Agm

[andoplzcumbak]

No one got anything on the AGM?

It’s affy quiet in here the now?

[Pacman1903]

Sign of the times min.

What i did gather was alot of usual attendees didnt go

[57vintage]

I was there.

Far bigger attendance than in the past ten years.

Leaving tributes to fowk leaving (although some will be biding on).

Buchan and Cormack re-elected by rotation.

New stadium stuff very cagey (consultation, financial plan, timescale).

Back-slapping on training complex.

Wiggy choking.

Sorry, Wiggy choking back the tears in his farewell speech which drew a standing ovation. I clapped politely, but stayed seated. He is NOT Frankie McDougall or Kevin Rowland or Rory Gallagher or Gerry Rafferty or Joe Harper or John Byrne.

Cormack full of promises but he canna deliver a gag to save his life. Tumbleweed.

Questions from former board member Jim Cummings on finance and structure.

Question on Gleeson "looking to move him on in January for mutual benefit", says the gaffer.

"Why nae indoor pitch at Alford East?" Would have raised further objections from the W.A.N.K.S. seemed to be the response, with concomitant* conditions applied, but there are possibilities for future development.

That was aboot it. I didna sample the tea or coffee.

* a term I've had to use in my former professional life for a long time, so **** off, Traynor

[andoplzcumbak]

I read somewhere recently about Cormack having a go at the stewarding.. good stuff if true

[afc1903mad]

I was there.

Far bigger attendance than in the past ten years.

Sign of the times min.

What i did gather was alot of usual attendees didnt go

[57vintage]

^^^^^The statements are not necessarily mutually exclusive^^^^^

I'm aware of shareholders who have normally attended who gave it a miss this time, due to the same apathy that sees them missing more matches than usual.

[Jussi]

What was highest wage to a director this year ?

[Pacman1903]

The statements dinna have to be linked min

There were folk on here saying they gave it a miss for the first time in years. I also know people who shunned it too. Many of whom have been going for years.

Edit-vintage beat me to it

[afc1903mad]

The statements dinna have to be linked min

There were folk on here saying they gave it a miss for the first time in years. I also know people who shunned it too. Many of whom have been going for years.

Edit-vintage beat me to it

True, they are not mutually exclusive, but if the many that didn’t go this time were replaced by more that did attend what does that imply.

What I gathered was that there was many well kent faces there.

[57vintage]

What I took from it, having missed very few AGMs since 1995, was that interest was piqued by the burning issues of a new régime and its plans, the opaque tie-in with Atlanta (and if Cormack uses the business cliché ‘best practice’ one more time, there’s a green-ink letter appearing in his in-tray), and development issues over Alford East. That would part-explain the increased attendance that even Wiggy acknowledged. It’s a far cry from December 1996, though, when it was conducted in the Capitol.

I know of at least three shareholders, and prominent ‘nay-sayers’, whose attendance pattern matches my own, who have become so fed up with AFC’s state of torpor onfield and off the field, that they didn’t bother this time.