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Shops are absolutely dead. If Evoke get rid of them, they have a chance, they must be sold. shop business has metaphorically fallen off a cliff. They are going down, evoke dump them or die with them

What was the share price at the time of the £1.56 bid? More than the 92p ? Factor in further gambling commission rules and the massive debt burden and £1.2 per share looks a good deal for shareholders.

Stop dreaming about stupid figures like £8 or even £3 for that matter. £1.5 would more than reasonable, anything approaching £2 a massive win

so you’re saying if you used to have a position at man city liverpool ****nal etc but find yourself at mk dons you must be brilliant? whereas i say it proves you were never much use in the first place! ferguson, klopp wenger etc aren’t found managing exeter city. wh/88 are a run of the mill div 1 team, a million miles from the premier or championship. learn to accept this. meanwhile as i’ve said before, at the current price this share is a buy, just stop over ramping it.

So with all these new faces in the boardroom where’s the evidence to describe them as having any talent? WH/888 are like a Premier league club related down to division 1 with an ever revolving door of new faces promising the glory days are returning, but face facts they aren’t. The anti gambling lobby are becoming more powerful by the day, subsequently the industry is slowly but surely dying out. For what it’s worth I would advise WH/888 as a very decent buy, as a buy out is looking a certainly. But don’t pretend the board have any talent in the betting industry because they don’t, they are simply there to get the best price on the sale and make themselves a few quid in the process

“The Board have excellent back room staff”. Lol. What on earth would make you come to that conclusion? Those that remain from 888 oversaw the purchase of WH for around 1.5 billion, around their market value at the time, currently a fraction of that. Those still there from WH oversaw a company that was number 1 on the high street, with the best, highest paid staff. They now have the lowest paid, most untrained staff and are the joke of the high street. Anything achieved is despite the incompetent senior management, not because of them.

Buying William Hill was not the problem. The problem was paying way over the odds for it. A quarter of what was shelled out would have represented a good acquisition.

I’m hearing of a new way of staffing shops which just won’t work in London and the South East. Hills just can’t attract staff, let alone the right staff. Only way out I can see is a mass of shop closures, can’t see any other alternative.

The market will always exaggerate problems, and there are many. The Gambling review(continually delayed)High Electric costs which will hit shops hard.Inflation and the potential pay rises needed to attract/keep staff. The cost of living crisis which could affect turnover, to name but 4. Question is, can 888 adapt to the huge change in circumstances? If I read it correctly no changes can be made to W Hill shops and staff until 2023, but after that all bets are off

Another poor RNS

Bought back this morning. Crazy low price. I’m targeting £6

I Disagree. I’ve bought back in this week. I think the SP is ridiculous. I expect this will rise to £4 plus in the next week or two, at which point I’ll most likely sell again

The Board certainly didn’t cover themselves in glory with this deal. Recommending a low price to shareholders, whilst simultaneously shafting their employees by agreeing to sell to an organisation that wants rid of them ASAP.

Certainly I’d avoid AVCT like the plague. Seriously overpriced

To put this in football parlance, it’s like a team is 2/1 to win a match when it’s 0-0 at kick off, they get a penalty, which they miss and suddenly they’re 3/1! You have to ask why they have less chance of winning because a single opportunity has gone astray... surely we all knew there was no new government contract as there was no RNS. From my perspective nothing has changed except I now have 30%ish more shares than I had this morning

Definitely a concern, however despite the glaring undervaluing, I can’t see how this won’t be passed. Too many shares already sold, how can this possibly get declined at such a late stage?

Disingenuous comment. At most big Football Matches the majority of the crowd are in or around the stadium an hour before kick off, and allowing for injury time and the half time interval the game lasts 2 hours. So actually nearer 3 hours not 90 mins

Appear in Autumn? Decision by end of year? So 2023 to begin work at very best. What ever happened to IOW ? Why haven’t they drilled any more wells at HH? When’s the next fund raise? As always many more questions than answers

100%. Added to which, why would Shaun Day want to take over a company that had nothing but a stellar short term future

If Scally was a duster I’m convinced we’d have heard. I’d imagine the board have accepted they’ll be bought out, and have brought in someone to maximise the sale. I see this as good news