Spot on.
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Great post slack & must ring a bell with most Notts fans while being completely incomprehensible to the average red,Notts fans by their nature will always be attracted to the smaller club in any City ( if I lived in Merseyside I would follow Tranmere) we do not take the easy option.Being fair on the Reds the fans who turn up every week tend to talk sense, it is the many who wear the shirt but don't & haven't actually bothered since the Clough days who are very arrogant & stuck in the past.
As arguably one of Notts' oldest supporters (now more of a follower) I could blame me dad but then again only being 6 in 1944 (war time friendlies) I was obviously too young to go alone. The leagues were re-formed after the war and we were in the Third division (South) with average gates of perhaps a 3-5000 average. We then signed the best centre forward I have ever seen and I had the experience of 30-40,000 gates which was phenomenal at the time. So great memories and at the time enough to stamp me a 'Pie for life.
It doesn't seem long ago that the old people you knew were Victorians. Suddenly you realise that anyone born in her reign would be at least 118 now.
Thanks for your answers and if there are anymore then I woud welcome them. I can understand you supporting County as the "underdog," I would usually do the same, but I came from a non-footballing background, you heard more about Forest so I gravitated there. I must admit that sometimes it's quite tempting to think about watching Notts, but I don't think I could ever do it, the die has already been cast. In the same way I'd be disappointed if any of you decided to transfer your allegience to Forest because they played against (some) more glamorous opponents. I hope that both of the teams thrive and that we both have success but it worries me sometimes to think that when I started watching Forest in the early seventies, pay on the gate was either 20p or 40p (I forget which now) and so it was affordable from pocket money. That has all changed now.
There has been a time or two in the period I've been supporting Forest when County could have become the bigger team and I suppose that it will happen some time, unless money continues to call the tune. If it does, enjoy your time in the sun.
I was just thinking of the supporters you gained in the Munto period. I wonder what happened to them.
Isn't that that exact opposite of supporting the underdog?
Interesting question, but crowd figures suggest many of them remained, or at least retained an interest. Pre-Munto we struggled to get a 4,000 attendance for a home game, but last season we actually beat Munto levels. Whether that was down to the new interest that Munto generated or some very imaginative promotions from Alan Hardy is hard to say. Whatever the reasons I'm just glad to see attendances like 7,000+ yesterday which was 1,000 above my estimate, and I'm usually not far off the mark with attendances. Personal experience also tells me the new supporters gained since the dark days are mainly in the younger age brackets, which is great to see.