Nottingham Forest Banter

18 Apr 2024 18:02:25
I was at the NEC today and got talking to some people who were working on a stand who were in the main Man City supporters. When I mentioned I was a Forest supporter, one of the chaps said he had a friend in Nottingham who was a Forest season ticket holder and then said he'd heard the club are ripping you off on season ticket prices and how disgusted his friend was - and unlikely to renew. The word is getting around the football community about how the club is behaving and treating it's supporters - not a clever situation for a team near the bottom of the league in a relegation battle! Embarrassing to hear it when you're around the country and your team's doing nothing. Badly run club Ms Clapson?

18 Apr 2024 17:08:22
In reply to carlo, and all others on here. Every home game is worth it's weight in gold. What you don't get in entertainment. You get the amazing atmosphere from the WFCG, east coast, gazz you will never throw the towel in on your tickets. It's in your blood now. And you know it. Btw i totally admire you both on your journeys. Hope you both got to good hobby if you do.
Said many times of coming off here. Boots don't do banter patches. Only ones that did work i stuck over my eyes so i couldn't text. Reds it's what we live for and always will.
As i post this I'm watching the bridge of lies. Wonder how many FA officials and owners, players, pundits, etc etc could make it across. The only truth in forest and most other clubs nowdays is the fans. When i say this i mean those fortunate to see games, and those unfortunate not too, or even can't afford it. I'd buy a season ticket in a heartbeat no matter what league, obviously if 8 lived a little closer. COYR. don't let money cloud your dreams. It's life.

18 Apr 2024 17:46:57
Fantastic Post Bowie👍.

18 Apr 2024 18:10:46
Wow! Love it Bowie.

18 Apr 2024 18:51:33
Stop crawling legless he's forgiven you now 🤣🤣🎈.

18 Apr 2024 20:19:44
Bowie it is Yoda you are mate. Wise words as always.

18 Apr 2024 20:24:34
Thank you for your concern regarding Bowie and me Balloons. I do, on occasions, have to crawl nowadays at times - but for very different reasons that you are suggesting here!

18 Apr 2024 21:22:06
Never think I'm holding any grudge on past legless. Luv all reds. And thank you sir.

18 Apr 2024 21:53:11
I know Bowie. You take care mate and keep posting!

18 Apr 2024 10:08:11
And equal with Chelsea?

18 Apr 2024 10:44:19
And achieved on a Lidls, rather than a Harrods budget!

17 Apr 2024 21:49:09
These ticket prices are an insult to all Forest supporters. We've been kicked in the teeth yet again. When the club need our support even more than ever. They've gone and shot them selves in the foot.

How can they preach they're one of the cheapest in the Premiership when we could be almost behalf way to the Championship.
I've spent thousands of pounds traveling the country to watch my beloved Forest. Every game is an away game. But I'm sorry to say my love is waning.
Totally disgusted.

17 Apr 2024 23:34:41
I get what you're saying East Coast. I only go to home games but it's a long journey and full day and costs much more than just a ticket price.
I'm seriously thinking about not re newing. It's not as though it's entertaining even though I love it.

18 Apr 2024 01:09:38
Get yer pensions out and pay my team's wages!

18 Apr 2024 05:59:14
If people are daft enough to pay for the rubbish that's being dished up this season, then the players are daft enough to take it and keep living there lavish life styles. The choice is in your hands.
The club is a shambles. Constant struggle that won't go away because the owners a nut job. 🎈.

18 Apr 2024 11:03:43
My sympathy is entirely with the previous posters. I will renew for reasons of love and fatalism. Firstly, love of football and the ( mostly) pleasure supporting the Reds has given me over the years ( since I was 9, so 59 of them).
Secondly, I missed out on attending every game back in the day because of my Police career. You don’t get many Saturdays off my friends. And fatalistically because if I’m lucky enough not to pop my clogs of heart attack or falling under a bus tomorrow I recognise that one day I won’t be fit enough to get out of the house or remember where the City Ground is!
Oddly enough, many years ago I read Michael Parkinson’s book “Bats in the Pavilion “ about his life long love of cricket. He wrote very movingly about his Dad, a miner and lover of cricket, particularly Yorkshire CCV who suffered with dementia towards the end of his life and used to go MFH ( missing from home). The Police invariably found him at Headingly, the only place he could remember how to get there. It got to the point that the staff would let him in until the Police or Parky arrived to collect him, whether there was a game on or not. He would just sit there quietly when play would start. It brought a tear to my eye.

18 Apr 2024 13:44:19
With the greatest of respect balloons you’ve changed your tune. Only a while ago you were singing the praises of our owner and NUNO the great saviour of our club. Well from where I sit AT EVERY HOME GAME not watching on tv and seeing what the producer wants you to see, I don’t see much difference between him and sc. So let’s blame the owner, had he followed every other owner and appointed another inept manager and not the brilliant sc we would be possibly playing Mansfield town next season. Is that what you want balloons, because I don’t know what you want. A bit of clarity would help. I understand you and Skeggs live way out, but that’s not an excuse I know a lady who has cancer and she travels to every home game from the other side of Norwich, no easy trip when your a OAP.

18 Apr 2024 16:35:26
Good post red vale, his missus keeps asking him the same questions. 🤣 proud of the girl from norwich mate. But as you know, tickets aren't easy to get these days.

18 Apr 2024 16:40:39
Red vale I wouldn't pay to watch that garbage if I lived on Ratcliffe Rd. I change my tune because I've seen every game this season all be it on TV and have assessed the season.
Cheesed of with the perpetual struggle.250 mil spent and slugging it out with Luton outrageous.
All that tells me is the club is a shambles from top to bottom and yes I would love to play Mansfield, no VAR, In a competition you can win and watching your team getting hammered every week in a competition that is impossible to win, isn't my idea of enjoyment or value for money. You keep watching and the players who don't give a toss about the club will keep spending it 🎈.

18 Apr 2024 18:20:22
Stokey - so if I'm getting this processed correctly within my mushy brain - you're 68 then? I didn't realise ex-Coppers lived for so long.

18 Apr 2024 19:48:24
I get your point balloons, and a very valid point. I like you dislike the prem, it's rotten from top to bottom, but here we are maybe not for much longer. None of us will know what goes on behind the scenes, and perhaps if the owner had stopped to take breath we might have got ourselves in a better position. But he didn't. I am a true forest fan and why should I give up my seat for some come day Go day rich kid. But believe me what there doing to the fans will come back and bite them on the jackse.

18 Apr 2024 19:52:01
No Legless mate, it’s my mushy Maths brain not yours. I’m 67 so I’ve been a Reds fan for “only” 58 not 59 years! I retired from the Police aged 52 in 2009., so I think I’ve already raised the average life span of a copper I think! I always tell my wife if ever I end up in a coma on life support and the doctors tell her they want to switch the machines off on no account must she comply as I’ve only got to keep breathing ( artificially or not) to keep receiving the pension 😂😂😂😂😂. I was lucky insofar as I did enough Acting Inspector time to qualify for Inspector rather than Sergeants pension! Yehaaaay! 😁😁.
The key is to keep busy. So I got a job working for the Staffordshire Council Public Analysts Office for 9 years tootling around the country collecting samples of anything that wanted testing. I don’t know if you ever watched consumer protection programmes like “Fake Britain” but it was always my brilliant boffin boss Dr Frank Hollywood who did the testing. I once went out to my van parked in the back yard and saw a pair of rather nice legs hanging out the rear doors and there on the end of them was the lovely Julia Summerville having a nap between takes! Happy days!
I did marathons ( London, Great North Run x 5, Robin Hood and D. H. Lawrence ) for Marie Curie Cancer Care, until my knees started creaking. Then got made redundant with the rest of the Department which had been going since 1923 at the stroke of a Tory Councillor’s pen in cost cutting.
Then finished off with 5 years as a Tesco delivery driver just in time for c.v. to keep me fit, get a bit ( or a lot during c.v.) of pocket money and got my Thursday night clap for helping the vulnerable and housebound get their supplies.
Now putting my feet up and following my beloved team and seeing a bit more of the world whilst I still can……….

18 Apr 2024 21:13:12
Too right Stokey. I'm just a wee lad of 54 years but hasn't the world got so much smaller than when we were growing up? I'm pleased travelling the world is so much easier now especially for the young ones - experiencing other cultures is an education in itself. I too did the London Marathon many moons ago. I remember lighting up a ciggie whilst waiting with the other runners on the start line and it was like I had just 'exposed myself' in public - everyone moved away from me in disgust! It would seem that you've lived and are still living a full life mate and that's what it's all about. To quote from my favourite film The Shawshank Redemption - "get busy living or get busy dying". Damn right.

18 Apr 2024 21:26:15
And reading a lot stokey, as i say. Man of the world sir. 👍.

18 Apr 2024 21:43:39
Most the losses are paid for by marinakis in person not the fans.

18 Apr 2024 22:03:33
Bowie - I've already told Stokey that I enjoy his posts, but I do 'tune-out' for parts of them when he goes into 'Ronnie Corbett mode'! I don't think there would be any awkward silences enjoying a beer with this man. Top guy.

17 Apr 2024 20:15:00
Well Stevie, the sad pie message board is in full swing …. Mansfield will go down, no chance of staying up, not a league one club, should be us, 11 yrs to go up 1 yr to go down ……blah, blah! Clough will keep them there in my view, upsetting the apple cart is what he does best! - well done our Nige - yer dead ul be proud on yer!

17 Apr 2024 12:38:30
To remind you all of an old saying “Be careful what you wish for!
CARLO.

17 Apr 2024 12:56:08
I keep wishing for a lottery win but forgetting to enter.

17 Apr 2024 16:39:20
Balloons keeps wishing for a bingo win that ain't happening neither 🤣.

17 Apr 2024 18:28:27
HOUSE! One winner in Skegness claims the National link of £2.50 🥴🎈.