There were rumours she was about to be poached by ITN – when I ask if they were true, she gives an apologetic laugh and says, after a pause, "I'm going to have to say 'no comment'.
There is also a risk that staff, who tend to earn a lot less than the people they are supposed to be regulating, will be poached, especially at a time when in-house compliance officers are multiplying.
Academics would be poached from every corner of the globe.
In the short term, staff will be poached from abroad.
Internal SHW movement remains a concern, with the private sector said to be "poaching" doctors from the public sector, which in turn is poaching nurses from the private sector.
When he was poached by the Sunday Times in 2002, he inherited a strong business section, but quickly won the admiration of management, providing a steady supply of stories.
When she was poached by the Met in 1977, Liebermann handed her casting and planning responsibilities to Gall, and in a few months she trained him to do the job.
She was still in her early 20s when she was poached by the Daily Mail to become a features writer, and went on to edit magazines at the Daily Express and the Times before returning to Associated Newspapers to relaunch ES for the Standard.
The award, revealed in Betfair's annual report, was paid after the company met two of three financial performance criteria originally required under the deal agreed with Corcoran when he was poached to run the business from rival Paddy Power in August 2012.
Despite the presence of the park, ibex were poached until 1945, when only 419 remained.
