Erm, amateur societies just can't exist without loyal officers  and those officers have shown their loyalty by s standing again  and we know the special circumstances appertaining to the  , which brings us to the nitty- gritty now  erm  you said we have, Tracy, five  erm  perhaps you'd better read those names out for us and then I think the best thing to do is to have a closed vote, where we give you all a piece of paper on which you state your nomination  folded up so nobody else can see  we'll put them in a bag  and then  we'll appoint a couple of  to count the vote so that we do not  the chairman .