how many forest fans ?

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thetfordred

Viv Anderson
we're always hearing that manure are the best supported team in the world etc but how many forest fans do you reckon there are ? you've obviously got the regulars that go nearly every week, then there are the fans who get to as many games as they can when the opportunity or finances allow (like myself) ,then there are fans dotted further around the uk who possibly follow forest but can't get to games for whatever reason or go once in a blue moon and lastly but by no means least there are of course all the forest fans living or working abroad or in the forces etc , i'm not sure i'd like to hazard a guess but it must be quite a lot . can someone else have a guess first? :D
 
Randy Bumgardener

Randy Bumgardener

AKA Randy Bumgardener
I daren't guess. There's member sites all over the world. I'm sure there was a Ghanaian one posted a few months back too. Although I imagine the support in Poland is growing rapidly ;D
 
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andyred

First Team Squad
A few years ago Mark Arthur said we had 100,000. You can probably add 20,000 now for the people who lost interest and have started taking notice now we are good again.
 
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wearenottingham

Jack Armstrong
I reckon there's around 13/4k that attend all/most home games. Then on top of this there's probally around 50-70k that attend 5-10 home games a season like myself and another few thousand who attend even fewer games. On top of this, who f***ing knows.
 
Dawg

Dawg

Viv Anderson
Over 100,000 I would say.

Our support is very widespread. Hence why our away support has always been impressive.
 
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thetfordred

Viv Anderson
Randy Bumgardener said:
I daren't guess. There's member sites all over the world. I'm sure there was a Ghanaian one posted a few months back too. Although I imagine the support in Poland is growing rapidly ;D
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well i'm pretty sure there are reds EVERYWHERE that would love to be able to get to every game but for whatever reason can't ( money,location,armed forces .....prison :D etc) i know i would and i get to about 10 games a season so taking this into consideration there are approximately 227,383 forest fans in the world :-*
 
goatboy

goatboy

Grenville Morris
I'm sure there is a million or millions at a stretch who'd name Forest as 'their team' - even the disinterested in football can usually decide they'd have to say their husband's or parent's team or such, or they remember Cloughie. I couldn't say a thing about Eintracht Frankfurt, what league they are in, their current kit, staff or anything. But I'd still state them as my German team. We are A LOT of foreign people's 'English Team' - have been since the golden days. So, in lip service terms, I'm sure of a disproportionately high figure.

If the yardstick was how many people in the UK, if they had to either give a tenner of their money to a club or die, would give it to Nottingham Forest? I think the closest answer we can get to that one is to look at how many proper attention-paying football fans there are considered to be in the country, then look at what percentage of that figure are considered to be Forest supporters. Someone somewhere is bound to have attempted such a study. Well, take that percentage and apply it to the total population, that's how many fans and tenner-or-death supporters there would theoretically be. Then take another ten percent off that final figure to defend against overgenerous margins of error and there's your answer.
 
Caveman Ninja

Caveman Ninja

Fucjin g wot karate
I live in Aberdeen, was born around here and have no family connection to Nottingham whatsoever. But when the time came to pick a team at the age of about ten, I picked Forest. Still don't really know why, think I just liked the name and had heard of Brian Clough and the great football we used to play. Fortunately it was our first season back in the prem under Frank Clark and I didn't get much stick at school because we were good. Obviously most people picked Man U or Arsenal or Newcastle (who were also good back then!) but I do know another guy who picked Forest as randomly as I did, and I know there are a few other Forest fans around town. I'd imagine that the same is true in other cities around the UK, so the overall number will be far higher than those who live around the Nottingham area.

I'd also like to point out that living far away doesn't make me any less casual a fan than those who live in the city... The standard of football up in Scotland is so shite that many people follow the English league far more closely than the SPL. I follow as closely as I can, and was glad two years ago to have the oppurtunity to see forest in the flesh for the first time (at our 2-0 home win against Tranmere). I must say that the Balti pies at the City Ground are f***ing ace! As is the fact that you're allowed to have a pint at half-time, which isn't allowed in Scotland, presumably because we'd all get tanked up and start smashing everything up...
 
Randy Bumgardener

Randy Bumgardener

AKA Randy Bumgardener
Windmill said:
I saw a red dog from a distance in a shopping centre in Elgin!
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When ? If it was around 4 years ago it was me ;D
 
Randy Bumgardener

Randy Bumgardener

AKA Randy Bumgardener
Caveman Ninja said:
What were either of you doing in Elgin?!
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I did 3 years at Kinloss from 02-05 ;D
 
Forever Forest

Forever Forest

Geoff Thomas
In Ibiza a few years back stood outside a bar when all the Lucky Lucky Men came over to us to sell us drugs (try to sell us drugs :ph34r: ;D), then one of them came round the corner in the Old Labatts shirt - so he was a tricky :wink:

Having said that all the others wore w**k, cheap, nasty shirts that stunk of piss so they were probably derby fans
 
goatboy

goatboy

Grenville Morris
Caveman Ninja said:
I live in Aberdeen, was born around here and have no family connection to Nottingham whatsoever. But when the time came to pick a team at the age of about ten, I picked Forest. Still don't really know why, think I just liked the name and had heard of Brian Clough and the great football we used to play. Fortunately it was our first season back in the prem under Frank Clark and I didn't get much stick at school because we were good. Obviously most people picked Man U or Arsenal or Newcastle (who were also good back then!) but I do know another guy who picked Forest as randomly as I did, and I know there are a few other Forest fans around town. I'd imagine that the same is true in other cities around the UK, so the overall number will be far higher than those who live around the Nottingham area.

I'd also like to point out that living far away doesn't make me any less casual a fan than those who live in the city... The standard of football up in Scotland is so shite that many people follow the English league far more closely than the SPL. I follow as closely as I can, and was glad two years ago to have the oppurtunity to see forest in the flesh for the first time (at our 2-0 home win against Tranmere). I must say that the Balti pies at the City Ground are f***ing ace! As is the fact that you're allowed to have a pint at half-time, which isn't allowed in Scotland, presumably because we'd all get tanked up and start smashing everything up...
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Loads of people just pick a team at random, it's how they follow that up that counts. Good for you. It's not like we don't have a fine tradition of Scots footballing genius at the club from Brian's era until today, is it?
 
Caveman Ninja

Caveman Ninja

Fucjin g wot karate
goatboy said:
Loads of people just pick a team at random, it's how they follow that up that counts. Good for you. It's not like we don't have a fine tradition of Scots footballing genius at the club from Brian's era until today, is it?
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Cheers mate! I've certainly stuck with us through all the shit, Big Ron, Megson and all... One of the things I like about Billy is just how Scottish he is. Makes me smile whenever he's on TV. Funny how many good Scottish managers there are... Though let's not talk about Colin Calderwood, I never thought he had what it takes to finish a job... Colin Hendry used to carry him in the Scotland defence anyway :D
 
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pomjay

A. Trialist
for what its worth i just spent 3 weeks in australia and only saw 3 footy shirts, one of which was forest so if i include my own that clearly makes 50% of the football supporting population of australia!
 
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Red Kez

Youth Team
It'd be difficult to nail even an approximately close number.

For what it's worth, I reckon there must be a good 100,000 dotted around. Give or take a few more or few less.

How generic does that sound? :D
 
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Milford Ram

Guest
Just passing thru and noticed this thread . I was in london last August and on Oxford street noticed this stocky chap wearing a Forest away top.. strange thing is he looked Peruvian/Inca ... like he should've been wearing one of those colourful ponchos and blowing some musical pipes... i said to my mrs I was gonna ask him why he was wearing that particular top...could'nt believe it..so walked after him but he vanished in the teeming shopping crowd...
 
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