Regardless of what people are wishing for, the fact that the SP...

Regardless of what people are wishing for, the fact that the SP continues to decline into the drill indicates that the market at large (and presumably all contractors involved on the ground) are expecting this drill to be a failure.

Which begs the question, when considering that management only took up $1.4k or their rights, and if that low take-up can be used as a sentiment proxy: why are we drilling these wells if management also think they will fail?