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

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  • 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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  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

 

[Yoda_]

Essendon supporters are in a particularly strange position, since a week ago many or even most of us didn't want Clarkson and preferred Rutten.

Now Rutten's position is untenable and it's basically Clarkson or having to go into the off-season with no coach at all - meaning Campbell and Mahoney trying to direct Dodoro on list management and recruiting players without actually having a vision to sell or a strategy to adhere to.

Gross position to be in. If they wanted to sack Rutten that badly they should've done it with enough notice to actually keep things moving forward.

its not bad enough that we are the laughing stock on field (6,000 days without a ... dah. dah. dah), we do dumb shit like the way we've carried ourselves the last 72 hours. Don't worry though, we are trying, 18% of the Bomber shop and those children with special needs on the ground on Sunday night..

Cringey on field, worse off it


precarious position to be in right now

 

[Zach Package]

how can times still be TBC when you’ve given the exact times?

Schrodinger’s press conference being held by Schrodinger’s coach.

 

[andleanback]

Your hypothesis makes zero sense.

How there’s no need for barham to hold a press conference tomorrow morning before clarko has made his decision. He’s meeting with north tomorrow at some point.

 

[Lance Uppercut]

We have our own ITK person who says he's 100% coming to North.
Which one of you is lying?

I genuinely hope they are the same person. **** that would rule

 

[foj1]

I just realised I like too many of you damn fools on a personal level.

Mate we all love our clubs
we would all love to go back to 1993 when both our clubs were exciting and had strong leaders
selfishly I would love Clarko at essendon because fools like silverspoon Campbell and son of a fruiterer dodoro and joe biden brasher have crippled our club but how could I begrudge you blokes from getting his signature when you have done all the grunt work.
here is to better days

 

[tandino]

Essendon supporters are in a particularly strange position, since a week ago many or even most of us didn't want Clarkson and preferred Rutten.

Now Rutten's position is untenable and it's basically Clarkson or having to go into the off-season with no coach at all - meaning Campbell and Mahoney trying to direct Dodoro on list management and recruiting players without actually having a vision to sell or a strategy to adhere to.

Gross position to be in. If they wanted to sack Rutten that badly they should've done it with enough notice to actually keep things moving forward.

It's been a fine week.

Clarkson offers obvious change but also messiah status-quo. Now it's on offer, I want the change. It doesn't have to be Clarkson, nothing against the guy but it just sucks that it's the only way it would happen. If that doesn't happen then the status-quo remains.

 

[Albertross]

Just got off the phone with Clarko. He told me Essendon STINKS

Sorry fellas, had to let you know

We know we've stunk for 20 years! Clarko is behind the times!

 

[Seb78]

Just got off the phone with Clarko. He told me Essendon STINKS

Sorry fellas, had to let you know

Yeh, well you tell him sticks and stones, so there

 

[Albertross]

I reckon all supporters want him and already talking themselves down just in case he does not choose their club.
an extraordinary situation.

Nah, not all, some just want serious change off field first or we are doomed to repeat history.

 

[Gameova_]

Just got off the phone with Clarko. He told me Essendon STINKS

Sorry fellas, had to let you know

That's not what he told me

Why are you

 

[eDPS]

Just got off the phone with Clarko. He told me Essendon STINKS

Sorry fellas, had to let you know

 

[The Filth Wizard]

Mate we all love our clubs
we would all love to go back to 1993 when both our clubs were exciting and had strong leaders
selfishly I would love Clarko at essendon because fools like silverspoon Campbell and son of a fruiterer dodoro and joe biden brasher have crippled our club but how could I begrudge you blokes from getting his signature when you have done all the grunt work.
here is to better days

Agreed. Nobody likes winning against guys already on their knees, it's cheap.

We'll both take it, and laugh but deep down it's hollow.

 

[ghostdog]

its not bad enough that we are the laughing stock on field (6,000 days without a ... dah. dah. dah), we do dumb s**t like the way we've carried ourselves the last 72 hours. Don't worry though, we are trying, 18% of the Bomber shop and those children with special needs on the ground on Sunday night..

Cringey on field, worse off it


precarious position to be in right now

...and baby racing. Don't forget baby racing.

 

[Zephyr Effekt]

If Clarkson chooses North, you've got to think it looks bad for us ... The last ditch attempt to land the "messiah" ... The embarrassment of our dirty laundry aired (again) in public ... A really good person in Truck being humiliated and cuckolded... It's all terrible and there's no real way of it being resolved cleanly from here.

But if Clarkson chooses us, what questions does that raise for North? They've gone all out for him, he has every reason to go back there ... And for him to choose Essendon instead despite how poor our process has been, would show that they really are a small club. One that simply cannot land a big name. They'll be staring down the barrell of further questions surrounding Tasmania and their future ...

I know Essendon will survive whatever Clarko decides to do ... But north? What's the future hold for them if he slips through their fingers?

Agree about Essendon.

However, North are debt free and have record membership(?), missing out on a coach isn't that big of a deal and they have faced much bigger challenges and come out on top before.

I still think Clarkson goes to North, but the seed has been planted for substantial change if Barham follows through with what he has promised, everything else would have just been the cherry on top.

 

[TheGrizz]

How there’s no need for barham to hold a press conference tomorrow morning before clarko has made his decision. He’s meeting with north tomorrow at some point.

Or it's the last chance to speak before the weekend (having left it as late as possible to hear from Clarkson hoepefully), and knowing that they had to say something before the game this week and before Trucks scheduled press conference on Fridays.

It's the Rutten press conference still going ahead that stumps me.

 

[Handsome.B.Wonderful]

He follows through with an external review and actually adheres to its recommendations.

He fixes the cable?

 

[ghostdog]

Feeling like everyone just needs to calm down. This thread feels a bit Bomberblitzy.

 

[ghostdog]

He fixes the cable?

Well something needs to end up being fixed.

 

[Lore]

Feeling like everyone just needs to calm down. This thread feels a bit Bomberblitzy.

I don't quite know what that means but I bet Blitz doesn't have Enigmal and Filthy to keep them company

 

[ghostdog]

I don't quite know what that means but I bet Blitz doesn't have Enigmal and Filthy to keep them company

Mmm... fair call.

 

[Bjchan13]

He follows through with an external review and actually adheres to its recommendations.

The review will be happening with or without Clarkson as coach. There will be plenty of casualties either way. If Clarkson goes to North then a separate panel will have to be put together to find a new coach. There could be an external review and a search for a new coach happening simultaneously. And we will have put ourselves in that position, with limited time to get things settled before the draft and trade period

 

[ghostdog]

The review will be happening with or without Clarkson as coach. There will be plenty of casualties either way. If Clarkson goes to North then a separate panel will have to be put together to find a new coach. There could be an external review and a search for a new coach happening simultaneously. And we will have put ourselves in that position, with limited time to get things settled before the draft and trade period

See that's just it though. Look at how we've chased AC without a panel. I'm not confident they would actually enact a proper process. It just wouldn't surprise me if it's more of the same.

 

[DERO]

I just realised I like too many of you damn fools on a personal level.

Right back at ya.

 

[Lore]

When do exit interviews start? They obviously have conversations with the guys that might be retiring in the last few weeks of the season, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are delistings that already know they're gone? The ones that are staying or inconclusive would happen after the season is done right?

 

[Bjchan13]

See that's just it though. Look at how we've chased AC without a panel. I'm not confident they would actually enact a proper process. It just wouldn't surprise me if it's more of the same.

AC is a different kettle of fish. You barely need to interview him, he's interviewing the clubs. If you miss him theres no one else with that profile. We'd need to interview multiple candidates, which is something we haven't done properly in 40+ years.