Kicking our heels until something happens

[Woodsetts_Pie]

1. York City 1969ish, travelled from Eastwood on the bus as Eastwood Town were away that day. After childhood watching Mansfield it felt quite different...
2. Best performance: The 3-3 Sheffield Wednesday Scanlon Hat trick match
3. Worst performance: Oh lord, probably too many to count in recent times.
4. Best moment as a Notts supporter: listening on the radio when we won away at Chelsea to go up
5. Worst moment: Relegation day from Div2, or Div 4 in old money
6. Funniest moment: Paul Harding putting Nigel Clough over the barrier in the 1st minute v Forest and getting booked.
7. The player you've enjoyed the most: Anyone called Ian/Iain. McCulloch, Scanlon, McParland in that order
8. How you came to be a Notts supporter: Fate.
9. Sum up how you feel about Notts in 3 words: In the blood

[Notts78]

[QUOTE=cher1;40059824]How about some quickfire questions for everyone...

1. First game and any memories of it

2. Best performance you've been to (or listened to if you can't get to games)

3. Worst performance

4. Best moment as a Notts supporter

5. Worst moment

6. Funniest moment

7. The player you've enjoyed the most (not necessarily the best)

8. How you came to be a Notts supporter

9. Sum up how you feel about Notts in 3 words

1/ sure it was Northampton in the late 80’s
2/ for me the best performance I saw from Notts was the 3-2 win over Barnsley after having a man sent off
3/ Was it Macclesfield we lost to 5-0 when we were on to break a club record for clean sheets
4/ Being Brighton at Wembley
5/ our relegation obviously. Though the recent play off defeat still massively stings
6/ travelling to Wycombe in fancy dress
7/ Drapes. What a player.
8/ despite being brought up as a Man Utd fan, Notts were the first team I saw in person.
9/ ****ing Love Them

[magpie_mania]

1. First game and any memories of it
Can't remember the exact first but it was September 1971. First game I do remember was beating Newport 6 - 0 in FA Cup

2. Best performance you've been to (or listened to if you can't get to games)
I would like to say there have been too many

3. Worst performance
A home game v Bournemouth. Original game was pp very late and we had to turn back. I took someone for the first time to the re-arranged game and it was dire.

4. Best moment as a Notts supporter
Getting into Div 1 in 1981, then beating Villa away

5. Worst moment
Relegation from L2 and the push in the back v Grimsby. I really thought we would do it last season

6. Funniest moment
A ball boy being 'yellow carded' by the ref made me smile.

7. The player you've enjoyed the most (not necessarily the best)
Steve Carter

8. How you came to be a Notts supporter
A friend took me

9. Sum up how you feel about Notts in 3 words
Always have hope

[BCnotts18]

1. At home to Bristol Rovers in August 2005 after winning the tickets in a Radio Trent competition. I believe we won 2-0.

2. 5-0 v Bradford in 2009, could pick quite a few games from that season really.

3. Barrow at home a few years ago springs to mind as well as Cheltenham at home in the relegation season; I left that game seriously wondering whether I should bother going to anymore games that season, and it was only November.

4. Staying up at Oldham in 2014. Just the relief of seeing that penalty go in and hearing the final whistle after such an awful seasoning knowing we'd somehow managed to stay up was brilliant, shame it wasn't to last though.

5. Obviously relegation from the football league has to be up there, but the loss at home to Coventry in the playoffs has to take it for me. Just the mixture of the terrible referring performance, the below par Notts display and the way in which the Coventry fans and players gloated then and have ever since, combined with the way in which the clubs have gone in opposite directions since means it tops the plethora of bad moments following Notts.

6. Either watching my Grandad tumble down the hill at Oldham after too many pints or sitting right behind Fullarton when he tried to kick the ball back into play and ended up losing his balance and falling into a puddle were both hilarious.

7. Lee Hughes has to be up there but there was something about Alan Judge and Alan Sheehan at Notts that I loved. I think it was Judge's ability to score from literally anywhere that made me excited whenever he picked up the ball.

8. After I went to my first game and enjoyed it, my grandad bought me a season ticket for the following season and I've been stuck with Notts ever since.

9. Why so inconsistent?

[BCnotts18]

1. At home to Bristol Rovers in August 2005 after winning the tickets in a Radio Trent competition. I believe we won 2-0.

2. 5-0 v Bradford in 2009, could pick quite a few games from that season really.

3. Barrow at home a few years ago springs to mind as well as Cheltenham at home in the relegation season; I left that game seriously wondering whether I should bother going to anymore games that season, and it was only November.

4. Staying up at Oldham in 2014. Just the relief of seeing that penalty go in and hearing the final whistle after such an awful seasoning knowing we'd somehow managed to stay up was brilliant, shame it wasn't to last though.

5. Obviously relegation from the football league has to be up there, but the loss at home to Coventry in the playoffs has to take it for me. Just the mixture of the terrible referring performance, the below par Notts display and the way in which the Coventry fans and players gloated then and have ever since, combined with the way in which the clubs have gone in opposite directions since means it tops the plethora of bad moments following Notts.

6. Either watching my Grandad tumble down the hill at Oldham after too many pints or sitting right behind Fullarton when he tried to kick the ball back into play and ended up losing his balance and falling into a puddle were both hilarious.

7. Lee Hughes has to be up there but there was something about Alan Judge and Alan Sheehan at Notts that I loved. I think it was Judge's ability to score from literally anywhere that made me excited whenever he picked up the ball.

8. After I went to my first game and enjoyed it, my grandad bought me a season ticket for the following season and I've been stuck with Notts ever since.

9. Why so inconsistent?

The 3-3 draw with florist has to be up there for best performance for me too thinking about it.

[PedroTheFisherman66]

How about some quickfire questions for everyone...

1. First game and any memories of it

2. Best performance you've been to (or listened to if you can't get to games)

3. Worst performance

4. Best moment as a Notts supporter

5. Worst moment

6. Funniest moment

7. The player you've enjoyed the most (not necessarily the best)

8. How you came to be a Notts supporter

9. Sum up how you feel about Notts in 3 words

Mine would be:
1. Away at Southend, March 1971, we lost 1 - 0. I had no clue what was going on and my dad hired a cushion so I could see a bit better. Missed the goal and was puzzled as to why it wasn't shown again like it was on the telly.

2. Genuinely can't pick one from our heyday

3. Home game, forget who we played, but we got drenched on the way, we were desperate, it rained some more, the match was abandoned.

4. Wembley v Tranmere. Turned out to be my Dad's last game though we had no idea of that at the time. Nothing will ever top that.

5. The Luton game. Also up there with the best for the sense of so many supporters coming together to try to keep Notts alive.

6. The muddy patch

7. Steve Carter

8. Dad born and brought up on ML

9. Joy pain frustration

1- I honestly cant remember but it was the mid 70s..
2 best performance or memory has to be the Stamford bridge game ! Away win to secure top flight footy ..
3 I think it had to be the game that lost Warnock his job..we lost at home to I think it was Sunderland in the fa cup ..it was a midweek game freezing cold and my 1st time sat in the new cup..! We were beyond poor !
4 see Q2
5 relegation from the football league
6 a booze ridden night in the meadow club after beating Brighton in the play offs
7 super mac !
8 went with my mate and his dad ! His dad was a massive notts fan.
9 love pain orgasmic !

[laddo]

1. 5-0 home victory over Rotherham in mid 80s, can’t remember any of the game but my Dad introduced me to Sir Jimmy Sirrel before the kick-off behind the old main stand and he personally signed my prized Junior Magpies autograph book and shook my hand. My first and best ever signature.
2. 5-0 versus Bradford for the reasons all in attendance will remember.
3. Not worst overall 90 mins performance but one that sticks in the memory was being 2-0 up against Sarfend at home under Kendall’s reign during that infamous season. Them having not one but two players sent off and then Notts managing to throw away the win drawing 2-2. It was embarrassing and depressing in equal measure.
4. Brighton Wembley day. Huge crowd, Special place, Perfect age, Great successful outcome.
5. Individual moment would be the own goal late on at the Baseball Ground under the floodflights. Couldn’t see what actually happened at the other end of the pitch from that atmospheric away end with the awful view, but the home sections of the crowd told us all we needed to know. Started the end to our playoff dreams from that level.
6. Mate sat next to me had a 2-2 correct score bet and was showing off about his impending (sizeable) winnings moments before an injury time goal from the opposition completely ruined his day. He screwed up and threw the old-fashioned betting slip about 4 rows ahead in anger whilst turning the air blue. Only to then notice that the linesman had his flag up. I’ve never seen the big lad move so fast as he huddled over 4 rows of plastic seats quickly to get it back
7. Gary McSweegan running riot at Meadow Lane against all the big boys with their packed-out Kop followings
8. Like most, the old man is to blame.
9. Nobody else matters

[smntrees]

1. West Brom at home in 1990. We won 4-3.
I was sat on the old concrete steps up to the seats at the meadow lane end of the main stand. I remember not being able to see the scoreboard due to the mist

2. Beating Man City in the fa cup 5th round. Steve cherry, my football hero, played a blinder that day

3. 4-0 defeat away to Morecambe with Alan smith as caretaker manager. A real poor performance

4. Watching us draw with Man Utd at a packed meadow lane even though we were robbed with a poor penalty decision

5. Although a good time as we got promoted the munto fiasco. It was the real downward spiral of trew and hardy that followed where the club became toxic.

6. I’m struggling for funny moments. Notts have sucked my sole dry

7. Steve cherry and Tommy Johnson are my all time favourite players

8. See answer 1 I got took to a game and that was it.

9. In my blood

[i961pie]

First game 59/60 1-1 against Exeter, I remember having space around me and a great view.
I had been to watch Forest and being 8 years old in a 30,000 crowd I couldn't see much.

Best game beating Leeds 0-1 in the league cup
Worst game, to many to mention.
Favourite player, Tony Hately.
Worst moment not being in the football league any more.

[PedroTheFisherman66]

1. 5-0 home victory over Rotherham in mid 80s, can’t remember any of the game but my Dad introduced me to Sir Jimmy Sirrel before the kick-off behind the old main stand and he personally signed my prized Junior Magpies autograph book and shook my hand. My first and best ever signature.
2. 5-0 versus Bradford for the reasons all in attendance will remember.
3. Not worst overall 90 mins performance but one that sticks in the memory was being 2-0 up against Sarfend at home under Kendall’s reign during that infamous season. Them having not one but two players sent off and then Notts managing to throw away the win drawing 2-2. It was embarrassing and depressing in equal measure.
4. Brighton Wembley day. Huge crowd, Special place, Perfect age, Great successful outcome.
5. Individual moment would be the own goal late on at the Baseball Ground under the floodflights. Couldn’t see what actually happened at the other end of the pitch from that atmospheric away end with the awful view, but the home sections of the crowd told us all we needed to know. Started the end to our playoff dreams from that level.
6. Mate sat next to me had a 2-2 correct score bet and was showing off about his impending (sizeable) winnings moments before an injury time goal from the opposition completely ruined his day. He screwed up and threw the old-fashioned betting slip about 4 rows ahead in anger whilst turning the air blue. Only to then notice that the linesman had his flag up. I’ve never seen the big lad move so fast as he huddled over 4 rows of plastic seats quickly to get it back
7. Gary McSweegan running riot at Meadow Lane against all the big boys with their packed-out Kop followings
8. Like most, the old man is to blame.
9. Nobody else matters

Thanks for opening that old southend wound ! I had managed to forget about that debacle!