OldNick

The whole thing is a farce. I cant see how any cross section of fans will get what we want.We cant even decide on here who has had a good game, each week

i dont see how the fans have been treated any differently under Lowe than they have since year dot.If you are gullible enough to believe that they are no more interested in you than they are any other punter then you are naive.We are cash cows, and if you really think that any football fan is seen as anything else im surprised. The clubs may say that we are important, but we are not and sadly like most businesses you are only as good as your last purchase. The fans wanted Lawrie gone, did they get it? they wanted Branfoot gone, did they get it? The list can go on and on, the club does as it wants always has done and always will do. yes it may make certain allowances but whether it was George reader, Crouch, Askham or Lowe its first priority was always to them

I remeber the name and had him in my sticker book of players in the 70's.

West ham away SU home FA cup 76. The tension of the Wimbledon home 0-0 when Mancity had pulled back from 2 down and Bally thought that was enough and so told them to defend rather than go for a win. lol. That was the closest we ever got going down without doing so and should have really as we were dire.

Thanks.I will go and find a copy.

If the fans paliament is ever going to work it needs representation form both sides of the divide. therefore you couldnt have DW and Duncan.I myself would go for DW as he does not have the rift with RL as far as Im aware and already is experienced with the more diplomatic way of putting fans views forward. On the more understanding of why RL is doing what he has done i myself would think NC or FC would give that side a fair voice. I have never met Mike Callaghan but have seen him at games for many years and have seen him interviewed. I was impressed. If the voice is only going to be from the rabid anti Lowe side then it is a non starter. Im sceptical anyway it will become a gentlemans club, where the fans will slip into comfort zone and not wish to lose their privilaged place. It is only nature

I was intrigued as well and looked back at Duncan's posts. I expect it was this one 'They can't even afford to restock 30 copies of ITN which is sold out! ' What is ITN by the way?

I have been told the kit is in the price. I suspect though it will have we love RL on the back.

If you are my only mate someone hand me the rope I have an oak tree outside. i dont care if you believe me or not it makes no difference, some know that the stuff i put up is spot on regarding info. Some bits i can't put on for various reasons and the bit i heard yesterday ....... On a tenuous vein the share price went up very slighly today. Only £2500 worth though.

still be going, it will be good to have the proper fans still there Lol.

Well the word used was launched so i took it to be kicked.

I heard from someone whose friend is in the playing squad at Forest that Davis is not very popular with the team at all.

Just a little snippet i heard. Against Derby Killer kicked a bottle of water in anger and it flew past Clough onto the pitch. He went and started whining to the 4th official about it and wanted Killer to be sent to the stands.Lol , Clough was given a bit of stick about that from the coaching staff etc.

I put this on another thread, whilst not winning saturday was disappointing if you look at the form and how things went last season these things happen. 'So I looked back at this time last season to try and guage how our results went. The 9th game from the end of last season we beat Leicester 1-0 after drawing a game home to Ipswich and away to Wolves. 2 of those games would have been seen as must win. We followed the home win to Leicester up with the 5-0 away defeat at hull (due to some unfortunate injuries etc). The then 'must win 'game of Coventry finished in a 0-0 draw and then a loss to Cardiff ( i was confident we would get something there as they were looking to the cup final and had nothing to play for). A vital home game then came up which was high flying Bristol city which we won 2-0. Charlton away we drew 1-1 and then had the Burnley home 'must win' game against a side who were playing for their holidays. We lost 1-0 at home. That put us in dire straights and left us with the daunting thought of away to WBA and home to high flying play off chasing SU. Thankfully a brave display at WBA got us a point and left us with a 'definately must win' against SU. Basically Im trying to point out that whilst (even Wotte has said he expected us to win 1 of the 2 games) it is a real blow not to have won either of the last 2 home games there still will be twists and turns and we can still do save outselves.'

Ladysaint i got an answer back to my question 'have we narrowed the pitch under Wotte' and got a reply of NO. So i hope that clears the question up for you, if you have confidence in me of course.

I'll try and get a definative answer.

nothing like a die hard is there? You of course can do as you wish but I dont believe that the players can't be arsed as you put it.

Thanks MrG

I hold my hand up as I would have liked him here. As another has said we should wait and see.I myself thought that Norwich getting Gun as their manager was a bad mistake but after the last 2 games it looks right

Thanks Lady saint. i was going to look and see if the bit you put last week about the pitch being narrowed. Iwonder if the track the linesmen leave over the season would be evident and being set back, if you see what I mean

I cant remember who was down with us, but some must have been as Leicester only dropped into the bottom 3 last game of the season. OK we havent won many recently but we have only lost 1 in 6 or so games. The defence has tightened (very much like last season) and so perhaps iam clutching at straws but it is not all over by a long way.

I think it is still wrong to encourage people to borrow at present. Look back to the early seventies when Harold Wilson had gone cap in hand to the IMF to borrow above our means, and then printed money (it is now call quantative easing) within a year we had rising inflation. Normally to quell rising inflation the interest rate has to rise. House prices will go up if the unemployment rate doesnt increase but with the amopunt of job cuts around I doubt it will be for a few years. There will be a levelling off for a period as people with money in the building societies etc look to invest elsewhere to get a return and somay go into property but they will be squeezed as rental returns are going down as there are more properties to rent and so prices are being slashed to get a tenant. Only this week my daughter rented a property in London and rents have dropped nearly 30% in some places. THis makes the return on an investment poorer and so soon thiose investors will stiop buying and prices will drop again. As I suggested more than a year ago on here, get rid of any credit card debt at all costs as we are in for a rough time. Even if it means forgoing a holiday or a tv etc.

I couldn't get to the game yesterday due to business commitments and have read quite a lot of the reports of the game and got somes views who did go. I do understand the fans disappointment and I agree. So I looked back at this time last season to try and guage how our results went. The 9th game from the end of last season we beat Leicester 1-0 after drawing a game home to Ipswich and away to Wolves. 2 of those games would have been seen as must win. We followed the home win to Leicester up with the 5-0 away defeat at hull (due to some unfortunate injuries etc). The then 'must win 'game of Coventry finished in a 0-0 draw and then a loss to Cardiff ( i was confident we would get something there as they were looking to the cup final and had nothing to play for). A vital home game then came up which was high flying Bristol city which we won 2-0. Charlton away we drew 1-1 and then had the Burnley home 'must win' game against a side who were playing for their holidays. We lost 1-0 at home. That put us in dire straights and left us with the daunting thought of away to WBA and home to high flying play off chasing SU. Thankfully a brave display at WBA got us a point and left us with a 'definately must win' against SU. Basically Im trying to point out that whilst (even Wotte has said he expected us to win 1 of the 2 games) it is a real blow not to have won either of the last 2 home games there still will be twists and turns and we can still do save outselves. The Blackpool game will tell us a lot and after that game if we lose whilst we wont be down our chances of safety will be slashed dramatically.

i know this thread is about something different but your avatar sent a warm shiver down my spine, an iconic picture of big Ron. Is there a bigger image i can see somewhere?

Reading back at your posts and i found this one , it is scary. Strangely enough we are on the same points now after 4 more games.It shows what a hole we are in but alos illustrates to me anyway if Wotte does get us out he has done a marvellous job. Quote 'When he walked in the door we were 18th. He wasn't really in charge when we slipped lower after immediately losing at Plymouth (down to 20th I think). At that point we had achieved 38 points from 33 games (1.15 per game and sat 20th I think). Then when he left we were 20th and managed 16 points from his 13 games (1.23 points per game). So during his tenure he stabilised a fall and managed to improve on the points per game haul of the previous 33 games. In the context, a result all round.' End quote.