Lou was one of the people collecting signatures for the EGM. I couldn’t find it but I remember one of the Board at the time describing him as a “Would be power broker with a pocketful of signatures” (or something like that from memory).
The SMH of March 3 2018 described him when he ran for the board back then as:
“One of the most colourful candidates is Elias (Lou) ******* ( surname blanked by me) who was banned for life from operating as a motor dealer after the Office of Fair Trading found he had wound back the odometers on cars he was trying to sell. “Odometers of 21 cars were wound back by 1.46 million kms,” recorded Fair Trading in its 2003 annual report.”
But, I’ll say again, a true believer bleeds blue and white. He used to employ baby Bulldogs at his car wash over the years. Ben Barba was one.