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Lol. £20k in at £9.39 and £20k at £9.45. Whatever.

It would certainly benefit in the long term and would be an indication of confidence but I'm not sure how much of a sustainable positive boost it would have in the short term. I agree that it is a good idea as they are confident in spite of the uncertainty but most of the times buybacks end up happening too early or too late (with hindsight)

They'll probably wait until the metrics are better and the macro improves and then do buybacks blat £20 s share but I do agree that it merits considering. There will be a reason that they haven't though.

It dropped too far below NAV on sentiment. Sentiment can also do a bit the other way but hopefully positive news is not far away.

Surely a positive. Shirley. Shirley?

Lots of "look at me and how much money I've made" on this forum.

If there is a superior alien species observing us from outer space and using this bulletin board as a barometer as to whether we are worth saving or not... We're not - please release us from our miserable existence and preserve the galaxies valuable resources for more worthy causes. We are a lost cause. Ta

Why is it much harder to recommend a post these days? This site has gone to the dogs.

Fair play, those comments gave me a good giggle this morning.

Not many other businesses have children as senior leaders and it isn't as though the business has thrived since IPO under the appoint teeny boppers approach.

That's fair enough Lucapizza but many of us have just been ignored for years by IR. Parts of the operation are run by numpties or sycophants rather than capable individuals.

You're the exception then. I've sent perhaps eight messages to IR over the years and only ever received a couple of replies. They were all polite and reasonable questions....

To me, it is useful to try and guess why things like communication have been so far. It could be for one of a number of reasons, and I don't know which for sure.

It could be because the Board are just crap. Not ideal, but the business could still succeed in spite of their best efforts. Harder to achieve this than if they are competent though, obviously.

It could be because they don't care about the short term and are concentrating on growing the business for the longer term irrespective of short term movements. This is probably the most favourable scenario for holders although again, still not ideal as doing what they have promised would help with lots of things, including endearing themselves more to holders, creating a more positive and professional appearance to the wider investment community and also buying them so slack as and when things don't quite go as planned.

It could be like they are crooks and just riding the gravy train as long as they can to collect their pay checks, with no real intention of growing for holders. Not ideal this one, and also short sighted on their part if the case.

It could be that the language and cultural barrier with the UK investment community has created different expectations of what is reasonable. This should be evident by now if so though, and something that will have been fed back to them from lots of sources.

Which of these scenarios is it, or are there other possible explanations for the malaise and apathy on the part of the Board?

I'm only looking at half of the thread due to filters but you can't just divide average volume by the size of the short, if that's what is being done. It isn't as if the shorters closing will represent the whole trading in any one day. Perhaps 10-25%?

It shouldn't be on the markets as it is too small, and no-one is really motivated to buy the shares.

This board is unreadable now. Either green or responses to them. No thanks

It's gone on III, so not locatable at all now. You couldn't buy it on there for ages anyway. It's the same with some others, like Alrt.

They don't normally suspend until the date where they won't meet the obligations. You try to maintain a fair market where people can buy or sell if they want to, although a number of brokers stopped allowing buying in this a good while ago.

You should give people an opportunity to sell based on the news if they want to, so no suspension on that basis.

No TR1's?

Yes, I get that. I was more pointing out that it was a different type of raise in that if you took up your rights then you kept your percentage shareholding the same. Here that option wasn't fully available to PI's as they couldn't participate on all their holding so they were diluted regardless.

Ffs lol.