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I agree it's disappointing but not sure what they can say or do. Why the big drop today is a question, we know it is being shorted but maybe something else is in play.

What happened - have held for years and like a fool believed it couldn't get worse so even added.

Here's a bit of advice, try looking at the retail model - hoardes of staff hanging around talking mainly to each other, now don't want to spoil those all important 'colleague scores' but some cost cutting is in order.

Offers quite unimaginative - a few quid here and there, maybe some other accessory free or extended warranty or...that's waht marketing staff are for - ideas.

Out of town stores that feel like you're in a barn with product in unimaginatively displayed, dumped is more like.

BUT you can forget all that because the report makes it clear whose fault the performance is -

its the previous leadership, the carphone merger, the nordic dowturn, the bond market..... anybody except the board's.

No dividend so hey, maybe have to be voluntary salary cuts? No bonuses? Pigs might fly?

The circular say 'expected date' 23rd May which is in any event very soon after the record date of the 15th - so a little bit of leeway is quite reasonable as far as I can see.

Fear of losing yet more money on this share is what is driving it down. The volume so far seems to be 12 miilion traded net buys 6m.....now OK that's not real time info, maybe some more sizeable trades to be reported.

But is a total of 0.82% traded that significant? 99% have not moved and shorts closed as recently as yesterday. Why would professional investors close at higher prices than they need to?

It is a gamble. Place your bets and don't risk more than you are prepared to lose. I swore I'd never buy THG again after the debacle of last year - but I'm in again , underwater, just bought more and hoping.

Each to his own I guess.

Oaf

THGROCKET.....Give it a rest mate, 70+posts in a fortnight ramping away with baseless comments. Let's face it, the thing is a punt - it will get a bid or not, it will be 65p or £5 or any point between. There, that is based on as much inside information as I can muster - which is zero and an exact match with yours.

Its been on a downward path for years - I know to my cost, so an upturn in price would be very very welcome. However its obvious management don't have a grip on costs. Staffing in the UK stores doesn't look right - seemingly hoardes of people mainly talking to each other, no sign of anyone in actual charge. On margins so thin they really can't afford it.

Start a new thread - please.

NQM - I didn't know how, so a thousand thanks. The clueless moron has been filtered.

To be fair - given the utter unimaginative drivel that he spouts - I think it unlikely that anyone would pay him to do anything except to go away.

Jemgee..'No, the Shell drill will not be commercial !! That is what i am hearing.'

That sort of comment is quite absurd without some indication of the source - without which it' might as well be your spirit guide, milkman, or just voices in your head.

Trotsky: My English is fine, however when you are wrong its right to admit it - I do - with apologies to you................................... and I have booked my appointment at Specsavers.

Invest Genius - I entirely agree. Extremely low volumes are being traded, with a disproportionate effect on the price.
Today 2 million were sold, 0.1% of the issue - and even that is suspect. My own modest add this morning is still showing as a sell. Fact is 99.9% went nowwhere, those 1,860 million are being held hoping for a good outcome. So no, not shorted - just a few people bottling it over the weekend.

Trotsky - you should have gone to specsavers yourself mate;
'On the flipside, only 1% of the votes cast for Resolution 16 (apart from MSG's) favoured removing the Non-Exce Chairman, Darren Shapland! '
Really? There were 100 million votes FOR re-electing him as a director, agreed. But not at 16, it was 100 million votes FOR removing him which was the same number that rejected the appointment of the MSG nominees.
A message was being sent - as I said, hardly a ringing endorsement.

Don't encourage the numpty, he's an attention seeker and that's all.

You usually do.

The board prevailed...or did they? It hardly looks good that the majority of resolutions did not receieve much of an endorsement even allowing for MSG's holding. Clearly they are opportunists but also have highlited failings and complaceny in management. Still - that won't stop the directors rewarding themselves first and the shareholders last - a practice not restricted just to Topps.

Lie lie lie

Thanks MB - good to see a poster sharing a link to some good info instead of the ususal childish nonesene that clogs up this board.

Its a genius at work here - 'Its a duster, a shambles and going nowhere only down' blah blah blah
then
lol plonker when I loaded up at 2p.
Fantastic, well done, great call ....so why are you doing the bedwetting when it drops 0.01p?
No, on second thoughts don't answer.