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

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    51

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    193cm

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    90kg

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    14.1

    4star

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    9.7

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    4.5

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    4.5

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    1.0

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    8.0

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    4.4

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    3.6

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    2.6

    3star

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    0.8

    3star

  • 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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  5.3

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  1.3

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  10.6

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  6.2

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  4.4

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  3.6

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  1.0

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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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    3.5

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    1.6

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    0.9

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    5.4

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    3.8

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    1.6

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    0.4

    3star

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

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    39

    Ht

    186cm

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    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

 

[Halloween Jack]

i feel there’s more to this story.

he wants a seat closer to the biscuits.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

So how can we get the club to reset? Any ideas on what we have to do? Feels as though it's met a critical mass and nothing has happened.
The boys club even know that the football public is onto them now.

A ticket (ie a group of new board members) could launch a challenge, force a vote and take over.

It's very hard to do however. It takes a lot of time, money and expertise to run that campaign and you need the right people to be willing to do it.

The only way your average supporters can bring pressure on the club is by voting with your feet. Don't join as a member, don't go to games. That en masse is the only thing that will really bring pressure on the club.

 

[isthisit13]

Can't read the article behind a pay wall, why is he considering leaving?

Essendon great Simon Madden is understood to be considering his position on the Bombers’ board.

Madden, who has been a board member since 2013, was aligned with deposed chairman Paul Brasher and was a supporter of sacked coach Ben Rutten.
He is believed to have been frustrated by the events of the past week.
Madden’s unease further fuels the factional dispute currently being played out behind closed doors at Essendon.

Essendon’s hunt for an experienced coach could see it attempt to prise Ken Hinkley out of his Port Adelaide contract as the spectre of James Hird once again hangs over the embattled club.

The Bombers sacked Ben Rutten after three hours of “rigorous discussion” at Sunday’s off-site board meeting, even though some directors and chief executive Xavier Campbell fought hard to save the 39-year-old’s coaching career.

President David Barham phoned Rutten to tell him his contract had been terminated before calling captain Dyson Heppell, vice-captain Zach Merrett and deputy vice-captain Andy McGrath.

 

[JayJ20]

Hinkley? Really?

I can’t believe that I wish Brasher didn’t step down. I believe he could have been pressured into an external review and stepped down after the review was completed. This is a nightmare.

 

[Lore]

Start at 13:40

 

[nesko_25]

Nice little clip from Chappy on Facebook.

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[Beerfish]

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HIRE THIS MAN

 

[andleanback]

I’d love Scotty Lucas to be on the board/ he’ll even involved within the footy department. Speaks so well and he’s good insight and educated opinions. Problem is, he’s too well immersed in the player management game.

 

[Mootsy]

Barham said he wants to know why teams like the cats, Tigers and pies play so well, couldn’t he just have asked Caracalla and Rutten, lol, they were there!

 

[yodellinhank]

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Well that's one hat in the ring. Now let the press speculate over it and we can all lose our minds about it.

 

[andleanback]

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He’s single handedly ruined the culture of a couple of local footy clubs he’s coached

 

[Beerfish]

He’s single handedly ruined the culture of a couple of local footy clubs he’s coached

Sounds like just what we need

 

[andleanback]

Sounds like just what we need

Player exodus’ would be the icing on the cake

 

[bennyg12]

HIRE THIS MAN

He got sacked from coaching Greenvale

 

[kelvin_sheedy]

He got sacked from coaching Greenvale

So he's available then?

 

[Howard Moon]

I'd take Nick's over Hinkley all day

 

[kelvin_sheedy]

I've just felt a rush of anger towards all these campaigners.

Treading water for 5 years now. Wasted a good chance of a total rebuild by going the Vanilla approach with Worsfold. Absolute disaster.

 

[thebigboy]

Start at 13:40

I will immediately wash my mouth out with soap after this - David King raised a couple of interesting points (minus pro-Dodoro)

 

[faible]

Essendon’s hunt for an experienced coach could see it attempt to prise Ken Hinkley out of his Port Adelaide contract

Imagine sacking Rutten to headhunt Hinkley...

 

[yodellinhank]

Imagine sacking Rutten to headhunt Hinkley...

I know what they're up to. They're thinking of killing me and riding my carcass down the mountain to safety. They've truly gone mad if they're thinking that.

 

[MiguelM]

No one would be prising Hinkley surely?

If you were prising, there would be 10 coaches ahead of him!

 

[HirdyLannister]

Only experience coach I would accept is Brad Scott, did well with a very ordinary Norf list.

 

[Howard Moon]

Jeez it's 3am, they've flicked the lights on and we are quickly looking at what's left... Might be easier to go home alone, if we hadn't already kicked the wife out

 

[joey_jo_jo]

No one would be prising Hinkley surely?

If you were prising, there would be 10 coaches ahead of him!

This was published on Sat morning, I agree with Gleeson's approach. If we want a coach with similar gravitas to Clarko then we have to ask the question of guys like Hardwick/Simpson even if we think we are going to be knocked back. Thats the "bold & courageous" actions I would like to see.

After a chaotic week at Essendon, who now to coach the Bombers?

This week Essendon, after a panic-stricken chase for a new coach, have made North Melbourne look like the attractive professional club.

www.smh.com.au

 

[Zach Package]

Hardwick’s football philosophy aligns with Rutten’s so we would be in the exact same position we are now where the coach reckons we are miles away, the board thinks we should be contending and the list manager disagrees with what we need.

Seems like something we would do.