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

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    193cm

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    90kg

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    14.1

    4star

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    9.7

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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

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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

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  98kg

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  13.4

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  10.6

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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

    Ht

    180cm

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    83kg

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    Fwd

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    11.3

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    6.8

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    1.6

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    0.4

    3star

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

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    39

    Ht

    186cm

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    86kg

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    23.5

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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

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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

 

[Lore]

Just a genuine question - will Brasher, Campbell, Madden, Wellman and Allen all be content to cheer us on from the stands and watch our fortunes from afar...? ....Or will they still be plotting their collective board return as a rival ticket if we don't finish top 4 in 2023...?

Most of them will go away quietly. I can see Madden or Wellman potentially returning to the club in some capacity at some point but not as part of the current regime, and probably not a competing one unless someone else was leading it.

 

[Beerfish]

Especially when Draper has his own competing podcast… like what

Exactly. Was just a load of shit. Basically an attempt to politely tell us to gagf

 

[Lore]

Exactly. Was just a load of s**t. Basically an attempt to politely tell us to gagf

The 200+ and club pods leverage off each other anyway, there’s like a rivalry there that seems contrived

 

[Lore]

I guess the lack of generosity towards or consideration for the fans from the club’s leadership is really the crux of it. It’s not specifically about a chair or a scoreboard, but the overall lack of anything in that vein whatsoever.

 

[Doss]

Exactly. Was just a load of s**t. Basically an attempt to politely tell us to gagf

While still enthusiastically sticking both hands out for more cash.

18% off folks, get amongst it. And give us another few k for sponsorship too. But you want one small pod appearance? Hahaha no you peasants, more money will do just fine.

 

[Mootsy]

Essendon are job creators, giving back to the community

 

[LB#16]

Does this board still sponsor players from the club? Might be time to reconsider that if they're telling the odd fan/sponsor to gagf.

 

[VelvetSledge]

Does this board still sponsor players from the club? Might be time to reconsider that if they're telling the odd fan/sponsor to gagf.

We do, the price has gone up astronomically over the past few years so though we're sponsoring less and less.

 

[Lore]

Does this board still sponsor players from the club? Might be time to reconsider that if they're telling the odd fan/sponsor to gagf.

ngl it has crossed my mind more than once in the last couple of weeks.

Guess we'll see what happens when the dust has settled.

 

[Fear Boner]

Is Dodoro still employed?

 

[Doss]

We do, the price has gone up astronomically over the past few years so though we're sponsoring less and less.

No no you’re not doing right. Just not passionate enough. Sponsor as many players as before but be happy to pay through the nose.

 

[BrunoV]

Lyon and Pike if we want experience and in that order. There are conditions, Lyon needs to be hungry and Pike needs to keep pre season camps more traditional…

No to Pike from me.

If his history is anything to go by, and that's all I can judge him on, he'll feed the bad habits of the players.

Our Worsfold style, which we never got over, was the inferior version of what Adelaide was doing.

Pyke is in charge of ball movement at Sydney. That is fine when you're working with 20 years of Swans, let's just call it, blue collar style.

It's not for our white collar flakes.

 

[BrunoV]

Lyon has the capacity to and has demonstrated that he can enact generational change within a club. Would be incredible for not just this group, but the group after and maybe the group after that.

I think he could also set the table off field as well and set us up to be a good club for the next 20 years and beyond.

My preference is to have him rule the off field with an iron fist.

Yep whether it's Clarkson or Lyon, the club needs a competent dictator.

 

[Runk]

Anyone else really tired?

 

[84859300]

No no you’re not doing right. Just not passionate enough. Sponsor as many players as before but be happy to pay through the nose.

Even the MCC dropped their price over COVID

 

[Andronicus]

Not sure if it is related to the turmoil of the last week and getting old data bases confused, but has anybody got anything sent in the mail from the club lately? I'm not currently a member but got an Aus Post saying something from EFC is on its way. Didn't seem to be a scam at all, but havent ordered anything.

Can only assume they want to offer me a spot on the board or maybe Dodoros job.

 

[Zach Package]

Yep whether it's Clarkson or Lyon, the club needs a competent dictator.

My preference is off field dictator, on field someone a bit more modern, some could argue that Yze might be Rutten mkII given his pathway but I still want him.

 

[windyhill]

sheedy, got the flick, he was totally pissed off, comes back onto the payroll with a six figure sum to suck back red and wave his bloody scarf at halftime, next minute he’s on the bloody board, goes gunning for everyone who refused to kiss his arse and warned against bringing Hird back has made dodoro as safe as houses.
Where the **** is Alec Epis and Peter Jackson when you desperately need them to pull this ****ing idiot into line?

 

[Lore]

Not sure if it is related to the turmoil of the last week and getting old data bases confused, but has anybody got anything sent in the mail from the club lately? I'm not currently a member but got an Aus Post saying something from EFC is on its way. Didn't seem to be a scam at all, but havent ordered anything.

Can only assume they want to offer me a spot on the board or maybe Dodoros job.

Just the 150 years book thing - maybe someone got it for you as a gift?

 

[The Prosecutor]

Just the 150 years book thing - maybe someone got it for you as a gift?

Are they going to do a re-print to encapsulate the last week and a half?

 

[Lore]

Are they going to do a re-print to encapsulate the last week and a half?

Dunno, apparently there’s a chapter each for Campbell and Dodoro.

But there’s two chapters for the fans so that’s something

 

[Zach Package]

Are they going to do a re-print to encapsulate the last week and a half?

Auspost T’s and C’s don’t allow you to send flaming bags of poo in the mail.

 

[Old Campaigner]

Boom

Inside Essendon: The four issues that split the Bombers

Whereas the Labor Party was once riven on turning back the boats and the Coalition more lately divided on climate and energy policy, Essendon’s board was split six votes to four on four specific questions.

www.theage.com.au

Reads like a press release from the board

 

[Lore]

Reads like a press release from the board

Someone definitely opened their trap yeah

 

[Kong]

Not sure if it is related to the turmoil of the last week and getting old data bases confused, but has anybody got anything sent in the mail from the club lately? I'm not currently a member but got an Aus Post saying something from EFC is on its way. Didn't seem to be a scam at all, but havent ordered anything.

Can only assume they want to offer me a spot on the board or maybe Dodoros job.

Reply Paid envelope with a "Donate to the Flight Plan" pamphlet.