Let's hope Sol's replacement, David Thodey, remembers to pack a flak jacket at the annual shareholder meeting. At last year's meeting Sol noted how the break-up of the telco could be the ''most value-destructive step the company could take''. ''Shareholders should shoot management if they ever agree to something like that,'' he noted. Thodey will have a lot of grovelling to do in the lead-up to the shareholder meeting in November. But it is good to see he has already got the ball rolling. ''We are actively and constructively engaged with the Government,'' Thodey said in a statement to the market yesterday, adding that Telstra supported the Government's broadband network vision.