Recent ring of for history has certainly indicated that it's quite easy to be early-on heros and the "nicest guys in the world" to retail-especially when you rely in part on those retail investors. Looks like somebody has to get thrown under the bus, and it sure as hell isn't going to be company management.

We all pays our money and we all takes our chances, but the track record of late (Freewest and now Spider) will certainly make one take a hard look at the risk vs reward equation around McFaulds.