Now robbo i dont know you, ive never met you so i cant give my honest opinion on your character, ive read the thread last year regarding you and barnett and there is no question you have an issue with him and/or his actions, personally i dont want to get involved ( or start up any old rivalry ). I have on the other hand met tim barnett at a senny bridge event in march 2 years ago. I did find him to be helpful and welcoming to us irish when we arrived and through the weekend.
paulie - I'm pretty sure Hitler's milkman would have nice things to say about Adolf - get my drift?
You are a his customer/milkman, and as far as he can, he will try and be nice to you ...
Onto the rest of your post: firstly, it was a fair post inasmuch as you stated your case and what you would do if you were eventually proved wrong re Barnett's character.
Secondly, one thing here that seems to be pervasive in a lot of people including you is, you don't wanna get involved or judge anyone .. that's cool as far as it goes but for one thing, if someone was accused of a stealing money, would you trust them to look after any cash of yours?
You'd be a fool to, but of course, you'll claim barnett wasn't found guilty .. and that's correct he wasn't .. but the reason he wasn't is clouded in suspicion which leaves people with the balance of probability in terms of any blame.
You and others like you don't have to judge upon probabilities because it wasn't your money that wasn't accounted for when donating to the soldiers support plea.. if you had donated money to that plea, I doubt you would be claiming what you do now.
He managed to squirm out of that
cr@p, cos a lot of extremely gullible people believed him, he managed to stall the presentation of those Mickey Mouse accounts until finally drafting them to present as 'evidence' of his innocence.
I'm not kiddin, they were a joke paulie ... a frikkin monkey coulda compiled that account presentation.
They literally stank of an ad-hoc contrivance.
In this situation, if he walks like a duck and quacks like a duck .... xxxxxxxxx..... I'll let you fill in the blanks on that one ..
Point is Paulie, as soon as I demanded to see those accounts, all I head was 'quacking' from his side of the pond.
Why on earth do you think he hasn't sued me FFS, surely if someone was innocent of all charges then he woulda gone legal on me .. I've no doubt he will come out and suggest a reason for not suing, but it's bullsh!t ..pure utter bullsh!t
The reason he hasn't sued is because he would have to either falsify accounts prior to the date I demanded to see them or be held to account for not having them available... he painted himself into this corner, I just helped him along... but if you wanna believe different just because he holds an event, then rock on ... go and have fun!
But for some people in our industry, we're not buying it, not one iota ..
I will do whatever I can to clean our industry up from garbage like him, and I won't stop .. really will not stop - for players like yourself, you can cast aside any moral judgments and just go play .. I wish I could do the same but I can't .. and I won't ...
Oh, and one last thing Paulie ... it would be better if your could source that information otherwise it looks kinda unsubstantiated if you get my drift ..