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

    49

    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

  40

  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]

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This is all i needed to see. Pass.

it's the classic "Jesus cut"

 

[Don Won]

Waiting for BrunoV to enter the fight

 

[windyhill]

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

 

[kelvin_sheedy]

So the campaigner chose the Church over the Bombers.

Go heck yourself.

 

[Darealrath]

Undefeated during his reign.

 

[Squeaky]

My god - what an absolute joke!
Not like there wasn't a homosexual person (Or someone who has had an abortion) working at NAB whilst he was there as CEO.
As long as he didn't sack someone for it or try to instil his beliefs on anyone else - honestly... who gives a heck!
I feel sorry for the bloke because I thought he'd be good at his job - but apparently that isn't important anymore cos of the optics. Spare me!
Ridiculous.

 

[Lore]

Statement on behalf of Dave Barham

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

www.essendonfc.com.au

Well that went well.

Now onto our... fourth external process in six weeks? Coach process, CEO process, external review process, CEO process mk 2?

 

[Inspecta Gadget]

The real shame in all of this is hearing the joy in Damo's voice as he recaps the last month at Essendon.

He follows North Melbourne.

 

[Frederico_WA]

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

Well spotted. Unless he was the only one remotely capable to fulfil role from the applicant pool ..

 

[citizen-erased]

Statement on behalf of Dave Barham

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

www.essendonfc.com.au

Well that went well.

Now onto our... fourth external process in six weeks? Coach process, CEO process, external review process, CEO process mk 2?

Does get clarko count as coach process mk1?

 

[Lore]

Does get clarko count as coach process mk1?

Well it wasn't an external process so no, but if you're just counting processes generally then I've lost count and would regard this more as an exorcism.

 

[bennyg12]

Silvertop circus

 

[Zach Package]

Undefeated during his reign.

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

Anyone want to join me and barrack for Tippa and Freo? F me what a joke.

 

[Call Me Cake]

We cowered under pressure generated by certain media. That's all it is.

I respect the man for his ability to step aside this quickly for the sake of it though. Probably shows through that swift action, and in hindsight of it, that he probably, actually, was the most fitting for the role, ironically enough.

 

[TheDinosaur]

I was just thinking how strange it is to not have an Essendon scandal in the headlines.

Finally things are back to normal.


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[Mr Mojo Risin]

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

This one is tricky, it is against Victorian law to discriminate against candidates for any lawful religious belief and you are not meant to question them on such matters.

You're not even meant to look online about people (even though we know places do).

While this looks extremely bad, you could argue a complete, lawful and non-discriminatory recruitment process was completed.

But anyway, I don't really care enough to argue for the Essendon management on this one..

 

[Blind Turn]

Oh ffs Essendon! Due diligence would have seen this from a mile off. If the values of inclusiveness were so integral to the board then a thorough review of an applicant’s affiliated groups should have been a no-brainer.

 

[Lads2023]

Can we just forget this ever happened????

 

[Mr Mojo Risin]

He follows North Melbourne.

Yes I know.....got to find joy somehow....

 

[The Prosecutor]

This one is tricky, it is against Victorian law to discriminate against candidates for any lawful religious belief and you are not meant to question them on such matters.

You're not even meant to look online about people (even though we know places do).

While this looks extremely bad, you could argue a complete, lawful and non-discriminatory recruitment process was completed.

But anyway, I don't really care enough to argue for the Essendon management on this one..

My observation is more along the lines of if we had run a proper process, we'd have a short list of candidates who had already interviewed and were ready to go.

That comment seems to imply Barham woke up one day and decided on Thorburn, which would actually make sense given we appointed him to form the external review and the CEO search.

Which makes me more angry than anything else that has come out in the last day, that we made a handshake agreement with the guy to be CEO and prior to announcing that publicly, we had him masquerading as conducting the 'external review'.

 

[Mr Mojo Risin]

My observation is more along the lines of if we had run a proper process, we'd have a short list of candidates who had already interviewed and were ready to go.

Oh right, 100%.

I thought the same.

 

[dank420_]

We cowered under pressure generated by certain media. That's all it is.

Not all. We ****ed up in appointing him in the first place and the church stuff was just the icing on the cake.

 

[Chadwiko]

He follows North Melbourne.

Except he also hates North Melbourne and is vicious in his coverage of us.

 

[Lore]

Oh ffs Essendon! Due diligence would have seen this from a mile off. If the values of inclusiveness were so integral to the board then a thorough review of an applicant’s affiliated groups should have been a no-brainer.

Is being chair of any church enough to nope it? Coz that part is on his linked in profile and is probably discrimination.

If it's this specific church, and specifically a 2013 sermon buried back on their website, is that old sermon enough to exclude him from the process?

Or do you do your due diligence and establish whether the person, regardless of their religious affiliation, is the most qualified person to do the job?