: Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:18 pm  

Brian Carney wrote:

I will be there as always, its in my blood!!!!!
Cannot turn my back on them when they need our support more than ever, Smith will get any bad eggs out of the team and we will turn the corner!!!!
We are at the bottom now and we will rise up the table dont worry!!!!!

I was at the first game when Cloughy took over at Forest. My old man explained to me that this bloke would bring some trophies to the City Ground but it would take a bit of time. The rest is history.

I've got faith in TS.

: Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:30 pm  

Big Ask wrote:

I was at the first game when Cloughy took over at Forest. My old man explained to me that this bloke would bring some trophies to the City Ground but it would take a bit of time. The rest is history.

I've got faith in TS.

When Alex Murphy took over in 1971 we were bottom of the league & it took a year or two to get the team as he wanted it.

: Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:34 pm  

I'm not going.
Many on here have said that booing is not the answer, to a point I agree, and many have said the silent treatment is the best.

I deliberatley didn't buy a Season ticket this year, and I choose to show my discontent by being 'silent', as I wont be there.

In life you have choices, and my choice is not to waste my money this weekend.

If certain people want to jump on me and call me whatever, so what, as someone else else said here, grow some balls and make a stand.

Till players are 'sorted' out, nothing will improve and I just hope TS, has enough free reign to make the tough decisions, and make them quickly.
If he can't, then he may as well pack up and go home, as he will be sadly, wasting his time.

For the record, I hope we win well on Sunday.

: Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:35 pm  

Big Ask wrote:

I was at the first game when Cloughy took over at Forest. My old man explained to me that this bloke would bring some trophies to the City Ground but it would take a bit of time. The rest is history.

I've got faith in TS.

Luckilly i am just about old enough to remember the great years of European nights at Forest!!!!!

I have faith in TS and he will get it right, it may take time but i am prepared to hang around for it!!!!!

ps hope Forest can survive this season as i feel we have the right man there now 2!!!!!!

: Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:37 pm  

The All New Chester Wire wrote:

We could lose the next 20 games on the trot and I'd still go. Don't give me that rubbsih about going if they showed effort. If you don't want to go because you're fed up then just don't go. It's great to be a martyr, isn't it? Ooh, I'm not going to here, there or wherever. Oooh, I'm not getting a season ticket. Oh, whoopy do.

As you're usually one of the more sensible contributors on here, I'm not sure whether you're being entirely serious or not.

Would you really still go if they lost the next 20 games?
Even if those 20 games were in the same manner as the Harlequins game?

If so, I'd question who were the martyrs were.
Is it really those who have had enough, or perhaps those who will continue to attend matches completely regardless of what's being served up on the pitch?

I can sort of understand a mindset of not being bothered about Johnny-Come-Lately fans, but what should be sounding alarm bells, to anyone with even a passing interest in the club, is the number of long-term fans who have reached the end of their tether.

I'll give you an example. I and a group of old pals, all life-long Warrington fans/supporters (whatever the definition of those is on here today), who now live throughout the North regularly meet up at a Warrington game.
We've started to arrange our next meet and it's looking likely that a walk up Snowdon is the preferred option rather than attending a match!

This isn't just a dodgy couple of performances. This is the first time in 130 years we've lost 10 games on the run.

I do have confidence that Tony Smith will turn things around and it wouldn't actually surprise me if the prospect of a Wembley appearance finally entices 100% effort from the players.

However, until that 100% effort is displayed on a regular basis, "Whoopy Doo", I'll be merely a distant observer.

: Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:45 pm  

What would people describe as a glory hunter?

Would it be people who only attend when we are winning?

Whilst I know the current situation is pretty dire at the moment, if this was Saints or Leeds or Wigan, and their crowds dropped because of defeats (whatever the circumstances) they would be getting stick for having glory hunters.

I'm not having a go at anyone for not going, that is your choice, and people have different priorities, but the reason that I and others will go irrespective, is not due to being a martyr, it's due to the supporting them through thick and thin point.

: Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:00 pm  

The Riddler wrote:

As you're usually one of the more sensible contributors on here, I'm not sure whether you're being entirely serious or not.

Would you really still go if they lost the next 20 games?
Even if those 20 games were in the same manner as the Harlequins game?

If so, I'd question who were the martyrs were.
Is it really those who have had enough, or perhaps those who will continue to attend matches completely regardless of what's being served up on the pitch?

I can sort of understand a mindset of not being bothered about Johnny-Come-Lately fans, but what should be sounding alarm bells, to anyone with even a passing interest in the club, is the number of long-term fans who have reached the end of their tether.

I'll give you an example. I and a group of old pals, all life-long Warrington fans/supporters (whatever the definition of those is on here today), who now live throughout the North regularly meet up at a Warrington game.
We've started to arrange our next meet and it's looking likely that a walk up Snowdon is the preferred option rather than attending a match!

This isn't just a dodgy couple of performances. This is the first time in 130 years we've lost 10 games on the run.

I do have confidence that Tony Smith will turn things around and it wouldn't actually surprise me if the prospect of a Wembley appearance finally entices 100% effort from the players.

However, until that 100% effort is displayed on a regular basis, "Whoopy Doo", I'll be merely a distant observer.

i go pretty much every game but i've had enough the defeats don't bother me its the manner in which they are inflicted no heart,no passion,no effort i can't bring my self to go i may change my mind who knows who cares but it doesn't not make me a fan

: Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:02 pm  

The Riddler wrote:

I can sort of understand a mindset of not being bothered about Johnny-Come-Lately fans, but what should be sounding alarm bells, to anyone with even a passing interest in the club, is the number of long-term fans who have reached the end of their tether.

I agree with that. I am shocked at some of the people who are not going (or threatening not to). But that wasn't my point. It is the almost bragging way that, for example, Les Boyd is God comes on here and let's us all know he's not going. That's what made me go Whoopy Do.

: Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:03 pm  

The All New Chester Wire wrote:

I agree with that. I am shocked at some of the people who are not going (or threatening not to). But that wasn't my point. It is the almost bragging way that, for example, Les Boyd is God comes on here and let's us all know he's not going. That's what made me go Whoopy Do.

read the title of the thread

: Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:04 pm  

It doesn't make any difference to my point.