Question to ask for Cricket Ground side of Main Stand

[MGR_Petrolhead]

I might be delving into controversy here but, I sit in the Brian Clough Upper wondering whether those in the corner of the main stand are actually watching the football? All I hear is 'we hate Derby' or 'stand up if you hate Derby' or some other gesture.

Question is - do you miss anything? Do you see anything? Do you get your money's worth?

 

[garrilla]

I might be delving into controversy here but, I sit in the Brian Clough Upper wondering whether those in the corner of the main stand are actually watching the football? All I hear is 'we hate Derby' or 'stand up if you hate Derby' or some other gesture.

Question is - do you miss anything? Do you see anything? Do you get your money's worth?

You mean do A block watch football or drag their knuckles while baiting the away fans in a mock tribal war dance?

 

[T.B.T.]

Anatoli will be so proud.

 

[MGR_Petrolhead]

absolutely

 

[hanley]

I've sat in the A Block a fair number of times and I think it's fantastic value for money. It's not exactly difficult to sing and watch the match at the same time.

 

[birkin youth]

I might be delving into controversy here but, I sit in the Brian Clough Upper wondering whether those in the corner of the main stand are actually watching the football? All I hear is 'we hate Derby' or 'stand up if you hate Derby' or some other gesture.

Question is - do you miss anything? Do you see anything? Do you get your money's worth?

It is possible to sing without closing your eyes.

The view in that end of the Main Stand is pretty decent, although the pillars can block your view of a small area of the pitch.

 

[Forever Forest]

The A Block used to be brilliant, then went shit and is now decent again, verses good teams anyway, Just because you sit in there doesnt mean your a thug, just like a good old sings-ong ;D! Most grounds have a singing section and this has been in it for the ladt decade or so, well since the Trent End went posh!

It must be hard for students to do two things at once but like someone else said, after years of practice, you can actually sing and watch the match at the same time!

I might be delving into controversy here but, I sit in the Brian Clough Upper wondering whether those in the corner of the main stand are actually watching the football? All I hear is 'we hate Derby' or 'stand up if you hate Derby' or some other gesture.

Question is - do you miss anything? Do you see anything? Do you get your money's worth?

 

[stany]

I might be delving into controversy here but, I sit in the Brian Clough Upper wondering whether those in the corner of the main stand are actually watching the football? All I hear is 'we hate Derby' or 'stand up if you hate Derby' or some other gesture.

Question is - do you miss anything? Do you see anything? Do you get your money's worth?

Only a Student could ask such a question :

 

[JtheNorwegianRed]

I might be delving into controversy here but, I sit in the Brian Clough Upper wondering whether those in the corner of the main stand are actually watching the football? All I hear is 'we hate Derby' or 'stand up if you hate Derby' or some other gesture.

Question is - do you miss anything? Do you see anything? Do you get your money's worth?

Why do you care?
To be honest, I don't care much about football, but I love being at Forest, drink beer and sing songs in the stands!
I would feel that I didn't get my money's worth if I were sat in the Upper Clough, freezing and dead silent on a Tuesday night in February!

 

[T.B.T.]

I've now sat in most areas of the stand at some point or other and my place of preference lies in the A Block.

It wholly depends upon what you want to get out of your visit to the City Ground and I accept, the A Block experience is not for everyone. However, for me it's about the whole package. The game, the atmosphere, the singing, the ability to stand through the match, the people, the noise and the cameraderie. There are few, if no other, places that come close.

I've recently posted on Facebook a video of the Mull of Kintyre chorus taken from the A Block proceeding the Coventry game. This is what it's all about.

I'll try and post it here if I can.

 

[William.]

In the Brian Clough upper, Is the only sound you here that of Worthers original rappers being opened? Amaizingly you can sing and watch the game at the same time, I think its called having fun. :nowink:

 

[T.B.T.]

Done it! :1st:

Click here for the Mull of Kintyre A Block experience. ;D

 

[bradyo]

I'm a 17 year old season ticket holder in the BC upper, and hate it, my dad got the season tickets on the basis that, firstly as we got them quite late, there were no decent places where there were 2 seats together, so fair enough, also that they were the "best seats in the house" and that "A Block is too expensive" which, in that case he might also be right, but the atmosphere there is appalling, only me him and about 3 other people sing mull of kintyre at the beginning, and there is literally no singing throughout the game.
When you start to hear chants of 'stand up if you hate derby" I would love to stand up, but am either embarrassed to do it on my own/with my dad, or get told to sit down by the people behind me.

That leads me onto another point.

There are a slightly elderly couple, and a middle aged man, who sit behind and in front of me respectively who are the worst forest fans imaginable, week in and week out, they complain.
When Earnie scored the first against Leicester, in the build up play I jumped out of my seat, as you do when your team is launching an attack, and was shouted at from behind to sit down, so I sat down, we scored, and that ruined the rest of the day for me!

The guy in front moans every single time we don't score even if we are 3-0 up. If Majewski has played a fantastic ball from one end of the pitch to the other, and Anderson or someone doesn't control it PERFECTLY it's all "get him off, he's s**t" and "what the f**k was that?", He was moaning even AFTER Earnshaw scored his hattrick!

Obviously, 16 games unbeaten/5 clean sheets/unbeaten away all season/14 goals in the last 4 home games/unbeaten since September, is not good enough for them!

Their attitude stinks, along with the large majority of the BC stand, (or at least the upper part). The real fans are in 'A' Block and the ones that go to away games.

Watching football is all about having fun, enjoying the game, and showing passion for the team you pay week in week out to see, the boys are doing a fantastic job at the moment, and people actually have the balls to complain constantly?
I mean, it's alright to groan if there was a missed pass or poor control, but after Tyson's shot over the bar against Coventry, last night, when we were winning, they were going crazy, you can't moan that an (albeit out-of-form) striker decides to shoot in the box.

Bring back the real fans.

 

[stany]

Cricket Ground side of Main Stand

This is a wind up though?

I'm a 17 year old season ticket holder in the BC upper, and hate it, my dad got the season tickets on the basis that, firstly as we got them quite late, there were no decent places where there were 2 seats together, so fair enough, also that they were the "best seats in the house" and that "A Block is too expensive" which, in that case he might also be right, but the atmosphere there is appalling, only me him and about 3 other people sing mull of kintyre at the beginning, and there is literally no singing throughout the game.
When you start to hear chants of 'stand up if you hate derby" I would love to stand up, but am either embarrassed to do it on my own/with my dad, or get told to sit down by the people behind me.

That leads me onto another point.

There are a slightly elderly couple, and a middle aged man, who sit behind and in front of me respectively who are the worst forest fans imaginable, week in and week out, they complain.
When Earnie scored the first against Leicester, in the build up play I jumped out of my seat, as you do when your team is launching an attack, and was shouted at from behind to sit down, so I sat down, we scored, and that ruined the rest of the day for me!

The guy in front moans every single time we don't score even if we are 3-0 up. If Majewski has played a fantastic ball from one end of the pitch to the other, and Anderson or someone doesn't control it PERFECTLY it's all "get him off, he's s**t" and "what the f**k was that?", He was moaning even AFTER Earnshaw scored his hattrick!

Obviously, 16 games unbeaten/5 clean sheets/unbeaten away all season/14 goals in the last 4 home games/unbeaten since September, is not good enough for them!

Their attitude stinks, along with the large majority of the BC stand, (or at least the upper part). The real fans are in 'A' Block and the ones that go to away games.

Watching football is all about having fun, enjoying the game, and showing passion for the team you pay week in week out to see, the boys are doing a fantastic job at the moment, and people actually have the balls to complain constantly?
I mean, it's alright to groan if there was a missed pass or poor control, but after Tyson's shot over the bar against Coventry, last night, when we were winning, they were going crazy, you can't moan that an (albeit out-of-form) striker decides to shoot in the box.

Bring back the real fans.

Decent post for a young un. Nice one :bigboss:

 

[RICH1977]

I have a sat/stood In A block since pearce took over as manager and we beat arsenall on his first game in charge, I know have a season ticket in there once again an I wouldnt sit anywhere else, yes I do watch the match and yes I do see eveything unfold, I also like to think that those of us in A block and other areas of the ground that sing help lift the players and drive them onto victory.

 

[Davie]

Unrelatedly...

Having had a season ticket in Cap One and A over the last two seasons, A block is more fun.

It may be hard to believe, but the stewards are worse in Capital One (or whatever it's called these days) - it's a disgrace how much they kill the atmosphere. There is a reason why it suddenly all goes quite after the inevitable, "can you sit down, please!", following ten minutes of decent support for the team.

I've wanted to write/email Billy Davies about it, on the off chance he might read it. Has anyone done anything similiar before?

Eurgh.

 

[JoeBaker]

The A Block used to be brilliant, then went s**t and is now decent again, verses good teams anyway, Just because you sit in there doesnt mean your a thug, just like a good old sings-ong ;D! Most grounds have a singing section and this has been in it for the ladt decade or so, well since the Trent End went posh!

The A block was a great singing section even when the Trent End was still a terrace. Its peak years for me we're the mid to late 90s. Remember the Bohinan chant to the theme tune to the Vikings ;D You had great banter with relaxed stewarding. Things went pear-shaped in there when Eddie Curtis became the chief safety officer and he had his clampdown. All of a sudden we had Stewards, Police and private security doing their level best to kill the atmosphere. That was it for me and I went and sat elsewhere and many of the old A blockers I know did the same and sadly a lot of the atmosphere went with them. However does appear to show signs of returning to its former glory but still a long was to go IMO. Farsical though that its the most expensive stand in the ground

 

[bradyo]

The A block was a great singing section even when the Trent End was still a terrace. Its peak years for me we're the mid to late 90s. Remember the Bohinan chant to the theme tune to the Vikings ;D You had great banter with relaxed stewarding. Things went pear-shaped in there when Eddie Curtis became the chief safety officer and he had his clampdown. All of a sudden we had Stewards, Police and private security doing their level best to kill the atmosphere. That was it for me and I went and sat elsewhere and many of the old A blockers I know did the same and sadly a lot of the atmosphere went with them. However does appear to show signs of returning to its former glory but still a long was to go IMO. Farsical though that its the most expensive stand in the ground

Alan Bexon also deserves a massive punch in the head

 

[Shanks]

Awful view IMO. I like the slightly elevated view with plenty of leg room and no one in front ;D

 

[sedgred]

The A block was a great singing section even when the Trent End was still a terrace. Its peak years for me we're the mid to late 90s. Remember the Bohinan chant to the theme tune to the Vikings ;D You had great banter with relaxed stewarding. Things went pear-shaped in there when Eddie Curtis became the chief safety officer and he had his clampdown. All of a sudden we had Stewards, Police and private security doing their level best to kill the atmosphere. That was it for me and I went and sat elsewhere and many of the old A blockers I know did the same and sadly a lot of the atmosphere went with them. However does appear to show signs of returning to its former glory but still a long was to go IMO. Farsical though that its the most expensive stand in the ground

Spot On. Sat there for years, but moved out as above reason.

 

[Bridgfordred79]

I might be delving into controversy here but, I sit in the Brian Clough Upper wondering whether those in the corner of the main stand are actually watching the football? All I hear is 'we hate Derby' or 'stand up if you hate Derby' or some other gesture.

Question is - do you miss anything? Do you see anything? Do you get your money's worth?

:leacock:

I sat there in 03/04 for a whole bloody season, whenever we went near goal a bloke on the back row twatted the back of the stand.
Annoying is the only word to describe it, no atomosphere at all, some dont even stand up when we score.

 

[sedgred]

Always kills me this topic.

Why on earth should some chap who's probably been going for more years than he cares to remember, have his view continually blocked by some little scroat, who wants to stand up to hate Derby when we are not playing them .

There is nothing more annoying than some fool constantly standing in an all seating area. If you don't like the BC stand, don't go there. Maybe other fans buy their tickets for that area, because they appreciate the lack of moronic chants from brain dead youngsters, who because they leap and shriek about, chanting in unbroken voices, call themselves real fans.

 

[Bridgfordred79]

Always kills me this topic.

Why on earth should some chap who's probably been going for more years than he cares to remember, have his view continually blocked by some little scroat, who wants to stand up to hate Derby when we are not playing them .

There is nothing more annoying than some fool constantly standing in an all seating area. If you don't like the BC stand, don't go there. Maybe other fans buy their tickets for that area, because they appreciate the lack of moronic chants from brain dead youngsters, who because they leap and shriek about, chanting in unbroken voices, call themselves real fans.

How about when Forest bear down on goal, and everybody in front stands up blocking your view?
The problem is not just standing to chant like you have assumed, but mostly standing to actually see the game and getting somebody chant "Siiiit daaaahhhn" at you.

 

[jkn_93]

i love the athmosphere and i also like to watch the football, but if there was no atmosphere at all it would be cheaper to watch it on tv :blink:

well thats what i think anyway

 

[T.B.T.]

Maybe other fans buy their tickets for that area, because they appreciate the lack of moronic chants from brain dead youngsters, who because they leap and shriek about, chanting in unbroken voices, call themselves real fans.

You flatter us Sedge. :wink: