Quote Originally Posted by Med Pie View Post
Our crowds have grown on the back of the incredible season we had in the National League and the euphoria of Wembley, some young fans have ridden the crest of that wave and crave more of the same. Surely, many of those fans will tire, if they haven't already, of the eternal, revolving door which sees our best players sold after what is often, fairly short service. Players can become heroes to many and it's hard to continually watch them leave.

Sustainability is not solely financial, the calibre of playing staff in order to 'sustain' our status on the next rung of the ladder is crucial as well so selling players who would be competent at a higher level is surely, counter intuitive? If we sold Jatta for a million and missed out on promotion, how would that balance out in the long run against what would be higher gates, probably more tv money and more sponsorship?
As I said before I don?t think financially we?d be much better off in L1, TV and sponsorship go up a but inevitably would get swallowed up by wages and gates would be driven by how well we were performing over a period of time.
I agree we gained some fans off the back of that NL season and we?re getting probably a lot of new younger fans now as they want to see live football and have no chance at forest.
The reason we are sustaining it now and through the NL I mainly believe is the product Notts offer. On the whole we play expansive attractive football, we win a lot, the set up looks and feels amazing with the sound system and pitch and we now have a new Fanzone.

I hear no end of people that have been down for the first time shocked how good it is at Notts.

I?ve seen us in all the leagues, turning up to 3k in L1 playing absolute turgid football and walking away absolutely hating it, it?s night and day now compared to those seasons what we see now and the division comes kind of irrelevant.

I desperately want us to go up, I want to see bigger crowds, bigger games and I?ll put my neck on the line and say Jattas going nowhere but we have to trust the process, it?s working.