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Hi Pan-Lid. Re your last, I must say that I don`t anticipate an imminent placing to keep GLR afloat. Bird has already stated that the anticipated £5.2M payment will be kept in GLR`s `coffers` in order to continue to fund the company`s operations. I guess that may disappoint some who were anticipating that the `windfall` might go their way (viz the SP or whatever).

Analytical: Your counter to Pan-Lid`s last sounds rather like a self -analysis! You too have been saying the same things for years. "GLR multi-bagging", year on year, and a plethora of your typical analyses when, like here, you were holding court during your reign at RMM. And, again I have to remind you of your completely blinkered opinions at RMM, all consistently positive even as RMM was obviously sliding towards bankrupcy. Again, as here you could not/would not accept other opinions if they were at variance to yours. Sarcastic, merciless, ridiculing opinions of others.

More worrying though, is that you will never accept or acknowldege any criticisms of you that, irrefutably, point out when you have been wrong. To you, that is seemingly impossible. Thus, you just ignore any plain, and accurate facts.

Lastly Analytical, I will repeat a question to you from my last input which, for obvious reasons, you chose to ignore. Do you still stand by your prediction that, in 2023, GLR will become a multi-bagger?

On 11 May 2022, XTR SP was 5.5P. Today, as I type, it is around 1.75P - that is a only 32% of its value a year ago. Well done Bird, you are certainly true to form with the companies that you (mis)manage!

If you were one of my heros (ha!) I would hope that your `form` on the horses was turning out to be more successful!

Hang on Analytical: Time and time again in your constant, often repetitive entries in which you cover the same ground, you are regularly predicting things. But, to date, you have regularly been WRONG. For instance, look at your last thee annual predictions of `GLR becomig a `multi-bagger this year`. Wrong twice to date and, out of interest, are you still maintaining your multi-bagger prediction for GLR within 2023?
Then we have had your sad saga of RMM, predictions galore in between your constant, merciless trolling of someone who had the audacity to disagree with you. Goodness Analytical, how wrong could you have been apropos RMM - even missing the blatently obvious fact with your your inability to even notice that RMM was going bust. Gosh, in missing the obvious must have cost you a packet - not that you would ever admit to that of course! "He who is Always Right" and all that!

Your response is a cover here Analytical. Your assertion that "it`s simple MM action" was, quite simply wrong. Rather than try to justify your claim (because you can`t) you therefore digress completely by inventing "my deep dark desire for GLR to fail". When have I EVER said that?

As for your claim that I am "clueless" - obviously, that is because, from time to time I have made observations about your opinions, Bird, or GLR in general that you disagree with. Let me remind you that, in January 2021 in your guise as Oiltap, it was YOU who predicted that 2021 would be a "multi-bagger" year for GLR. You made EXACTLY the same claim in January 2022, and you were MILES out in both years. You have opined again this year that it`s going to happen in 2023. Me? I had no idea in 2021, 2022 or even this year and I therefore steer clear of wishful thinking.

As for "clueless", in addition to GLR, you used to love to `hold court` in a similar fashion on the RMM BB. As here, you were constantly sneering at anyone who disagreed with you with alternative views and opinions. Particularly, you ridiculed those who were jumping ship whilst RMM was in a landslide, pointing out `what a good time it was to buy when the price was low`! "Clueless"? You were so blinkered and self-opinionated as to miss that RMM was sliding towards bankrupsy (the SP falling from 40P to 5P in a matter of a few weeks). Ignoring that others were commenting on the SP free-falling through 15P you were still recommending "Strong Buy". Now, that to me indicated that you were incapable of accepting the comments of others that were at variance to your views. I have said it before Analytical, you have an implicit belief that "You are always right". But, as I have indicated above, you ARE NOT.

So Analytical, please answer what was actually "clueless" about my comments on your latest opinions on the MMs actions, because your opinion was, frankly, just WRONG - it was miles out. Also, perhaps you might like to highlight other instances where I have been proved to be "clueless".

One racing certainty from past experiences Analytical is that you won`t ever accept (as highlighted above) that you have been wrong. I suppose "He who is always right" would find that impossible. So, let me try a simple question - regarding your view earlier today on MM actions or, my corrective, and certainly more accurate view - who is actually right?

Analytical: Re your "It`s simple MM action" . . . . . . what absolute tosh!

Once a market maker receive an order from a buyer, they MUST immediately sell off from the requisite shares from their company`s inventory. Only then would this allow them to complete the order. Selling shares that they don`t actually hold in the hope that, some time later, they would manage to buy some more to enable them to fulfill the order would be VERY risky. Moreover, such a flagrant malpractice would always be highlighted at COP during the daily company reconciliation. Simply, such an action would be SO obvious and would GUARANTEE an immediate and long-term disqualification from trading, ie, the sack.

Well whowrotethis, the SPs of all 3 companies I mentioned have all suffered vast drops in value under Bird`s tenure. GLR`s current performance has not and still is not reflecting the glowing `assessment` as seen be the majority of contributors on this Board.
May I suggest that you glance back at the vast raft of enthusiastic assessments of GLR`s potential some 2-3 years ago on this Board . Then, as now, the thrust was "its all about to happen". Indeed, early in 2021, the SP was up around 2.30P mainly, I suggest, and on reflection, on the hype. Now, it is well-below half that despite no apparent signs of bad news ahead in the interim period..
Certainly, I cannot accept that Bird`s contribution/influence on the performance of his 3 companies is, as you infer, tenuous. Yes the companies are different in some ways, but they have all had folk similar to this Board, extolling their company`s virtues - yet, performance wise, they have all followed a similar pattern - a dearth of any significant success. Why, I wonder?
So, with all the positive signs you see in GLR`s future, when on earth do you expect to see the company`s `perceived` value be finally reflected in a significant rise in its SP (or even to just get back to its SP 2.3P of 2 years ago)? Next week, next month, or in 12 month`s time?

maddogpete:
Your "The sooner we get the Glenover money the better. Fed up with the constant spin." Glenover money? I wonder if anyone is expecting that said `Glenover money` is likely to result in a financial benefit (in any manner or form) actually going their way?
Re. the `constant spin` - it has gone on, non-stop for years, be it via RNSs, Bird`s invariably upbeat hype or the `cloud cuckoo land` dreamings within the various Boards, which have also gone on and on, seemingly for ever.
I just wonder if those who were predicting the `multi-bagging` SP increases this year for GLR are beginning to question their earlier judgement (or lack of). I also question how anyone can ignore Bird`s abysmal track record viz XTR, GLR and BZT, and still remain assured that major things positive are just around the corner? Of course, cynics and pessimists might point out that a closer, unbiased inspection of the said `corner`might actually reveal it to be an unexpected
CIRCLE. Ergo, "round and round we go"!

OK Howezap. But who is at the helm matters. Let us beg to differ, but I`ll perhaps remember to come back in 12 months to see what has happened. Rgds. Bob

iky: Re your "The market has real issues with glr or colin" Hardly surprising! Bird`s track record for his investors has not produced any `goods` of significance since that little blip called Concordia a few years ago. But, as the saying goes, "There`s always a tomorrow". Hmm!

Howzap: Bigtime wrong! But, what is it that I have said that is wrong? Has Bird set the AIM investment market alight and made significant profits for ANYONE but ANYONE over the last 4-5 years in ANY of his companies? Its always going to happen tomorrow isn`t it?
Could I suggest that you look back at this Board, say a year or two ago, and see if any of the hype, the dreamland, or the various RNSs have come to fruition?

Well said Kwadoku! I thought that I was the only one around who finds Bird `s modus operandi unfathomable and his success rate, to date, mostly hopeless and the SPs mostly driven by hype and hope. That said, I did benefit very nicely from Bird`s one and only success (Concordia with GLR). However, that was some years ago, and I now reckon that that was no more than a fluke and mostly driven upwards by the hype. Very fast, multi-bag rise (when, luckily, I jumped ship), followed by a rapid collapse back into the doldrums.
I must confess my surprise at Bird`s recent, albeit very modest additional investment in XTR. After just a few weeks, though, the SP is now down by over 20%. Bad luck Bird, or was it just bad judgement!?
Still, most of Bird`s admirers, both here and on GLR, have the implicit belief that massive success remains just around the corner. But, the pragmatic might reccognize that the perceived `corner` is actually a circle. Round and round, the weeks and months go by, but, seemingly, the `corner` is still there !
However, "How does knowledge of the past, help us plan for the future"? Well, Bird`s past ain`t been too good has it?! But, why not ignore that and use one`s imagination, hopes and dreams to `plan` for those halcyon days which are bound to come - er, aren`t they???.
I search the skies every day, but still don`t see those pink pigs flying past!

Hmm! I have other, pressing interests, plus also enjoying my fundamental, enjoyable lifestyle than just searching, and even more searching (here, there and `blooming everywhere`, 7 days a week) in order to impress and generate more interest and `know;edge` (plus desperate hope) in GLR.
Thus, I have to admit that I must have missed something significant along the way. Nonetheless, I know that I am always able to turn to GLR`s self-styled guru in order to answer one simple question: . . . . . . . . . . "How much copper has GLR actually produced, and SOLD to date"?
I await some trolling, and no real answer from `you know who`for, I know that he cannot possibly answer my simple question with `Zilch`. But, to the more pragmatic investor, I do wonder.?

It`s a funny thing Analytical that you never ever respond by actually ANSWERING any accurate observations made against you. Of course, you read my last, but chose not to mention your penchant for trolling, or your `onward and upward predictions you had made for RMM etc.
Incidentally could you please explain why you think that I am stuck in the past. Again, a statement without accurate foundation.
As for my inputs being flowery and pretentious - I suspect that you would struggle to justify that.

Finally, could I offer you a little friendly help, perhaps to improve your writted English a tad. "Verbal diatribe" as you note about me, could be regarded as `tautology`. And, to explain further, tautology is generally considered to be a fault of style!
So Analytical, sharpen up and you might get a little closer to being perfect!.

Analytical:,Let me remind you (again) of your recent in-depth involvement and love for RMM. That is, until it went (just about) bust a few months ago! And then, didn`t you (as you said earlier today) `disappear into the bushes`without even a murmur`. Hardly surprising though, because all of your `astute, `analytical`, `expertise` `knowledge` and `reaearch` were unceremoniously proved to have been to no avail (aka rubbish)! Simply, you had been catastrophically WRONG - big-time, in having disregarded one fundamental, critical and obvious issue (because it didn`t suit you) ! Moreover, on RMM there was nobody, but NOBODY who used to troll more, very frequently and utterly mercilessly, against one particular fellow on RMM whom you sarcastically referred to as Moonboy. On RMM, trolling appeared to be a favourite `hobby` of yours - whilst aiming to play to a (hopefully) appreciative crowd no doubt..

Still on the subject of trolling. I recall that, a month or 2 ago, you derided my nickname VulcanBob, for no good reason, save as an out and out troll! I have to say that it really was a crass, stupid comment Analytical - which you could not possibly have justified, save that it was a pathetic attempt to troll, belittle or whatever. Thus, I chose to ignore it until now. However, for your interest, I was given the nickname VulcanBob over 45 years ago. Why? Because, in those days, and for around 8 years, I had 80,000 lbs of thrust to hand, and one WE177B to `place` judiciously, if where and when directed by HMG!

Significantly Analytical, I have noted that, if any BB member ever has the audacity to disagree with your opinions, that you invariably try to ridicule the individual by way of a troll - fundamentally I suspect because, in your view, you are always right. Ha! in the real world of employment, your "attitude to criticism" would undoubtedly have taken a severe knock.

Isn`t that a troll?!! But, Alalytical, I am concerned (for your sake) if your monthly wine bill is `more that a few hundred quid`!!!

Hey, come on Analytical! Who was it that LSE felt it necessary to bar, along with removing all of his multitudinous inputs (on Boards various) about a year ago whilst he contributing as `Oiltap`, only for you to sneek back in to the Boards after about 6 weeks in your present guise eh?
As for `defamation`: for once, you are showing your clear lack of knowledge on such matters. Nice try, but referring to an article written by a third party in a newspaper some 3 years previously, along with many similar articles (in other publications), with none ever removed or redacted is not defamation. However Analytical, wish, hope and dream all you want, if it makes you happy - but I will still be around!.

No whowrotethis. And I am still an investor in GLR - more out of curiosity than of hope and, nowadays, my holding is very modest. Incidentally, regarding my comment on XTR, the particular source who wrote the article was not dubious. It was wrongly perceived by another member of the XTR BB that the article was "sponsored". He was wrong, for it was not! The sponsored bit had been an advertisment which, like MANY (if not all) advertisments on the Net, disappear after a week or so, albeit the word `Sponsored`often, pointlessly remains. For your education, have a look at any article on the Net with advertisments, save it and you will note that, after a week or 2, the actual advertisment itself will have disappeared. ,

Bird`s RNSs are ALWAYS upbeat iky. So what would be the benefit of another one just now? Would this `be the one` - the gamechanger? I doubt it. Could I suggest that you go back over 2-3 years or so and have a quick read of the various
RNSs that Bird has signed-off in the past. Then ask yourself if those upbeat opinions he has ALWAYS included have ever come to fruition, such that the SP has ever significantly consolidated upwards? A rhetorical question of course because, clearly, to date they haven`t. Ergo, history would indicate there would be little point just now in Bird issuing another one. But, . . . . "Pigs Might Fly"!

For goodness sake Analytical, you poor, sad old soul, haven`t you got anything better to do with your weekends (or, indeed, your life)??? Look at all of your `perceptive` snippets over the last year or two . . . so time consuming, and in Dreamland! Which of them have had ANY consequence over the GLR SP price? Well, don`t bother looking, because the simple answer is . . . . Absolutely NONE! And, that was EXACTLY the same when you were drowning this board with the same rubbish whilst you were Oiltap!.
For once Analytical, , why don`t you actually ANALYZE your plethora of inputs and genuinely assess the accuracy of your countless, irrelevant and tedious inputs,. . . . and explain to the Board here the veracity of you rubbish?
As a guide, i suggest that you ANALYZE your similar contibutions to your previous love-child RMM - Gawd, what an amazing diatribe of similar rhubarb you submitted whilst also`holding court` on that Board. But, your ANALYTICAL skills failed miserably didn`t they ? To all and sundry, sensible chaps, RMM was close to going bust. . . . but, without noticing that and, even without any final goodbye as you why eventually jumped ship. - but whilst but still recommending RMM as a "Strong Buy" !!!, That said, whilst no doubt ploughing everything iyou had left into GLR as . . . presently, it is seemingly your only remaining baby..
I look forward to your Boris Johnson-type evasive waffle Analytical, - albeit without actually acurately answering any of my observations above.