Given what I have read I would also stand with the captain.
My own personal take on it is that after I stopped flying I worked on the ground.
The times 'upwardly mobile' ground personnel would attempt to influence/pressure/question decisions made by flight crew were legion.
It was luck that, in those days, there were sufficient people with enough knowledge to not let them get away with it.
Or, perhaps, to point out to them that their selfish decisions may later backfire.