Club Mgmt. Board of Directors as led by President Dave Barham

[Lore]

Tom Morris, 9 News via Fox Sports:

“A major board challenge is imminent at Essendon. In the wake of an off-season of turmoil, key powerbrokers - including at least one former player - are preparing a movement which would oust David Barham as president, and other directors too,” he said on Nine News.

“I’ve spoken to one of the key powerbrokers tonight, who says this is not coterie-driven, and it’s just a manner of when and not if the challenge takes place.

“There’s a view the club has been left rudderless and the Barham era has left a legacy of division, instability, player drainage and lost opportunity from this group of people.”

‘Rudderless’ Bombers facing more off-field chaos as club boss set to be challenged

‘Rudderless’ Bombers facing more off-field chaos as club boss set to be challenged

www.foxsports.com.au

 

[yodellinhank]

Hi Adrian Dodoro.

You sued the club for unfair dismissal

Go **** yourself

PM me for details to sue me campaigner

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Well the club settled and paid him a six figure sum, so maybe he had a fair case.

 

[Lore]

You're missing the second half jmoo wan, that was only the first 8 minutes or so

Interviewer 1: I tell you who's got lots of young kids, Essendon, and we can't talk about this club, you know, without involving you in this conversation, and I bring news today, a further list changes there, and that is that Jayden Laverde

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Jayden Laverde

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29

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193cm

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92kg

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152.8

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3.3

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5.4

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3.2

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3.6

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141.2

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and Todd Goldstein

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Todd Goldstein

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37

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201cm

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101kg

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13.2

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32.5

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9.3

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7.4

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7.0

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32.9

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have been told they won't have playing contracts for the 2026 season. Both players now exploring other options. Both players have signalled their intent to continue their playing careers elsewhere next season. Now, I think we all knew that Laverde was on the move. Goldstein for me is interesting because first of all, I don't know where else he's going to play. I'm not sure who would pick him up in a playing capacity at this stage in his career. And also with the news that Sam Draper is departing to Brisbane. I mean, clearly, you know, Nick Bryan will come back from the injury that kept him out of the mix for most of this year. But these are the list changes they're making. RoCo. The floor is yours.

RoCo: Well, I just think that this stuff, to be honest, is window dressing. I think they're, I think Goldy's been fantastic for Essendon, but I think that, you know, they're, they're trying to build a list of the future. You've got to stick with the younger ruckman, you've got on the list and actually, Nick Bryan has been starved of chronically starved of opportunity for 3 or 4 years. You've got to put your faith in him. Otherwise, what's he on the list for? If he's going to be, you know, third fiddle to a 36 year old and a guy with a mullet who, you know, is half the player he thinks he is. But this is this is my thing.

Interviewer 2 "Brad": Well, having you dirtied up on Draper? Oh, I've dirtied up on all of them, Brad.

RoCo: I'll tell you what, I've dirtied up more on the entire Essendon Football Club because there's no doubt that this club is at the lowest ebb in its history and I'm sick of it. And when I say I'm sick of it, I have enormous sympathy for the guys in there now running the show. Dave Barham, he's tried everything. He's tried to right the ship. I think Brad Scott's intentions in terms of improving the culture, have been largely followed through. I think Craig Voslo has been really diligent in his work as a CEO. But they are not being allowed to do their job properly because of these outside forces, continually potting and planning and all attempting to have their own piece of the pie, and in some cases come back and write their own story of redemption because they mucked it up when they're in charge. Who am I talking about? Talking about Paul Little. Who is, I'm told, still marshalling the troops to try and oust this mob that are in there now. People like James Hird, look Hirdy, I think, has distanced himself publicly. But I think this, I think he still has cons- people like Paul Little still hope that her can have considerable influence. [...] has been out of the club officially for a year, but isn't shy if saying what he thinks about the people running the show now and it's not very favourable. So, in short, like, and there's more where they came from. All these people would get sort of tipped out of roles at Essendon, then spend the next part of their lives trying to pot and destabilise the club they allegedly love. It's a selfish club. It was a selfish club 30 years ago, 40 years ago and it was winning premierships. It was an ego driven club. And some of the greatest names in that club's history have also become their biggest millstones. Kevin Sheedy's another one. It became the Kevin Sheedy Football Club. And what happens when this happens over too long a period is you weaken the capacity of the club to move past individuals? So Sheeds gets tipped tipped out as coach after 27 years and the whole place falls apart because everyone's just danced to Kevin Sheedy's tune and he's still trying to have his influence for years and years afterwards. So these guys have come in now and tried to build a football club along the lines of the more successful ongoing clubs like Hawthorn, Geelong, Sydney, these guys, and they're not able to do it because there's no framework there to begin with. The cultural examples set have been poor. So you've got a player group that has no leadership, is selfish and thinks it's setting the right example when it's not. How many people have come into the Essendon Football Club over the last 20 years and gone, been really taken aback at how poor an environment it is on every level, administratively the football department, the playing list, the fitness standards. And these guys have tried to affect change, but they're so constantly so paranoid about being tipped out or schemed against by the guys who they need to get rid of that they have to tiptoe their way around it. I mean, they tried to give [...] the flick, essentially, and it took them two years to do it because they had to gently usher him out, you know, so he didn't dirty up, which didn't work because he dirtied up anyway. And look, [...] would probably send me an abusive text or something. He does it every couple of months. Hi [...], if you're listening. But, you know, people like me who actually have some passion for, and interest in, that club are absolutely sick of it. Why would you want to be involved with a club with that sort of stuff? I mean, some people at Essendon exist to play politics rather than be part of a successful football operation. And if they really want to ever pick themselves up at some stage in the 21st Century, they need to start looking at how clubs like Hawthorn do it, how to long do it, and grow up and stop being so bloody selfish.

Interviewer 1: Well, 133693. Your reaction to RoCo's, it says 'Essendon Editorial', 'Essendon Spray'.

RoCo: It is probably a rant. Going with rant.

Interviewer 1: Look, they've committed to their coach. They've committed to the coach. They are hiring new high performance staff, which was inevitable after the litany of injuries that we've seen this year. We're told they're looking at the facilities, the surfaces, are they going to resurface because of all the problems they've had? What else are they going to do? What do they do next?

RoCo: Well, all they can do is what they're doing. Matt Rosa, for example, list manager, he's drafting over the last couple of years, I think, has shown promise. They've debuted 15 young players. What else can you do? Look, I know for a fact, Brad, that now that they sort of alleged senior players are showing how good a leaders they are like rats off a deserted ship, I know that some of the younger players are sort of coming together now and saying, okay, well, we're going to create our own culture. That might actually be the best thing that could happen. But unfortunately...

Interviewer 2 "Brad": You sure about that?

RC: Yeah I do.

Interviewer 2 "Brad": You're getting it from one side, aren't you? You haven't spoken the other team, have you?

RoCo: What do you mean by the other team?

Interviewer 2 "Brad": Well, you're obviously getting it from the incumbents who are there?

RoCo: Oh no, I've heard from players.

Interviewer 2 "Brad": There's always a flip side. There's always two sides to a story. I'm not so sure. I've been told that there's some of the players that contacted Merritt and were told, but they were asked by the mini media manager to make comment on his position, you know? Not that they really want it.

RoCo: No, that happened.

Interviewer 2 "Brad": Then that starts the divisions in the change room.

 

[ydc55]

I think Sarah jones as president and Rohan Connolly as vice president one day might work.
They both seem realistic and passionate about our club.
I get a sense others see the club as their play thing.

 

[DapperDon]

Well the club settled and paid him a six figure sum, so maybe he had a fair case.

I imagine they looked what lawyer fees would have been and chose the lessor option.

 

[DERO]

Well the club settled and paid him a six figure sum, so maybe he had a fair case.

It didn’t make it to Fairwork because if it did the decision would be on the public record.

 

[DERO]

The prick took a fair bit of leave leading up to his resignation too didn’t he?

 

[thepokey]

Well the club settled and paid him a six figure sum, so maybe he had a fair case.

It could have been "oh look just **** the **** off already" money

 

[jmoo wan]

You're missing the second half jmoo wan, that was only the first 8 minutes or so

yes! the second half was behind my paywall, for my only fans, but yeah - thanks for giving it out for free…

 

[jmoo wan]

I think Sarah jones as president and Rohan Connolly as vice president one day might work.
They both seem realistic and passionate about our club.
I get a sense others see the club as their play thing.

or, and hear me out here please, we have people running the club who know what they are doing rather than super fans with some kind of media presence?

 

[Zach Package]

It could have been "oh look just ** the ** off already" money

Depending on what kind of claim it is, almost certainly, it looks like it didn’t even get to a formal mediation in front of a commissioner.

Some aspects are reverse onus so it is up to the respondent (the club) to prove what Disco is alleging didn’t happen, which can be fickle and sometimes impossible.

Also, I’m pretty sure the entirety of FWC filings fall under zero cost jurisdictions, so the person filing really has nothing to lose by giving it a go given someone would have mediated it for him on the cheap (probably a poncey lawyer from one of the coteries), it often makes way more sense to settle it early and piss the applicant off.

 

[Here_we_come]

People still defending dodo after all this time blows my mind.

Stockholm syndrome

 

[Old man fletch]

or, and hear me out here please, we have people running the club who know what they are doing rather than super fans with some kind of media presence?

Worked for Collingwood....less so for Port

 

[Here_we_come]

**** me. I guess this shows at least a little bit what essendon were dealing with.

What a cancerous parasite dodoro is. Hope he’s never let anywhere near the club again.

 

[thepokey]

Would have loved to have seen the stink he would have tried to kick up when Scott told him he couldn't sit in on team selection anymore. Again, people shit on Scott but he's the only coach we have had that put his foot down on shit like that

 

[Lore]

The prick took a fair bit of leave leading up to his resignation too didn’t he?

From July onwards yea

 

[Nicholas61]

**** me. I guess this shows at least a little bit what essendon were dealing with.

What a cancerous parasite dodoro is. Hope he’s never let anywhere near the club again.

Fans should GoFund RoCo to move next to HQ and encourage him to put a restraining order on Dodo

 

[Bunk Moreland]

The prick took a fair bit of leave leading up to his resignation too didn’t he?

He was placed on leave on full pay because they’d promised Rosa he’d be gone by a certain date and he wasn’t.

They couldn’t find a “legal” way to make his role redundant, mainly because it wasn’t redundant.

They didn’t have grounds to sack him on documented failures to meet targets or gross malpractice etc.

They simply wanted him gone. He knew it, they knew it, so they were set against each other.

I suspect they could’ve just given him an enormous payout and he would’ve gone but that was obviously something they were looking to avoid.

He was placed on leave while they “worked it out” as they didn’t want him back at the club.

I think their strategy was to offer him other roles so unattractive to him that he wouldn’t take them and he would resign.

Dodoro’s view is that he had been made the face and the scapegoat for decades of failure at Essendon, and he wasn’t copping that. Hence the refusal to go quietly. Hence the Fair Work action.

A big part of the issue is that many senior football staff in clubs are on fixed-term contracts. Dodoro never was - he was a permanent member of staff.

 

[BomberManU]

You're missing the second half jmoo wan, that was only the first 8 minutes or so

Just to clarify - the media manager told Redman and Martin to comment on the Merrett situation, which caused drama in the changerooms. Am I reading that right?

 

[Petrify]

Dodoro’s view is that he had been made the face and the scapegoat for decades of failure at Essendon, and he wasn’t copping that. Hence the refusal to go quietly. Hence the Fair Work action.

Dodoro made himself the face of that. Most list manager's stay out of the spotlight. He sought media attention. And he sucked at his job.

 

[Red Black and Blue]

Dodoro’s view is that he had been made the face and the scapegoat for decades of failure at Essendon.

Which shows how delusional he was. He got such a free ride from the club, practically none of the media sychophants laid the boots in. This was entirely driven by the supporter base and frankly opposition supporter bases.

 

[CBombers17]

Merret is the best mid Dodo ever selected (outside of no brainer FS Jobe) and even then Bomba made him do it. He was all about build the spine first which was based on Sheedys bias for talls (and had a decent record in that area) - but he was a disaster of a recruiter for his era. An era of midfield dominance. Dodoro had zero concept of what a modern midfield should look like and he proved it for 20 years.

 

[Doss]

Whoever it first was that agreed to make the Dodo a permanent staff member has an inordinately large amount of shit****ery to answer for.

 

[thepokey]

Dodoro made himself the face of that. Most list manager's stay out of the spotlight. He sought media attention. And he sucked at his job.

Yeah, it's why so many opposition supporters at other clubs knew who our recruiting manager was but probably could barely tell who was recruiting at any other clubs. Dodo put himself in the spotlight.

 

[chungi]

The last two pages make me feel sick.
I just can't...

 

[Mr Mojo Risin]

yes! the second half was behind my paywall, for my only fans, but yeah - thanks for giving it out for free…

You've been giving it out for free for years with your nude avatar of yourself.