HEREFORD United chairman Andy Lonsdale has accepted an invitation to meet the club’s supporters’ trust — just a month after saying he wanted nothing to do with them.

Lonsdale is due to speak to Hereford United Supporters’ Trust (HUST) members on December 18 and the group are planning to film the meeting and post it on their YouTube channel.

United return to High Court in London on December 15 after a late £1million investment pledge from Lonsdale stopped the club from being wound up on Monday.

United supporters are boycotting the club, who travel to Truro City today in the Southern League Premier Division (3pm).

A statement from HUST said: “We hope Mr Lonsdale can understand that we have to follow the necessary process and will be able to furnish the meeting with the details needed to confirm the completion of terms to end the boycott, namely the settlement of the winding-up proceedings and debt to Herefordshire Council and football creditors.”

Lonsdale’s agreement to meet supporters is in stark contrast to the statement he posted on the club’s website after the trust snubbed a meeting with him last month.

Last month, he said: “HUST have rejected everything we have offered, they therefore form no part of our effort to move Hereford United forward. We will no longer take any interest in demands from those whose sole intention is to either remove us or destroy the football club if unsuccessful in doing so.”

But, in a statement this week, Lonsdale said: “As chairman of Hereford United, it requires me to take on full responsibility for the clearing of the inherited debt.

“An arrangement has been made with the court for monies to be made available for those claims proven in court, to be cleared.

“Upon clearing these debts, an opportunity will be given to HUST to come forward with any proposals they may have to move the club forward. This will depend upon them approaching the club and the ceasing of the boycott.”