Kevin Nolan launches tirade against Notts County online community

Being respectful works both ways, having pops at fans for expressing their opinions on social media needs to be allowed - if you don't allow people to vent then its going to build up. I do feel fans could be a little more optimistic, yet labelling 'every' fan who shares a comment that isn't rosy doesn't mean they're a negative fan.

I can't believe he's suggesting we don't need fans.

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“If they don’t want to see winning football, then don’t come to Notts County because that’s what we are trying to do."

Majority of fans just want to see Notts succeeding and giving a proper go of games, Mansfield, FGR and Crewe have all been poor but the majority are still open to acknowledging how well we are doing.

And the Liam Noble story was always going to break, just because a fan shared the picture (which seems harmless) - after all he was training with the club, how can this be compared to Arsenal fan tv? Clearly pressure is mounting and its borderline silly.

Surely it's the type of thing that the Nottingham Post would be doing if they had balls?

The comments about the fans and the Liam Noble pictures have me thinking Kevin Nolan has lost it. The club has bigger focuses right now, did he think the story would be hidden until he had signed?

I had a bit of a go in my comments after the Crewe game, regarding the long ball game which clearly wasn't working. Crewe were expecting Stead and Ameobi to start, and had set their stall out accordingly, so constant long high balls aimed towards Forte and Alessandra were easy for Crewe to deal with. It was frustrating to watch.  Kevin Nolan might not like the criticism but I pay my money to travel up and down the country to cheer the team on, so I reserve the right to have a moan if I'm not happy with what I've seen.  

What's the problem with an opinion that's not what anyone might like to hear , fans are entitled to a view on the things they see , think with this not being the first time that club personnel have had a pop at opinion it's time to stop being touchy on there part, and just get on with the job , they don't need silly distractions just keep up the good work and leave social media opinions where they are , COYP 

Nolan is way off the mark with his comments. Fans pay the manager & players salaries so therefore deserve to have an opinion, good or bad.

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And that’s my biggest issue with social media. People will come and ask for your picture, then they will sit there on Twitter or whatever, type something, and have a rant.

What does this have anything to do with it? He's clearly having a dig at someone but I feel he is completely wrong.

I read a lot of comments on social media about this, have any read the article?

He (Nolan) has lost a lot of respect for what he said.

Whilst yes I get the annoyance the picture of Noble did / might have caused the fact that as fans we want to see more than just boring hoof ball we are in the wrong.

If he actually read most of the comments on social media (i'm only on this website but could imagine the rest) he would realise that as fans we are more than happy with our position and the remarkable turn around but because we want to see something other than boring old hoof it into the clouds he has a problem.

Football is an entertainment industry and if he can't respect that we want to be enertained with some good football that we know they are capable of then he shouldn't say anything about it.

We want him to be our manager for the long term and love what he has done but please accept that we want to see something different, especially now that opposing teams know what to expect.

 

Edited October 21, 2017 by Northants Pie

Opinions are part of the game! It might be annoying to KN as he feels his authority is being questioned, but everyone who watches their team play thinks about how it could be set up better or which players should be picked.

As for the Noble photos, he was taking part in a training session in a public place with members of the public in attendance. If it was supposed to be a secret it was mishandled, if it wasn't then he's got nothing to complain about.

At the end of the day fans will exchange their views, some of them knowledgeable, some not. That used to happen in person or in the Football Post or Match Talk. Now it's increasingly happening online but it really isn't anything new.

17 minutes ago, DangerousSausage said:

As for the Noble photos, he was taking part in a training session in a public place with members of the public in attendance. If it was supposed to be a secret it was mishandled, if it wasn't then he's got nothing to complain about.

I fail to see how there's anything to complain about.

If the club did not want pictures to be leaked of players then its for them to put in measures to prevent this from happening in my opinion. Nolan lost his head when he should have been talking about the upcoming game against Carlisle and I do feel he should apologise properly.

I'm a little late to this discussion, but...

1.   'Fans', rightly or wrongly, will ALWAYS have an opinion when they watch matches that their hard-earned money has paid for.

2.   It's actually very naive of anyone to think it will, or should be, any other way when the 'entertainment' one is paying for, isn't up to scratch.

3.   Whilst the atmosphere at Meadow Lane this season has been absolute magic, it cannot have gone unnoticed by anyone that there have been            some below-par matches where hoof balls were a) constantly played and b) constantly missed; c) where opposing team players beat us (fairly          and squarely) on the run; d) where some of us have wondered - against cracking opposition - how the heck we remain top three in the league          and e) moreover, just how long this phenomenon can be maintained when the fella 'in charge' openly admits his players 'didn't turn up' for the          games we've lost or drawn.

4.   The 'big deal' about pics posted of Nolan training with his team is beyond me! As a former PI, it's not rocket science to expect anything needing        to be 'kept under wraps' should never have been conducted in a public place...so more naivety with that comment, I'm afraid.

5.   I don't know if these comments by the Manager are an effort to a) stop his decisions being undermined online or b) if he genuinely believes that        ticket-paying fans (some of us for going on nearly 50 years - with all of the changes, mismanagement, disappointments, downs, ups and total          shiz - THAT has brought upon us as NCFC supporters), then he needs to rethink. Not only that, but he needs to be a lot more respectful of the          fact that for a lot of us, success (as supporters) has been little, irrelevant of how much money and years of time, WE have 'invested' in this club.

6.   Whilst I fully respect and appreciate what he's currently doing for NCFC, I'm afraid it'll be quite a while before I 'forget' this article.