Originally Posted by
pingu_pie
Haha, thank you.
Because the attitude around the club is detrimental - in my opinion, is all. The pressure for near-perfection, the way the fans sing for the first 15-20 minutes but the Lane goes quiet if we aren't already winning or bossing it (although I will give credit that there can't be many sets of fans who are so good at finding their voice when conceding, particularly if we've been playing well and have been hit on the counter, like the Woking game).
Every time I go, if we aren't winning comfortably by 60 minutes at the latest, or have managed to concede, it takes one missed pass for the cry of the idiot - Gerritforward - to start up.
That's just for any one game, however. I think the belief that we deserve to conquer all because we have a pretty ground, paired with a couple of egotistical owners who paid far too much attention to things like this board or social media, is what led to the ridiculous merry-go-round of manager sackings. Add in the eternal infighting of what we expect to be given each week - win, but pass to feet don't just lump it, but don't pass anywhere other than forwards, but get down the wings, but also don't be soft in the middle, and use the target man (but still don't lump it), then change it all and gerritforward, don't play this guy, play him, but so and so doesn't like him, and blah de blah de blah de blah de blah.....
We had Warnock, and we got to the top flight. Pretty much since then we have chopped and changed every five minutes, and we are in the National League - although it's convenient to just blame Ardley, or Hardy, or Trew.
I think Notts fans are now addicted to the drama more than anything else. Like I said, if the Reedtz brothers think Ardley isn't doing the job well enough, fine. I'm going to imagine, even as inexperienced football club owners, their business means they know more about football - the actual playing of the game - than any of us.
I pretty much gave up on Notts fans at the Eastleigh game. To have come so close to oblivion, to have signed a bunch of players two days previously, to all the protestations of just being glad we had a club and that a mid-table finish would be fine, it took less than 15 minutes for the moaning to start. We won't build a success from such negativity easily.