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

    37

    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

 

[WindyHillWarrior]

I feel when the truth comes out, the club will be in a very, very good position.

 

[P Money]

We're not just a clown show, we're the entire *ing circus

Dos any other organisation (barring maybe NewsCorp) treat their audiences with such utter contempt as the EFC?

 

[yodellinhank]

Yet brasher stays on the board can’t make this up

Very late in the year to do a review. Hard to make changes when most of the good people in the industry will be signed elsewhere for next year

The rate this is all getting wound back, shouldn't be long til we find out who the new director of coaching is going to be

 

[silk]

"Two weeks ago, the internal review of the football department was tabled at a scheduled Board meeting. Since that date, the Board has met several times and formed the view on the need for additional external inputs, which will now take place under the scope of an external review."


This line alone tells me that Campbell should step down. Everyone at the time knew that the internal review was the wrong choice, but still, they ploughed ahead with it.

 

[citizen-erased]

laser-like focus.
line in the sand
off-field success has eluded us

Has played us for mugs.
Is Colin Carter not free to come in and takeover and clean the board out

 

[The Dustbin]

An external review is a clean way to move people on e.g. Dodoro and X. I think Barham gets it

 

[Lads2023]

An external review is a clean way to move people on e.g. Dodoro and X. I think Barham gets it

Depends who’s undertaking the external review….

 

[ant555]

How Essendon. Coterie group members leaking the sacking of the coach before it happens.

 

[ant555]

Have to say X may survive an external review given how well everything has gone away from footy.

 

[Lance Uppercut]

ah Essadun, never change

 

[Lance Uppercut]

After all that and we couldn't even address the Truck situation in the statement.

 

[Inspecta Gadget]

Depends who’s undertaking the external review….

That bloke from GWS...

 

[sacka]

So let me get this straight, today a president left a year early but stays, a coach got sacked but then didn't, an internal review led to realising an external review is needed and it's a line in the sand moment for the club right now.

Hmmmmmmmm just when you think the season has been nearly as bad as it can get and the club couldn't get any further down the poop chute we go and do that lol.
Kinda just blends in with the rest of the season really.

Untill people show their discontent with their wallets it doesn't seem like anything will bloody change here.

 

[DapperDon]

So two blokes swapped seats in the board room.

This ******* club......

 

[VelvetSledge]

An external review is all I wanted yesterday, so it'll suffice. As long as it's done properly.

 

[Duckworth]

So two blokes swapped seats in the board room.

This ******* club......

As a club, we do an amazing job at keeping ourselves at the forefront of media discussion.

 

[Zach Package]

It’s a little win, but as always with us in a roundabout way for the wrong reasons. The external review camp won out over the internal review camp, and so they should have.

We’re trapped in a 20 year doom spiral where those in charge aren’t smart enough to make intuitive ‘captain’s calls’ and aren’t rich enough to pay smart people to conduct a process for them.

Today the right faction won out in the boardroom and truck held his job, on the surface that is exactly what should have happened and they still managed to **** it.

 

[DapperDon]

Have to say X may survive an external review given how well everything has gone away from footy.

Surely the review of his club appointments comes under scrutiny though? Many failed people in roles all chosen by the same person.

 

[citizen-erased]

Have to say X may survive an external review given how well everything has gone away from footy.

that's only one metric.
He's been CEO since 2014?

Oversaw the confusion of who was coaching in 2015 (Hird v Bomber)
Only to sack the guy he kept after losing the one he didn't
Turned to Worsfold without a process.
Then hired Rutten to replace him whilst still in the seat
And has now overseen what appears to be a public airing of dirty laundry over sacking another coach with a year left to run and headhunting another.

By any standard, his ability to oversee a football club doesn't fill me with confidence.

 

[andleanback]

Have to say X may survive an external review given how well everything has gone away from footy.

Isn’t the external review purely football based…

 

[jmoo wan]

i’m pretty impressed with the tenure of prez Dave Barham so far to be honest - no cringy members videos and i’m fairly confident he’ll survive this winter’s flu season.

 

[ant555]

Isn’t the external review purely football based…

Will be whole of club.

 

[ant555]

that's only one metric.
He's been CEO since 2014?

Oversaw the confusion of who was coaching in 2015 (Hird v Bomber)
Only to sack the guy he kept after losing the one he didn't
Turned to Worsfold without a process.
Then hired Rutten to replace him whilst still in the seat
And has now overseen what appears to be a public airing of dirty laundry over sacking another coach with a year left to run and headhunting another.

By any standard, his ability to oversee a football club doesn't fill me with confidence.

Not saying I am on board with him but for some reason our CEO present and past have been more about the bottom line and less about footy.
The fact the AFL tried to head hunt him says he has runs on the board outside of footy issues.
I have no issues with him going as well but I suspect he has credit as far as financial recovery after the saga and the Hanger project.

 

[citizen-erased]

Not saying I am on board with him but for some reason our CEO present and past have been more about the bottom line and less about footy.
The fact the AFL tried to head hunt him says he has runs on the board outside of footy issues.
I have no issues with him going as well but I suspect he has credit as far as financial recovery after the saga and the Hanger project.

I think he'd be alright for the AFL.
Has the CV of an excellent CEO

I imagine scaling back football stuff from his desk of late is a reason for keeping him.

 

[Call Me Cake]

Truck's position is pretty untenable now. After knowing the board were pursuing the sacking - and the fact that a push for an external review - of the same exact environment that chose Truck - is being pursued in question - then 2023 doesn't shape up as a year about the players or the club - it shapes up as a week-to-week judgement day on Rutten. And that's just not the sort of environment you want a side to be developing under. And then you can just imagine the fallout if it all goes pear-shaped as the signs would suggest. Oh boy.