Club Mgmt. Board of Directors as led by President Dave Barham - Statement from Barham addressing Merrett etc - 12/9

[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
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  • Votes for Barham: Andrew Muir, Dorothy Hisgrove, Melissa Green, Kate O’Sullivan, Kevin Sheedy
• 21/8: Senior Coach, Ben Rutten
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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
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    (Chair, GM-Footy), Robert Walls, Jordan Lewis
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    , 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

 

[Albertross]

wasn't clarko the only coach on our side during the asada stuff?

I thought Bucks was as well.

 

[DonsRule]

Okay.

Just put some respect on her name

I edited, was an honest mistake on my part.

 

[Schnitzengruben]

I hope the outcome is in the form of an hour long "The Decision" special where Clarko says "This summer, I'm going to take my talents to Tullamarine and join Essendon".

 

[The Prosecutor]

 

[Albertross]

Everyone needs to calm down. Why would Clarkson wait until Friday to announce? North already sacked their coach. The fact he has pushed back their original timeline is more likely due to the fact he's finalising the Essendon offer to make sure it aligns so not to shoot himself in the foot. He's going to Essendon because North are an irrelevant crap show with 5 members that can't sustainably exist in their home state. Theres no comparison.

I also don't get the Tassie incentive. As if Clarkson would want the eventual club of his home state to be a Victorian hand me down...its ridiculous.

And we are an irrelevant crap show with 80K members. Point being, a crap show is still a crap show.

 

[84859300]

Or it’s just due dilligence.

If he wasn’t considering anything else he’d be announced for North already, but if he definitely wasn’t going to North he would’ve told them and they’d be pursuing something else.

I have respect for Clarko not rustling any jimmys before the end of the season, while watching how two clubs are throwing themselves at his feet.

 

[DapperDon]

Okay.

Just put some respect on her name

Lol really?

The shit getting posted on your board about Essendon and you complain about a typo?

 

[Bunk Moreland]

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I have more faith in those on the right.

 

[The Prosecutor]

Ross Lyon

"Wellman, Sheedy and Madden were the ones driving the internal review, yet its come out Mahoney conducted it on his own. Those three should be removed from the board".

 

[Lore]

I have respect for Clarko not rustling any jimmys before the end of the season, while watching how two clubs are throwing themselves at his feet.

North sacked their coach ages ago and the stop gap knows he’s a stop gap, so I doubt it’d rustle anything for that to get announced.

 

[Corleone]

Yeah ... So he's going to North

This is truly a pisser.

So this group of board members has staged a coup, bypassed the CEO and football department to try and lure Clarkson in, all under the guise of requesting an external review ...

They've now failed at there first hurdle of obtaining Clarkson's services

They've alienated and cuckolded Ben Rutten

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so that he'll have to stand down now or eventually he'll be sacked before the bye next year...

...

And I didn't even get a wallpaper today either

This ****ing club ...

 

[Petrify]

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I'm all for Simon Maddens side losing. Guy is a prick in person.

 

[Lore]

Yeah ... So he's going to North

This is truly a pisser.

So this group of board members has staged a coup, bypassed the CEO and football department to try and lure Clarkson in, all under the guise of requesting an external review ...

They've now failed at there first hurdle of obtaining Clarkson's services

They've alienated and cuckolded Ben Rutten so that he'll have to stand down now or eventually he'll be sacked before the bye next year...

...

And I didn't even get a wallpaper today either

This ******* club ...

There’s plenty of AFLW wallpapers and Clarkson is the same degree of non-entity he was yesterday

 

[Ligma]

Lol really?

The s**t getting posted on your board about Essendon and you complain about a typo?

He cleared it up, I didn’t complain, I just wanted to know if it was a typo because she deserves all the respect right now.

 

[F_therest]

plenty of good commercial CEO's running good football programs though.
and we're plenty decent on the money front. Not sure it would be possible for a CEO to get us in dire straits on that front

Campbell was our COO & GM of projects when we undertook the drugs program
At 34 was CEO when we were fighting Asada. We were at odds over Bomber or Hird at the end of that year. Brought Hird back and lost Bomber, then sacked Hird. Poached Worsfold, then Rutten, now Clarkson? In each case we've pissed off the guy in the seat with the move for who's next.

Covid hub issues
Daniher handling
Talk of behavioural issues at a xmas party.
A respected indigenous leader in Nova Peris leaves the long walk foundation over him

Much like Dodoro, he's last a long time in a role without necessarily delivering more than middle of the road results.

Wtf Campbell was CEO at 34?? That's insanely young...there are unicorns out there but did he really have the experience and knowledge to be CEO at such a young age..

 

[Old Campaigner]

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Andrew Muir looks like something out of an elder scrolls character creation screen

 

[BrunoV]

 

[DonsRule]

Caro is tipping Essendon still no inside no just bigger club bigger upside.





Everyone else really sitting on the fence

 

[bonedry]

They've now failed at there first hurdle of obtaining Clarkson's services

Wrong. Currently the only team that has failed has been North to get Clarksons commitment by early this week.

 

[Old Campaigner]

Wtf Campbell was CEO at 34?? That's insanely young...there are unicorns out there but did he really have the experience and knowledge to be CEO at such a young age..

**** no lmao

 

[Ati Tude]

I have respect for Clarko not rustling any jimmys before the end of the season, while watching how two clubs are throwing themselves at his feet.

It seems odd to me if he announces his decision on Friday. Monday would make more sense when final game played.

 

[Lore]

 

[citizen-erased]

Wtf Campbell was CEO at 34?? That's insanely young...there are unicorns out there but did he really have the experience and knowledge to be CEO at such a young age..

at the time yes.
i think most of us thought it would be a few years with us, then off to AFL HQ.

i think the varnish has worn a bit since. He'd have been up there as Gil's replacement not that long ago.

 

[GreatBradScott]

Regardless of what happens, this needs to be said. As much as I do not like you at all, you are all so poorly served by your club leaders.

All a supporter wants is their footy club is to be a community group, which offers something fun and welcoming. The Hird stuff I honestly can't even laugh at, its just sad for everyone, including him, getting dragged into shit he probably isn't pushing.

You all need to collectively punish these people and drive them out. Good luck.

 

[Schnitzengruben]

Kevin Sheedy's dream is to have Hird back as senior coach with Solomon and McVeigh as assistants, while he hobbles around The Hangar in his jocks and muttering things about marshmellows.