Hi, guys. Yeah, sorry about going AWOL for a while there and being a little bit rude to some of you who asked me what was going on.
It was just that I couldn't come clean about the fact the owners of your club were busy buying Cardiff. Legal stuff, see. Hush-hush, like.
Anyway, we'll try and let the players, their families, and fans know about stuff like contracts etc, just as soon as we think we're safe from litigation.
In the meantime, now it's all sorted, keep supporting the boys, keep buying season tickets and all the regular Ospreys merch, and we'll see if you've still got a club in a year or so.
Cheers,
Lance
It takes some doing to out-do the Welsh Rugby Union when it comes to breathtaking contempt and sheer tone deafness, but old Lance may just have nailed it.
On January 11, he posted a picture of himself on X, holding a glass of red wine under a clear blue Italian sky, with the message: "Cheers, everyone. Beautiful day here in Parma".
And he was right. It did look like a beautiful day.
Five days later and Lance was hard at it again - holding a drink, that is.
This time it was a pint of beer, with the message: "Cheers, everyone. Here's to a good weekend."
Some people, though, weren't having the best weekend. Ospreys players and supporters, for instance.
They were worried that the club they've supported for 20-odd years, or play for, was about to be written off.
One of them messaged Bradley and asked out of concern, but still politely, if the Ospreys were, "starring down the barrel of no Ospreys due to the actions of Y11?"
Lance was quite clear and wasted few words on the misguided fan, who had clearly got it all wrong. "Utter rubbish" he replied.
Well, now we know that the only rubbish here are the great piles of waffle that have since come in the communications from the Ospreys and the WRU regarding the future of the club.
When the Ospreys players - who, let's not forget, include the likes of Wales captains Jac Morgan and Dewi Lake - tried to get answers they were fobbed off, even as late as Tuesday, when some decided to walk out of a meeting with Bradley.
You might have thought someone in the Ospreys or at the WRU, could have told Dan Edwards of the way this was heading a couple of weeks ago.
But then again, had he known he might have opted to join Leicester instead of re-signing for the Ospreys.
Bravely, Bradley and WRU chairman Richard Collier-Keywood decided that the man who should deliver the truth - that Y11 were the preferred bidder for Cardif - was Ospreys coach Mark Jones.
A straightforward, decent man of integrity, he was asked a straight question in a press conference on Wednesday and gave a straight and honest reply.
It was a bit like a company deciding the man who should tell the workforce about mass redundancies, was not the handsomely-paid chief executive or chairman, but a convenient fall guy who works on the factory floor.
It was not until 24 hours later, on Thursday, that the Welsh Rugby Union and Ospreys confirmed that Y11 Sport and Media, the current owners of the Ospreys, now had a foot in two camps.
Under the proposed plan, Y11 would control both regions, but Cardiff and the Ospreys would continue to operate independently as separate teams.
The details of this arrangement, are - true to form - rather sketchy.
But there are those who work within the WRU who are willing to whisper quietly of grand visions of a "super region" - an organisational sharing of resources across both teams.
They would be able to slash costs by having one training centre, one adminstrative and commercial staff, one group of medics, physios and sports scientists.
Players would be moved seamlessly between the two teams, so that if there was a hooker or outside-half shortage at one, players would be smoothly switched to the other.
The proponents of this theory grow wide-eyed when they explain how Y11 will move in more players from their other rugby investments - the Hurricanes in New Zealand and the Cheetahs in South Africa - to play for the Ospreys and Cardiff, a kind of global supply chain working for the benefit of Welsh rugby.
So far, so fanciful.
Then, in a week of fraught meetings, came another late on Thursday, between the Ospreys, the WRU and Swansea Council.
The Ospreys had planned to move to St Helen’s in Swansea and a £5m redevelopment of the ground has been earmarked as the region’s new home from the start of next season.
Quite rightly, the council needed assurances over the Ospreys' future if they were going to commit a large sum of public money.
In their statements, both Bradley and the WRU had talked about the region surviving at least until the end of the 2026-27 season. There were no promises, but there was the suggestion of something possibly beyond the next 16 months.
That conceit was laid bare by council leader Rob Stewart, who after time with Bradley and WRU officials, concluded neither have any faith in professional rugby continuing in Wales' second largest city.
"The council is shocked by these proposals as we have been working with the Ospreys on the redevelopment of St Helen's as their new home of regional rugby in Swansea," said Stewart.
"It was hugely disappointing to hear what the WRU had to say. There was a clear indication that they saw no viable future for the Ospreys within their new arrangements.
Stewart and local MP Torsten Bell - the unlikeliest of bedfellows if you know anything about the brutal nature of Labour politics in Swansea - have both been talking about legal action.
They might start by considering the time, effort and public money wasted already on a project that was clearly never intended to fly.
Some folk in sport go down in history as principled whistleblowers, courageous men and women who speak out if they feel people are being misled.
There are others who would rather raise a glass of Valpolicella Classico towards the skyline on a sultry Italian night and tell you it's going to be a beautiful day.
