No need to has he.
In a different set of circumstances who knows.
Not saying Sam will with us, can only go off comments made to me, and reading/listening to him over the years.
As mounts has said something similar to what I was told, I found it interesting.
It may well be something and nowt, probably is, but arguing that he will definitely not be back in some form or other, is a bit daft. Unless of course you are BSA, know him or are married to him, in which case I'll accept that nothing's doing.