‘Effective immediately’: Mitchell Park Football Club parts ways with president Shane Lynch, owner of failed Adelaide Exposed Concrete company

Just weeks after his concrete company collapsed owing $1.7 million, the owner of failed Adelaide Exposed Concrete has been hit with more fallout.

An Adelaide football club has parted ways with its president, Shane Lynch, owner of failed concreting company Adelaide Exposed Concrete (AEC) which owes approximately $1.7m to households and businesses.

Mr Lynch was inaugurated as the Mitchell Park Football Club president in November last year, but a new statement from the club reveals a mutually agreed parting of ways, “effective immediately”.

Shane Lynch has parted ways with the Mitchell Park Football Club as president. (Image shows Mr Lynch from 2015 wearing Aldinga Sharks apparel).

Mr Lynch’s company, AEC, has come under fire from creditors after The Advertiser and Sunday Mail revealed it owed approximately $1.7m to households and businesses when it went into liquidation on May 7.

The Mitchell Park Football Club said the club was in a “strong and secure position, both on and off the field” in a public Facebook statement on Tuesday evening.

“The Mitchell Park Football Club and the current president have jointly agreed to part ways, effective immediately,” the statement said.

“We will be holding a brief meeting next Tuesday at 6.30pm (May 27) to appoint a new president.”

In 2014, Mr Lynch was dumped as coach by the Aldinga Sharks just two rounds into the Southern Football League season after they were thrashed by a combined margin of 457 points.

Following his departure, Mr Lynch joined as coach for the Mitchell Park Football Club in 2015.

Just a few years later, Mr Lynch was announced as the coach of the 2023 Cove Football Club senior women’s team.

By November 2023, he had already joined the Broadview Football Club as the A grade women’s coach for the club’s 2024 season.

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At the same time Mr Lynch’s amateur football career was jumping from club to club, year after year, a former employee of his concreting business, AEC, claimed it was a “toxic” workplace.

The employee said he was owed $10,000 in unpaid wages and super and claimed the toxic work environment left him “mentally f****d up” and on anxiety medication.

“Mid last year AEC probably would’ve had 12 employees — it had five or six when I left, and everyone left for the same reasons,” the employee said.

More than 122 creditors have been listed as money owed by AEC.

Newly-engaged Adelaide couple Rizelle Fontelar, 24, and Gian David, 26, hired AEC, in June last year to build a retaining wall, concrete their driveway, and lay side paving at their newly-built southern suburbs home.

After paying nearly $15,000 to AEC, the job was never done, the couple said they were forced to divert their wedding plans to spend an additional $15,000 to finish the work.

Woodcroft resident Keith Diener was in a similar boat, paying $8,373 for a landscaping and retaining wall job.

Now he fears he’s “not going to see a cent”.

Mr Lynch has been contacted for further comment. Mitchell Park Football Club did not want to further comment.

Originally published as ‘Effective immediately’: Mitchell Park Football Club parts ways with president Shane Lynch, owner of failed Adelaide Exposed Concrete company