Right lets clear a few things up...
1. there is a fee associated to being in the batmakers shed it is £5 per bat sold on the forum payable to the forum up to £15 a month.
2. Trident are warmly welcomed onto the forum, I am pretty sure, but not certain they have applied for sponsorship but there is a delay in that as the forum owner has been/is on holiday.
finally - perhaps this thread could have been phrased:
Please re-open the Trident thread, we want to know more.
rather than what happened.
In the same way, other brands have done so, and where brands are transparent about their use of the forum. I use Redback cricket and Afinity cricket as examples of people who understand the limits of being a brand on here, but not a sponsor.