Essendon president Paul Brasher has stepped aside from his position amid fierce unrest at the club.
Brasher’s fate was sealed on Sunday, before the embarrassing 84-point loss to Port Adelaide.
David Barham and Peter Allen are among those still pushing for an external review, believed to be unhappy with internal results.
The reason Brasher decided to do that was because there are still sections of the board, still now, that want an external review conducted on the football operations at the Essendon Football Club.
The internal review, led by Sean Wellman and helped by Simon Madden and Kevin Sheedy, had come back and there were sections of the board that were unhappy with those results.
It was put to a vote to then undertake an external review.
Brasher felt, regardless of how that vote was going to play out, that his leadership had been undermined. He took the decision that he was going to step aside from the Essendon Football Club before the annihilation at the hands of Port Adelaide.
Barham put his hand up to take over as president, but that will go to a vote today. That is why the board is meeting, to decide who the next president of the club will be.
All of this angst stems from the announcement, a month after saying there was no review to be conducted, of an internal football department review that had angst at the time and that angst has festered over the course of the season.
Now it has ultimately cost Brasher his position as chairman of the club.
Paul Brasher’s fate was sealed yesterday, before the embarrassing loss to PA. David Barham & Peter Allen among those STILL pushing for external review, unhappy with internal results. Brasher felt leadership undermined. Barham put hand up to take over but it goes to a vote today. https://t.co/RFcMdSEV6D
— Sam Edmund (@Sammy__Edmund) August 15, 2022