The acquiescence and crafty calls for silence are dumbfounding...

The acquiescence and crafty calls for silence are dumbfounding whilst we are at risk of being ripped off in a part takeover with potential catastrophic losses. Full marks at least for consistency.

.....akin to Neville Chamberlain’s “peace in our time”.

However, the  CEO’s superficial, enlightened ostrich-like reassurance that the sp would rise not fall on a takeover takes the cake. It must give the opportunistic bidder circling confidence to continue.

If rational holders didn’t believe otherwise one could think the calls were an  aspect of the play to keep the cat in the bag. At the least the calls, unwittingly as they would be, fall in with the stealthiness of the manipulators as set out in T7’s link below.

Without putting words in his mouth, you are aware the revered T7, and justifiably so, has a partial open mind on the CDY takeover speculation seeing as familiar many of the tactics used by sp manipulators:

https://hotcopper.com.au/posts/36961159/single