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
    Sean Wellman

    Age

    51

    Ht

    193cm

    Wt

    90kg

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    14.1

    4star

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    9.7

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    8.0

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    4.4

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    3.6

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    2.6

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    0.8

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  • Votes for Barham: Andrew Muir, Dorothy Hisgrove, Melissa Green, Kate O’Sullivan, Kevin Sheedy
• 21/8: Senior Coach, Ben Rutten
  Ben Rutten

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  42

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  190cm

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  98kg

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  13.4

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  6.3

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  10.6

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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
    Josh Mahoney

    Age

    48

    Ht

    180cm

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    83kg

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    Fwd

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    11.3

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    6.8

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    1.6

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    0.4

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    (Chair, GM-Footy), Robert Walls, Jordan Lewis
    Jordan Lewis

    Age

    39

    Ht

    186cm

    Wt

    86kg

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    23.5

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    12.1

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    11.5

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    5.5

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    2.7

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    310.5

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    15.0

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    6.8

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    4.8

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    2.8

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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

 

[Here_we_come]

I can't see Clarko coming to us. Given a choice, anyone with half a brain would not opt to come to us given the mess the club is.

I can't see anyway he doesn't choose north.

 

[windyhill]

I couldn’t give a stuff if we got Clarkson but seeing how much it means to north and how much they seem to hate us it would be pretty funny

My thoughts exactly. So overrated coaches.

 

[naraku]

If we do miss out on Clarko, I wonder who would we chase ? Apparently we don't want a new coach.

Ross ? Buckley ? Pyke? Choco?

 

[Milanista28]

I can't see Clarko coming to us. Given a choice, anyone with half a brain would not opt to come to us given the mess the club is.

I can't see anyway he doesn't choose north.

Lol norf?

 

[Foxx]

No one is saying a club looking for a new coach is not part of the business. It is. Its how we've conducted our business that is the issue. We could've sacked Truck on Monday and be done with it. Brutal maybe, but a better way to do business.

I assume they've had a conversation.
He hasn't quit, and they didn't sack him.
So there must be some level of understanding or agreement.

 

[Fear Boner]

 

[Here_we_come]

Lol norf?

You know you're at your lowest ebb when north are possibly seen as a better option.

 

[tandino]

Did Tom write that himself?

 

[jmoo wan]

I believe the junkyard dog is now preferring to be the junkyard bitch

i’ve mixed them up! oops

 

[Fear Boner]

Did Tom write that himself?

Tom asked clarko if he wanted to work at a club with money or none

 

[Schnitzengruben]

"2 proud clubs like Collingwood/Carlton, both have made a great fist of their season"

Feels like he's talking about us and not lolNorf.

 

[HirdyLannister]

It's abit rich players commenting about stability, granted the saga wasn't their fault but if they stop putting in piss poor performance like last Sunday then the coaching staff wouldn't be under fire.

 

[BuffDog]

Such poker face, perhaps clarko has used his break to take up acting classes

 

[Happyskeret]

At the very least we have added 200 pages on the nerf

board

 

[Call Me Cake]

"2 proud clubs like Collingwood/Carlton, both have made a great fist of their season"

Feels like he's talking about us and not lolNorf.

Get the feeling Clarko sees through media hooplah and is the type of bloke to just wanna get stuck into it.

As for us, we've been through an entire saga and survived and came out healthier, thus we can make it through anything.

We'll see what happens.

 

[bomberlegend2007]

Heppellfreak where art thou?

 

[Bjchan13]

But Rutten might still want to coach at Essendon next year. If they sacked him now, then that is no longer possible.
I assume they've had the conversation.
Something like "we are chasing Clarkson. If we get him you are gone from head coach. If we don't, we'll see about you finishing your contract".

Its rough, but that's the business these days.

Nice in theory. Practically though, can you not see any problems surfacing? I think it would waste another year at least.

The problems i see would be, where does it leave our teams on field fortunes? Will there be player confusion for the pre season and going into next year? Why keep working at a gameplan that is going to be changed again? Why even stay at the club when theres so much uncertainty? Should i back Truck and go 100% or should i have another half arsed year, i get paid either way.

You can say oh the players are professional it'll be business as usual but we've already seen Hurls and Merrett this week complaining about lack of transparency from the club. Its a mess right now and would be next year trying to pretend Truck is our man.

Pretending this week has been good business would be classic Essendon though.

 

[jmoo wan]

"2 proud clubs like Collingwood/Carlton, both have made a great fist of their season"

Feels like he's talking about us and not lolNorf.

he sounds hammered. i respect someone who can smash that many 200ml bottles of wine on an Adelaide to a Melbourne flight.

 

[84859300]

he sounds hammered. i respect someone who can smash that many 200ml bottles of wine on an Adelaide to a Melbourne flight.

His options are North or us.

I'd have 6 of those bottles before the wheels were even off the ground!

 

[Bjchan13]

Heppellfreak where art thou?

 

[Heppellfreak]

Heppellfreak where art thou?

Just be here when announcement is made.

 

[thepokey]

Such poker face, perhaps clarko has used his break to take up acting classes

I mean he has to, for a man that signed a 5 year contract with us back in July - to be this committed to "the bit" of not having made up his mind, hollywood should sign him

^ Seems more like taking a punt on a 50/50 choice. If it works out, you can claim you were right all along. If it doesn't, go to ground/new account.

 

[Heppellfreak]

Now I don't know who to believe... Heppellfreak?

Just a matter of time

 

[The Donners]

I haven’t eaten dim sims in years and strangely have a weird craving for them

The most overrated tripe known to man. You need to douse it in soy sauce because it tastes like shit otherwise. Don’t do it son!

 

[bomberlegend2007]

Just be here when announcement is made.

If you’re right, I’ll change my name to Bomberlegend2007LovesHeppellFreak.