spp, page-24

Aero, I think you are correct and this is what I was alluding to in my earlier post.

If you owned less than 75,000 shares and wanted a free options on the results over the next couple of weeks then selling now is a real option available. The other issue is that some holders may sell to be able to fund the cost of taking part in the SPP.

The risk being that you may get scaled back.