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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    Def

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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

  Wt

  98kg

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  13.4

  3star

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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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  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

    Wt

    83kg

    Pos.

    Fwd

    Career

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    Last 5

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    11.3

    3star

    K

    6.8

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    4.5

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    3.5

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    1.6

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    0.9

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    9.2

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    5.4

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    3.8

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    2.2

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    1.6

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    0.4

    3star

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

    Age

    39

    Ht

    186cm

    Wt

    86kg

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    23.5

    5star

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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

    4star

    No current season stats available

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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

 

[FlyingV]

Hey does this mean we are not blue collar anymore? Because white collar isn’t working either so we are pretty screwed.

 

[Call Me Cake]

Fun fact, Hird's daughter works for PwC Australia that'll be conducting our external review.

 

[fishardansin]

It’s so interesting to reflect back on the last 10 years with the lense of the last week.

Remember Mark Neeld? We all thought he was a fool, was he just a rigid, process driven individual that didn’t gel with ‘fast and loose’ and the axis powers of idiocy.

Neil Craig? Dan Richardson? Rob Kerr? How many of these people have we moved on or have departed the club because they didn’t align with what our concept of what a footy club looks like and how much of it was actually the right thing to do?

And how many have we lost because smart people saw the writing on the wall?

Neil Craig is a drug cheat that his over flowing with poo. I felt like spewing every time I saw him in a bombers polo. Mark Neeld put in place the most ridiculous communications structure known to man.

Send them a picture of goatse, see if you get the same response

Would the response be lemon party or tub girl?

 

[Mr Mojo Risin]

Fun fact, Hird's daughter works for PwC Australia that'll be conducting our external review.

Has Ernst and Young become part of PwC?

 

[Lore]

Fun fact, Hird's daughter works for PwC Australia that'll be conducting our external review.

They got Ernst and Young instead of PWC, I guess keeping it at arms length prevents Brasher and Hisgrove (board members from PWC Australia) from influencing in favour of their preferred outcomes.

Interesting that Stephanie landed there though. Real incestuous place at Windy Hill these days.

 

[Call Me Cake]

Has Ernst and Young become part of PwC?

Haven't seen any source confirming EY conducting. Maybe assisting?

Rip from The Age

Essendon’s need for intervention from outside has never been greater, starting with Barham’s review, which will involve input from a corporate financial firm, such as PwC and board member and KPMG executive Dorothy Hisgrove.

 

[Mr Mojo Risin]

Haven't seen any source confirming EY conducting. Maybe assisting?

Rip from The Age

The club itself have been saying Ernst & Young and nothing about PwC, however it wouldn’t surprise me if they themselves don’t know.

 

[Call Me Cake]

They got Ernst and Young instead of PWC, I guess keeping it at arms length prevents Brasher and Hisgrove (board members from PWC Australia) from influencing in favour of their preferred outcomes.

Interesting that Stephanie landed there though. Real incestuous place at Windy Hill these days.

The club itself have been saying Ernst & Young and nothing about PwC, however it wouldn’t surprise me if they themselves don’t know.

Barham did mention PwC by name in the presser but let's hope they did actually settle on EY instead then. The more detached, the better.

 

[Lore]

They mentioned one of the big four would be used and named PWC as an example in the two pressers on Friday and Sunday respectively.

I think it was Caroline Wilson on Classified has more recently stated pretty authoritatively that it will be Ernst & Young. Might also have been on AFL360, that’s the only two shows I’ve watched recently so one or the other.

 

[Mr Mojo Risin]

They mentioned one of the big four would be used and named PWC as an example in the two pressers on Friday and Sunday respectively.

I think it was Caroline Wilson on Classified has more recently stated pretty authoritatively that it will be Ernst & Young. Might also have been on AFL360, that’s the only two shows I’ve watched recently so one or the other.

Didn’t the mass response email from Barham posted somewhere here say Ernst & Young too?

 

[tandino]

Fun fact, Hird's daughter works for PwC Australia that'll be conducting our external review.

In other news, **** I'm old.

 

[Lore]

Didn’t the mass response email from Barham posted somewhere here say Ernst & Young too?

Post #4061 - so no. Would’ve been more conclusive than Caro says though

 

[frodos gardener]

Hey does this mean we are not blue collar anymore? Because white collar isn’t working either so we are pretty screwed.

Skivvies.

 

[Lore]

Skivvies.

Or just go without altogether

 

[MiguelM]

Hey does this mean we are not blue collar anymore? Because white collar isn’t working either so we are pretty screwed.

Turtle neck, we go into our shells when pressure arrives.

 

[The Prosecutor]

 

[Bjchan13]

Good

 

[Petrify]

 

[VelvetSledge]

LETS GOOOOOOO

 

[Howard Moon]

It's happening.gif

 

[boncer34]

That's one.

 

[dank420_]

Don’t get your perm caught in the door on the way out

 

[iDon]

This is unreal

 

[Lore]

I can’t decide if I’m happy about this.

It needed to happen and I’m no fan but I don’t trust the people appointing the next one.

Better the devil you know?

Time will tell I guess.

 

[Howard Moon]

But but....where will be get our corporate sponsors now?