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

    Career

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    Last 5

    D

    14.1

    4star

    K

    9.7

    4star

    HB

    4.5

    3star

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    4.5

    4star

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    1.0

    3star

    No current season stats available

    D

    8.0

    2star

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    4.4

    2star

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    3.6

    3star

    M

    2.6

    3star

    T

    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

  Age

  42

  Ht

  190cm

  Wt

  98kg

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  Def

  Career

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  Last 5

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  13.4

  3star

  K

  6.3

  2star

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  7.0

  4star

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  5.3

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  1.3

  3star

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  D

  10.6

  3star

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  6.2

  3star

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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

    Wt

    83kg

    Pos.

    Fwd

    Career

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    Last 5

    D

    11.3

    3star

    K

    6.8

    3star

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    4.5

    3star

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    3.5

    4star

    T

    1.6

    4star

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    0.9

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    D

    9.2

    3star

    K

    5.4

    2star

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    3.8

    3star

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    2.2

    3star

    T

    1.6

    4star

    G

    0.4

    3star

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

    Age

    39

    Ht

    186cm

    Wt

    86kg

    Pos.

    D/M

    Career

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    Last 5

    D

    23.5

    5star

    K

    12.1

    4star

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    11.5

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    5.5

    5star

    T

    2.7

    4star

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    310.5

    4star

    No current season stats available

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    15.0

    4star

    K

    6.8

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    8.2

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    4.8

    5star

    T

    2.8

    5star

    , 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

 

[BrunoV]

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Here's the lesson kids.

Don't cook a review unless you're absolutely sure the power is behind you.

This won't see the light of day but something seriously untoward has happened here.

Don't ask me to believe that any of these idiots believed in Rutten that much.

 

[Red Black and Blue]

OK so the head count is currently
Head Coach
CEO
3 x board members

I think we can take that press conference on Sunday where 'everyone is safe' to be baloney.
Wonder who is next.

Hope we just dissolve those board positions. We do not need ten

 

[Lore]

I'm getting all these emails from the club with no bombershop discounts. It's startling.

For once they’re just telling us how it is and not trying to stooge money out of us in the process.

Although the sponsor logos are in the footer so I guess there’s still something in it

 

[TheGrizz]

Our next ceo will be the most important appointment of the last 29 years, critical that we get someone with footy industry experience. I wonder who will put their hand up for the footy director role on the board.

I would hope that it's one of the 4 incoming appointees.

Otherwise of the people left it is probably Sheedy, which basically guarantees Dodoros position and makes Hird a shoe-in for Head coach

 

[Lore]

Here's the lesson kids.

Don't cook a review unless you're absolutely sure the power is behind you.

This won't see the light of day but something seriously untoward has happened here.

It’s called a factional board coup supercharged by coteries. It’s nothing new at Essendon, the only thing really interesting about it is that the firefighter left the building and the powderkeg finally blew up.

 

[Zach Package]

 

[bomberlegend2007]

Holy shit, the club is actually cleaning house.

 

[Lore]

Haha similar to the one I keep posting everywhere, strutting around like the emperor in his new clothes

 

[Gabe251]

DODO NEXT PLEASE

 

[84859300]

I'm getting all these emails from the club with no bombershop discounts. It's startling.

X didn't have a number on his jumper = 0% discount

 

[BrunoV]

It's time to abandon the dysfunctional football department structure.

Bring in a football GM who everyone reports to and who only answers to the board. He becomes responsible for all of the football program.

The coach can then become what we're led to believe it is but can be paid accordingly.

In this context, we could go for an untried coach.

I wonder if Lyon would be interested.

 

[the PILL]

Interesting, a lot more happening than I expected and fast. Come on Barham, keep inoculating the place until Dodoro falls and the Hird faction fades away...

 

[Don Won]

This review is starting to look like those Royal Commissions that governments like to hold when they take over power.

 

[84859300]

Now, with all of this free air, I'd be interested to hear from Truck on just how difficult it was from the admin side.

The football side is what it is - but any feedback that is unscripted would be delicious.

 

[Don Won]

It's time to abandon the dysfunctional football department structure.

Bring in a football GM who everyone reports to and who only answers to the board. He becomes responsible for all of the football program.

The coach can then become what we're led to believe it is but can be paid accordingly.

In this context, we could go for an untried coach.

I wonder if Lyon would be interested.

Wasn’t that the system we had to abandon for governance purposes?

 

[Lore]

It's time to abandon the dysfunctional football department structure.

Bring in a football GM who everyone reports to and who only answers to the board. He becomes responsible for all of the football program.

The coach can then become what we're led to believe it is but can be paid accordingly.

In this context, we could go for an untried coach.

I wonder if Lyon would be interested.

You won’t get that unless you get rid of Dodoro and Sheedy. You can’t have a junior member of the department bypassing the GM and the CEO and backchanneling all the way to the board of directors.

 

[Old Campaigner]

I never stopped.

He has one intangible that no amount of assistant coaching can teach or develop.

He's a leader.

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

 

[BrunoV]

You won’t get that unless you get rid of Dodoro and Sheedy. You can’t have a junior member of the department bypassing the GM and the CEO and backchanneling all the way to the board of directors.

You couldn't because the GM would just sack him.

 

[andleanback]

I would hope that it's one of the 4 incoming appointees.

Otherwise of the people left it is probably Sheedy, which basically guarantees Dodoros position and makes Hird a shoe-in for Head coach

Doesn’t football director get appointed differently compared to other board members as it’s a different portfolio.

 

[frodos gardener]

 

[Lore]

You couldn't because the GM would just sack him.

I’m sure GMs have tried, and it hasn’t worked because he has friends who will get rid of the GM before they would ever allow that. Needs to be purged.

 

[BrunoV]

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

That's the question isn't it. Does that baggage mean that the next generation of kids won't listen to him?

I don know the answer to that. I would put my money on it not being an issue.

 

[BrunoV]

Wasn’t that the system we had to abandon for governance purposes?

No. It's the exact opposite and Hird became the fall guy because he was the biggest name.

 

[Lads2023]

Efficient! Barham impacting already.

Maybe his the guy we needed for a proper cleanout....

Essendon not getting Clarkson might have been a blessing in disguise

 

[andleanback]

It's time to abandon the dysfunctional football department structure.

Bring in a football GM who everyone reports to and who only answers to the board. He becomes responsible for all of the football program.

The coach can then become what we're led to believe it is but can be paid accordingly.

In this context, we could go for an untried coach.

I wonder if Lyon would be interested.

Well the gm of footy also has to answer to the ceo