Originally Posted by
ncfcog
I have to be honest and say I was having negative thoughts about our sell out crowd before the game yesterday. I’m a bit of a whinger in that respect and really wasn’t looking forward to having to deal with the hassle of it all, after all there’s something quite comforting about setting off at 2pm, not having a problem finding a parking space, walking straight through the turnstiles without queuing, buying a bovril and pie without queuing and being able to sit in your own seat with a bit of elbow room because there’s no bugger else next to you.
Anyway, I decided to face it full on and set off 1 hour earlier, managed to park on the embankment near the suspension bridge so not too bad a walk from there, sat in the car and listened to radio red for a bit before making my way to the ground.
Having made it to Meadow Lane the first thing I saw was queues, yes bloody queues at the turnstiles. I rolled my eyes and chose a queue expecting the painful experience of dealing with ‘daytrippers’ to start but to my surprise the stewards and turnstile staff were exceptionally efficient and I was in the ground within a couple of minutes of queuing.
The ground was already filling up so I wandered up to my seat where low and behold someone was sat in it, typical I thought, I just knew this would happen. So I puffed out my chest and calmly requested if the gentleman would mind finding his own seat, he duly obliged and to be fair had actually done me a favour because my seat was now nice and warm, happy days.
After a shaky start Notts finally get their act together and deliver the result we all really hoped for in front of a big crowd.
Hewitt was absolute dog **** for the first 20 mins but after Husin’s tap in he seemed to come into his own and rightly got motm.
Credit to Crewe, like Crawley before them they weren’t afraid to play the ball out from the back and looked dangerous at times but they looked a young lightweight team and Notts were able to capitalise on this once they got their tails up.
In conclusion I felt the club did everything right yesterday both on and off the field, fair play to all involved.
It was nice to see the ground so full but I do think we lost some of the atmosphere we are used to because of this, we have made more noise with 3500 in attendance.
I’m also not a fan of the way it was achieved because I’m a great believer if the product is right then the customer will pay and the only way that the club will maintain any kind of sustainable future is by success on the pitch. hopefully we will see that this season with promotion but it’s going to be a tough ask.
So all in all much better than expected, will be interesting to see if we can break 5k against Carlisle a week on Tuesday.