Chris Davis wrote: April 10th, 2024, 10:23 am
I suppose a 'lie' is the intentional expression of something you know to be not correct or alternatively an intentional untruth, when you say it. So, if, in a particular set of facts, all the elements are there and particularly the mental elements of intent to lie and knowing it was incorrect, then a lie is being told. If the elements aren't there, the it's not a lie. So, in a strict sense it doesn't matter about people who are good people at heart they still may tell lies. But because all the elements of a lie must be there and the accuser should be able to prove them, it is unwise to call people liars.
Agreed, people give answers to what journalists have asked. What they don't do is tell them what they should have asked........
On another post, there is a claim that the fans have saved the club twice. Factually the trust was given the club to run by Les Scadding and fans effectively raised the petty cash needed to run it initially.
27 years before, the club died, and David Hando and Co. started a new club. The link between the two was the name, which David bought at auction. Now you could take the view that David was wrong, and that the £10k raised to save the old County, shouldn't have been used to pay back creditors of the old County after it's demise. I think over time his judgment proved to be well worth it, as most oldies like myself just see the two incarnations as just a continuation. Nevertheless the concept that the trust is able to raise enough funds to save a club, is very different from the funds needed to run a club.
My own view is that the trust membership is mostly deluded in its view that the trust is there to save the club.
HJ mentions specifically that in his view, the trust will one day return to running the club. So to me the 'we must have accountability and hang them high brigade' only achieves less people willing to volunteer to assist HJ achieve his goal of returning the club to the Trust.
To me it should be HJ deciding, not trust members, who should sit on his board and be his apprentices.