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

 

[schmuttt]

October 3rd. Other details TBA

In perhaps the least interesting insider mail ever, itll be at the centrepiece function area at Melbourne park.

 

[JayJ20]

Robert walls smh
and Jordan Lewis 2 guys who hate essendon. You can’t make this up
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Robert Walls is a good addition. See who he thinks is a good coach for Essendon and avoid that.

 

[faible]

Robert Walls is a good addition. See who he thinks is a good coach for Essendon and avoid that.

Get Mick "Essendon will be Top-4" Malthouse in as well and if they agree on anything at all, definitely do the opposite.

 

[boncer34]

At least we know that Sheedy won't have input.

 

[eth-dog]

Don't mind a 3-5 member panel. Lewis has a good football brain, Walls is past it and hates us so that's a stupid one, Mahoney has to do it.

Something like Lewis, Mahoney, Rodney Eade, Pav/Riewoldt and Woosha would have been great

 

[boncer34]

It's a good mix. Very Un-Essendon.

 

[Lore]

From the member email:

Ernst & Young to coordinate the external review, supported by Andrew Thorburn, working closely with Nick Ryan as Acting CEO & Dorothy Hisgrove as the board member involved. Board effectiveness & composition, a review of leadership, operations and culture including the footy department, the senior coach appointment and the new CEO appointment.

I have been clear that we cannot continue to only review ourselves and this external review is critical for the Club’s success moving forward.

This review will be comprehensive, robust and integrated. It will be led and co-ordinated by EY and supported by Andrew Thorburn, an experienced business leader. This group will work closely with Nick Ryan who will be Acting CEO until a permanent appointment of a new CEO is made. Dorothy Hisgrove will also be involved from a board viewpoint, as an expert in culture and people. The group will also have access to other non-Essendon Football people as they conduct the review.

We will leave “no stone unturned” in this process.

The External Club Review has been commissioned by the Board and will be completed around Mid October. The review involves 4 key streams:

• Board effectiveness and composition;
• A review of Leadership, Operations and Culture (including the Football Department);
• A Senior Coach appointment;
• The appointment of a new CEO

 

[Nifft]

Robert walls smh
and Jordan Lewis 2 guys who hate essendon. You can’t make this up
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I’d be shocked if those guys chose Hird as best option for coach.

 

[JayJ20]

Get Mick "Essendon will be Top-4" Malthouse in as well and if they agree on anything at all, definitely do the opposite.

This club. Can’t even do it right when we say non-Essendon people. We didn’t mean anti-Essendon people.

May as well add Brereton, Campbell Brown and Vandenberg. Real line in the sand stuff.

 

[Seb78]

Walls apparently part of the subcommittee that appointed Ross Lyon to the saints way back when

 

[JayJ20]

I’d be shocked if those guys chose Hird as best option for coach.

There’s no one else anti-Essendon people want.

 

[Nifft]

This club. Can’t even do it right when we say non-Essendon people. We didn’t mean anti-Essendon people.

May as well add Brereton, Campbell Brown and Vandenberg. Real line in the sand stuff.

I wouldn’t mind Brereton.

 

[citizen-erased]

Don't mind a 3-5 member panel. Lewis has a good football brain, Walls is past it and hates us so that's a stupid one, Mahoney has to do it.

Something like Lewis, Mahoney, Rodney Eade, Pav/Riewoldt and Woosha would have been great

not sure Woosha would have come back, but his insights would have been good given he's lived it.

 

[Lore]

So Hisgrove and Thorburn involved in both.

 

[Lore]

The coaching selection panel – I posted the full bit from the member email in the coach thread which has all their resumes etc, but it is 6 people:

• Josh Mahoney (chair & GM-Footy)
• Dorothy Hisgrove (board member)
• Andrew Thorburn
• Robert Walls
• Jordan Lewis
• Simone McGinnis OAM

 

[Zach Package]

The whole thing sounds professional, comprehensive, agile, impartial and modern.

I don’t buy it and I’m immediately suspicious.

 

[rumply]

If any of you seriously think that Lewis & Walls hate Essendon that much that they'll do whatever they can to sabotage this process you need to get a grip.

They probably 'hate' Essendon like Dermie hates Essendon...

 

[Milanista28]

I'd take out Walls and add Gordon Ramsey, he fixed plenty of kitchens that were quite frankly nightmares.

 

[TheGrizz]

Lewis was highly critical of us turfing Rutten, I am surprised he agreed to come on.
Walls' presence and input was a key reason Teague was turfed last year from Carlton too, so he has at least some recent history in and around the elite level.

If he isnt involved in the external review, I would have loved to see if Dunstall and Nick Riedwoldt were available instead of those two. However it is decidedly un-essendon, which is probably a good thing.

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

Walls and Lewis!

 

[Lore]

Lewis was highly critical of us turfing Rutten, I am surprised he agreed to come on.
Walls' presence and input was a key reason Teague was turfed last year from Carlton too, so he has at least some recent history in and around the elite level.

It is decidedly un-essendon, which is probably a good thing.

I'm excited that Hisgrove and Mahoney are involved. The fact that neither of them have been at the club long and have been at other clubs recently is a good thing.

 

[rumply]

Interesting though that Walls was part of the committee that got Lyon to the Saints.

 

[Lore]

With six of them no one is going to be able to outvote anyone else with their biases anyway. It's a good number

 

[Dave]

It's a good mix. Very Un-Essendon.

This.

 

[rumply]

With six of them no one is going to be able to outvote anyone else with their biases anyway. It's a good number

At last an actual fair dinkum process.