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I doubt it (leaving that is) as I've just bought a lot more today.

I see that JB is technically tied into holding his shares for a 12 month period from IPO though the lock-in comes with a caveat (to quote from the IPO "The lock-ins are subject to certain limited exceptions whereby the Locked-in Persons may dispose of their Ordinary Shares during the locked-in period.) though I don't think that AB will let JB offload early and if a deal can be done with an Institution who can see the potential here to take his whole holding then none need be offloaded at all.

I'm not too worried. At this rate I shall soon be at breakeven.

I see the appointment doesn't take effect until mid-February.

Also read this from today's RNS:

"Joost Boer will remain with the Company as Chief Product Officer (CPO) but will no longer be a Director of the Company."

JB has also been removed from being a director of the company. That doesn't look like he will be hanging around at Big Dish for too long. If he goes his shares were all issued to him for free so any return is a bonus.

The company might be able to get an Institution to take the whole lot off him if the price is right. Especially if at last Big Dish is going to get a move on and start signing up new restaurant partners as this will suddenly become quite an attractive proposition with good upside potential.

Of course I'm a shareholder. You just see this through rose-coloured spectacles.

I have been sensing major squabbles between the 2 founder members. Big Dish Asia is in a mess and needs sorting out or offloading. Sanj Naha was being held back as he wasn't allowed to get a move on and start signing up the UK restaurants.

Looks like the territories in the UK are now going to become regions with the first 2 as the south-west and the other will probably be either the south or south-east.

"Sanj Naha, incoming CEO, commented:

"We wish to thank Joost Boer for his contribution to BigDish both as Founder and in building a world class technology platform. BigDish is a fantastic opportunity and all the indications lead me to believe it has the potential to become a dominant player in UK restaurant technology."

That sounds very much like a GOODBYE to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good appointment. Give the job to someone who has experience. I sensed there were boardroom squabbles going on here and it would explain why nothing was happening.

Looks like the company may start to make some progress now though I'm not sure if the same will be seen for shareholders. The problem now for us lot is that Justin Boer seems to have been shunted aside prior to being shown the door but unfortunately he owns a massive 39,000,000 million shares (13.7% of shares in issue) that he has acquired for nothing as payment for being the joint founder of Big Dish and he could just unload the lot as any return is money for him.

Nice to know someone else shares my views on this company and the super ramper JP.

There are some truly misguided posters here who ignoring that TE-8 was dry and that TE-9 was dry and that TE-10 doesn't sound much better are still ramping on about this company selling it's rather iffy assets for some quite ludicrous figure. Complete cloud cuckoo land.

To be honest this company seem to be shrinking rather than expanding.

On a good day there were over 100 restaurants on the Table Pouncer platform but now they have all disappeared to be replaced by 42 in Bournemouth and 8 in Bath on the BigDish platform. The last RNS said there would be a minimum of 50 outlets going live in Bournemouth and that number was likely to increase but so far that hasn't happened. The paltry 8 restaurants live in Bath was meant to be increasing too but so far that hasn't happened either.

Big Dish Manilla doesn't seem to have been included on the APP and can only be booked via the BigDish.ph/ website and BigDish Hong Kong and Jakarta seem to have disappeared altogether.

All in all not much in the way of progress which is very much reflected in the share price. I just wonder how the funds are lasting with all of this inaction.

Not sure what news you were expecting.

We have been told further news is due on the possible sale Asian side of the business by the end of January. I'm expecting this news to be late though only probably by a month or two.

We have been told that Bristol - which now along with the other towns and cities in the UK is referred to as a "territory" while previously the UK was referred to as the "territory" - will be going live on the Big Dish platform also by the end of January. According to the latest podcast that is still on time.

Why mention flow rates of 1.5 mmscf/d to 2mmscf/d if that is not the expectation?

I just don't get it.

You guys here have already seen the share price fall from a very pumped up £1 per share to as low as 12p and yet you still believe this rather average gas discovery which needs a huge investment to ever get to market is still going to sell for some wacky, nonsense sum. You should get back in the real world.

AJMO.

Well reading through today's RNS several times it looks to me like the most likely result of TE-10 will be a fail. Far too many ifs and whens for my liking. They are trying very hard to find gas but when they end up trying this hard it usually ends up with nothing.

"Based on the Company's current assessment of the reservoir section, a stimulated flow rate of approximately 1.5 mmscf/d to 2mmscf/d, is likely to be commercial....."

such a flow rate might be deemed to be commercial but in terms of success it would be deemed as extremely disappointing.

I have never contacted a CEO or Chairman or any other board member of any listed company and I never intend to. They have jobs to do and companies to run and are not there to answer to the whims of small shareholders.

I am generally disgusted when I read posts by shareholders who keep emailing CEO's to ask the most ludicrous questions, most of which are quite simply asking why the share price is lower than it should be or similar.

Looking at eatigo, who according to the Big Dish IPO have 700 live partner restaurants, then a figure of 600/700 outlets might be a far more practical and doable target for Big Dish than the 6000 restaurants this lot keep bandying on about. Especially if 700 participating outlets have required $20M of funding. Are Big Dish likely to be able to sign up or acquire partners for a lower sum - probably not. Is it cheaper to sign up participating restaurants in the UK than Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, India, etc - I hope not.

This board is for shareholders to discuss their investments/shares etc. No-one is asking questions. People hee are giving opinions.

I am not spouting nonsense. There is clearly a bigdish.com/ website and a bigdish.ph/ website. The first covers the UK and the second covers Manila restaurants.

However there is not a BigDish/uk app and a bigdish/ph app. There is only one app. If this is the case then the company should have worked out in advance whether to have both Asian and UK restaurants on the same one app or if not then to use different names for the UK and Asian apps. They obviously did not think this through first and now they cannot have their Asian restaurants on an app it looks like they have no other option than to get rid of the Asian business.

The market has not been informed that there is an issue with Big Dish running a Big Dish Asia and a Big Dish UK app at the same time - ie. that it is not possible as this could only be one app. If this is the problem then the market in the UK where this is publically trading needs to be informed.

This is something they should have thought through first.

I see that Big Dish Manilla is still accessible via the website on a mobile so I assume that any business they are doing is coming in like that.

Looking at the way that eatigo are absolutely p*ssing all over Big Dish Asia it would appear that the priority here would be to get the UK up and running as soon as possible before some other company starts up with more funds and more ambition and gets all the restaurants signed up first. There is no excuse for taking all this time to get started. It's feeble.

It looks like eatigo are doing exactly the same as Big Dish and they are operating in Asia but are a lot more successful than Big Dish. They are operating in 10 Asian areas: Bangkok; Chiang Mai; Hong Kong; Jakarta; Kuala Lumpur; Manilla; Mumbai; Pattaya; Pune; Singapore and have roughly 600 or more live restaurants - I started to count them and it may be more than that but not by any huge amount.

These cities are all clearly shown on the eatigo app and they have exactly the same timed discount slots as Big Dish.

Against this I cannot even find a Big Dish Asian app - maybe they have found it impossible to run both Asia and the UK on separate apps but don't want to put them all together on the same app. Big Dish Manilla is still live on the website and separated by the .ph/ as against the .com/ but there is no sign of either Hong Kong or Jakarta on the website.

I suspect that if the truth is known the company has found that they cannot run 2 Big Dish apps in 2 different regions. Unlike websites, which have different endings - ie .com/; .co.uk/; .ph/; etc, etc it looks like there is only 1 app per name. So it is probable that they either have to have Asia and the UK on the same app, change one of the names, or dispose of the Asian business (instead of expanding it to match eatigo).

Aidan admitting that Table Pouncer "used" to be active in Bristol and London (and I know that some of these restaurants were live on Table Pouncer until very recently before they seem to disappear) is quite serious. The company made several claims that they were going to sign up an initial 60/70 restaurants in Bristol and Bath and I have posted several times that they seem to have already done that (but in London and Brighton, etc) but now it looks perfectly clear that they have not actually signed up any new restaurants so far since the IPO. All of the restaurants that were on Table Pouncer before it's migration to Big Dish (which seems to have lost most of them anyway) it turns out were always on the Table Pouncer platform. So that is another load of bullshit and lies.

They said in the last RNS they were going to be adding more restaurants in Bath but none have so far appeared.

Also the 6000 planned restaurants in one year suddenly sounds to be based on Tastecard figures even though this is a completely different concept and suddenly more likely to take 2 years than 1, or maybe 10 years!!!!!!!

What was Aidan doing in the UK - probably trying to get more funding.

As I've said I am always happy to give them the benefit of any doubt but if the newsflow does keep flowing as promised and the share price does improve I very much doubt I will add to my holding and if the chance arises and I can sell at cost I will be happy to dump them. This has the makings of a nice little "boutique" business - as Table Pouncer ended up after 3 years or more of business building.

All just my opinion.