However in this case my issue is this. What happens if there were more than these 2 candidates? Shouldn't we at least know about it?
“Carl and Malcolm were recommended by the Club’s nominations committee after it had interviewed a number of high-quality candidates and they will add greatly to the skill set of our board,” March said.
Well that's answered one question WP, there were more than the two.
Raises the other question of course as to what happened to the others of the "number of high-quality candidates". Did they just lose interest and withdraw?
As I understand this process - candidates were interviewed, two casual vacancies arose due to Cameron and Lord resigning, Speed and Walsh were appointed to fill the casual vacancies and since there were no other candidates they were then deemed Elected Directors.