If there is another 'unknown' team certain of coming to the tapes next season why is it being kept so secret? Surely you would want as many people aware as soon as possible to generate interest and sell season tickets (its called promoting!).The BSPL are happy to post anything on their website which they think might come across as positive (although some things are so trivial it makes you wonder who is that bothered), so why is everybody still waiting?

Fricke Castagna Harris B Cook Kvech  Rushen Scott   so that’s the team then I’ve heard 👍🏻 from a decent source aswell 

Another view is he could have continued and lost enough money to not be able to continue in 27.  maybe the bombshell has just been dropped 12 months early. The end result is still the same.  

Let's all get one thing clear. At best it will be 5 teams unless someone is prepared to underwrite another loss making venture.

The statement clearly said that ‘the Premiership will feature a minimum line up of five teams’. Therefore, one of the following must have been true at the time of the announcement: 1. The sale of the Witches was all but done bar the paperwork. or 2. A new team had agreed to run in 2026. Clearly, in light of the Louis update, 1. had not happened. If 2. had happened then would they not have been better off confirming that fact, even if it was subject to formal agreement at the AGM which surely would be a ‘give un’. I am not convinced that either of the above had/have happened. My view is that their preferred outcome is that the sale of the Witches is completed and that they compete in the 2026 Premiership. If this doesn’t happen, then I suspect that there is a cobbled together Plan B that they will fall back on. 

Be happy if we sign Scott or Harrison to partner him