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Sure ... you can certainly look at it that way. JB "promised" H1 and PL "promised" Q1. Remember back on production discussions and nameplate (or steady state) when KP was saying first half and BL was Q1 .... same same for me really.

Just on a point of order though ... JB is NOT the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sayona Mining (SYA). He was the Chair of the AGM meeting only (just like Paul Crawford was the chair of the prior AGM).

So while you might like to hang JB for "crimes against SYA" he is not guilty of breaking his first half "promise" ... that's one you can hang on PL and it is not up to JB to correct him or put out a correcting statement. Their argument would be it wasn't contradictory. One was a more "conservative" expectation and the other a more aggressive expectation but in any case H1 incorporates Q1.

PL is the Chairman of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee (which also includes Buckler and newly appointed NED Lucas Dow). He is the one breaking the promise if you don't get a hot shot Chairman in Q1.

Now as far a "promise" goes ... I don't recall that either used that descriptor, and sure the market will scruntinize every word ... which is why I'm sure neither would have said "I promise that by the end of Q1 that an Independent Chairman will have been appointed". HC saying it was promised doesn't make it a promise ... just like all those nameplate discussions, Greenbushes of the North, yada yada yada.