Yep. Never heard from since.
Tommy? You listening?
Oh…
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You’re kidding yourself.
We don’t have a CEO. They attempted to employ a board member’s mate, who had some looney views, and walked out when they were publicised.
We tried to recruit Clakko with zero process.
These are things that Barham, or his backers, did.
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Oh well.
Get X and little back for that stability we are so famous for.
Even if you let Barham keep going till the place is razed to the ground it’s still a better result.
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Barham worked through Hisgrove on the external review and on the coach panel.
Her football knowledge appears to be largely related to being a supporter ( of Collingwood prior to her appointment).
And she spent an unknown amount of her time during these tasks visiting family and holidaying in an Iberian holiday resort.
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Imagine we still had x,brasher and co
We would still have rutten and just trodding along mediocre as we have been the last 20 years
Yep Barham has made some mistakes but he’s done what no one else has done before and thats to say “enough is enough” and shake the club up
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Yes. I acknowledged that mistake.
We sure did. I’m not convinced that at the time that was a mistake. It certainly looks more like one in hindsight. Let’s not kid ourselves that the vast majority of Essendon fans would have been over the moon if we’d signed Clarkson.
Barham’s not perfect and has made mistakes. But if you gave me a choice of Barham, Brasher and Little as president it’s Barham by the length of the Flemington straight.
And now is the absolute worst time to be chucking out the entire board and starting again.
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Andrew Muir and Andrew Welsh’s seats are up for election, I imagine there would’ve been a number of people planning to nominate to challenge for those seats a few months ago but that number I suspect will have reduced after Andrew W was added to the ballot.
There’s been a fair bit of internal shuffling between elected and appointed seats the last few years making it tough to keep track of but off the top of my head I think it might be Kate O’Sullivan’s appointed term which ends this year, though without any knowledge of their plans I imagine if so she’ll likely be given a second term in the seat.
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What we members need — what the Club needs — is a Board spill at the AGM. That way, the membership could appoint the whole Board at once and change the Constitution to limit severely the number of Board-appointed members to (say) two only out of nine. That won’t happen, because the business types (mainly ageing males) will use all their corporate tricks and do whatever it takes to keep control of the Club. We can look forward to spending the next 20 years seeing this once-great Football Club continue as the ego massage toy of a handful of self-important business “leaders.”
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No we don’t. Essendon doesn’t need further disruption. Brad Scott and team now require a settled Club. External review completed and about to be rolled out, CEO is pending. I think the vast majority of supporters (per recent fan voters noted on socials) now want the Club to proceed with changes communicated and pending and ensure support for a revitalised football department.
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At Hawthorn, members get to vote for the President.
Two are standing for the Presidency this year, so members will actually get to choose.
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So you prefer a self-perpetuating board of whom only two members are directly answerable to the membership for their positions ?
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I’m comfortable Barham will lead in a very different way to previous Presidents and is taking the Club down an alternative path, recognising need for cultural change, a refocus on football and widespread changes across the entire Club and footy department.
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so avoiding the whole part of the board should represent the members?
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Time will tell
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Seems like she was still acting as a cwood supporter when she was on the panel that selected AT.
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That may well be but it doesnt answer the question of whether the board should be responsible to the members. At the moment they’re not.
Probably what should happen is the board should put an alteration to the consitution on the number of board positions voted by members to the membership, spill themselves and run for election.
They probaby get voted in anyway, but there would be member buy in and ownership.
I am not longer a member so it no longer affects me, but not having buy in and the appalling decisions made over the past fifteen years by a board we couldnt change, are some of the reasons I am no longer a member.
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We all hope that he will - but it is only hope - what if he doesn’t ?
Let’s hope for the best. I don’t want to think about the alternative. Chins up😄
Now I know you do not believe in democracy perce, but all Members get a vote and are also eligible to stand for the Board.
There are six elected Board Members who do three year terms.
If you want to stand, I will run your campaign.
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Which means two a year. Bad odds. You want to get them all up for election at the same time, i.e., work a spill at the AGM.
And thank you for your offer, but you’d be wasting your time with me. There are too many old blokes past 50 clogging up the place already. If you really want to run a controversial candidate, find a high-profile indigenous woman under 50, either an ex-Essendon footballer or a well-known activist. Someone from Northcote, perhaps…
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