ForestDanny123
Youth Team
The fans desereved praised yesterday. They stayed behind the team 2nd half,even though donny was all over us.
The fans yesterday
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winnits
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Mostly yes, but there was smattering of groans and occasional chuntering which we could do without when we're winning.
Marshall.
Jack Burkitt
When McGugan scored, hundreds went. It was like someone opened a can of tuna in the carpark or something.
Kier
Banned
Marshall. said:
I cannot for the life of me understand the people's thinking who seem to habitually leave every game with 10 minutes or so to go. Do the same people walk out of cinemas or theatres with 10 minutes before the end? I doubt it!
Whilst the roads/public transport systems can be a bitch are these people really leaving because they need to be home early?
Staying to applaud Forest off is far more important!
There is this old guy that sits near me who is fantastic.
Yesterday for example there was a bloke behind him telling BD what to do (which I think in fairness we all do at some point!)
So this old bloke turns around and says "If you were better than Billy is at managing a football club you would've got the job ahead of him and he needs no advice from you. Get behind your team ffs!"
I thought it was brilliant and it certainly shut up the bloke behind him.
Yesterday for example there was a bloke behind him telling BD what to do (which I think in fairness we all do at some point!)
So this old bloke turns around and says "If you were better than Billy is at managing a football club you would've got the job ahead of him and he needs no advice from you. Get behind your team ffs!"
I thought it was brilliant and it certainly shut up the bloke behind him.
birkin youth
Geoff Thomas
Davie said:
I agree. Even at 3-0 up we weren't really singing that much at all.
The only real highlights were the jeers when the linesman broke his flag; singing "stand up if you've got a job" and seeing all of about 8 Donny fans stand up; and actually singing the full first verse of Lost That Loving Feeling.
trickytrees12
Geoff Thomas
Kier said:
weasel
Grenville Morris
It is a bit weird that the atmosphere, and also attendances, aren't all that great at the moment.
It's almost as if people don't truly believe we're sat 4th in the league when we were all reaching for the noose about 3 years ago, going nowhere in League One.
The League One shitness has definitely taken a bad toll and we're undeniably a quieter, less supported club than we were under Hart and Kinnear, which wasn't all that long ago was it.
I just hope we manage to find our mojo again. I really sense that around the club it just doesn't matter to people as much as it did before. I can see us getting to the play offs but can anyone honestly say that whoever we play they'll feel as emotionally drained as all of us did at Brammal Lane that infamous night? Maybe it's just me, but I just feel like we lost a bit of something somewhere around the Megson reign and although we've tasted some success since, we're still not quite the club we were.
It's almost as if people don't truly believe we're sat 4th in the league when we were all reaching for the noose about 3 years ago, going nowhere in League One.
The League One shitness has definitely taken a bad toll and we're undeniably a quieter, less supported club than we were under Hart and Kinnear, which wasn't all that long ago was it.
I just hope we manage to find our mojo again. I really sense that around the club it just doesn't matter to people as much as it did before. I can see us getting to the play offs but can anyone honestly say that whoever we play they'll feel as emotionally drained as all of us did at Brammal Lane that infamous night? Maybe it's just me, but I just feel like we lost a bit of something somewhere around the Megson reign and although we've tasted some success since, we're still not quite the club we were.
Midland Red
First Team Squad
Winnits said:
Mostly centred towards McCleary. Not without good reason, I suppose. He did stuff quite a lot up yesterday ;D. But it probably wasn't needed.
Brolin
Swedish Meatball
I have a small gripe with a bloke in T1. He talked a load of shit against Bristol and levelled ridiculous criticism, and I whinged about it on here then, well, he was at it again yesterday.
Forest were below par in the first half, despite the lead, but this bellend just turned into a parody. The most pointless piece of advice was given as the ball was rolling back to Lee Camp - "OUT!!", he shouted. Well, I doubt Camp was weighing up the merits of a stepover before skinning the attacker.
He also thought Raddy should "f*** off back to Poland" and had a few choice words for Adebola, even though he's not let us down whenever he's come on this season.
Fortunately, as the game wore on people just started turning around and tutting, or laughing at him in some cases, while others just rinsed his poor understanding of the game.
A complete moron who just comes to the game to give people a hard time. (That's him, not me signing off the post)
Forest were below par in the first half, despite the lead, but this bellend just turned into a parody. The most pointless piece of advice was given as the ball was rolling back to Lee Camp - "OUT!!", he shouted. Well, I doubt Camp was weighing up the merits of a stepover before skinning the attacker.
He also thought Raddy should "f*** off back to Poland" and had a few choice words for Adebola, even though he's not let us down whenever he's come on this season.
Fortunately, as the game wore on people just started turning around and tutting, or laughing at him in some cases, while others just rinsed his poor understanding of the game.
A complete moron who just comes to the game to give people a hard time. (That's him, not me signing off the post)
chib-e
Viv Anderson
Lets face it, its never been the same since the Scouses forced all seater stadia came in. Bring back standing, bring back the atmosphere. Btw, did anyone fill out the Football league questionnaire about Forest afew weeks ago? There was a question on there asking wether you backed safe standing?
jasons-pineapple
First Team Squad
Brolin said:
Johnny Bravo
Jack Armstrong
weasel said:
I think next season is when we'll start getting back to somewhere near our best. The reason the attendences are so low in contrast to the seasons you mentioned is that season ticket sales have been low as a result of being in League One and because of last years poor season. If we finish top 10 or better we'll add a few thousand to the season ticket holders and when attendences are closer to full capacity floaters will start picking up interest again adding even more bums on seats.
weasel said:
Good post.
The fact is, we don't have as many supporters as we like to think we do.
Our biggest attendance this season was vs Newcastle and a lot of the fans that went to that game that wouldn't usually go weren't coming to watch Forest, they were coming to watch Newcastle. Same applies when we play Derby, I know a lot of Man Utd, Liverpool 'fans' that go to our home games vs Derby but would never go to any of our other games.
Our away support has been brilliant, last season and this season, but it will drop again next season. Can you see 3,000 making the trip to Boro again? A lot of our high away attendances are due to the fact that people haven't been to these grounds before. 'Tick another ground off the list' as they say.
The atmosphere is flat most of the time but I would put a lot of that down to stewarding, policing. One of the noisest areas of the ground is Victor Chandler corner, and that's tucked away up in the corner. I sat in there a few times last season and the atmosphere was good but from the Trent End you can't hear them. Quite a lot of the people that sit there are 16-21, and I bet if A-Block wasn't 21+ only (which is silly btw) a lot of them would sit there, where they could be heard better.
Maverick
Jack Burkitt
weasel said:
OK, I know everyone can't get to away games, but the atmosphere at all the ones I've been to this season has been immense.
So not a quieter less supported club all the time.
adam09
Bob McKinlay
Brolin said:
Sounds like the guy I thought I heard call McCleary a "black bastard", though I wasn't 100% sure it was that of "fat bastard". Either way, McCleary got over his troubles in the early stages and had a great game. It's stupid getting on players' backs straight away.
I'm just glad McCleary had the confidence to keep going and taking players on, even after a couple of stuff ups. Sign of a good player that is.
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winnits
Guest
Beverly Hills Cock said:
That, my good man, is bollocks.
Forest have sustained a solid away following throughout the shit times we've had - so this season nor last are no kinds of flash in the pan.
I take on board and agree with much of the criticism of our home fans, but our away fans are second to not many from what I've seen of other teams travelling fans.
Kier said:
This subject was covered in a very old thread. Basically, some people leave early to get ahead of the traffic - especially if they have a long way to travel since waiting that 10 minutes could add 30 minutes onto their journey. Also, they may have to be elsewhere as quickly as possible - or may feel they've seen what they want to see. Whilst you get hardcore supporters, you also get more casual fans in the crowd who are there to be entertained - and will leave when they've had enough. You get this at every football club.
Can't remember what the thread was called but I remember this subject being discussed a few months ago.
Watford Red said:
I don't mind trawling 86 pages to find the thread called "Leaving Early"...
:smug: :nowink:
Scumbaggio
First Team Squad
Kier said:
In all fairness it was cold on saturday.
I can also take you an age to escape the traffic, I didn't leave early on saturday but if we are losing I certainly will.
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clusternakker
Guest
Some fans are just odd or have seen a queue and decided to join it. I heard 1 guy say 'typical sideways sammy, get rid of the ****' and that was in the cup against boro the other month. Maybe he'd had a relapse.
I'm still disappointed with our home attendances. Yet again Direby put us to shame. We HAVE to market our club better.
BTW - A mate of mine (a good Red), works in Derby for a large print/packaging company. He tells me on excellent authority that Derby made this ticket offer direct to the employees of the firm ........
Next three games for £55. ie a saving of £20 or so. What is so obvious is that anyone who takes up this offer goes to THREE games. ie it's not just a one-off 'kids for a quid' type of thing. Surely we can SOMEHOW fill the section next to the away fans?
BTW - A mate of mine (a good Red), works in Derby for a large print/packaging company. He tells me on excellent authority that Derby made this ticket offer direct to the employees of the firm ........
Next three games for £55. ie a saving of £20 or so. What is so obvious is that anyone who takes up this offer goes to THREE games. ie it's not just a one-off 'kids for a quid' type of thing. Surely we can SOMEHOW fill the section next to the away fans?
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winnits
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Derby offer Boots employees tickets to Forest and either West Brom or Preston for £40-odd.
Would you rather have the City Ground full of atmosphereless day-trippers?
I wouldn't.
Would you rather have the City Ground full of atmosphereless day-trippers?
I wouldn't.