RE: CA - FURIOUS FRIDAY2 Sep 2022 13:45
careful - quite agree both points
i separate the 2 issues
CEO is not a talker. but Chair is (too) smooth as oil talker. Chair should have been front of camera and phone showboating to marketplace HUR's new phoenix cash cow status (+ soon to be revealed 'forward plan'). Why didn't he? You and I would have. Lot harder to run SP down had company been front centre news for past month
Forward plan - EPL clarity awaited (I get that). Against that, P8 been on drawing board for now 18 months, Benefit of doubt to Bod. But doesn't justify deafening o beating of drums silence since bods paid and $89 mill cash announced.
My concern is safe-salaried zero-risk Chair, CEO & CFO are trying to 'wait-out' CA, believing CA fund dec 23 windup target may induce CA to 'cut & run' as time elapses. 'doing nowt' and we'll survive in our jobs intact historically works remarkably well.
But CA have been down such road before. Instinct tells me they may decide that, SP being so persistently damaged, any short term hiatus is better than further ignored prodding of bad guys. I bet the farm CA are NOT happy bunnies today.
My own view - better to get rid of all 3 senior execs - if not, minimum get new Chair with the balls to (a) make CEO & CFO act responsibly (b) properly promote HUR in media.