The chap is apparently unacquainted with the PPR mechanism.For myself I find it a good thing thing to be expected, and to have an informal chat about the situation at my destination field. But, as we say here, "a farmer will not eat what he doesn't know".
Only I am afraid this is degrading into just one more discussion of the pro's and con's of PPR, as if we hadn't done that a zillion times already.