desperate measures to hold us back, page-226

I don't think you quite understood what I was meaning Wasa. There must be a stage before a takeover where the deal is being done and the market has no idea about it. Otherwise there would be gradual rises in share prices not sudden leaps. I think what is really going on is being kept very quiet thanks to the confidentiality order.
Just my opinion of cause and could be way off the mark. But a 3rd party buying both AGS and Heathgate out would explain much of what is happening that we can't make sense of.