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You'd think that if the company really mattered to them, and some (any) form of success was within touching distance, then they'd take a 50 percent pay cut to help the financial position. After all, a cut from 100k a year to 50k is only 30k net drop after higher rate tax. The rest could be taken in shares for fantastic returns - if, that is, success is looming. Or is it just a financial milking exercise after all?

So, two RNSs in two days - one of which might yield benefit in a good few years and but will cost money not yet earmarked to get it there, and another which was hailed by the 'faithful' as a good thing, but turns out to have cost thousands and yielded nothing apart from some false hope. Whatever next?

Like you I'm amazed at what this company has achieved, but we're probably looking at it from slightly different angles.

Is this the start of a run-up to consolidation?

Only if or when the ink dries on the relevant paperwork (be it trial results or deal) can the shouting begin.

What he 'expects' and what comes are two very different things, and if the best 'potential catalyst' is a decision regarding an opportunity it isn't exactly nailed on is it? And McGill is not 'a certainty' - to suggest that is entirely misleading, but you know that. And as for funding, awaiting the results of a funding application is a bit like buying a lottery ticket and waiting for your number to come up. Remember Sareum many years ago? 'We expect to conclude at least three commercial deals by the end of the year.' They didn't, but they did expect to. These comments mean absolutely zilch in real life.

Anyway, I thought you might like to see one of Notpotalot's posts - the comments in brackets are my new additions to add some updated reality and show how far off the mark these rampy postings usually are -

Notpotalot 6th January 2026 - "Val is now positioned to excel with a glut of news imminent over the coming months." (The only news of significance in those “coming months” was the highly predictable and much-denied placing. Will it be yet another consolidation next...?)

"Many LT holders have savoured the progress and taken advantage of rock-bottom SPs to bring averages back into kilter." (6th January the share price was 0.42p, so it has dropped just over 50 percent since then – how will those averages be looking now?)

"Funny how today’s reality keeps overruling the history lesson brigade." (Funny how today’s reality keeps overruling the ramp brigade)

"While some cut and paste merchants just recycle the same gloomy monologue, the company’s CEO and main shareholder watches in amusement as he finalises the first of a stream of RNSs."(While some cut and paste la-la landers just recycle the same delusional dreams, the company’s CEO and main shareholder must surely be watching with some trepidation as the new cash erodes yet again with nothing to show for it).

Ambrose seems to have fallen by the wayside as a 'knight in shining armour' ramp item, much like Black Cat Bio of a few years ago, and of course TheoremRx who kept us all on tenterhooks for some 3 years was it? Anyway, perhaps now all the people who were trying so hard to get a foot in the Val door but we're prevented by TheoremRx's exclusive LOI will now be rushing in waving wads of cash to invest, same as all the institutional invesors......oh my mistake, there aren't any. Just the CEO presumably buying up surplus placing shares that need a home..

So he saying it's bounced back (from a lot of profit taking) from 20p and could get to 30p in the near future. Thank goodness for his knowledge and perception. Presumably sentiment and more importantly scientific and potential commercial-related activity has nothing to do with the rise, just charts. 'Look into my eyes, not around the eyes, into the eyes...'

A patent grant is good news, but only in as much that a patent being declined is total disaster, so the grant is a minimum. As Nomlungu says, to claim the grant of a patent means it is 'technically validated, and commercially viable' is at best ignorant of facts, and at worst deliberately misleading. Have a look at this link for the value of some of the things that have been patented-

https://blawgit.com/2025/01/22/top-10-craziest-patents-ever-granted/

Just looking back on a few more of your posts Notpotalot, and I wonder if you feel one of the problems is a credibility issue with M.E. or with yourself? This question arose when I read your post from 25th February this year - 'Mark has been clear - the runway extends into H2, which incidentally includes August, September, etc. His aim is to see the 0.5p warrants exercised and a potential £1.8m additional funds into the kitty...'

So was it that a) you were misinterpreting Mark, or b) was he being a little 'over optimistic' with the facts for some reason? Your opinion would be interesting, but a reply of 'a)' or 'b)' would suffice.

I wonder if the offer would have been undersubscribed had the board not thrown a proportion of their (placing funded0 salaries at it?

Anyway, back to Notpotalot's bold statements - this one from the end of March this year - ' Val SP continues to hover in the low - mid 0.3s, but the volume in LT holders’ hands ensures that is the floor.'

Comedy gold, unless of course you are a buyer sucked in by this ramping drivel and learning the hard way like so many have in this share.

Algorithms as used by Redmile I suppose...

'a minor 17% discounted raise' ! That's the best part of a fifth off the market price, which was below the price of the previous placing, which was itself almost 50 percent below the share price at the time.

Still, presumably paternostpauper will be happy to see the board awarded bonuses for managerial success.

So strange that they are both absent. Why, when the placing looks like further compounding of this debacle of a company, do those stalwarts of Val not take the opportunity to show us how we have misjudged the setup. Or have we...?

Market reaction is such that you can buy for about 5 percent less than the offer. Question is, was it oversubscribed only because members of the BoD took up a load of otherwise unsold shares?

Isn't the Ramper's Return that pub in Bore a Nation Street?

Anyway, the soap opera that is Valirx will as you say have its rampers back in about 2 to 3 weeks with the same drivel as after every post-placing silence, starting with 'the placing was a good move to allow more leverage in the myriad negotiations which are (naturally) continuing.'

A consolidation now looks to be the next step ahead of the autumn placing, but what betting that will be promoted 'a sensible step to make the share price more appealing to institutional investors'... (after an appropriate period of mourning silence of course)

Given the unexplained absence of certain posters lately, it is probably only fair to any new viewers who might be contemplating putting hard earned taxed income in here to review some of the comments posted by the ramp team in the run up to this spring, and which were presumably posted entirely to attract spike money.

Fri 22/1/26

paternostpauper

Posts: 358

Price: 0.385

Strong Buy

'The Ambrose Dream TeamToday 21:33

Seven consecutive “blocked” posts on a blue day tells me everything I need to know. LOL

The desperation of the naysayers knows no bounds – and the newsflow hasn’t even started yet.

I fear for the sanity of Porky and his parrots over the coming months. With an absolute minimum cash runway into July already confirmed and multiple RNS imminent, Porky could well self-check in to the local abattoir. The lorry reversing toward the sty, isn’t delivering feed. 🐷 🫨 ⚡ 🌭

Anyone for a bacon butty or sausage cob?'

01/04/2026 Notpotalot

RE: Microcap of the year 2026?

'Unable Seamen Ratcliffe, very enjoyable post but just a naysayer dream.

You see, there is no iceberg. Admiral Eccleston chartered the waters in advance and confirmed whispered tales of icebergs, man-eating whales and sea-monsters were simply told to scare passengers to the lifeboats. So, the Admiral calmly took the helm and rang up full steam ahead on the Chadburn. SS Valirx smoothly cruised on steady, deliberate, and entirely untroubled, as the outline of the New World began to rise on the horizon.

Meanwhile those who stayed behind on the quayside were destined to forever rue their missed opportunity, still clutching their well thumbed books of maritime superstition.

History tends to be written by those who boarded, not those who stayed behind telling ghost stories.'

Sadly, these people will be back in a week or two, spouting the same stuff at new low ranges.

Wow, if he gets any more knowledgeable about Scancell, Zak Mir might know almost as much as any new investor with a mild oversight.

The dedicated few were talking warrants being taken up, lucrative deals and no need for a placing at all, but sufficient funds well into H2. Porky getting the price a few points out and a few weeks later than predicted is pretty accurate compared to the forecasts of those who were utterly dismissive of his forecast. Let's hope any potential new share buyers took heed of what he said rather than falling for the insidious rampfest.

I think you'll find the ramp crew will go awol for a couple of weeks, then reappear with the same lines and abuse as before, and brushing off the (latest) placing as something low key, necessary and in the past. Same as they did not many months ago at the last placing. And the one before that. But maybe this time they'll be gracious enough to thank Porky9 for warning them about what was coming, and apologise for being so rude to him when he was right after all.