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

 

[yodellinhank]

No doubt there will be women involved

You'd think so, they do make up a large portion of the population.

 

[citizen-erased]

I’d be staggered if it is. Can’t see him walking into this current s**t storm that’s been the last 72 hours.

he's not naive. he'd have to know a few eggs need breaking in order for him to get the role.

Brasher the first domino.
I imagine a review gets announced in the next few days and we're lining up who leads it. Clarkson may be part of it. He'd have been top of list 3 months ago. What's to stop him doing it, then coming in to take the reins as coach

I doubt he just turns North down on Friday. It will be an announcement with us. Suspect Rutten is announced tomorrow & Gia or Cara takes the seat on the weekend.

 

[Lore]

I still reckon Clarkson is fave to sign with us. Already been said that he and Barham are known to each other. Barham had to have reached out to him beforehand before the coup. That was the whole point of the coup.

Wasn’t the whole point of the coup.

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

Wasn’t the whole point of the coup.

Probably not but a big part

 

[JayJ20]

Why would Clarkson genuinely choose Essendon given what has transpired this week? Can he really be bothered fighting pretty much every part of the football club all the time? The club has a bunch of egotistical and selfish people at almost all levels, from the entitled fans all the way to the top.

It’s far less stressful to coach at North. No coterie people putting pressure, no past players and ex-coaches looking to take you out without any warning, no supporters calling for you to be sacked every time you have a bad loss because he isn’t Essendon, no media circus every week because they lay the blame for the 18 year finals drought on a senior coach that has been there for 1 year, constant overrating the list and delusional expectations by both fans and the media etc.

I believe missing out in Clarkson will lead to real change.

 

[citizen-erased]

Campbell can **** off
Madden, Wellman, Sheeds, Brasher go from the board making a 7 person board
Dodo can take his jacket and fly away
Mahoney should stay IMO
Viney and RFK IMO would do a great job with the list
Tudor and Truck to be the coaching casualties

reckon a few of those are wishful, but they'd be good moves.

I agree with this. Our list is better (there is a real possibility that JHF wants to leave Norf next week which will have broader implications) and there is that big club thing, Anzac Day, Dreamtime etc. But, maybe the Board stuff puts him off. But, then he had to deal with Kennett so he might think our board will be kids play by comparison. Plus he will be aware the media have overblown everything. There hasnt been a board coup. They made a decision. It may not have been unanimous, and that's fine, but it sure ain't a coup.

he'd largely have a board behind him
Brasher will take a back seat until his tenure is up
I reckon Allen, Madden & Wellman have to go given the horse they backed didn't get up. Sheeds probably goes too. For whatever reason they thought it good to install him, it hasn't paid off. Get a good operator in there. we need all the help we can get.

 

[Lore]

Probably not but a big part

Not enough for a majority, which is the problem.

 

[citizen-erased]

Why would Clarkson genuinely choose Essendon given what has transpired this week? Can he really be bothered fighting pretty much every part of the football club all the time? The club has a bunch of egotistical and selfish people at almost all levels, from the entitled fans all the way to the top.

It’s far less stressful to coach at North. No coterie people putting pressure, no past players and ex-coaches looking to take you out without any warning for an “Essendon person”, no supporters calling for you to be sacked every time you have a bad loss because he isn’t Essendon, no media circus every week because they lay the blame for the 18 year finals drought on a senior coach that has been there for 1 year, constant overrating the list and delusional expectations by both fans and the media etc.

I believe missing out in Clarkson will lead to real change.

its an interesting notion.

The board split on Rutten v Clarkson. If it's neither, then they really have to then think wtf they do next.
which should prompt a search.

 

[Lore]

reckon a few of those are wishful, but they'd be good moves.


he'd largely have a board behind him
Brasher will take a back seat until his tenure is up
I reckon Allen, Madden & Wellman have to go given the horse they backed didn't get up. Sheeds probably goes too. For whatever reason they thought it good to install him, it hasn't paid off. Get a good operator in there. we need all the help we can get.

Sheedy is there for one reason: he is almost impossible not to get elected.

So either they:

• have him on the board and try to utilise him as best they can, protect their own interests by putting him in the elected seats, or
• let him free in the world and someone comes along with a board spill and have Sheedy as the face of their ticket.

 

[citizen-erased]

Sheedy is there for one reason: he is almost impossible not to get elected.

So either they:

• have him on the board and try to utilise him as best they can, protect their own interests by putting him in the elected seats, or
• let him free in the world and someone comes along with a board spill and have Sheedy as the face of their ticket.

should be a reverse barometer.
Everytime he makes the board, we external review the joint.

 

[DallasCrane316]

its an interesting notion.

The board split on Rutten v Clarkson. If it's neither, then they really have to then think wtf they do next.
which should prompt a search.

Unless it’s not a split on Rutten vs Clarkson

And it’s a split on Rutten vs Clarkson vs another candidate.

Sheedy was reportedly not a supporter of Rutten. Nor is he apparently a supporter of Clarkson. Leaves a third option.

Which is a complete mess.

 

[citizen-erased]

Unless it’s not a split on Rutten vs Clarkson

And it’s a split on Rutten vs Clarkson vs another candidate.

Sheedy was reportedly not a supporter of Rutten. Nor is he apparently a supporter of Clarkson. Leaves a third option.

Which is a complete mess.

or just a search rather than picking a name and chasing that.

 

[raskolnikov]

Surely there's nothing in this Hird talk. Please tell me there's nothing.

I don't particularly want Clarkson but if Hird comes back I'm done.

 

[Petrify]

At this rate Sheedy is going to end up coach again

 

[tandino]

At this rate Sheedy is going to end up coach again

The board can't sack you if you are the board.

Hmm.

 

[Falcon27]

I agree with this. Our list is better (there is a real possibility that JHF wants to leave Norf next week which will have broader implications) and there is that big club thing, Anzac Day, Dreamtime etc. But, maybe the Board stuff puts him off. But, then he had to deal with Kennett so he might think our board will be kids play by comparison. Plus he will be aware the media have overblown everything. There hasnt been a board coup. They made a decision. It may not have been unanimous, and that's fine, but it sure ain't a coup.

He’ll think he can handle the board

 

[Lore]

The board can't sack you if you are the board.

Hmm.

Board members can’t be employed by the club. They can be contractors though…

Might be the first club to outsource our coaching to another organisation (Sheedy’s business).

 

[yodellinhank]

He’ll think he can handle the board

At North he's the messiah supercoach who will be expected to deliver, at Essendon if he doesn't deliver the club is ****ed and they couldn't possibly blame another coach especially when they got the BITB.

 

[Falcon27]

Why would Clarkson genuinely choose Essendon given what has transpired this week? Can he really be bothered fighting pretty much every part of the football club all the time? The club has a bunch of egotistical and selfish people at almost all levels, from the entitled fans all the way to the top.

It’s far less stressful to coach at North. No coterie people putting pressure, no past players and ex-coaches looking to take you out without any warning, no supporters calling for you to be sacked every time you have a bad loss because he isn’t Essendon, no media circus every week because they lay the blame for the 18 year finals drought on a senior coach that has been there for 1 year, constant overrating the list and delusional expectations by both fans and the media etc.

I believe missing out in Clarkson will lead to real change.

Who knows how long this has been going on. In the weeks leading up to this week, those people dealing with him may have said that there will be some serious fallout and they’re already all on the same page just waiting for it to pass.

 

[yodellinhank]

Board members can’t be employed by the club. They can be contractors though…

Might be the first club to outsource our coaching to another organisation (Sheedy’s business).

They could do worse than outsourcing a few things. Insourcing has not been working for 20+ years.

 

[BomberFan355]

Sheedy was reportedly not a supporter of Rutten. Nor is he apparently a supporter of Clarkson. Leaves a third option.

 

[BomberFan355]

The real mess will be when Rutten is fired tomorrow and Clarkson goes to Norf on Friday.

 

[Mr Mojo Risin]

View attachment 1480992

I’d have zero issue with Hird being coach (I think he is a good coach) if we got rid of all the issues in our club, went through an external review and proper coach hiring process that resulted in Hird being hired. But we all know that won’t be the case.

Ultimately I’d prefer to stick with Rutten and trade out all senior players who aren’t buying his plan but we also know that won’t happen either.

Clarkson is appealing to me now not because of his coaching, but because he’s more likely to be able to clear out the issues in our hierarchy than anyone else.

 

[Lord Nicholson]

Basically for me:

Clarkson - renew the membership
Some sort of actual recruitment process - renew the membership
Rutten, stay the course - no renewal
Hird - renounce everything
Buckley - seppuku
Sheeds - seppuku + immolation

 

[Mr Mojo Risin]

Basically for me:

Clarkson - renew the membership
Some sort of actual recruitment process - renew the membership
Rutten, stay the course - no renewal
Hird - renounce everything
Buckley - seppuku
Sheeds - seppuku + immolation

Now I want Sheeds.