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

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    9.7

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    8.0

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    3.6

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    2.6

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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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  98kg

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  13.4

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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

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    48

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    180cm

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    11.3

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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

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    39

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    186cm

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    86kg

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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

 

[LB#16]

what if Hird take on the AFLW coaching role - a full season in charge should bring him back up to speed with the modern game?

Are you aware that there is someone already in this role and that it's not a stepping stone position?

 

[Bipolar Bear]

He’s also got more baggage than every other appointee combined

We did have that Antler sponsorship for quite some time.

 

[brutus76]

NEXT

 

[Bipolar Bear]

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[TheWeapon]

Barham with the big broom I like it. Cut Dodo next and keep Hird out would be sufficient for part 1

 

[Lore]

I’d like to see Michael Long on the board.

Also wondering if the constitution allows for an executive director, maybe one of the directors would become the CEO? Or the new CEO becomes a director.

 

[Bipolar Bear]

 

[Lore]

“We will now commence the process of evaluating the make-up of the Essendon Football Club Board, which will be a key part of the external review over the coming weeks.”

 

[Bipolar Bear]

“We will now commence the process of evaluating the make-up of the Essendon Football Club Board, which will be a key part of the external review over the coming weeks.”

Hopefully Barham is gone too.

 

[Lore]

Wat

 

[STANTS]

I want him to come back because 2015 can barely be counted given the crazy pressure and issues. I still believe when it comes to pure coaching and leadership he has an incredible ability to manage and build people up. GWS saw it (even with their list imploding) and before the wheels fell off due to the saga he did far more in terms of creating a "brand of football" and "learning" than we've had then entire time of Worsfold and Rutten.

Just because apprenticeships are all the rage, doesn't mean they are the be all and end all.... otherwise Rutten would have worked. he was under Dimma in their early success and then under Worsfold who is a premiership coach. At some point we need to stop trying to depersonalise this game and make everything about "the system". All the greatest memories I have of watching this club are because we defied systems and popular opinions - because we were prepared to be different and go against the flow... I don't want to watch a Red and Black Richmond, or Collingwood. yes I want to see premierships, but even more than that I want to see a club that shows its backs-to-the-wall fighting spirit again.

You think there won't be crazy pressure this time. It will be a friggin circus

 

[The Donners]

Why not wait until the external review is complete before adding members to the board. It may be determined the board is too large or doesn’t have the diversity.

 

[Maddogm]

Wat

Is that Allen who's leaving at the AGM?

 

[Lore]

Why not wait until the external review is complete before adding members to the board. It may be decided the board is too large or doesn’t have the diversity.

Well they’ve said it will be part of the external review, but even with that said I was looking at some data today and all of the AFL clubs have 7-12 directors. We’re down to 6 at the moment so good chance we add at least 1.

 

[Linda Lovelace]

In Mark Neeld's last 11 games as senior coach, he went 1-10, losing by more than 100 points once.

In James Hird's last 11 games as senior coach, he went 1-10, losing by more than 100 points twice.

Seems like Neeld is being shortchanged in discussions about a triumphant return to coaching at Essendon, don't you all think?

 

[Lore]

Is that Allen who's leaving at the AGM?

He’s the finance director not the CFO (one is board level, the other is a member of the executive)

 

[Lore]

In Mark Neeld's last 11 games as senior coach, he went 1-10, losing by more than 100 points once.

In James Hird's last 11 games as senior coach, he went 1-10, losing by more than 100 points twice.

Seems like Neeld is being shortchanged in discussions about a triumphant return to coaching at Essendon, don't you all think?

Mick reckons we’re a premiership fancy this year, might as well get him out of retirement. Certainly experienced enough

 

[Maddogm]

He’s the finance director not the CFO (one is board level, the other is a member of the executive)

We are talking Browne though so chances are ...

 

[Lore]

We are talking Browne though so chances are ...

He’s a dickhead but he has a good line to the club. So long as he’s reporting and not opining it’s reasonable to take it as being inside the ballpark.

 

[brutus76]

Adrian...................................... oh Adrian............................................

 

[Maddogm]

He’s a dickhead but he has a good line to the club. So long as he’s reporting and not opining it’s reasonable to take it as being inside the ballpark.

Does it look like that because he tweets every possibility he can think of then goes back and deletes the incorrect ones?

 

[doug85]

In Mark Neeld's last 11 games as senior coach, he went 1-10, losing by more than 100 points once.

In James Hird's last 11 games as senior coach, he went 1-10, losing by more than 100 points twice.

Seems like Neeld is being shortchanged in discussions about a triumphant return to coaching at Essendon, don't you all think?

Might as well go with Scott Watters. Ive always wanted to see a dwarf burnt.

 

[donlav99]

He’s a dickhead but he has a good line to the club. So long as he’s reporting and not opining it’s reasonable to take it as being inside the ballpark.

i wonder if he's adjusted his $1.05 odds of Clarko to the dons?

 

[Lore]

Does it look like that because he tweets every possibility he can think of then goes back and deletes the incorrect ones?

No

 

[jmoo wan]

Are you aware that there is someone already in this role and that it's not a stepping stone position?

oh… i just assumed they had been fired / resigned in the great EFC purge of 2022