Essendon have chosen influential board member and former PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) chairman Paul Brasher as the club's next president, as current president Lindsay Tanner hands over the reins later this year.
Essendon have chosen influential board member and former PricewaterhouseCoopers chairman Paul Brasher as the club's next president, as current president Lindsay Tanner hands over the reins this year.
"I said when I took the role on that I saw it as a three- to five-year role and we're very fortunate that we've, in a strange kind of way, we've had a bit of a dry run for the current circumstances, courtesy of the drugs issue, with you know huge financial pressures and huge challenges. Four weeks after Tanner, a key figure in the Rudd government, took over as president, the club was hit with the CAS verdict. "Clearly that phase is now over. We are a normal club, we're in good shape and well positioned to battle our way through the extraordinary situation all our clubs are now facing."
"He's also been very important on the board generally and as mad a supporter as anybody I know ... he's been absolutely fundamental to the rebound."
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