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Merrett is set to attend the Brownlow Medal with his teammates on Monday night.<\/p>\n
But those threatening to challenge Barham\u2019s board believe \u201cthe club has been left rudderless and the Barham era has left a legacy of division, instability, player drainage and lost opportunity\u201d, according to Morris.<\/p>\n
\u201cA major board challenge is imminent at Essendon. In the wake of an off-season of turmoil, key powerbrokers – including at least one former player – are preparing a movement which would oust David Barham as president, and other directors too,\u201d he said on Nine News.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve spoken to one of the key powerbrokers tonight, who says this is not coterie-driven, and it\u2019s just a manner of when and not if the challenge takes place.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a view the club has been left rudderless and the Barham era has left a legacy of division, instability, player drainage and lost opportunity from this group of people.\u201d<\/p>\n
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – NewsWire Photos SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2022: Newly-appointed senior coach Brad Scott, with Essendon President David Barham, speaking to the media at the NEC Hangar. Picture: NCA NewsWire \/ Nicki ConnollySource: News Corp Australia<\/p>\n
Barham took over as president in August 2022, having been a club director since late 2015.<\/p>\n
He quickly oversaw the sacking of Ben Rutten and appointed ex-North Melbourne boss Brad Scott as coach.<\/p>\n
Barham has been involved in football since the early 1990s, previously running AFL Films and Channel Ten\u2019s coverage of the game through the 2000s.<\/p>\n
He saw off a contested board election in late 2024, receiving 5560 votes with Paul Weston receiving 3829, and Melissa Verner Green receiving 3016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More chaos is looming at Essendon with president Dave Barham\u2019s board set to be challenged by insurgents in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,85,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-158628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}