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It don't surprise me in the slightest when things go wrong and the same old posters who are first to celebrate and promote management when things go right then decide to remain completely quiet and say nothing at all. Let's take the trading statement that now appears to be extinct from the company's updates to the market. When this was due the same old poster shouted out that it would give us all an update of what was happening. But now that the company has failed to deliver the trading statement the same poster has decided to curl up in a corner and make no mention of it whatsoever. No doubt if a trading statement had been issued he would have shouted from the rooftops about its contents. But as it has not been issued and probably been put on the back burner the same old poster has decided to sidestep the subject. It completely and utterly reminds me of those good old fashioned politicians. The laws around the trading statement and when these need to be issued are clear and the financial industry are very strict on these. Its obvious that management have now been able to get around this by basically pulling out of them altogether in order to make sure that they do not issue another profits warning just like they did last year in 2015. Last year they reported to the market that they would not meet expectations which resulted in a profits warning. In turn this had a negative effect on the share price. At that time the share price fell around the 2 pence mark. This year it appears that they have pulled out of giving any further trading statements whatsoever to the market because they cannot meet market expectations. When a company cannot meet market expectations there is one of two things that a company can do: Option One: It can continue giving trading statements but it has to inform the market that expectations will not be met, in effect issuing another profits warning. But if the company does this it will naturally affect the share price in a negative way just like it did last year. Option Two: The company can give the necessary authority notification that is no longer wishes to issue trading statements and simply continue issuing its 6 month and 12 month results. If the company goes down this route then what that means is that it will not continue issuing profits warnings when it cannot meet set expectations which will, of course, have a negative affect on the share price. I believe that management have decided to utilise option two unless they are very, very, very late in issuing what I believe would have been another profits warning had they gone with continuing to issue trading statements. I don't blame management from pulling out of trading statements altogether as this tactical movement is always at play with smaller companies when they cannot meet market expectations. It helps both the company and its shareholders. My understanding is that the company will certainly continue making good progress but not on th