Not sure how to use the quote option on here how it is meant to be used, but I agree that 5 is a safe bid for my hand, and it is probable I can make 6 in most situations. However, if I trump in on one of my short suits, either club or heart, and get overtrumped behind me, there is very little chance of making 6 between our hands now. If it was a 3rd heart lead, I would toss off a club, but if it were a 3rd club lead, I would most likely trump in had both 3rd and 4th seat bid. My hand is more valuable with the somewhat long holding in diamonds, AJxx. Nonetheless, I respect your opinion and appreciate your input. I'm just still unsure the value of the information sent to my pard for that 5th trick. I think it was an 1800 game, and I expected West to have a solid 5 bidding that in first seat knowing his partner would most likely nil if they were to win the game on that hand. I tend to bid more on the conservative side rather than the aggressive side, and my pard happened to be a reg partner. Knowing this she should have known the strength of my hand in bidding 4 in 2nd seat after a 5 bid in first seat. Now seeing the first seat's hand, his bid is too agressive, he should have bid 3 or 4. His hand was easily been set had my partner eleceted to bid, and had I elected to bid 5 she may have elceted to bid. However, she elected to nil and here is how the hand played out.
W

AJ6

A98

KJ109

KQ4
N

KQ432

KQ

64

AJ97
E

75

J765

873

10853
S

1098

10432

AQ52

62
West has lead to begin and opens clubs playing 9c followed by 10c and everyone playing under.
He continues with Jc and N trumps in with 2 sp. East follows with 3c and S Ac
I shifted to diamonds leading Ad followed by 9d. West noticed my partners safe diamond holding and dropped the 4d on the first lead keeping KQ.
He took the lead with Q d on the 2nd diamond lead.
At this point in the hand West won 3 tricks and North won 2.
West shifted to hearts leading his 8, North took with Kh and led a third diamond trick, which West took with K.
West back in the lead, in my opinion rather foolishly led the 6 spade, which was taken by North with K followed by the 7sp and 10sp from the nils.
North elected to lead his last diamond which was cut with the Ace sp from West.
West led his 9 h which was taken by North's Qh and we've come to the following situation:
North in the lead holding

Q43
East holding

5

76
South holding

98

Q
West holding

J

A

K
Knowing my West held the J of spade from his first spade lead, and that East didn't have the 8 or 9 from that spade lead, I elected to lead low spade in case my partner held what she did hold, the 8 and 9 of spades. The 3

lead was taken by West's last

J. He then led back K

which was trumped with 4

, and the last trick was taken with Q

.
I had recently read Jason Andrew's book on Spades, in which I received an autographed version using my ladderbux from league play in True Friends of Spades, and he described this exact situation in an excerpt from his book. I loaned this book to a friend, and can't find it in the ladder prizes at the moment, so I'm not sure of the exact title of the book. It was really quite the ending to a game, and I doubt I would have led the low spade without reading this excerpt.