I know the price will drop 72p but they still have to part with the cash. so it does make a difference. Yes, if more shorts come on board that would concern me, but here and now 0.5%.
If the fund that has gone short were so good they would have been short when this stock was 40 pounds. It is just an opinion, in the same way there are buyers and sellers in the market everyday . Both can't be right.