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
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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
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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

 

[Mr Mojo Risin]

Intrigued as to who else. Lloyd’s a clear top 5 from that era both in talent and actual performance.

Lloyd was great in a one dimensional kind of way.

I think Hird, Mercuri, Long, Fletcher from the same era were better. From previous eras then there’s a bunch more.

Lloyd was hard working and efficient and benefitted from a strong team. He’s up in Essendon’s best ever 22 and probably scrapes in top 5 in the same 2000 team for me.

 

[The Donners]

Who's favourite for CEO ? Auld ?

I wonder if any applicants that missed the job initially are still interested or if we had to start again in the background?

I think I’m right in saying EY aren’t involved in this process so perhaps previous applicants taken with a grain of salt.

 

[frodos gardener]

 

[Lore]

Head of Performance or GM of Performance?

 

[faible]

Head of Performance or GM of Performance?

Might need to wait for the official EFC press release to be sure

 

[Beerfish]

Is this good?

 

[yodellinhank]

Is this good?

No.

 

[faible]

I'm also waiting for someone who knows anything about these people to tell me how to feel about it.

 

[andleanback]

Wtf is going on. It sounds like we’ve just created 2 new roles for the sake of it. Roberts involved with our development which has been poor now elevated to head of development, and we get the bloke who just got sacked at north. Mahoney gets a mate a job who’ll be under his wing. This reeks

 

[Lore]

I'm also waiting for someone who knows anything about these people to tell me how to feel about it.

I think McPherson might have links to Mahoney from Melbourne days — not sure if the dates overlap but they did both work there. If true, presumably they at least they know they work together well? And he’s had a similar role before so he’s qualified for it. And a football person/former player.

Don’t know anything else about him but that he appears to tick the boxes at least superficially.

Can’t see any issues with the Roberts appointment but ant555 or eth-dog might have some ideas about it.

I think it’s interesting that Roberts and Tudor are both being promoted. Implies that we have good people at the club who are capable of doing these roles but needed more support… perhaps ended up doing a lot of lower level work that needed to be done and couldn’t do the higher level stuff as a result? Covid etc

 

[Zach Package]

Roberts was part time and is now full time with a broader remit.

McPherson was just hopefully in the wrong place at the wrong time when North imploded. He certainly looks like he’s been through the ringer.

 

[naraku]

Tough little player McPherson.
Hopefully he has some of that to install into the player's.

But as others have said, not sure of his off field acumen.

 

[citizen-erased]

Roberts was part time and is now full time with a broader remit.

McPherson was just hopefully in the wrong place at the wrong time when North imploded. He certainly looks like he’s been through the ringer.

Checks for links to essendon historically

Nope

Tick on mcpherson.

 

[TheGrizz]

In fairness to McPherson, he was sacked from Norf cause Clarkson wanted Viney as a package deal and got it.
He was at Melbourne when they won the flag last year and took over at Norf in November 2021, so basically whilst already in full tank mode.

Cam Roberts was working part time with what we now know (due to external review) to be an under funded coaching and development department.

Who knows how good they are in those roles.

 

[jmoo wan]

Siri, "Google Dan McPherson"

nice appointment - he looks ripped

 

[Howard Moon]

Siri, "Google Dan McPherson"

nice appointment - he looks ripped

lacks definition in the little finger - delist

 

[Maxabillions]

This is a moronic/savvy appointment.

This club will never change/is finally showing signs it’s heading it the right direction.

 

[Beerfish]

This is a moronic/savvy appointment.

This club will never change/is finally showing signs it’s heading it the right direction.

Bookmarked

 

[eth-dog]

I think McPherson might have links to Mahoney from Melbourne days — not sure if the dates overlap but they did both work there. If true, presumably they at least they know they work together well? And he’s had a similar role before so he’s qualified for it. And a football person/former player.

Don’t know anything else about him but that he appears to tick the boxes at least superficially.

Can’t see any issues with the Roberts appointment but ant555 or eth-dog might have some ideas about it.

I think it’s interesting that Roberts and Tudor are both being promoted. Implies that we have good people at the club who are capable of doing these roles but needed more support… perhaps ended up doing a lot of lower level work that needed to be done and couldn’t do the higher level stuff as a result? Covid etc

I don't have any strong feelings either way on them. Roberts had good results with Uni Blacks in the VAFA from memory.

 

[Nifft]

No.

 

[FlyingV]

Brent Stanton

Brent Stanton

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would want to start getting some wins on the board. Sacked from Carlton as an assistant coach, our VFL coach last year and we were putrid and now he’s our contested ball coach… plenty to develop there!

 

[Zach Package]

Weren’t we above average to excellent in the VFL on weekends where we had a half decent cohort in?

 

[Duckworth]

lacks definition in the little finger - delist

Palmaris longus too defined - delist.

 

[Beerfish]

Weren’t we above average to excellent in the VFL on weekends where we had a half decent cohort in?

The exception that proves the rule?

 

[eth-dog]

I'm willing to forgive Stanton a bit because our VFL list was putrid for the most part and on top of that we were seriously KPP heavy all year.