All the very best getting straight answers to those questions, which are all very well thought out and fair play for this statement overall.
It is incredible really that the club are now threatening to disengage, due to the criticism, you have quite rightly given them. I know the term, critical friend has been used, to describe the relationship between the trust and the club, but I think they are now showing that they do not consider you to be their friend at all in fact you appear to be the enemy from the looks of things. It seems it’s a severe inconvenience, especially to Pasha, to have to engage at all and despite their duty to do so, it looks like they want to close down these meetings, as they do not want to accept any form of criticism, especially one that is aimed at the owners selling.
Given their stand on bringing back lapsed fans in favour of attracting new ones, how do they think they can do that exactly? We had around 20,000 when they took over and now by their own admission there are 6,000. So getting 14,000 completely new fans, is laughable, especially when you look at a club like Bolton Wanderers, who are far more likely to attract new blood, due to their pricing structure, which has shown for 3 seasons in a row now DOES persuade people to give it a go.