.

As soon as the comments relating to a 2013 sermon from a pastor, at the City of the Hill church came to light this morning, we acted immediately to clarify the publicly espoused views on the organisation’s official website, which are in direct contradiction to our values as a Club.

Essendon is committed to providing an inclusive, diverse and a safe Club, where everyone is welcome and respected.

The Board made clear that, despite these not being views that Andrew Thorburn has expressed personally and that were also made prior to him taking up his role as Chairman, he couldn’t continue to serve in his dual roles at the Essendon Football Club and as Chairman of City on the Hill.

The Board respects Andrew’s decision.

We are deeply committed to our values and support wholeheartedly the work of the AFL in continuing to stamp out any discrimination based on race, sex, religion, gender, sexual identity or orientation, or physical or mental disability.
I want to stress that neither the board nor Andrew was aware of the comments from the 2013 sermon until we read about them this morning. I also want to stress that this is not about vilifying anyone for their personal religious beliefs, but about a clear conflict of interest with an organisation whose views do not align at all with our values as a safe, inclusive, diverse and welcoming club for our staff, our players, our members, our fans, our partners and the wider community.

Acting CEO Nick Ryan will continue in his role whilst we commence the process to appoint a new CEO.

 

[jmoo wan]

It's not stupid because board members aren't seen as leaders in a church environment. Ordained ministers/pastors/etc are.

you mean like this ****ing moron?

 

[PhoenixBonez]

 

[Mr Mojo Risin]

It’s very clear no, or at least insufficient, due diligence was done here. Nobody with any sense of society today would have failed to anticipate what has now transpired had it been a known issue.

It strongly suggests the appointment did not follow the process and was made with little rigour. Barham will struggle to survive this.

The good news is that I am unsure we can bottom out further than this.

You keep saying this, Essendon keeps saying:

 

[Mootsy]

 

[Vander18]

Technically, he could still say that he was once the CEO of Essendon.

Nobody can take that away from him!

 

[Mr Bultitude]

you mean like this ******* moron?

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Sure, if that's what you want to refer to him as.

 

[The Prosecutor]

I certainly hope that people are now cancelling their memberships and withdrawing support from every political party, business and other organisation that employs people that hold positions within a religion that is anti minority.

Because you know, we don't judge people on their own personal beliefs, no we don't have time for that. Read the label on the box and form our opinions there and then.

People falling for media whipping up a s**t storm about a person's life knowing full well those same media organisations are run by exactly the same type of person as this bloke.

What an absolute joke.

The irony was not lost about the HUN beating up the story about homophobia and such while its biggest star is Andrew Bolt

 

[xjamescleanx]

I'm very happy this bloke didn't last hahaha

 

[Phone]

lol

The Board made clear that, despite these not being views that Andrew Thorburn has expressed personally and that were also made prior to him taking up his role as Chairman, he couldn’t continue to serve in his dual roles at the Essendon Football Club and as Chairman of City on the Hill.

this is clearly right. Both these gigs are clearly passion projects given he's ridiculously overqualified, if he's decided to pick City on the Hill, then whatever

And I do feel that being part of the external review and then immediately becoming CEO seems to have been pretty insane, unless he was part of an external review in which internal staff said literally nothing.

 

[Zach Package]

This is what it takes for us to run a clean process to hire someone?

Good riddance

 

[dank420_]

you mean like this ******* moron?

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This is all i needed to see. Pass.

 

[Phone]

it'll be funny when he becomes a board member

 

[ash_1050]

Hopefully we actually hire someone who isn't morally and ethically corrupt this time.

 

[kelvin_sheedy]

What's Brian Houston up to these days?

 

[naraku]

So who's responsible for hiring Thorburn?
Barham? He should resign too.


No due diligence on him ?

None of us needed another shit show

 

[madrigal]

I think we should poll the players we definitely don't want any Christians playing for us, their beliefs might influence teammates.

 

[The Prosecutor]

Surely if a proper process had already be run, we wouldn't need to commence a search?