Apologies for the delayed response here, and thanks for your comments.
Honestly, I have no plans to try to initiate the above, but the post has raised plenty of discussion to keep me busy!
For me personally, it would take a group of people (aka the ones in my thank you note above) stating their intentions to go 'FA', before I changed my approach - And i suspect they wont (or they would have already?)
Thanks again.