Well let me be an argumentative one!
Anyone giving the Board a clean bill of health at this stage are being way too premature and the vast majority of the criticism the Board received was, imo, brought on by themselves.
Board members are in a position to abuse the club financially for themselves or their family and friends - remember the millstone that was Razor's contract given to him by STFCs chairman, a neighbour of Ruddock's? Never mind the land grabbing that has occurred at York City and Brighton & Hove. The examples are endless. So when communication is dire, it is right to be concerned though not accusatory.
I never understood the "problems" over the Mercs. However, the initial lack of identifiability and absence of any financial credibility of STFC's new Board, coupled with (as one example) the frankly laughable tales about debts from the 1950s or 60s causing unexpected financial problems did little to dispel a perfectly justifiable healthy scepticism.
IMO, the Board deserves real credit for having clearly addressed the budgetary issues, with realism and also some creativity. Although I still place little more reliance on the truthfulness of Jed's tweets than I do their spelling, I am starting to warm to the guy and his team.
I think trust should always take a little longer. A number of Jed's greatest admirers seem to have revised their opinions of the old board only after the end of that era so why not be open minded now?
Not much to argue about here. Pretty much agree with all of it. I have no problem with being open minded, it's those who choose to see the worse in everything without knowing anything that I had/have a problem with.
