I find it strange how far some fans go to show their frustration, especially those who don’t attend games but still post constant negative comments. It’s fine to be upset, but letting it spill over into everything you write makes it seem like you’re just being bitter and unsupportive.

There’s no pride in celebrating the good days if you can’t accept the bad ones too. Saying no one put in any effort just because the result didn’t go our way isn’t fair.

Notts were poor against Barrow, no doubt about that, but not every player had a bad game. Some still tried to make things happen.

Reading the replies to the Pride of Nottingham’s Man of the Match post made me wonder how these fans would feel if their own jobs were judged in the same way, based on how their company or colleagues perform. It’s not right to throw abuse around just because the team had a bad day.

Some fans seem to turn bitter because they struggle to show any encouragement. Their thoughts are so negative that it feels easier for them to just post nonsense rather than try to explain what’s really bothering them. The poor start to the season is worrying, especially seeing how far the performances have slipped. But if people lose touch with reality, things won’t get better. The team needs support, not constant criticism, to find their way forward.

I understand the hurt and upset, but I don't like seeing some fans act as if Notts is more theirs when we are trying hard to fix the divisions within our fanbase. Some will allow results to linger, but I hardly think it's woke to vote for a Man of the Match from the Notts perspective just because we performed badly as a team.

There's no pushing of a political or social agenda here; it's fans coming together and voting for who they feel deserves to be named the Man of the Match from the Notts perspective. Comments like this aren't worth engaging with, although it does make me wonder what it would be like if we also voted for a player from the opposing team. Would that be acceptable? Would some of our supporters be fair enough to acknowledge a player from the opposition as doing "well"?

I remember sharing some of Piethagoram's scouting reports, only to receive biased comments as to why anyone would single out a player from a team we destroyed.

Being unhappy that Notts played so poorly is understandable, and not everyone will be thoughtful about how they conduct themselves. I allow them to fly over my head, as I have far bigger things to focus on, and a football match doesn't compare to life.

The state the world has become, being overly aggressive and negative, is just one way that the media has primed people.

I am certain all fans care about Notts, but if you can't accept the situation or stand with a club you claim to be a fan of when it's needed. Don't stand with them when they're winning. This is to the types of people who told x, y, and z (players) to get out of the club just because of our poor start to the season.

I was going to reply to Stephen Mills’ comment, but I know you’ve advised us to let things slide sometimes, especially when certain fans get mardy if you challenge what they say.

If he thinks we picked a Notts player over a Barrow one, then he's missing the point. Praising Barrow doesn’t mean we ignore the effort some of our own lads put in. That’s not what supporting your team looks like.

We lost the game, fair enough. But does that mean no one from Notts deserves to be named Man of the Match from our side? Of course not.

The performance was poor, no doubt. But do we really need to tear into individual players? Some of the comments on Facebook are just as bad.

People saying Matt Palmer isn’t good enough and should be dropped seem to forget how important he’s been. I wonder if they were the same fans who missed him when he was injured in our first season back in the Football League.

It’s easy to write players off when things aren’t going well. But that doesn’t mean they’ve stopped being valuable to the club. A slow start doesn’t erase everything they’ve done.

Football fans can be miserable at the best of times, and Notts is no exception. There’ll always be people who spread negativity, it’s just how they deal with things. Best to ignore it and focus on what actually matters. They’ve got every right to speak their mind, but that doesn’t mean we have to give it attention.

I find a lot of people on social media are quick to criticise but slow to offer any real support or solutions. Martin Paterson’s got a tough job ahead, and if the reaction to Stuart Maynard is anything to go by, this could be one of the hardest seasons since the Reedtz brothers took over.

Some of the comments about the owners are just daft. People want them gone, yet they’ve no idea if anyone else could do better. It’s ridiculously short-sighted.

At first I thought you meant the PON thread and I was confused @TheSkipper. Then I went on Facebook and saw what you meant. Yikes. I've seen snarky responses to our posts in the past, but not this bad.

Social media was bad enough when we were in the top five, let alone now. It's a toxic place for toxic people to take out their frustration and frankly I wish I could cut it out of my life.

The Pride of Nottingham Man of the match thread is a great vehicle where the fans of Notts can vote for the player that impressed them the most after the match.

It is also a good vehicle for the PON community to get together & support & recognise the effort of individual players whether the match result is a win, loss or draw.

I think it is important to award a player for his individual performance because i believe that it will help to encourage, motivate & bring lots of positivity to the players & the vast majority of the Notts fanbase.

I’ve said before that there’s a simple solution and one that I’ve adopted and that is I don’t read any fans comments on social media, I look at posts made by the Notts media team but I don’t read the comments underneath and I never comment myself.

If I want to comment on the match or vote for a man of the match I do so on here where by and large the fans are mostly reasonable with their comments. I do hope that this place doesn’t get like Twitter or Facebook.

It's the rise of social media's "every voice is counted" culture. It's easier to gain traction by saying something more shocking and vitrolic than the last. It's the main reason I left most social media but I felt somewhat at a loss when I left Twitter due to comrardarie you build with other fans. That's been rectified since joining a couple of different forums, but it's certainly evident that the dispondancy fire grows quickest.

I think with that, alongside the recent peroid of underperformance for Notts (minus getting promoted and the Munto - early Trew years), it's easier to be a bit bitter and self-loathing than it is to be optimistic - as to protect you when we (inevitably - see I did it too!) fail.

I try and be optimistic and failing that, a realist, as I've grown up with "Notts are ****" with the man who bloody took me there in the first place!