Ann: Sky secures exclusive Premier League football rights in NZ, page-8

With decisions like these it's no wonder Mr Market struggles to give Sky a fair PE multiple.

All things being equal, that $40M could have gone towards resuming a dividend last year.

And the idea that we would not have retained the rugby contract if we didn't buy RP to demonstrate how "with it" we are as a company is quite frankly laughable.

I bought into the spiel at the time and had high hopes, but I see now that management panicked near rugby renewal time and overpaid massively for a pretty shitty asset.

As I say, Pooman had better deliver something good on Thursday.

He has plenty of cash at his disposal despite management trying their best to squander it.

Surely he can't f* this up. Especially with all the various 'Helpers' he has hired!

*gulp*