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

    50

    Ht

    193cm

    Wt

    90kg

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    14.1

    4star

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    9.7

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    4.5

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    4.5

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    1.0

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    8.0

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    4.4

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    3.6

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    2.6

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    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

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  41

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  190cm

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  98kg

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  13.4

  3star

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  6.3

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  5.3

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  1.3

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  10.6

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  6.2

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  4.4

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  3.6

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  1.0

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  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

    47

    Ht

    180cm

    Wt

    83kg

    Pos.

    Fwd

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    11.3

    3star

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    6.8

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    4.5

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    3.5

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    1.6

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    0.9

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    5.4

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    3.8

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    2.2

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    1.6

    4star

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    0.4

    3star

    (Chair, GM-Footy), Robert Walls, Jordan Lewis
    Jordan Lewis

    Age

    38

    Ht

    186cm

    Wt

    86kg

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    D/M

    Career

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    Last 5

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    23.5

    5star

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    12.1

    4star

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    11.5

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    5.5

    5star

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    2.7

    4star

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    310.5

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    15.0

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    6.8

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    8.2

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    4.8

    5star

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    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]

I think you are right, I’m not even convinced that Hird would be in the Hird camp when it came to coaching the EFC again.

On this, (and a question to everyone not just you) I haven’t listened to Solomon or Weston, but are they advocating for Hird and Dodoro or is it all just suspicion because of connections?

Suspicious connections for Solomon, who is standing to support the current board and is mates with Welsh, who has been part of making the changes we see now. I’d say Solomon is part of a future faction with Welsh, but Welsh is a pro-governance guy, which doesn’t align with the James Hird and the Parachute conspiracy.

Weston is an agitator who wants to fix the finals drought with pointy fingers, he hasn’t come out with unequivocal support of Sheedy/Dodoro/Hird, but he is definitely not pro-incumbents either with the way he talks and his platform comes across like a post-truth populist muddle without the charisma to pull it off. I wouldn’t trust him any further than I can throw him, and I doubt I could even lift him.

 

[Shanghaistu]

Regarding Weston, I’m happy remembering him wearing 28 and slotting goals in the last quarter of the 84 GF and before that running around for the Glenelg Tigers. Let’s leave it at that, no further ‘agitations’ necessary

 

[Phone]

I think you are right, I’m not even convinced that Hird would be in the Hird camp when it came to coaching the EFC again.

On this, (and a question to everyone not just you) I haven’t listened to Solomon or Weston, but are they advocating for Hird and Dodoro or is it all just suspicion because of connections?

what on earth makes you think that. he already applied once.

 

[Happyskeret]

So Weston is worried that we are not feared but is anyone really feared these days? The game is too sanitised to be generally feared in the modern times. It’s not the 80’s anymore! I wonder what his remedy is for this issue of his? Peter Wright tried to show more aggression last year and got rubbed out for four weeks.

 

[dank420_]

So Weston is worried that we are not feared but is anyone really feared these days? The game is too sanitised to be generally feared in the modern times. It’s not the 80’s anymore! I wonder what his remedy is for this issue of his? Peter Wright tried to show more aggression last year and got rubbed out for four weeks.

No one is feared because they think they might get a touch up physically. But I do have teams I don’t like playing because you just know we’re gonna lose. I think that’s the sentiment.

 

[Happyskeret]

No one is feared because they think they might get a touch up physically. But I do have teams I don’t like playing because you just know we’re gonna lose. I think that’s the sentiment.

Collingwood were the reigning premier this year and nobody feared them at the end of the year. Same with Sydney towards the end of the year so I don’t really agree with that statement.

 

[jmoo wan]

No one is feared because they think they might get a touch up physically. But I do have teams I don’t like playing because you just know we’re gonna lose. I think that’s the sentiment.

i fear my dentist because he touches me up… physically

 

[Rick Ross]

Is there (still) really a 'Hird camp'? I know we as supporters joke/worry about him coming back, but surely there's zero chance of that ever happening now, no matter who gets on the board. Surely???

My humble opinion, the thread below was started by, for the purposes of, white anting Scott & promoting Hird.

Roast - Who should be our next coach? [melty]

2026 James Hird 🤞

www.bigfooty.com

 

[dank420_]

Collingwood were the reigning premier this year and nobody feared them at the end of the year. Same with Sydney towards the end of the year so I don’t really agree with that statement.

So you’re telling me you don’t dread playing Sydney/Geelong etc?

Not every team has to fear them, but literally no one dreads playing us.

 

[Rick Ross]

So you’re telling me you don’t dread playing Sydney/Geelong etc?

Not every team has to fear them, but literally no one dreads playing us.

No true.
Red team dreaded playing our black team in match sim last year.

 

[Vindicater]

So you’re telling me you don’t dread playing Sydney/Geelong etc?

Not every team has to fear them, but literally no one dreads playing us.

Norf do.

 

[Nuggs Bunny]

I think Weston is 100% correct in that nobody fears us. He still comes across as your typical parachute-in manager who has no idea how to get the results he's asking for. It's not 1983 anymore - professional football is now made up of fully professional enterprises and talking about what we were 40 years ago is just showing one is comically out of touch.

Solomon has actually been involved with professional football in the last ten years so I won't put him in the same category.

 

[Happyskeret]

I think Weston is 100% correct in that nobody fears us. He still comes across as your typical parachute-in manager who has no idea how to get the results he's asking for. It's not 1983 anymore - professional football is now made up of fully professional enterprises and talking about what we were 40 years ago is just showing one is comically out of touch.

Solomon has actually been involved with professional football in the last ten years so I won't put him in the same category.

That’s the point I was trying to make. Which ever way you look at it, it is puff and wind with no substance. Fair enough he is annoyed, same with 80K + of all of us but what is he going to do about it?

 

[EnolaGay]

I'm not convinced until Red-sash tells me so.

 

[Nifft]

i fear my dentist because he touches me up… physically

 

[Agronomus]

Paul Weston is still living in the 80s by the sounds of it. If he had it his way he’d still have the players working full time jobs. He had an absolute ‘mare in the interview.

Because there's no way Stringer could have kicked 42 goals unless he was the finely tuned "professional" player that he is?

 

[Agronomus]

what on earth makes you think that. he already applied once.

And was rejected. And his first tenure ended in disaster for him and the club. Apart from sitting in the GWS coaches box a few times and allegedly applying the second time, has he ever shown much interest in coaching again?

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

I voted Barham. Thought he sounded too arrogant about us on radio yesterday but we seem more professional now in planning for the future. Can’t blow it up already. Weston really should just stick to attending reunions, he was embarrassingly bad the other day

 

[Agronomus]

i fear my dentist because he touches me up… physically

Can you show us on the bear where you were touched?

 

[Agronomus]

One word…

Sheedy.

Sheedy must be part of the deep state. Only Trump can save us!

 

[Yoda_]

I voted Barham. Thought he sounded too arrogant about us on radio yesterday but we seem more professional now in planning for the future. Can’t blow it up already. Weston really should just stick to attending reunions, he was embarrassingly bad the other day

is there a link to the full interview?

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

is there a link to the full interview?

Here's the Weston SEN one..



Barham on RSN

David Barham Says He Will Bring Stability, Unity And Alignment To The Essendon Football Club | Rsn

rsn.net.au

 

[Runk]

I loved Paul as a player. Thought he envisaged everything Sheedy's team was about back in the mid 80's. He'll always be a premiership legend to me and I'm sure to many others, but that interview was.........less than impressive.

A mess of contradictions. Banging on about things that are already being addressed. Talking about club stability whilst ultimately attempting to destabilise the current direction of the club. There is zero reason to vote Paul onto the board if that explanation was anything to go by.

 

[Squeaky]

i fear my dentist because he touches me up… physically

Yet you keep going to the dentist weekly...

 

[Squeaky]

I loved Paul as a player. Thought he envisaged everything Sheedy's team was about back in the mid 80's. He'll always be a premiership legend to me and I'm sure to many others, but that interview was.........less than impressive.

A mess of contradictions. Banging on about things that are already being addressed. Talking about club stability whilst ultimately attempting to destabilise the current direction of the club. There is zero reason to vote Paul onto the board if that explanation was anything to go by.

Spot on, Runk.
Why has he waited until now (where we actually seem to have some sort of vestige of a plan) vs a few years ago when we were absolutely fking rudderless and everyone - bar those at the the club - could see it.

And I also loved Weston the player.