RE: Day 3 Wed10 Dec 2025 10:26
Accepting that they aren't building the A10, a 30km road, i.e. 18.5 miles it couldnt be at all feasible that you could build a road for less than £10m (£). Unless however, there is already some kind of track that we are upgrading. Beware also, some people seem t think that the road will be completed in April, I don't know when it will be complete, however, they have stated that the Heritage Survey would be in April next year. Consider the typical things that should happen after a heritage survey, the permissions, theat would be reuqired, the lengt of time that a heritage surveyor would take to come back and report. Then mobilise a contractor etc etc. This will need substantial cash to be able to continue. However, that cash doesn't necessarily need to come from a cash raise. My view is that this road will never be built, they don't actually need it. This is positioning, they want other operators e.g GGP, to realise that they are just one of a few who may well be interested in a farm out or take-over. It does feel to me though that the information flow is not professional, not that of a good negotiator. ld man Poulden just doesn't have it, Ed - maybe a geologist, but is he a negotiator. They don't care as much as we as shareholders care. Yes, they've got skin in the game, but not enough as to make it life changing. I'm still supportive, there is one other watch-out. I did my own research on all of the companies that held a placing through the same broker as WSBN used, it appeared to me that virtually all of those organisations had dropped market cap substantially following the placing. Maybe its coincidence, maybe its my own lack of knowledge, but I thought that odd. I didn't do that research before I bought in, lesson learned.