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

 

[Zach Package]

Never a good sign when you quit your job and 85,000 people are celebrating like they just unbanned dancing at the end of footloose

 

[Vander18]

Thank Christ for that.

Don’t like to be ungracious but he was a lightweight appointment from the start who couldn’t truly lead the club or oversee an effective footy department.

Now for Madden, Sheedy, Wellman and Dodo….

 

[Lore]

Campbell was announced at sundayd presser as starting the search for a coach process on Monday. Who's doing it now and interesting timing to stand down obviously.

Dorothy Hisgrove is our point person for that anyway

 

[84859300]

How did Barrett get the scoop?

He's the new CEO!

 

[RearNaked]

You've just ruined my morning

Wait till brasher and Mahoney get the flick then it’ll really be a one horse race

 

[Lore]

“We will commence the process to appoint a new Chief Executive in the coming days, and Xavier will assist in this transition phase. We are now in a strong position to continue our pursuit for the ultimate success for our teams.”

 

[kelvin_sheedy]

The right thing to do.

 

[citizen-erased]

“We will commence the process to appoint a new Chief Executive in the coming days, and Xavier will assist in this transition phase. We are now in a strong position to continue our pursuit for the ultimate success for our teams.”

strong position.......fml.

 

[Lore]

“The process to select the next CEO of the Essendon Football Club will commence immediately. In the interim, Chief Commercial Officer Nick Ryan will assume the role as acting CEO.”

 

[carloss]

The External Review claims it's first scalp

 

[Snake Charmer]

Something something door something something

 

[Howard Moon]

strong position.......fml.

Strong bold AND courageous.

The holy trimuvate.

Or a good cheese

 

[andleanback]

Is everyone on the barham train now?!
Goodbye Xavier

 

[Lore]

“The process to select the next CEO of the Essendon Football Club will commence immediately. In the interim, Chief Commercial Officer Nick Ryan will assume the role as acting CEO.”

Hang on, Chief Commercial Officer - not COO (which is the usual title of the heir apparent). We left the COO role unfilled when Rodski left didn’t we?

 

[84859300]

The External Review claims it's first scalp

I would reaslly like to think this came about from the internal review - where they worked out he wasn't that good.

Fell on his own sword.

 

[HirdsTheWord]

Fun fact, Hird's daughter works for PwC Australia that'll be conducting our external review.

isn't it Ernst Young doing it?

 

[TheGrizz]

Hang on, Chief Commercial Officer - not COO (which is the usual title of the heir apparent). We left the COO role unfilled when Rodski left didn’t we?

 

[Lore]

Is everyone on the barham train now?!
Goodbye Xavier

That depends, hollowing it out is one thing, but if you replace it with something worse then we’re still stuffed.

If we had three factions and the two half-decent ones take each other out, you may end up with Sheedy doing a Steven Bradbury and plonking Hird in the big chair.

 

[windyhill]

Thought he did a good job. dodoro does it again. Seriously, how the actual * ?

 

[DonsRule]

isn't it Ernst Young doing it?

Her Linkedin says PWC

https://au.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-hird-19a2a1142

 

[Lore]

Thought he did a good job. dodoro does it again. Seriously, how the actual * ?

Four finals appearances in his first four years as CEO and secured an AFLW license.

 

[The Prosecutor]

Hang on, Chief Commercial Officer - not COO (which is the usual title of the heir apparent). We left the COO role unfilled when Rodski left didn’t we?

Rodski always had the CCO title.

 

[HirdsTheWord]

Her Linkedin says PWC

https://au.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-hird-19a2a1142

no i know but i'm pretty sure EY are doing our external review. Not PWC.

at least that's what i thought i heard on radio.

knowing us we probably got both to do it, just so it would be confusing.

 

[andleanback]

That depends, hollowing it out is one thing, but if you replace it with something worse then we’re still stuffed.

If we had three factions and the two half-decent ones take each other out, you may end up with Sheedy doing a Steven Bradbury and plonking Hird in the big chair.

With Xavier walking so early, there’s going to be lots of change. If we get a good strong footy ceo, I’m happy to go through all this turmoil.

 

[Nuggs Bunny]

Something something door something something

Yeah this reeks of a step to the past