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

 

[fishardansin]

Old mate's four other wives must have felt a bit put out by what he built for his favourite wife.

My only advice to them is to stop smoking and up their game. Eating bananas without chewing is a great way to level up.

 

[Dave]

That sorta suggests you do believe Thorburn was part of the reason they rejected us?

Regardless of why he left we lost two CEOs. Just sayin'. It's not any one thing specifically, rather the entirety of the shitfest that we have been that makes us unattractive.

 

[boncer34]

Regardless of why he left we lost two CEOs. Just sayin'. It's not any one thing specifically, rather the entirety of the shitfest that we have been that makes us unattractive.

Right. So you do think Thorburn contributed which makes this post odd.

I didn't say they did.

And I disagree since it happened after the trade period started.

Which means really it's the coaching mess, which Carlton also had. They're not totally incomparable situations. Carlton had the Lyon appointment backflip element that we didn't have for instance.

 

[The Donners]

One rebuild done successfully

Look what he was starting with. Once you get the first few pieces in it starts to take shape.

The Lego also required no demolition first.

 

[Howard Moon]

Regardless of why he left we lost two CEOs. Just sayin'. It's not any one thing specifically, rather the entirety of the shitfest that we have been that makes us unattractive.

 

[faible]

Right. So you do think Thorburn contributed which makes this post odd.

And I disagree since it happened after the trade period started.

Which means really it's the coaching mess, which Carlton also had. They're not totally incomparable situations. Carlton had the Lyon appointment backflip element that we didn't have for instance.

Maybe it's bias, but I don't recall the AFL media death riding every single move Carlton made the way they have with Essendon.

 

[boncer34]

Maybe it's bias, but I don't recall the AFL media death riding every single move Carlton made the way they have with Essendon.

You can remove the maybe.

 

[fishardansin]

Regardless of why he left we lost two CEOs. Just sayin'. It's not any one thing specifically, rather the entirety of the shitfest that we have been that makes us unattractive.

It is more being a basket case under Knights -> Controversy with the Hird/Thompson appointment -> OMG there is light at the end of the tunnel -> No it is very very dark -> to basket case on the field -> Unimpressive older coach -> messy change over -> Covid and we're shit AGAIN -> Rebuild -> messy change of coach at start of rebuild.

 

[Dave]

Right. So you do think Thorburn contributed which makes this post odd.

And I disagree since it happened after the trade period started.

Which means really it's the coaching mess, which Carlton also had. They're not totally incomparable situations. Carlton had the Lyon appointment backflip element that we didn't have for instance.

Ok.

 

[Howard Moon]

It is more being a basket case under Knights -> Controversy with the Hird/Thompson appointment -> OMG there is light at the end of the tunnel -> No it is very very dark -> to basket case on the field -> Unimpressive older coach -> messy change over -> Covid and we're s**t AGAIN -> Rebuild -> messy change of coach at start of rebuild.

so you are saying its not a string of separate multiple heck ups that we dont learn from, its more one big decades long heck up?

thats far easier to digest

 

[frodos gardener]

Look what he was starting with. Once you get the first few pieces in it starts to take shape.

The Lego also required no demolition first.

If you look closely, he had multiple bowls to keep all the different pieces in. Clearly not his first (Lego) rodeo. That’s experience lol

 

[ghostdog]

Also Barham likes Lego.

His media people reading the thread?
Kidding himself if he thinks the rebuild is mission accomplished. Long way to go.

 

[Arctic fox]

Also Barham likes Lego.

A fine erection and a fine deflection.

 

[The Donners]

If you look closely, he had multiple bowls to keep all the different pieces in. Clearly not his first (Lego) rodeo. That’s experience lol

Thought they were empty bowls previously holding a hair elixir.

Such elixirs don’t work.

 

[andleanback]

If little somehow gets back in the chair I’m almost done with this club.

 

[Lore]

If little somehow gets back in the chair I’m almost done with this club.

I feel like being 'almost done with this club' is a permanent state of affairs for many supporters this last ten years or so

 

[andleanback]

I feel like being 'almost done with this club' is a permanent state of affairs for many supporters this last ten years or so

The pain of unfield performance is different to rich millionaires using the club as their play thing

 

[The Donners]

If little somehow gets back in the chair I’m almost done with this club.

It’s purely disruption to what Barham has started.

A new board will do nothing and we’ll be back to square one. Who is allegedly contacting Little? It has Sheedy written all over it. Probably sour from Barham getting one over him not hiring Hird.

 

[Beerfish]

unfield performance

Love it!

 

[andleanback]

The coteries need to be disbanded

 

[Lore]

2 Presidents and 3 CEOs in the space of 3 months is shambolic but 3 Presidents and 3 CEOs is actually almost mind-bending, particularly for the hoops they have to jump through to even get to that point.

Essendon Football Club has an even worse form of board entrenchment, with members only getting to elect six of the 10 directors for three-year terms, with the other four simply being appointed if more than 66% of the incumbent directors support the move.

However, Barham is only two years into his three-year term, so he won’t face election at the upcoming December AGM. Critics will need to call an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to remove him from the board, but these seven incumbent directors could choose to roll him as president at any point.

Rich Lister Andrew Muir, who hails from the family that built and then sold The Good Guys to JB Hi-Fi for an eye-popping $870 million in 2016, is reportedly the only internal candidate up for the presidential role.

But given the soap opera of the past seven weeks since the presidential coup, the Bombers probably need a clean skin to take charge, such as Peter Costello. Alternatively, they could bring back one of their past presidents, such as Lindsay Tanner or Toll Holdings founder Paul Little, a bit like the way Jeff Kennett had a second crack at the Hawthorn presidency.

Little is the name being widely canvassed in the press. But even to be appointed to the board in the lead-up to the December AGM, he needs five of the seven existing directors to agree to satisfy that unusual two-thirds requirement in the constitution.

The tactics Essendon and AGL use to resist challenges from new board directors

Though from different realms, both companies deploy similar tactics to retain old directors and stonewall the new.

www.smartcompany.com.au

 

[Howard Moon]

barrettdamian reports there are calls for Essendon to bring Paul Little back to the club.

And there we have it, the destabilizing faction presents

 

[Doss]

Costello

 

[HirdyLannister]

Just heard on the radio, could be a coup on the horizon.

We're a rabble, Brad Scott has no hope with all this BS going on.

 

[samthemanlonergan]

Interesting to see where most sit on this one