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

 

[Lore]

Futureproof the financial standing of the company through growing and diversifying our revenue base without compromising our core football operations

A poor choice of word.....

Standard corporate speak, the entire document says "Company" everywhere.

Kind of like in terms of service where it's like "The Company means XYZ organisational name". I think they do that so they don't have to find/replace the name through the entire document...

 

[Vander18]

Fundamentals of a football club are not, and never have been, rocket science.

And yet.....we make it look like it is at every opportunity.

AFL house beckons for Xav me thinks.Brasher must be scratching his head this morning....even the simplest of tasks appears to be too much for him. If I did this in my job I’d be sacked.

 

[andleanback]

And yet.....we make it look like it is at every opportunity.

AFL house beckons for Xav me thinks.Brasher must be scratching his head this morning....even the simplest of tasks appears to be too much for him. If I did this in my job I’d be sacked.

XC has had a mare ever since we convinced him to stay and not take the afl job.

 

[citizen-erased]

XC has had a mare ever since we convinced him to stay and not take the afl job.

maybe he's trying to get fired?

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Just give it to Dodoro already

 

[windyhill]

And yet.....we make it look like it is at every opportunity.

AFL house beckons for Xav me thinks.Brasher must be scratching his head this morning....even the simplest of tasks appears to be too much for him. If I did this in my job I’d be sacked.

Nah, they’d be backing off at a million miles an hour. Go in for Gale once again.

 

[Shanghaistu]

Any chance someone could photoshop a Grinch with Xav’s face on it?

 

[andleanback]

Any chance someone could photoshop a Grinch with Xav’s face on it?

Will this suffice

 

[I Remember Bluey]

 

[citizen-erased]

Nah, they’d be backing off at a million miles an hour. Go in for Gale once again.

He'd be fine for something marketing related.
Gale is surely earmarked for Gil's position. I can't see Campbell in that seat.

 

[nesko_25]

I think Wellman and Sheedy will be reappointed and for that reason I voted Williams and Vistarini.

 

[Godzke]

two boring challengers - need backgrounds that offer something different.

Director of an ASX listed retailer if we want more marketing power
Senior person from ASIC/APRA/ACCC for compliance
Former senior exec/director from another pro sporting club (non-AFL) for cross-pollination
etc.

Brasher and the Essendonians should have stronger pulling power to attract high calibre individuals to this club's board.

 

[acm21]

Wellman and sheedy have both been elected

 

[windyhill]

Always going to happen.

 

[ant555]

Problem was the wrong candidates where running. Nothing against them but you can not replace the two football operations people on the board with two that have no real football department experience. Hope the nominate again next time around when some of the non football directors are up. Different story then. To make a decent challenge you need a platform to run on and that would include having an experienced footy person on your ticket.

 

[Bombermania]

Problem was the wrong candidates where running. Nothing against them but you can not replace the two football operations people on the board with two that have no real football department experience. Hope the nominate again next time around when some of the non football directors are up. Different story then. To make a decent challenge you need a platform to run on and that would include having an experienced footy person on your ticket.

Exactly because when i looked at the two other candidates, their lack of experience and no real clear reason for getting elected stood out.

We needed candidates that brought something to the club and they just didn't give that impression.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Board doesn’t directly select the player leadership group of course but it’s just another example of a seeming return to more rational and “understandable” decision making since Brasher took over.

Heppell is skipper. Hurley and Merrett are obvious leaders. McGrath is the future.

No Zaka. No blokes who actually want to leave the club.

 

[Lore]

Board doesn’t directly select the player leadership group of course but it’s just another example of a seeming return to more rational and “understandable” decision making since Brasher took over.

Heppell is skipper. Hurley and Merrett are obvious leaders. McGrath is the future.

No Zaka. No blokes who actually want to leave the club.

Dunno if it’s attributable to Brasher – Rutten seems like a no nonsense sort of person too. Whatever it is, I like it.

 

[Old Campaigner]

I'm just really disappointed that after all those strong words he had we still haven't won a flag

 

[kleanr]

Haven't heard from Grandad in a while, someone check in on him pls?

 

[Squeaky]

Haven't heard from Grandad in a while, someone check in on him pls?

He's busy in Washington today from what I can see...

 

[Maxabillions]

Still haven’t heard from him for a while...

 

[westking]

I think its a good time for Brasher to utter something. He talked the big talk. Made some big promises. But us plebs are getting confused and impatient.

 

[EnolaGay]

 

[Old Campaigner]

I think its a good time for Brasher to utter something. He talked the big talk. Made some big promises. But us plebs are getting confused and impatient.

We’re 6 months in to a 3-4 year rebuild, what can he say that will change anything?

We were going to be bad this year, this was always the case and anyone who expected any different was living under a rock.