Hi Intel011. Re your post 03 Feb - I strongly agree with your...

Hi Intel01

1. Re your post 03 Feb - I strongly agree with your comment about Adder's sleuthing work - he is very good like that, and we all benefit from it.

2. I also noticed your other comment about "rather than living on feedback from Directors". Hmmmm.

3. For what it's worth, my absolute take is that we shareholders 'need' a mix of (a) paperwork 'research' as we can find it, and (b) the perceptions about integrity of directors as far as can be detected by personal handshakes and looking in the eye. IMHO if the stars on BOTH of those angles appear to 'line up', then individual smaller investors (who by and large can't do much) can at least go forward with some enhanced level of confidence. I'd like to think you can agree with this - we NEED BOTH inputs to build confidence. Even though what actually happens will take time to unfold (and may be different) we surely need perceived 'confidence' along the road, or we reasonably make our own call and ditch our MST investment and happily move on.

4. I think probably less than 5% of MST shareholders actually swap notes on the Hot Copper forum here - the other 95% do their own thing. So far as our HC community are concerned:
a - At the end of the day we are all in this together. As shareholders, if AWD does well, I do well, you do well, and everybody else with a position does well. On the other hand, if I lose everything, you lose everything, and everybody else loses everything (at least the shareholders).
b. So given we are all in this together, it kinda seems that wherever possible we should all just enjoy everybody's contributions as their own honest attempt (good or bad) to add to the mix of which way the road may be turning?

5. I hope you can agree with my sentiments here, intel01 - especially that we really need BOTH types of inputs for our own overall assessment; and that we are all in this together i.e. 'on the same side'.

When it's all over, in my book we either team up for a celebration, or we team up for a wake - but either way - we happily 'team up'. I look forward to meeting you personally with many others at the 'celebration' Heh Heh! Meanwhile - whew - it does seem to be an extraordinary and somewhat nervous ride, doesn't it?