Good afternoon, sir.

Good afternoon, Charlie.

Good afternoon, everybody.

Thanks for joining us this afternoon on a sunny summer afternoon.

With us this afternoon, myself, Mark Davis, the CEO, and Richard Howell, our CFO.

We're presenting to you this afternoon our interim results for the six months ended 30th of June.

It's been an absolutely transformational period for our company.

So I'm going to hand you back to Mark, who'll take a closer look at the group's property portfolio.

Mm.

And then he'll be like, "You know, I'm gonna fix this.

I really back myself, and then maybe we'll win on the first day of the season," like Rodgers did.

And it's like, "Oh, maybe." You know, went away to Arsenal, we got a decent draw in '15, '16.

And I think West Ham beat us 3-0 or something like that, and it was like, "Ah."

Yeah

... a young, exciting footballer, I'm like, "Well, what, what's the craic? I mean, is he gonna be here? You know, am I signing for him? Am I signing for somebody else?" Where if you do make the change, then everyone's like, "Right, it's a new, fresh project.

We're coming in to play under this person." Um, and yeah, it's go- I...

Sure

...

if that's okay.

So on the, on the CMA competition side, uh, as you rightly pointed out, Alex, the CMA reviewed that transaction often in great detail.

You know, the big picture is the property sector's not really a sector that CMA gets, gets too excited about.

But as I described in my opening remarks, we own critical social UK infrastructure assets.

So the CMA did a lot of work on this transaction, and the management team invested a lot of time in that review.

Was that the, was that the case? Or were there other integrations that sort of would-weren't picked up on to the same degree?

Is, is this your AFQ debut or not?

It is, yes.

Very excited and, uh, a very excited breaking news to be taking over from Amelia, so-

Ooh

...

although I don't...

Yeah, the, the, the pulling out of the little, tiny, tiny bits of bone can be annoying.