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“Invested crew" = those with a vested interest in ramping due to being heavily underwater. But definitely a 'crew' in the finest AIM jungle terms.

“Uninvested historians” = those with a wider view and no axe to grind.

Incidentally Pinfinder, why don't you post 'PLEASE DO NOT TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY WITHOUT SEEING SOME RELIABLE EVIDENCE' when Paternost and his crew post stuff week in week out that's full of unsustainable conjecture?

Ignore his comment then perhaps, but look at the RNS - still about 5 months left to evaluate a delivery system (which will have a chance of failure by its nature, otherwise it wouldn't need testing) and only after than can it be lined up with the product for delivery. But where is the product in its development? Has it been lab tested on mice or solicitors or whatever yet? Then it will need a safety and tolerability test (like Val 201 had and then stopped dead).

Time isn't a problem if the money is there but....

A six month study takes us to September, and that's just looking at 'feasibility and industrial relevance', so if they have an alternative system that isn't 'novel' it still means nothing on CLX until probably next year. Any new raise will need to be substantial to avoid another one before 2027 the way things look.

A post (the first in a month actually) on the other side says 'Placing defo coming in may as been informed that clx001 requires more time as complications with one of the delivery systems which will effect patent creation.DYOR.'

Anyone able to confirm or deny this?

What about placating a large number of investors who piled in on upbeat predictions and have now had five figure sums of money turned into insufficient to buy a small round of drinks?

Imo If this company were a family pet it would have been put to sleep a while ago.

The grant of a patent is all well and good, but is actually a bare minimum for any progress at all - consider the consequences of a patent being declined, so not really anything to get excited about. If granted, it is possibly the start point for many many years of development which if successful (statistically odd against) would absorb very large amounts of cash - tax credits, rants and shares in peripheral companies wouldn't even see the sides, let alone touch them. I do wonder though, if the patent is granted, whether it would herald a few more fluffy RNSs to boost a placing, perhaps with an upbeat report from the last California trip about standing at the water cooler within a few yards of a bloke who looked like a high flyer from a major pharma company who was overheard to say 'there are some exciting ideas around here.'

As ever, I'd suggest you don't hold your breath and on past performance don't get excited.

They look look sells for sure, but the bid is rising very slowly - at the moment anyway!

'......posts on here are by the uninvested...'

A question to ponder is 'why are they not invested?' Could it be that rather than being underwater (as every long term holder in VAL has to be) they are looking at the potential for any return on an investment here, and not liking the look of it. If I thought there was money to be made here by any means rather than frantic trading on pumped spikes then I'd happily put some cash in. As some may remember, I spent a long time looking at VAL and trying to find a reason for investment - none was ever apparent, but there was often a clamour of 'go on, how low can it go from here?' That was before the last consolidation with the share at about 1.3p. It could be the price two consolidations ago, but I'll be generous. That last consolidation would have reduced 5,000 pounds to 40 quid, and that's before any subsequent share price decline. And as things stand now, the sp is slurping down to the last placing price. So maybe that's why a lot of long term watchers still feel that the enthusiasm of the drum bangers isn't matched by the cold hard business facts in existence, and trips to San Diego look more like a hopeless holiday than any imminent breakthrough, especially with the apparent fossilisation of any scientific advancements here.

Plus another 100k late declared from yesterday, so 1.1 million taken in reasonable sized lumps in the day.

Whoever bought 40 grands' worth shortly before the close apparently agrees with you Marcus.

A bit rambling there Notpot, but on a more serious note that may be of use to prospective 'investors' looking in - when do you think the next placing is likely to occur, given the current lack of any other source of funding of any note?

I wonder if we will see the formation of a wholly-owned subsidiary company dedicated to the conversion of lead into gold? Imo it would have more chance of commercial success than Val201 has.

Aimless - is that 'ready for lift off' the same as the one you were pushing so very hard on BMV just 24 hours ago, just ahead of their catastrophic plunge after the placing? Let me guess - 'no, this one is totally different, guaranteed to do several thousand percent.'

Let me guess though - you weren't caught with your trousers down at BMV were you? I wonder how that came about....?

Apparently he was in talks with with three companies - Bird's custard, one that made sponge fingers, and one that made multicoloured chocolate sprinkles. He ended up disappointed, saying they wouldn't trifle with him.

I think you're trying to say I'll be surprised if VAL lands any significant funding deal given its current prospects.

Yes, I will.

Laura has been all over VAL like a rash and will doubt be back there pumping it ahead of its widely expected next placing, either under the same name or some new identity. Some companies may be run by dodgy management, but the board-hopping pump and dump crews belong in the lowest circles of hell.

Val enthusiast Laura2022 has been in action in BMV plugging another share immediately after today's placing which follower a huge pump and dump on BMV.

Anyone pondering the sincerity and honesty of the pump brigade would do well to watch Laura's posting tactics and be wary of those who flog a dead horse and then when it collapses, immediately point to an alternative 'about to blow' hot stock to tempt you to jump in to recover the losses you sit on which they have helped create.

I imagine Laura2022 is part of the same crew beckoning wide-eyed unreserved innocents into here.

If desperation means observing and making judgements based on past performance, available facts and reasonable conjecture, then I must qualify as desperate.

I'd have thought 'desparate' is more on the lines of someone who blanks anyone who doesn't agree with them and counters rational argument with a mixture of abuse and fantasy, like some sort of cocaine-fuelled Mystic Meg.

Consolidations are 125/1 - but that's not odds of course.