Kevin Sheedy
- AFL Briefing
- AFL 2025
Bombers paid Sheedy six-figure sum for ambassadorial role
Essendon paid AFL Legend and four-time premiership coach Kevin Sheedy the overwhelming majority of $150,000 in ambassadorial payments in 2024 while he was a club director.
- Marc McGowan
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A footy icon, and a dad: MCG rings with tales of Ron Barassi at memorial service
AFL great Ron Barassi has been remembered as a loving father, ultimate team man and a visionary with a wicked sense of humour at the AFL icon’s state memorial service.
- Jon Pierik
Sheedy’s ringing endorsement for Scott as Bombers footy boss departs
A year after famously voting for James Hird, Kevin Sheedy says there is “not a doubt in the world” Brad Scott has been a good appointment as Essendon coach.
- Andrew Wu
- Snap Shot
- AFL 2023
‘Great skill’: As Lord’s went nuts over Carey’s stumping, old fox Sheedy swelled with pride
Never one to miss a chance to do anything within the rules – or even occasionally on the edge of them – to win a game of football, Kevin Sheedy described Alex Carey’s stumping of Jonny Bairstow as an example of great skill that filled him with pride.
- Peter Ryan
- Analysis
- AFL 2023
Will Dons tag Daicos? Who will handle the heat? The burning questions on Anzac Day
Rightly or wrongly, Essendon and Collingwood own the home and away season’s biggest stage. This year it’s also a heavyweight platform. Who will best handle the heat?
- Greg Baum
- Analysis
- AFL 2023
‘We’ve got a problem here’: What Brad Scott found at Essendon
Brad Scott bluntly told Essendon president David Barham and his board that if they believed they were close to a turnaround in on-field results, they shouldn’t hire him.
- Jake Niall
‘I’ll send him an invoice’: Carey joins Australia’s keeping greats with maiden Test ton
As a footballer, Alex Carey harboured ambitions of being out on the MCG on grand final day but a landmark moment in the venue’s other storied sporting feature is not a bad consolation prize.
- Andrew Wu
Saints list manager departs, Essendon members make call on open board positions
Essendon’s year of upheaval might finally be over, with members voting for stability with the two board positions up for grabs. Meanwhile, the Saints’ list manager will leave the club at the end of the year.
- Marc McGowan
‘It is hard’: Essendon football director Andrew Welsh up for challenge
Andrew Welsh has laid out a plan to make Essendon successful again as he begins his term as the club’s football director after a shambolic period for the Bombers.
- Peter Ryan
- Opinion
- CBD
Essendon broadens church by nabbing former banker
New Essendon chief executive Andrew Thorburn also holds a senior role at a church that preaches against gay sex and abortion.
- Noel Towell and Kishor Napier-Raman
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