Fully agree with your second and third paragraphs, Macdo.
The people I thought would find my observations surprising were those who assume that CWL has been in terminal decline for years, and was miles off the game. I was surprised to see that this is not true, except in comparison with BRS, which as I think we both agree is an anomaly
Not sure what you mean when you wrote about robustness; CWL has gone up and down like everyone else - again excepting the BRS situation, so I'm not sure what the robustness metric would be. The point I was trying to make was that beating up CWL and its management for their performance against BRS is perhaps not fair; its rather akin to someone attacking Audi for their cars not being fast enough compared to Ferrari's, whilst against most of the opposition they aren't bad...
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