Franklin Johnson
Franklin Johnson
amazingly good hard major news people success worried
I think it's a major success story, especially when you think of the downside. Securing it is good news and I'm thrilled. It was amazingly difficult, much more than I imagined. There were some down times and I worried about it going first to Shanghai and then to Doha, but we had good people working hard to get the right result.
improve negotiate open ownership percentage tournament until
It's all open to negotiate until we can look at the tournament and what we can do to improve the profitability, ... So what our percentage (of ownership is) will all be determined.
bring facts financial fits knowledge level terms tournament
Mainly, I want to bring up their level of knowledge on the tournament in terms of history, facts and how it fits into other financial plans,
lose major quite
To lose a major tournament, it's quite compelling,
due might until
Until we do our due diligence, no one knows, ... Once you get in there, who knows. If they're enthusiastic, they might want to go for more.
ahead board hard hopefully majority opposed until week
We will broach the board a week from (today) and hopefully we'll get the go ahead with a proposal. Until we get through that, it's hard to anticipate, ... I'm going to try to get a sense of the board, but this could be tabled if a majority is opposed to it.