Mr. Joe Christle:

We did the deal on the 14th and on the following day, there was an interaction between the head coach and the chief executive, which I believe goes to the key to character of the relationship between them. The head coach had mistakenly booked himself with the rest of the team to go to the training camp in Assisi before the world championships in Doha and all the team and all the support staff were leaving on the following day, that is, on Wednesday the 16th. Unfortunately, he also had committed to a speaking engagement with Ronan O'Gara in Lansdowne Road, which had been advertised. He was able to approach his chief executive and to admit to the oversight. He was able to ask for a new ticket to be bought for him, all of which was granted because it was understood that Zuar Antia and Eddie Bolger were well capable of looking after the boxers for the first two days of the training camp. It was also understood that Billy Walsh de facto was a kind of spokesman for the IABA and notwithstanding that it was a private speaking engagement, it would be a good idea that he would be able to fulfil that engagement. The reason I say this is these all are facts. If one has a bad or dysfunctional relationship with one's chief executive, one would not admit to an error or oversight and would not ask for time out to fulfil a private speaking engagement that is outside the remit of one's employment contract unless one had a good relationship with the chief executive. Both of them could agree very quickly and were right to agree quickly, as members saw, from the results in Doha.