Showing posts with label Fans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fans. Show all posts

Monday, July 8, 2013

Stupid Stuff Posted This Week on Twitter

As part of anew series I will be featuring some of the more retarded tweets you may have missed for your enjoyment. Please sit bask in the relative stupidity.




Yes, because McGugan departing for free and being replaced by someone costing a million means they have no money. Plus also McGugan was highly inconsistent. Yes in his day one of the best, but when he was poor awful. Nice try though. Think you'll be appearing every week.


This ones not so much stupid as just ill thought



and how's that team going to work then? 3 strikers? Bizarre


This is pure stupidity. On their very first tweet



bravo. Well done on getting the team your supposedly representing right. Oh wait you didn;t.


The next one make me laugh at its naivity



Yes because only the player edits his "wikopedia"  and not any old person who can because thats what Wiki is.

Good old fashioned delusion


Yes why would you choose a team in Europe, recently in the Premier League with parachute money to burn over us really?


Thats just a sample folks. I will be watching more intently now

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Sing When We're Moaning

I have often commented that the average Forest fan online only seems to be happy when he has something to moan about. This makes the life of a Forest blogger easy, as we either take sides or deride those moaning, all for easy hits.


But this week’s announcement of the biggest non story to hit Trentside since Wesley Verhoek didn’t sign, we announced that we are now not moving away fans after Forest fans asked the club not to. This is after the club announced they were moving away fans because the club asked them to do so. Confusing? Yes. Ridiculous? Even more so.

I did accuse a number of Bridgford Stand residents of a form of Nimbyism previously. Happy to see away fans moved but not if it’s in their back yard. Now it seems they will get their way and some other part of the stadium will perhaps be looked at to move the away contingent to.

This is all out of nothing. None of this needed to happen. We could quite easily have done nothing. But this is Forest. Why have a quiet peaceful time during a summer when you do something to pointlessly rile people.

So what now? Some of have said that they could go in the often left empty blocks in the Brian Clough upper and lower tiers, neatly forgetting a very basic element of not having enough exits. There is no way I can see away fans being put into the BC upper without some kind of remediation work that would see pointless costs attributed to the club to keep Mr Blogges of Upper Bridgford Tier happy.

The lower tier has catered to away fans previously, when in league e One with tiny allocations and when we renovated the Trent End. Some have said just give away fans that small section anyway forgetting that a large away following can mean extra revenue. It’s not like we sell out the City ground every week is it?

So now we have had the embarrassing escapade where fans are already moaning before the players have unpacked their suitcases after holidays. People are accusing the cub of not knowing what it’s doing, and yes I think they may have rushed this through, but this is what happens when you try to please a Forest fan. A different Forest fan moans. Now that’s life, different people like different things, but the moment you start to appease the vocal minorities, all you ended up doing is agitating and annoying the silent majority. And it is a majority. I don’t think the larger number of fans were contacting Fawaz to say shift the fans. Though he does get his fair share of embarrassingly misguided tweets sent to him. I do think Fawaz reacted to what people suggested, and that Billy wanted it to appease fans, and to make a happy stadium, and he is learning that this simply doesn’t work.

I’ve often spoken of a guy who sits near me who is never happy, if we win 5-0 he’ll be unhappy we didn’t’ get 6. There will be guys like him all around the ground, sitting moaning, being able to vent the frustrations they have in their lives at the ground as just another voice in the cacophony. These are the ones probably contact Fawaz with their “What’s wrong with Forest this week” lists. And so this new regime looks like it has set out to listen to the crazies. Now they know they are being listened to it might get more outlandish. Remember we had a previous regime that was fairly stand offish. Didn’t get overly involved, and now we swerved the other way, there might be more similar incidents.

But yeah in a nutshell, it just seems that people just love moaning. The latest wave seeing people moaning at the people moaning. This is all getting a bit Inception now on the moaning. Maybe this is a moan about moaning, about moaning. We’re in deep now people.

Roll on the pre season and making signings to take people’s minds off it. (Though people are moaning at lack of signings)





Moan Over.

Sunday, March 11, 2012

The Forest Fan Blame Game

In recent weeks, I am sure we are all aware of the growing mob of Forest staff, players, media and other sources starting to slate the fans who criticise at home games.

Pre-game yesterday ended up tipping me over the edge and has incensed me to write with the utter rubbish being spoken.

I can honestly say I never get on the players backs, only ever a muttering to my mate about x player not performing (usually Chambers). 

What fan in any ground in the country doesn't? 

I suppose having a season ticket in the ever excitable Victor Chandler corner, I never have to as the over reactive teens trying to start 5 different chants at the same time, do it for me.

The talk pre-game was of the horrible atmosphere on Tuesday night when we lost to Doncaster and how the fans affected the team by jeering, booing and whatever.

This was a home game against bottom of the league, where the side had an opportunity to create further light between our visitors, Coventry and Pompey. The team then go out and display one of the most pathetic displays of the season. We lose the game and fall right back into the relegation mix.

Now...are they for real when they don't expect the fans to say anything or be unhappy? Are the actually being serious?

Maybe if they hadn't gone out with a swagger similar to 'we only have to turn up tonight', we may have got something. 

Anyways, yesterday came and we gained a superb 3-1 victory against a side just a few places above us. Everyone's happy and rightly so. 

After the match came the tweets, Radio Nottingham and player talk of 'look what happens when the fans get behind you' was out. 

It is laughable, especially as the flip from me is look what happens when you actually play as well as every fan knows you can.

Now I do believe the fans play a significant part in player performance - after all you try doing your day job with 20,000 people knit-picking at everything you do badly. 

But with our plight this season, how can they expect fans to sit and take things like 7 games without scoring or a run of 5 points out of a possible 39. 

They can't and in less than a year, this club has gone from one extreme to another.

If players and members of Nottingham Forest want to criticse the fans, that's fine. 

I divert you to two things.

1. Now more than ever the fans are paying your wages and have a right to say what they want.

2. I'd advise when you brainstorm your marketing campaign for next season, don't put 'Take your seat & make your voice heard' on every single season ticket. It's obvious the club doesn't mean that.

The bottom line is if you play with passion, pride and care, no one will hear a boo whether we win, lose or draw. Who are we to argue when we know you have tried your best?

And that isn't a Forest thing either, that goes for every single fan across the world. 

It's time to stop playing the victim and using us fans as an excuse players and staff of Nottingham Forest.

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