Wow - what a post

[Tarkers]

I have just spotted this post from a Notts fan on the internet and couldn't help but post it here......amazing    

                                                                                                    Take a long, hard look in the mirror

 I took a long, hard look in the mirror........and what I saw staring back at me was the haggard, drawn, heavy-jowelled face of a severely depressed, defeated man who has supported this football club for just over 50 years, who has seen some great times, who is prepared to take the rough with the smooth but has had far too much of the former over the past 20 years.

Twenty years of hurt never stopped me dreaming, but a couple of years ago the dream turned to a nightmare when our club's owners embarked upon a suicidal campaign of appointing inexperienced men to manage the team, a road that they were clearly determined to follow against all the odds, against all the evidence and against the wishes of the vast majority of the club's fans/customers. The result has been one long decline, one humiliation after another, and the club I have loved all my life being made into a laughing stock. I feel that, consequently, I now have the right to voice my opinion that the club desperately needs to go in a new direction, and that this requires a change in ownership.

The Trews are nice people, good people and they don't deserve abuse. They meant well, they saved the club in an hour of need (though so did Haydn Green, Derek Pavis, Bill Hopcroft, and God knows how many others in the club's long and chequered history), they tried hard to connect with the fans, they made improvements in the club's infrastructure, but in the final analysis they have showed themselves to be not very good at running a football team - which is what the whole thing is all about at the end of the day.

It was as if somebody bought a run-down, failing old three-star restaurant, saved it from bankruptcy, paid off its debts, spent thousands on redecorating, repainting and renovating the place inside and out, installed all the mod cons, employed smart new serving staff, drawn up a fabulous new high-class menu, arranged a grand public opening.......................and then employed a hot dog vendor as the head chef.

So I didn't like what I saw in my mirror, it made me realise just how much I take this club to heart and how much its actions on and off the pitch governs my emotions and sometimes even my mental health from week to week. I'm sure most football fans feel this way, and I sometimes wonder if those who run football clubs or play professional football ever really understand the passions and the emotions that they are responsible for. So I - and all of us - have a right to say "enough is enough, I'm tired of my football club being a laughing stock - the 'gift that keeps on giving' as a Forest-supporting work colleague said to me in hysterics the day after Fullarton's appointment - I'm tired of being humiliated, I'm tired of watching this inexorable decline, I want a CHANGE." With or without your permission.

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The Trew's have done a lot to regenerate Meadow Lane, I can't say I've come across anyone who thinks differently - these changes have made Notts come a away from the 'small' club syndrome. Sadly, on the field we haven't seen much change, at least not in terms of progression.

Avoiding all arguments and placing it down to one simple thing - it hasn't worked.

I've read, tweets, replies to questions I've asked and many fans sum it up. We escaped this division, only to return and yes right now things are very negative in and around Notts but the silver-lining comes from how we move forward. I'm not going to moan or join in the blame game, I will add comments to stimulate discussion but for me I just want to see Notts progress.

As fans we can have our own faith in the difficult times.

 

 

[Turkey_Twizzler]

Very good video that! I work in a chippy with an old forest supporter and we often talk about football, and he always says "football is a game of opinions, you have yours and I have mine" and he's right, everyone has different opinions on topics like the trews and Fullerton, but at the end of the day we all love notts. It doesn't take a lot of money to get out of this division, it takes teamwork and support, just look at the cobblers

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[upthepies]

Good share! I would be inclined to agree.

[liampie]

the pr pouring out of the club right now is very toxic, only blame and little truth. fans are being treated poorly at the moment, we deserve to know what is going on and for this mess to be resolved it is a must imo.