I appreciate your honesty and I have no doubt in my mind you are doing what you believe is right. One more question. Why can't you do any of the things I'm asking?
I also have to be completely honest here. You are clearly intelligent enough to understand the avoidance or lack of ability to provide the evidence or answer what are straight forward questions leaves me with bigger doubts than I had before regarding the validity and/or completeness of the claims. I feel like members/fans are being treated like idiots and only being told what the Board feel we should know and being told it when they are either forced to or when they feel like doing so. Who does that all sound like? You can't have it both ways.
Again being completely honest it makes me highly suspicious that there is something to hide and that makes me wonder why that would be?
I'm sure we will eventually find out. I hope the Trust Board are completely comfortable with their conduct directly or by association.
In a wider sense I think the Trust Board need to reflect on what people like myself are saying and really question whether this is the level of openess and honesty they should be delivering to it's members. If a Trust Board Member can't answer questions from it's membership not because they don't know the answer but because they are not allowed to then I think it's clear that's a big problem for that organisation.
In my opinion the Board has got itself so wrapped up in fighting the Owners they've forgotten that isn't their sole purpose for existence. I also feel the Board would do well to remember that much like they claim of our owners they are simply custodians and the Supporters Trust belongs to it's members and the fans of NTFC.
The proof does not belong to the Trust or to me so I can't answer that particular question. I have answered everything else, haven't I?
Not quite sure what we could be hiding. We're all supporters. When I joined I thought I would be working with the owners. But to work with someone I need clarity on what I'm working towards. In this case I would need to know that we would be working for something genuinely in the best long-term interests of the club. And there's insufficient evidence of that, on top of the fact that the only potential deal hinges purely on the council at this stage and until then there has been nothing else forthcoming that we could work towards. I'd expect owners here for the long-term to be full of other ideas. Deep down I really hope that I'm wrong, but I've been waiting 6 years for proof of that.
I'm sorry I can't do anything about your doubts regarding that one issue. The owners definitely could though! But they're not on here, at least under their own names. But perhaps ask why I would keep doing this if I didn't have genuine fears for the future of NTFC? I have a full time job, help to run a pub in my "spare time", a family and plenty of other things I could be doing. I certainly have no desire for publicity or anything like that...
Thank you for taking the time to explain things. I would also like to know what you think could be a way forward for the club.