Pretty good Happy!
This is my thinking
NZTR wants to get their grubby hands on Avondale and sell it off (and I'm not offering any judgement on that proposition)
And no, I don't think HRNZ would have been through all this already.
So here is how I think the 'phone call went
Bring Bring
"Hello, Dean here, how may I help you?
Hi Dean, it's Bernard here, how you doing today?
I'm ok mate, how about you?
Can't complain, things are good today, have a new supplier of sausage rolls and the pastry is delicious
Thant's great Bernard, I'll pop down
Sweet Deano, but while I'm here can we have a sort out of this Avondale crowd?
Sure Bernard, what's up?
Well, they won't give us their track and they are threatening to call in those blood sucking lawyers, and we haven't got enough in the kitty to fight them.
Shit Bernard, what do you want us to do for you?
Well Deano, I'm on a Think Tank (editor's comment, that's an exaggeration) with Paul and the Counties CEO whose name I can't quite remember and we reckon if we have another 6 months we can talk those pesky Avondalites into handing over the keys, so I was thinking we will support giving them say, 5 dates, and you give them to them so we can keep working on them. How's about that?
No worries to me Bernard me old son, we can do that. It might mean that we'll have to give Forbury some dates as well because they put in a similar submission to Avondale, you know, regional plan, that sort of stuff., wishy washy PC stuff. Phil won't be happy about that
Aw damn Deano, never thought of that. Can you smooth it over with Phil?
I can't Bernard, because today is Thursday and he won't be back at work until Wednesday of next week. Be too late to tell him then and you know how he hates being called on a golfing Thursday, a golfing Friday, a golfing Saturday, a golfing Sunday, a golfing Monday or a golfing Tuesday. But don't worry about it, he'll be ok. Probably do him a favour as Forbury are also threatening lawyers, something to do with not being consulted. Can't understand their gripe, they were rung once or twice
Sweet Deano, try to keep him happy, he's going to be pissed when I tell him I think he should only get 18.5% of the Code payment
Dial tone
Call ended
Mikie