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
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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

 

[The Donners]

Yeah, he wasn't a divisive influence at all.

Well you can’t have your cake and eat it too. If you want to bring change and half the board members don’t, you’re either going to be quiet or you’re going to talk up and be divisive are you not?

 

[Zephyr Effekt]

I’m not sure anyone who knows anything about James Hird can think Hird is whiteanting through Robbo, even if he was he’s far too smart to do it through Slobbo anyway so it wouldn’t look like this.

Sheeds and the coteries are driving that train.

What's the motivation to keep pushing the agenda of an unwilling participant.

The love needs to be reciprocated at some point, just seems like a fruitless exercise otherwise.

 

[Zach Package]

What's the motivation to keep pushing the agenda of an unwilling participant.

The love needs to be reciprocated at some point, just seems like a fruitless exercise otherwise.

Reckon it’s more worship than love, and wanting to exert some control.

Robbo now going hard at Mahoney, but that’s a more obvious case of Dodoro pushing a barrow.

 

[Zephyr Effekt]

Sheeds and Dodo next please, in due course.

Let's just hope when the time comes they go for the head.

 

[ant555]

Reckon it’s more worship than love, and wanting to exert some control.

Robbo now going hard at Mahoney, but that’s a more obvious case of Dodoro pushing a barrow.

Robbo is going hard at Mahoney because he was not in the Hird camp.

 

[naraku]

Robbo needs to piss off. He's not helping EFC with his garbage, just Dodo/Sheeds which for the most part is a redundant push.

 

[ghostdog]

I'm on the Barham bandwagon now. I wanted his head after his first couple of f* ups but he's getting s**t done now so good on him.

Also, can people stop sooking about the review and it's findings? Yes we are all experts and knew we needed improvements in all these areas long before an external review reminded us but gee can we just let the process run its course now..?

I too am on the Barham bandwagon, in spite of it all, because I want stability, but I'm not about to simply accept what the club dishes up anymore either.

It would be dumb to forget the kind of person Dave Barham is and the way he went about getting us to where we are. He's a political animal. There's a difference between sooking and looking at what we're being told with a critical eye, which we should, lest we be duped by that politician. There's nothing wrong with asking questions.

 

[ghostdog]

Well you can’t have your cake and eat it too. If you want to bring change and half the board members don’t, you’re either going to be quiet or you’re going to talk up and be divisive are you not?

You can object to the MO though.

 

[BrunoV]

Who are these people?

Mainly self-obsessed people who pass the outpouring of emotions, feelings and appeals to authority off as thinking.

They mostly congregate around Twitter.

 

[frodos gardener]

I too am on the Barham bandwagon, in spite of it all, because I want stability, but I'm not about to simply accept what the club dishes up anymore either.

You’re the guy walking alongside, reluctantly and a little deflated, but still there nonetheless. And that’s okay.

 

[Mootsy]

It's funny being here now.
Remember 2012, we were 8-1 and then smashed the eagles in that game.
You could see the team gained a lot of strength in the pre-season and were playing superb. We looked like Geelong and Hawthorn physically.
BT mentions in that game how this is a new era for Essendon, we had Hird, Thompson, Robinson as the fitness coach on the bench and it looked like we might have been on the cusp of becoming a great football side like Geelong and Hawthorn etc..

I feel like that was THE chance for Essendon to return to being great, and to think all of that was thrown out because of zero clarity of Thymosin and TB4, i mean, it's just, some bizzare comedy script gone very wrong...

That team was the team to do it, Hocking, Hardingham, Jobe, Stanton, Hurley, Davey, Ryder, etc all playing great and very fit etc..

I know it's silly in retrospect, but had that administration and everyone just found a way to hold it all together and resolved those issues behind closed door privately and not self inflicted, then we might have become a great side and maybe won a flag by now

The problem i have with our current side, is we don't see to have that core strength and fitness base.

 

[Doss]

Truth Social is where the best thinkers congregate imho

 

[Lore]

Travis Auld in the mix and apparently outsourcing again but not to EY so starting over…

Why haven’t the Bombers called highly rated boss?

Essendon’s raid on the AFL could continue with executive Travis Auld expected to feature on the shortlist of candidates to become the club’s next chief executive.

www.codesports.com.au

 

[ghostdog]

You’re the guy walking alongside, reluctantly and a little deflated, but still there nonetheless. And that’s okay.

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Yes, that's me.

 

[thebigboy]

Travis Auld in the mix and apparently outsourcing again but not to EY so starting over…

Why haven’t the Bombers called highly rated boss?

Essendon’s raid on the AFL could continue with executive Travis Auld expected to feature on the shortlist of candidates to become the club’s next chief executive.

www.codesports.com.au

Wouldn't complain about that. You would have the think that he would have a good working relationship in place with Scott, an understanding of the influences that the coteries have from his past time here and some pretty good intel on other clubs from his role at HQ.

Keen to find out who else is on the shortlist if Swann isn't on there.

 

[faible]

Wouldn't complain about that. You would have the think that he would have a good working relationship in place with Scott, an understanding of the influences that the coteries have from his past time here and some pretty good intel on other clubs from his role at HQ.

Keen to find out who else is on the shortlist if Swann isn't on there.

Surely the more AFL House people we bring in the better right, get Head Office on board with some beneficial rule changes.

 

[Zach Package]

Surely the more AFL House people we bring in the better right, get Head Office on board with some beneficial rule changes.

‘Anyone that can run a 14+ beep test is banned’ would make us instant premiership contenders

 

[Dave]

‘Anyone that can run a 14+ beep test is banned’ would make us instant premiership contenders

I used to coach a kid whose dad was convinced he'd make it to the AFL on the back of his beep test. Nice kid. Crazy as **** father. Needless to say he didn't get close.

 

[ant555]

I used to coach a kid whose dad was convinced he'd make it to the AFL on the back of his beep test. Nice kid. Crazy as * father. Needless to say he didn't get close.

There was a kid who came through the system I was doing some development work in who ran a 16.1 beep at 17. Good kid. Handy player but only played Div 1 for three years and played 50/50 seniors and reserves. Ended up playing in Div 3 for 5 or so years before he retired. He is s till a very successful personal trainer .

 

[thebigboy]

Surely the more AFL House people we bring in the better right, get Head Office on board with some beneficial rule changes.

Still don't like our chances to get a good run with the umpires

 

[frodos gardener]

Still don't like our chances to get a good run with the umpires

I reckon we got a fair run overall this year, for the first time in over 12 years.

 

[DonsRule]

 

[Petrify]

Would be fking awesome

 

[VelvetSledge]

Great move. For all the shortcomings, Barham is getting shit done.

Love to see it.

 

[Happyskeret]

Great move. For all the shortcomings, Barham is getting s**t done.

Love to see it.

I think that’s terrific news