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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    51

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    193cm

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    90kg

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    14.1

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    9.7

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    8.0

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    3.6

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    2.6

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    0.8

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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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  42

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  190cm

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  98kg

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  13.4

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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

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    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

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

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    39

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    186cm

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    86kg

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    23.5

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    310.5

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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

 

[yodellinhank]

Fitness program overhaul?

 

[Beerfish]

greater player and coach access next year.

Ha!

 

[TheGrizz]

Increasing our development coaching staff from 2.5 to 5.5 coaches next year (presumably the .5 is part timers).
Also investing $$$ into the VFL program and appointing a full time VFL head coach.

Meanwhile, Truck is somewhere screaming 'THANKS FOR THE HELP, EVERYONE'

 

[TheGrizz]

Ha!

Finally get someone on the pod?

 

[DonsRule]

Increasing our development coaching staff from 2.5 to 5.5 coaches next year (presumably the .5 is part timers).
Also investing $$$ into the VFL program and appointing a full time VFL head coach.

Meanwhile, Truck is somewhere screaming 'THANKS FOR THE HELP, EVERYONE'

Thats probably the part that will make it hard to judge Truck on. Its welcome of course long overdue. But could have made a ton of difference to him too. Almost like Knights/ to Hird. Not about the coaches, but the money spend of the footy dept a step in the right direction.

 

[MarkJohnson#1]

Well on the surface we are setting ourselves up for success.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Fitness program overhaul?

I mean it wouldn't be a real off-season without one.

 

[Mr Mojo Risin]

What a lot of fluff, where the **** is the sacking of Dodoro.

 

[Lore]

Increasing our development coaching staff from 2.5 to 5.5 coaches next year (presumably the .5 is part timers).
Also investing $$$ into the VFL program and appointing a full time VFL head coach.

Meanwhile, Truck is somewhere screaming 'THANKS FOR THE HELP, EVERYONE'

I read it in connection with the previous line so the 3 new FT roles in player development are GM-Performance, Head of Development and VFL Head Coach. But the VFL coach already existed as a part time role so that's only adding 0.5 overall compared to 2022.

To get from 2.5 in 2022 to 5.5 in 2023 there must be another part-time role being added as well, which might be Hurley's role in the Jack Jones Academy + VFL? Guessing the other two roles that are already full time must be Tudor and Roberts. Not sure where Fletch fits in or if he gave it away..? Was originally thinking the 2.0 might be 4x part time assistant but it's not adding up


The other interesting thing re: VFL is that they haven't backed in Brent Stanton as the VFL Head Coach in question, just "VFL coach will be full-time and will be an EFC coach".

 

[Lore]

What a lot of fluff, where the * is the sacking of Dodoro.

Patience, the draft isn't until the end of November

Also this:

 

[Lore]

Fitness program overhaul?

I swear like two years ago they were saying the players were overdoing it?

Or are some overdoing it and some under-doing it?

 

[yodellinhank]

I swear like two years ago they were saying the players were overdoing it?

Or are some overdoing it and some under-doing it?

They weren't doing it smart, I think.

Just curious McCartney was involved and that they're recommending changes to the high performance side of things.

Wonder if Punxsutawney Phil could fill us in on how long this weather pattern is going to last.

 

[Zach Package]

We’ve also lost our James Hird Academy coach who has taken up the equivalent role with the Pies, so maybe that becomes a part time role and they add a FTE somewhere else?

 

[Schnitzengruben]

Wait do we still owe Rutten $600k? I thought that amount (or part of it) was waived because he got a job at Richmond.

 

[Howard Moon]

Did I read a first nations board member? Wonder how and who

 

[Lore]

Wait do we still owe Rutten $600k? I thought that amount (or part of it) was waived because he got a job at Richmond.

Yeah it's offset by whatever he earns at Richmond. If they pay him what we were paying him then we get out of all of it. If less, then we pay the difference.

 

[Lore]

Did I read a first nations board member? Wonder how and who

I'm hoping for Michael Long, and if not Longy, someone similarly qualified.

 

[STANTS]

We want to be a club and not a business again that's what it says. Let pray to god we actually do it haven't been this excited about a communication from the club in 15 years. Hopefully I'm not dissapointed

 

[ant555]

I swear like two years ago they were saying the players were overdoing it?

Or are some overdoing it and some under-doing it?

I remember Murphy saying a while ago that the players need to learn how to train at the level. Maybe some more support in this area .

 

[Yoda_]

If this isn't further evidence that our (once great) club drinks its own bath water twice then nothing will ever change.


So many points that are coming out have been yelled from the roof tops for a decade.

Fitness is an issue, has been for some time it feels like,
development for as long as most can remember,
drafting and list strategy is as poor as any start up in the last 15 years,
indigenous heritage has been lost,


all points made in recent years but fallen on deaf ears.

All in the mean time the same people making the same dumb mistakes continue to hold positions of significant power. No wonder we are a basket case

 

[Beerfish]

Yeah it's offset by whatever he earns at Richmond. If they pay him what we were paying him then we get out of all of it. If less, then we pay the difference.

I heard he was doing the first 12 months for free.

 

[andleanback]

Geeze the boys better be rock hard fit for round 1 next year. Have repeatedly heard from heppell that was the hardest preseason ever etc etc. don’t think many of the guys know what hard training is.

 

[Lore]

If this isn't further evidence that our (once great) club drinks its own bath water twice then nothing will ever change.


So many points that are coming out have been yelled from the roof tops for a decade.

Fitness is an issue, has been for some time it feels like,
development for as long as most can remember,
drafting and list strategy is as poor as any start up in the last 15 years,
indigenous heritage has been lost,


all points made in recent years but fallen on deaf ears.

All in the mean time the same people making the same dumb mistakes continue to hold positions of significant power. No wonder we are a basket case

Its nice to have your shouting from the rooftops finally acknowledged by the people who can actually do something about it though right

 

[ant555]

If this isn't further evidence that our (once great) club drinks its own bath water twice then nothing will ever change.


So many points that are coming out have been yelled from the roof tops for a decade.

Fitness is an issue, has been for some time it feels like,
development for as long as most can remember,
drafting and list strategy is as poor as any start up in the last 15 years,
indigenous heritage has been lost,


all points made in recent years but fallen on deaf ears.

All in the mean time the same people making the same dumb mistakes continue to hold positions of significant power. No wonder we are a basket case

Interesting the review mentions trading standards. Have been told some of the fitness issues are related to a lack of precision in recovery and the basics which was why Murphy mentioned the players needing to learn how to train at the level.

A few not ticking all the boxes .

 

[jmoo wan]

I heard he was doing the first 12 months for free.

that would be ****ing brilliant!