You make some good points @NewNottsFan. I did oppose the sacking of Moniz and the appointment of a rookie on the basis of risk. I don't change my view on those things, but I agree with you that now JF is the manager he should be supported.
I think one problem on this board is that some of us hark back to days when football was an entertainemnt and a sport not a business - not that I blame anyone at NCFC for this change.
I myself was brought up as an Evertonian in the era of 'The Golden Vision' (now there was a Scotsman!) when style was just as important, if not more so, than results. Then I moved to Monchengladbach and fell under the spell there also of entertainment before results. The style of players such as Alan Ball, Wayne Rooney, Colin Harvey, Duncan McKenzie, Pat Nevin, Dave Thomas, Kevin Sheedy, Trevor Steven, Gunther Netzer, Allan Simonsen, Stefan Effenberg, Lothar Matthaus, Marco Reus, Jupp Heynkes etc. etc. is what I want to see. The attitude that Hennes Weisweiler (the legendary Gladbach coach) had in responding to criticism following a 6-5 defeat at SV Werder, by saying he preferred it to losing 1-0. The attitude that led to Borussia using 2 teenage centre backs against Bayern this season, one getting his debut against Lewandowski (and winning 3-1). Of course it's not always successful but it entertains.
Did you see Gladbach's match at Man City last month? Not enough players to fill the subs bench due to injuries, loads of kids playing so let's attack and try and play them off the park. I felt Gladbach did that in the first half despite going 1 down to a piece of David Silva magic and were winnning 2-1 until the legs went midway through the second half. Yes it ended in defeat and European exit but the feeling among the fans was that the players had done us, the club and its traditions proud. I club should be an ethos, a way of playing, a style, something to cherish and feel a part of.
Under Ricardo Moniz, I saw some of the most fluid attacking football that I have ever seen in England. Of course it was of 4th division standard, but it was the attitude, the freedom, the movement, the enjoyment I loved. Like a number of my friends we were suddenly looking forward to home games and being happy even in defeat.
Yes it's a romantic view, and leads to glorious failure at times, but I go to sport to be entertained, enthused etc. I go to a business to do shopping or something like that.
Watch a tape of Alex Young playing, Everton beating Man Utd 5-0 in the mid 80's, The 2 superb Dinamo Kyiv teams under Lobanovskiy (a pupil of Weisweiler), the Ajax team of the mid 90's all of which I travelled miles and miles to watch on a regular basis. Notts are not going to reach those levels of performance, but any club can aspire to the same goals and dreams.