04 May 2019 17:39:40
So County have gone which purely from a personal point of view gives me no pleasure at all because my brother is a long standing ticket holder there which harks back decades ago to when football was a different animal to that we see today.

My dad was a cockney by birth but got bombed out by a V1 back in the day and moved up to Hyson Green and became a red through and through and in the 50's would travel to watch even reserve games all over the place and at some point met and married a Meadows girl.

As was the trend back then family ties were very strong and each Saturday all the family would go to Grandmas in the Meadows with a mix of Forest and County fans in the family and although my Dad would never go to Meadow Lane some uncles would and my brother and I would go to whoever was at home that weekend and he eventually went one way and I the other.

In all that time he has never begrudged what has happened across the Trent but carried on with no thought of jumping ship at any time and accepted County as his and Forest as mine so to him and others of his ilk I say good luck and a speedy return.

Many Notts fans have despaired at the antics of Mr Hardy and my brother blames him for their current predicament solely on the stupidity of Hardy's self inflicted severing of ties between the two clubs .

Many will find what I have said to be difficult to understand but those who were there and around this City in the early 60's will , I am sure , understand where I am coming from.

So Steve I know you read this site bud and you know I mean it when I say best of luck next year

1.) 04 May 2019
04 May 2019 18:10:49
Creepy1 , l understand mate as a dear friend of mine played for Notts in the early 60,s , won't tell you what he said but with a tear in his eye l feel for him . There's a lot more to this game , and not about kicking a ball and as you get the game under your skin more understanding of the game comes to light .

2.) 04 May 2019
04 May 2019 18:43:47
Fully U derstand what your saying ,as a little kid I had a football rattle ,used to put Red and white ribbons on one week,Black and white the next ,eventual I painted it Red and white but still saw many more Notts games over the years and as a Nottm born and bred it,s not a nice day .
CARLO

3.) 04 May 2019
04 May 2019 19:03:05
I'm with you all the way carlo.
Good post as usual creepy.

4.) 04 May 2019
04 May 2019 19:42:33
Creepy, excellent and well balanced post as ever , and I’m sad for you if today’s events have saddened you.

I guess personal views on life are about experiences that shape us, my experience of Notts fans is very different to your own hence why I don’t feel any sorrow for them. As you rightly say times have changed a great deal since the days you describe.

Alan Hardy is the embodiment of the worst Notts fan, sadly most the ones I know are like him. In his defence he couldn’t win as he would have been derided for not spending just as much as he has been for how it’s turned out. County fans can say what they want, they absolutely expected the chairman to go for broke and didn’t give a hoot that he was gambling with the livelihoods of his paragon employees.

The only club I care about in this city is the team I support , football is a business, it’s dog eat dog. a weak Notts County will drive more young up and coming fans to forest in the future. We’ve got a 38k stadium to fill and we are competing for the same fan base.

That’s business and that’s modern football I’m afraid. It won’t ever be what it was and clubs have to evolve to survive in the landscape it’s become.

5.) 04 May 2019
04 May 2019 19:58:52
Great post 2star summed hardy up to a tee, gambling with people’s livelihoods to play the big man and everybody loses

6.) 04 May 2019
04 May 2019 20:01:13
Whatever you wish for them nottsbwont go out of business and let's face it the national league is just now another division.
The old days you could win it and still not get promoted,now it's a straightforward case of being promoted.
The stags and Lincoln had a few barren years in that league,so like 8 say they might be relegated,but they aren't and won't be out of buisness

7.) 04 May 2019
04 May 2019 20:21:47
Always remember the night Mansfield went out the league radio Nottingham had a phone in after the game the 1st bloke on was a notts fan taking the p*** thy had to cut him off, think they call it karma don’t they,

8.) 04 May 2019
04 May 2019 21:17:34
What sticks with me Stevie , is the waving of 20 pound notes at rival fans during the Munto era - which by the way was never going to fly.

Secondly referring to stats and forest fans as inbreeds, scrubbers, tramps and any other derogatory name around social status.

As you say the karma police have completed their raid.

9.) 04 May 2019
04 May 2019 21:29:11
You obviously mix with different notts fans than me mate,you should try living in long Eaton we get the derby fans,always wind em up,its easy .
Never heard or seen notts fans do any of those things to be honest.

10.) 05 May 2019
05 May 2019 00:01:13
Theres no doubt that times have changed over the past 25 years or so and my brother gets brickbats from the newer generation of Notts fans because of his views and stance on Forest.

The new Facebook/ Twitter generation gloried in Mr Hardys ill advised and frankly juvenile social media musings whilst others could clearly see the damage it could and for those who opposed it ultimately did do in depriving them of a steady stream of quality loans to the benefit of both clubs.

I doubt my halcyon days gone by will ever return and I can understand the attitude of those on here who have seen the antagonism from County fans which is without doubt there as never before which is to me a great shame.

Had they merely been relegated to league 2 for example I would have been straight on the phone to him giving him pelters and winding him up like a grandfather clock but not under circumstances such as these.

Anyhow zzzzz time now ready for the pub tomorrow and a brief 90 minute interlude at the WFCG before further refreshment will be called for so see and hear you all
Tomorrow and as always

COYR