Charles Bannerman
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Scotty.... by pure coincidence on a day when I happen to have directed a query about Against All Odds to the CTO online version, I have just spotted a rather enigmatic post from CaleyD in the current merger thread which could be interpreted that the online version has been deleted.
I have had a look myself and can no longer find it, but that shouldn't necessarily be taken as significant.
Can you clarify what the situation is?
Charles.
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Sneckboy... I think you are bang on with the Catto theory - in fact the match is too close not to be right. The share totals from the two sources match exactly, and Scotlog Sales is owned entirely by the Catto family.
To my recollection, around 300,000 of the Sandy Catto/Scotlog shares were acquired from Coffin John - but at something like 20p in the £ since it was soon after the "financial near-death" episode of around 2000, so Sandy will not have paid anything like their nominal value for them.
I have to say, when I heard this story first, my thoughts went toward Alan Savage since he's well in with the Hospice and I wasn't sure if he had extra shares over and above the 275,000 he got for bankrolling the Niculae acquisition, but Yngwie's figures suggest not. That therefore begs the question whether AS, with his strong Hospice connections, might want to go the other way and buy the things for the sake of becoming the largest shareholder. It seems that it's only practicable for the HH to sell to a small number of buyers. Pure speculation on my part though.
By the way I'm sure someone told me some time ago that they were Sneckboy but I'm not 100% sure I remember correctly who it was. Refresh my memory if appropriate.
Charles.
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Hi Charles,
Thanks for your message. Yes, It's an interesting development - strangely, I had also initially thought of Alan Savage, but as soon as I saw Yngwie's figures, it just 'jumped out' at me! The link between Sandy Catto and one of his major business interests (of which I was unaware) almost certainly confirms it!
As the donor of the shares requested anonymity, I feel a slight pang of guilt for suggesting his name! - although I think I 'covered' myself!Anyway, more's the pity, but I've not met you previously, Charles. It amuses me that somebody would try to pass-themselves-off as Sneckboy, though!
To my knowledge I've not actually met anybody from the forum! However, one day, I'll pop into the Innes and/or Caley Club after a game, and finally put some faces to the names on here!
Cheers,
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Cheers Sneckboy. I do like your posts which are very well informed and thoroughly researched. Another guy who is often bang on is Yngwie so when I saw that the two of you were on the same wavelength as I was on the shares, this helped confirm it in my mind.
What actually happened regarding identity was that an acquaintance as opposed to a friend once told me that they were "X" on CTO and the pseudonym in question was definitely that of a good, reliable poster. The problem is that I can't remember who "X" was and thought it might have been Sneckboy, but apparently not.
Charles.
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