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Clearly touched a nerve there.

I forgot to mention there are now nearly twice the number of shares in issue since then too.

I'm not the enemy mate, honestly.

Smickster do take time off this weekend to look up the word "probably" in the dictionary.

I don't "know" anything. I can only go on my 4 years experience of being involved with this share. It was about 23p when I first bought in. Some guy called Nick was running the show. We were on on the edge of glory. An Elliot Wave was about to take us to 62p.

How'd that turn out for ya?

It is wearying Zoros, and easy to feel "you can keep the cheese, I just want out of the trap". I gave up on the misty eyed "Solg journey" long ago. You have to try to make money out of this one in the most ruthless detached way, not believing in a happy ending.

The tragedy of this one at the moment is that a share that went from 2p to 23p managed to generate so many casualties - namely anyone who bought in over 30p in the 3 or 4 spikes to 42p. And that's what they were, spikes.

It's very hard as the rulebook seems to have been tossed out with this one and the nice guys will probably finish last.

Zoros given the number of shares in issue (which will only increase) I very much doubt even the last stubborn shareholder standing will be offered anything over 50p. Which is a pretty poor show, given that you could have got out at 43p back in 2016.

50p means someone coming along and offering around £1.2 Billion for us lock stock and barrel.

i learned in the end that it doesn't matter what the small investor wants or thinks. A share that was hitting £11 at one point got sold from under our feet for £7.50. The big boys have their own way of making a quick buck, and loyalty is a worthless commodity - at least on the stockmarket.

Both options longer term than most of the angry pensioners on here can cope with I imagine mvw1, some of them can't wait till teatime.

Personally I think option 1 will be ruinous to an existing loyal shareholder in terms of dilution.

Option 2 should have always been the way forward, but relations with BHP soured so early on - and for no good business reason - that we now find ourselves in a such a tangled mess we are no longer the "prize" a big boy would reach for, but a football the big boys are happy to kick around. As ever in these things, the retail shareholders are the poor bloody infantry.

What in your opinion - for someone sitting on a pile of SOLG shares today and determined to ride it all out - is the worst case scenario?

Very informative, Mvw1, but not really in keeping with the tone of this board sice last week.

What are you views, for instance, on Omicron?

And is Karl Marx's grave really a Communist plot?

Certainly some endless drilling involved.

...Or, it's like:

"I walked into the bedroom last night and heard buzzing... turns out my wife was using her Mathersfinger again."

Could you not possibly change your own name? Mathersfinger sounds a bit icky... like something you might search for on PornHub.

Hardly earthshattering and typical that the market goes "meh", but progress nevertheless.

Just keep your eye on the big picture and wish you had the foresight to reduce your holdings only the day before. Like this blackrock fella. Doe he post on here? *cough*

Quindell (QPP) should never have been allowed to survive in any form, much less this zombie for QPP die hards to cling on to as it pulled them into this gruesome financial grave. What a monstrous, bloody AIM tale from the crypt. Someone should write a book about it one day - though preferably not the insufferable Tom Winnifrith.

Jesus ... we tick up a bit and suddenly it's all TA stuff. Had nothing to say down at 21p the other day, now suddenly its resistance points and BOOM!. Maybe just a combo of the OMICRON scare wearing off a bit and the bright possibilities of a new CEO?

Well said. A nice tick up this morning. The first green shoots...

Copperpot, get off your high horse mate. You've already shamelessly tossed in the deaths of a couple of acquaintances to score a cheap point with a stranger on this board this morning, now you think you're going to get ratty with me? I was (wrongly obviously) half expecting an RNS just to confirm that the new CEO was starting his post today, the company welcomes him etc. It'd be a nice distraction right now.

"should you have the misfortune to catch the virus and end up in hospital gasping for breath"

Oh please guys can we stop the melodrama and get back to SOLG? It's actually getting a bit like March 2020 all over again, some of you have clearly learned nothing. Please take it on to Twitter.

I've written about Cuzzobo in a few posts. Did you not see them?

Yeah let's stop this Covid talk now guys, we've reached that crass level of either "its a hoax" versus "tell that to the families of those who've died". We will have "you won't say that if you end up.on a ventilator" next. It's like the Daily Mail comments section. There is a big big divide between people over this, usually based on whether they got furlough money or not. It's been a very tough 2 years. Everyone else is "stupid" or "selfish". We get it. Can we perhaps turn our minds back to Solg? Aren't we getting a new CEO today? Or have I got my dates wrong? No rns?

Ooops... did not mean to derail things so much with virus talk lads. All I will add is we have been wearing masks all the way through up here non-stop and now have vaccine passports - and neither has made a blind bit of difference. i kind of feel now that taking off, putting on a dirty mask through the day probably is counterproductive. But I'm a big fan of vaccination.

Anyway, be nice to finish at 24p, a good, neutral sort of level to welcome the new CEO. See where he takes us from there.

With the Covid variant scare dropping on Friday - no surprise to us here in Glasgow as we knew that withing days of COP26 ending Sturgeon would be finding some excuse to lock us all up again (and don't try to tell me the existence of this strain wasn't known about or strongly suspected BEFORE the 30,000 delegates flew in from all over the world)... anyway... I digress... It was a handy thing to stop the riots in Europe, and to allow the WHO to declare we must pay for vaccines for ALL the world, and to push the UK vaccine programme on (my booster is booked in 3 weeks)... and if Omicron turns out to be a nothing burger well, hey, we are all back in our boxes, living in fear again, hating people on the tube who aren't complying, calling everyone "so slefish" and "idiots" - yes, a traditional British Christmas.

I managed to pick a load of these up at 21.4p. That's my business of course, I didn't intend to increase my holding, but I think I know a bargain when I see one.

My question is - when this share spikes up to 37p-42p for a few days, the board is full of you all declaring your "cheeky top up, seems churlish not to", "just added a few thou", "been waiting to get in to SOLG for ages". Yet when it's at a bargain basement price, not one of you has the courage of your convictions. It's been like this for years.

It's a bit like BnC, Iknow I rib him, but it's true - if the SP is bumpuing along at 22p you don't hear from him. Then it jumps a few pence and he's back claiming he predicted it.

Nice to see us over 23p again. Tomorrow a new dawn will break, will it not?