O/T:- Forest v Sheff Utd

[garibaldi]

So what happened in 73 gari ? did your lot suddenly decide to have a season off? or was your support dwindling because we were at a level ? how far should we go back into history to prove a point? (we can go further than you) the fact is that in 73 your average home gate was in the 9,000s & a few years later you were averaging 30 odd thousand can you convince me that this was not bandwagon jumping on a grand scale? don't get me wrong all successful teams need bandwagon fans & I would like to think that if we were the team to make the investment & step we would have got them (although it did tickle me that people who needed directions to your ground were suddenly life long supporters) but my point is that we have & continue to compete with the remnants of these "fans" & their descendants, i realise that I am wasting my time arguing with somebody who chose the easy route but doesn't it seem ironic given your dislike for the Rams that you & yours have followed the sheep ? COYP

9000 was the anomaly not the rule. That is primary school level mathematics for comprehension. Therefore, your argument of Notts having bigger crowds before Clough is incorrect 24 times out of 25.

[upthemaggies]

9000 was the anomaly not the rule. That is primary school level mathematics for comprehension. Therefore, your argument of Notts having bigger crowds before Clough is incorrect 24 times out of 25.

It's obvious if you're not being a *** for being a ****'s sake that the trajectory of both the gates and league position had swung back in Notts favour and that it was down to one man that said trajectory was put into reverse with a brick resting on it.

Not seen an Fword fan on here for years, then one finally turns up when they're on the verge of their first ever play off final to give it large with Notts in non-league. Takes a special kind of person I suppose. 30,000 Fworders and it's this one, just this one who feels compelled to post here. I wonder why.

[garibaldi]

It's obvious if you're not being a *** for being a ****'s sake that the trajectory of both the gates and league position had swung back in Notts favour and that it was down to one man that said trajectory was put into reverse with a brick resting on it.

Not seen an Fword fan on here for years, then one finally turns up when they're on the verge of their first ever play off final to give it large with Notts in non-league. Takes a special kind of person I suppose. 30,000 Fworders and it's this one, just this one who feels compelled to post here. I wonder why.

Your trajectory was up and down and consistently below Forest's.

You shall be engaged in conversation whenever the topic is Nottingham Forest and whether the debate interests me. Don't sell yourselves short, I don't hold a grudge and I hope you go up.

Fallacy shall be corrected with fact however.

[upthemaggies]

Your trajectory was up and down and consistently below Forest's.

You shall be engaged in conversation whenever the topic is Nottingham Forest and whether the debate interests me. Don't sell yourselves short, I don't hold a grudge and I hope you go up.

Fallacy shall be corrected with fact however.

Ok, so we have now established that you are being a **** for the sake of it.

In case anybody is in any doubt or you yourself have no self awareness and/or happen to be one of a large percentage of Fword fans who have no idea that football existed before 1977/78......

A club that finishes 2nd in the 1st tier in 1967 and then finishes 16th in the 2nd tier in 1975, having *mostly* finished lower in the table each season than the preceding one... that would be regarded by anybody with a genuine level of basic intelligence to be on a downward trajectory, with the gate figures obviously reflecting that downward trend.

Likewise a club that's finished 20th in the bottom tier in 1967 and then finished, following two promotions, 5th in the 2nd tier in 1976, the 2nd successive season ABOVE Fword***.... would be said to be on an upward trajectory.

No club's trajectory is going to be a straight line without kinks in it over the course of 8-9 years, but you'd be either a dimwit or somebody trying to take an argument in a slightly different direction to save face over an initial false claim to not see the general trend, especially one as pronounced as that seen between the two Nottingham clubs from 1967 to 1976.

****a matter of months before the arrival of Peter Taylor, who was key to Clough's success to be fair. Had Sheff Utd or anybody else had come in for Sirrel around 12 months earlier, it's not beyond the realms of possibility that Dunnett might have considered Clough, seeing that BC did end up going to Brighton who were a level below Notts at the time.

[keldsyke]

Another good goal from Johnson, 3-1 on aggregate

[upthemaggies]

Another good goal from Johnson, 3-1 on aggregate

Well, I guess it's "Come on you Terriers" now then.

I really don't want to be in that position again where I want Man U to win two games a season.

[SmiffyPie]

They deserve to be where they are, no point bitching about it ffs! Good luck to 'em!
We are where we are because relatively speaking we have been badly managed/led for the last twenty years or so.

[Notts78]

They deserve to be where they are, no point bitching about it ffs! Good luck to 'em!
We are where we are because relatively speaking we have been badly managed/led for the last twenty years or so.

I agree.

They having been selling out for months. They can’t get any more in the stadium. With some luck we will get residual support from those who can’t go to games.
The whole, ‘we will get less coverage on the radio’ is garbage. Forest will spend a lot of time NOT playing at the same time as us. Whether that’s lunch time, evenings or Sundays through Sky and BT.

[upthemaggies]

I agree.

They having been selling out for months. They can’t get any more in the stadium. With some luck we will get residual support from those who can’t go to games.
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Assuming they don't crash back down and spend another decade or so in tier 2 (despite parachute payments), they will increase capacity or move stadium. If it's the latter then the location would have major implications for us, for better or worse depending where it is.

[SwalePie]

Penalties it is then...