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This is a load of tripe this rubbish about the Patrons Trust.
This was clearly always 2nd option to the Knights - or they wouldn't have been wanting to continue discussions with Tinkler as late as today ( Tinkler pulled out on the Knights - not vice versa ). Tew has been mentioned in a quote himself saying how much better Tinklers offer was in comparison.
*And if the Tinkler offer was so bad like Tew is now trying to play and this Patrons Model is so good - then why were the Knights not the ones to pull out of discussions with Tinkler?
* Why were the Knights still wanting to proceed with a meeting with Tinkler today at 2pm even after last nights press release, that quoted the Tew as remaining ' optimistic ' they would ' reach an agreement ' to present to members after today?
The Knights can play it any way they like post fallout but they come off looking just as bad as anyone else in all of this.
Some members will fall for it though.
Talk about media spin and getting the runner up cheque.
Eh?
By the sounds of things..
The original offer Tinkler made that we saw in the media and was 'outlined' to the Knights, the same one that was agreed to by the Knights 'in principal', was definitely (and obviously) superior.
The actual, elaborated, formalised offer was significantly less than the above and was deemed to be inferior to the Patrons' Trust.
I know we can't take it as gospel, or even as truth or fact, but if we were to believe the release by Burro & Tew, have you missed the notion that the offer has substantially changed (read: deteriorated)?
I suspect the reason the Knights still wanted to proceed with negotiations was so they were able to transform the actual offer back into the original offer/promise...
I'm not really taking sides though, Karma - it is hard for me to definitively do that when really I know very little about what actually happened, just explaining how I understood and interpreted it if Burro & Tew are being truthful... but I guess based on your post, you don't believe they are being truthful?
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