“…In view of the strategy used in [18], and of a possible future theory reducing conjectures 1.1 and 1.2 to the quasi-simple groups, it seems worthwhile to proceed with this class of groups, as far as non-principal 3-blocks with elementary abelian defect group of order 9 are concerned. Indeed, for these cases there are partial results already known, see [14,21,22,23,25,30,27,28,41] for instance; all the non-principal 3-blocks with elementary abelian defect group of order 9 for the sporadic simple groups and their covering groups are given in [43].…”