JimLevack
JimLevack
Apology retracted
It seems I may have been a little hasty in apologising to Mr Noades and now wish to retract that apology.
When I heard of his annoyance at the £7.5 million debt figure I contacted board member John McGlashan and told him that Mr Noades was issuing a furious denial of the sum stated.
John told me he had never said that figure
in our conversation and, as I have stated in another thread, I began to question my sanity, not to mention my shorthand notes.
I had not at that time read the paper - I don't see one until Saturday.
But John kindly contacted me on Saturday morning after seeing the Chronicle and has said the wording I used - "a projected £7.5 million in debt next year" - is, give or take a couple of hundred grand, spot on.
He had assumed, having read Mr Noades's diatribe, that I had talked about the club being £7.5 million in debt at this current time.
The actual projected figure is also given on the BIAS website, yet they have not been publicly slated by Mr Noades - this week at least.
Again its a question of semantics and interpretation...Mr Noades has an uncanny knack of reading things that simply aren't there and viewing them as always being critical of himself - perhaps he's just too much of a sensitive soul.
I hope that puts the record on this substantive point of his criticism, straight.
When I heard of his annoyance at the £7.5 million debt figure I contacted board member John McGlashan and told him that Mr Noades was issuing a furious denial of the sum stated.
John told me he had never said that figure
in our conversation and, as I have stated in another thread, I began to question my sanity, not to mention my shorthand notes.
I had not at that time read the paper - I don't see one until Saturday.
But John kindly contacted me on Saturday morning after seeing the Chronicle and has said the wording I used - "a projected £7.5 million in debt next year" - is, give or take a couple of hundred grand, spot on.
He had assumed, having read Mr Noades's diatribe, that I had talked about the club being £7.5 million in debt at this current time.
The actual projected figure is also given on the BIAS website, yet they have not been publicly slated by Mr Noades - this week at least.
Again its a question of semantics and interpretation...Mr Noades has an uncanny knack of reading things that simply aren't there and viewing them as always being critical of himself - perhaps he's just too much of a sensitive soul.
I hope that puts the record on this substantive point of his criticism, straight.