This is the sharpest challenge we have had, and you are right on the mechanics. We are not claiming we can outvote Dermot Desmond. Given his holding, a few per cent of aggregated supporter shares does not win a poll, and anyone telling members otherwise is selling a fantasy. It is not 1994, and we have never pretended it is.
So what does it actually do:
Most of what we ask needs no vote at all. Publish a strategy. Set up a fan advisory board. Publish a capital-allocation policy. A board does not lose a poll on these. It either concedes them or refuses in public and owns the optics. That is pressure, not arithmetic.
A resolution forced onto the AGM paper makes the board answer on the record and be seen to vote it down. A dissenting bloc that grows year on year, and a vote-against that climbs, is a signal that compounds and draws exactly the scrutiny a board prefers to avoid.
The coalition point you make yourself is the real prize, and it is why an organising vehicle has to exist. You cannot coordinate tens of thousands of scattered holders, or open a serious conversation with larger shareholders, without a body that holds shares and pools votes. CSL is the nucleus that makes that possible. The 5% is a tool on the way, not the destination.
We are honest that this is a long game measured in years, not a single AGM. The alternative is the status quo, where the scattered majority of owners have no organised voice at all. We would rather build the thing that one day can.
@JamTarts Unless your manager is ok with it as he was at Killie when he got them promoted. The media labelled that pitch invasion as "beautiful scenes". Hypocrites.
@JakeKeir @Jaxzcsc @aboutceltic But if you look at those crosses the defender essentially forced him to the line. He did everything he could to avoid it.
Was talking to a mate when those crosses went in saying "he got forced into making a play there"!
@Jaxzcsc @aboutceltic If he ever went past a man and put a ball in I would accept your argument. But since he just passes the ball back the the defenders every time the strikers arent to blame.
British politicians, British police force British soldiers helped murder children in Northern Ireland purely because they were catholic and then covered it up. Not a lie , it’s been proven.