Club Mgmt. Board of Directors as led by President Dave Barham

Remove this Banner Ad

 
Last edited:
The number 1 thing we need is the board to 100% agree on an external panel to select a new coach, and then 100% agree on the coach they select.

When the board is split which it seems it has been for 15years you have absolutely no hope. It needs to be 1 team from the top down everyone pulling im the same direction.

President wonders why Geelong has 8 preliminary in 12 years, its because their board isn't full of in flighting ya *******.
 
mouncey2franklin said:
That's the thing. Clarksons's last six years at the Hawks produced ZERO finals wins.

It would have been much funnier to me if he had indeed gone to the Bombers (no offense).

I know you guys are upset at your club and rightly so, the board have screwed up royally, you're in a bad way.

However, at least you aren't stuck with Clarksons for five years on a million dollar contract.

A decent review, a few 'resignations', and you can dust yourselves off in no time. The footy industry moves fast.

Whereas we are now stuck for half a decade with a has-been who failed to win a final in his last six seasons at the Hawks.

Not his final two or three seasons. His last six seasons. It is truly remarkable.
Click to expand...
I am not so much disappointed we missed as I am about how shambolic we were about the process, leaving Truck high and dry all week. I probably preferred to stay with Rutten. But maybe say an element of Clarkos hard nosed approach that may have been good, maybe that is also partly recruiting too as a few have mentioned we have had a no dickhead policy a while that ay be that way but would drive standards withing the playing group.


While I say it may be a good wakeup call we have had a bunch of them in the last 15 years and still handle things like we did the last week and I don't think it surprises many.
 

Log in to remove this ad.

Old Campaigner said:
Caro has picked it like a dirty nose in her article this morning.
Click to expand...
Hammer on nail.

The schism ideally helps the conflict, but i think both sides need to clear out.

Burn everything to the ground and rebuild from the ashes

List
Board
Executive
Operations

And enough with the legends
 
From the article. How in the **** does Dodoro have as much/if not more influence than his bosses the Head ofFootball and the ****ing CEO?

****ing boys club.

"Essendon great Matthew Lloyd in recent days referred to the cultural issues plaguing the club. He might not agree, but the aforementioned messiah complex was never better demonstrated than by this week’s emerging campaign to reinstate James Hird as coach of the club. Barham will have to demonstrate significant resolve to control that push as it unrolls in coming days.

It is a campaign fuelled by a significant section of diehard Bombers but is now being driven by the club’s veteran list manager and recruiter Adrian Dodoro and his cohort, which includes Kevin Sheedy and Mark Harvey. Hird has not spoken publicly."

...

"Dodoro has emerged as a significant player in the in-house schism that has turned toxic in recent months. His fallout with football boss Josh Mahoney reflects just how much more difficult Rutten’s job must have been when two such pivotal figures lost faith in each other.

With Sheedy’s support, Dodoro has made his feelings on Mahoney more than clear. It is not known how Dodoro’s performance fared on paper in Mahoney’s review, which was conducted with oversight from football director Sean Wellman, but the long-time recruiter believes Mahoney has been after him for some time.

Should Xavier Campbell and Mahoney survive Barham’s external review — and that is not certain — then Dodoro definitely will not. Those relationships look irreparable."
 
The Prosecutor said:
From the article. How in the * does Dodoro have as much/if not more influence than his bosses the Head ofFootball and the ******* CEO?

******* boys club.

"Essendon great Matthew Lloyd in recent days referred to the cultural issues plaguing the club. He might not agree, but the aforementioned messiah complex was never better demonstrated than by this week’s emerging campaign to reinstate James Hird as coach of the club. Barham will have to demonstrate significant resolve to control that push as it unrolls in coming days.

It is a campaign fuelled by a significant section of diehard Bombers but is now being driven by the club’s veteran list manager and recruiter Adrian Dodoro and his cohort, which includes Kevin Sheedy and Mark Harvey. Hird has not spoken publicly."

...

"Dodoro has emerged as a significant player in the in-house schism that has turned toxic in recent months. His fallout with football boss Josh Mahoney reflects just how much more difficult Rutten’s job must have been when two such pivotal figures lost faith in each other.

With Sheedy’s support, Dodoro has made his feelings on Mahoney more than clear. It is not known how Dodoro’s performance fared on paper in Mahoney’s review, which was conducted with oversight from football director Sean Wellman, but the long-time recruiter believes Mahoney has been after him for some time.

Should Xavier Campbell and Mahoney survive Barham’s external review — and that is not certain — then Dodoro definitely will not. Those relationships look irreparable."
Click to expand...
Between Sheedy’s enabling him and Campbell’s seeming inability to either offload or control him….it’s Starting to sound like Dodo has far more influence than he should.
 
Entire board, and especially Sheedy, need to go. Stick to nailing the Grange.

Dodoro needs to **** the hell off.

Harvey, you can go too.

Campbell, on ya bike.




Nothing less than this will suffice.
 
Doss said:
Entire board, and especially Sheedy, need to go. Stick to nailing the Grange.

Dodoro needs to * the hell off.

Harvey, you can go too.

Campbell, on ya bike.




Nothing less than this will suffice.
Click to expand...

Is Harvey even there? Or is he just another Andrew Welsh figure hovering on the periphery.
 

(Log in to remove this ad.)

The Prosecutor said:
Is Harvey even there? Or is he just another Andrew Welsh figure hovering on the periphery.
Click to expand...
No he is not on the board. He is the coterie liaison and opposition club scout.
 
It turns out rock bottom isn't getting most of the list banned by WADA, it's reaching the point where giving Caro the keys to the Hanger would be an improvement
 
Visiting in a spirit of respect -- I hope you'll pardon the intrusion. My loyalties will be obvious but I also have some Essendon pedigree -- I grew up and went to school there, spent many an afternoon at Windy Hill, knew some of your real stars back in the day through local cricket and even played cricket for the club (in the fourths, no less!) many years ago. Most of all, I have lifelong friends who are Essendon supporters.
My interest is in seeing Essendon rebound with dignity and direction. The game needs your club in good shape -- it's important in preserving the best of the game, it's character and true spirit. From my perspective Essendon is a proper footy club with proper supporters. That's not something that can be said for all clubs, and it's enough reason for me to want you to succeed.
I could go on at length, but I'll get to the point. As of this morning, my read is that you have 24 hours to take your collective index finger off the self-destruct button and give yourselves time to find a way to exit gracefully from the current mess. Most of all, you do not have to come out of the board meeting tomorrow with a decision to sack the coach on grounds that "the trust is gone, the relationships are broken, it's all gone too far"... etc. It's seems obvious to me that if you do go down that route you are in for months (or years?) more turmoil and destruction.
The players have thrown you a lifeline. It's widely reported that they have torn strips off your new president because they're outraged at his treatment of the coach. Whatever you think of all the moving parts in that equation, one thing seems clear -- it demonstrates that, contrary to much published opinion, the coach has not lost the players.
I hope your president and other board members have taken that on board. If it is what I think it is, it can be leveraged for the parties to form a rapprochement and create some calmness out of chaos. Why not agree to go forward together, at least in the short term, and make some conciliatory and respectful statements to repair at least some of the damage? What happens after that would, of course, still be a matter of debate -- no options are forestalled by deciding not to commit some incendiary act in the immediate future.
Some will think I am on the wrong track... fair enough. This is a contribution in good faith.
 
When this story broke, I thought there was no way it was a last ditch effort. Inexplicable. They must have been having words for months behind the scenes.

What's come out is that it was last ditch. How on earth could they have reasonably thought that was a good idea?

About as dumb, unprofessional, disconnected from the modern world as you can get

The scary bit is Barham may be the best operator there. Currently mediocre at best. Sheedy on radio was shambolic. I dred to hear anyone else.

Deep,deep cuts are needed.
 
bomberlegend2007 said:
A question to people who know more than I do, if the external review just smoke and mirrors, what can the supporters do? Can the supporters form another ticket and overthrow the board?
Click to expand...

Read beyond the "former player/coach" part of Board candidates.

Sheedy/Madden/Wellman eat up our member-elected positions all because the membership base just see former player/coach and vote without thought.
 
Last edited:
Phone said:
he moved into an dual off-field role that was partly working with coterie groups

www.afl.com.au

Essendon champion to move on from coaches' box

After 22 years as an AFL assistant and senior coach, Mark Harvey will depart the AFL coaches' box on Saturday.
www.afl.com.au www.afl.com.au
Click to expand...
And if Harvey is a Hird man as has been suggested, it doesn’t take a whole lot of imagination to guess what some of the bloated coterie types are railing for behind the scenes.
 
kelvin_sheedy said:
When this story broke, I thought there was no way it was a last ditch effort. Inexplicable. They must have been having words for months behind the scenes.

What's come out is that it was last ditch. How on earth could they have reasonably thought that was a good idea?

About as dumb, unprofessional, disconnected from the modern world as you can get

The scary bit is Barham may be the best operator there. Currently mediocre at best. Sheedy on radio was shambolic. I dred to hear anyone else.

Deep,deep cuts are needed.
Click to expand...
A full gutting and disembowelment.
 
60 Yards Out said:
Visiting in a spirit of respect -- I hope you'll pardon the intrusion. My loyalties will be obvious but I also have some Essendon pedigree -- I grew up and went to school there, spent many an afternoon at Windy Hill, knew some of your real stars back in the day through local cricket and even played cricket for the club (in the fourths, no less!) many years ago. Most of all, I have lifelong friends who are Essendon supporters.
My interest is in seeing Essendon rebound with dignity and direction. The game needs your club in good shape -- it's important in preserving the best of the game, it's character and true spirit. From my perspective Essendon is a proper footy club with proper supporters. That's not something that can be said for all clubs, and it's enough reason for me to want you to succeed.
I could go on at length, but I'll get to the point. As of this morning, my read is that you have 24 hours to take your collective index finger off the self-destruct button and give yourselves time to find a way to exit gracefully from the current mess. Most of all, you do not have to come out of the board meeting tomorrow with a decision to sack the coach on grounds that "the trust is gone, the relationships are broken, it's all gone too far"... etc. It's seems obvious to me that if you do go down that route you are in for months (or years?) more turmoil and destruction.
The players have thrown you a lifeline. It's widely reported that they have torn strips off your new president because they're outraged at his treatment of the coach. Whatever you think of all the moving parts in that equation, one thing seems clear -- it demonstrates that, contrary to much published opinion, the coach has not lost the players.
I hope your president and other board members have taken that on board. If it is what I think it is, it can be leveraged for the parties to form a rapprochement and create some calmness out of chaos. Why not agree to go forward together, at least in the short term, and make some conciliatory and respectful statements to repair at least some of the damage? What happens after that would, of course, still be a matter of debate -- no options are forestalled by deciding not to commit some incendiary act in the immediate future.
Some will think I am on the wrong track... fair enough. This is a contribution in good faith.
Click to expand...
Please destroy carlton tomorrow.
 

Remove this Banner Ad

Club Mgmt. Board of Directors as led by President Dave Barham

Similar threads

Lore
  • Sticky
  • Poll
Win Prizes The Scales 2024 Essendon Board Poster of the Year - Congratulations Bonce!
Replies
19
Views
1K
Beerfish
Beerfish
Lore
  • Locked
Win Prizes The Scales 2024 Essendon Board Poster Of The Year - Nomination Thread
Replies
18
Views
865
Lore
Lore
BrunoV
Win Prizes The Essendon Board Talks 9/11
2 3 4 5
Replies
100
Views
2K
Kong
Kong
VelvetSledge
  • Locked
MVP 2024 BigFooty Essendon Board POTY Award - ZACH MERRETT wins again!
Replies
24
Views
3K
VelvetSledge
VelvetSledge
Lore
Mod. Notice Welcome Nuggs Bunny, new Essendon board mod!
Replies
13
Views
1K
Vindicater
Vindicater
Sporno 4 Pyros
Sport The Essendon Board’s Paris 2024 Olympics Thread
2 3
Replies
63
Views
2K
Sporno 4 Pyros
Sporno 4 Pyros
Nuggs Bunny
Competitions 2024 Essendon Board My Boy Draft - Round 2 now started
4 5 6 7 8
Replies
191
Views
7K
doug85
doug85

Remove this Banner Ad

Back
Top