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(06-01-2021, 12:22 PM)Sniffer Dog Wrote: (06-01-2021, 08:13 AM)Sniffer Dog Wrote: On this day 6/1 in 1975, Nottingham Forest announced Brian Clough as their new manager.
The rest, as they say, is history.
Do you ever wonder what type of club or where we would be as a club now if this had never happened. Notts County were on a par with us at the time.
I personally dont think it would be all that bad. Just the size of our fan base & city population suggests to me that we would be in the top 25ish biggest clubs in the country. So if Cloughy had never happened, I reckon we'd still be flitting between the top & 2nd divisions.
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Possibly Pap. it's hard to say isn't it.
I think when BC arrived we were only averaging about 10,000 or so.
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(06-01-2021, 12:53 PM)Sniffer Dog Wrote: Possibly Pap. it's hard to say isn't it.
I think when BC arrived we were only averaging about 10,000 or so.
Yes but that was a low point. Attendances before then were much better (I think (before my time)).
And even when Cloughy was around, some seasons were poorly attended. I vaguely remember going to a game against someone like Luton or Oxford when there were only 12 or 13 thousand fans there. Will have been early/mid eighties. In hindsight those attendances were scandalous for a team with players of such talent. What we'd give to be able to watch that mid eighties team now.
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On Friday 8th January 2010 superb goals from Radoslaw Majewski and Chris Cohen sent Nottingham Forest second in the Championship with a 3-1 victory at West Brom.
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(06-01-2021, 01:12 PM)Paplane Wrote: (06-01-2021, 12:53 PM)Sniffer Dog Wrote: Possibly Pap. it's hard to say isn't it.
I think when BC arrived we were only averaging about 10,000 or so.
Yes but that was a low point. Attendances before then were much better (I think (before my time)).
And even when Cloughy was around, some seasons were poorly attended. I vaguely remember going to a game against someone like Luton or Oxford when there were only 12 or 13 thousand fans there. Will have been early/mid eighties. In hindsight those attendances were scandalous for a team with players of such talent. What we'd give to be able to watch that mid eighties team now.
You also have t take into account just how dangerous it could be at matches back in the late 70's/early 80's due to hooliganism. Many people stayed away because of that very reason.
Football stadia are so much safer now than they have ever been and despite the fact the Taylor Stand needs to be flattened, it does still meet safety requirements.
Family's are now encouraged to attend
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(08-01-2021, 10:09 AM)Salvatore Matrecano Wrote: On Friday 8th January 2010 superb goals from Radoslaw Majewski and Chris Cohen sent Nottingham Forest second in the Championship with a 3-1 victory at West Brom.
What a night that was.
There’s not many games in the last ten years where I’ve still been in the stand singing twenty minutes after the final whistle
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(08-01-2021, 11:00 AM)Username Wrote: (08-01-2021, 10:09 AM)Salvatore Matrecano Wrote: On Friday 8th January 2010 superb goals from Radoslaw Majewski and Chris Cohen sent Nottingham Forest second in the Championship with a 3-1 victory at West Brom.
What a night that was.
There’s not many games in the last ten years where I’ve still been in the stand singing twenty minutes after the final whistle
10 years on and this has yet to be beaten in terms of best games I've been too.
Shows what a waste of time Forest have been over the years since I've been alive that this is the best game. We ended up finishing below them!
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That the year we lost Nicky Shorey and our team balance..? In that infamous January.
Good game tonking WBA on their patch. A screaming goal from Maji.
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Cohen’s wasn’t shabby either.
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(08-01-2021, 11:10 AM)wassy04 Wrote: (08-01-2021, 11:00 AM)Username Wrote: (08-01-2021, 10:09 AM)Salvatore Matrecano Wrote: On Friday 8th January 2010 superb goals from Radoslaw Majewski and Chris Cohen sent Nottingham Forest second in the Championship with a 3-1 victory at West Brom.
What a night that was.
There’s not many games in the last ten years where I’ve still been in the stand singing twenty minutes after the final whistle
10 years on and this has yet to be beaten in terms of best games I've been too.
Shows what a waste of time Forest have been over the years since I've been alive that this is the best game. We ended up finishing below them!
Last year’s win against Leeds which took us to a couple of points off top spot was almost as good. Certainly the highlight of the last decade. Like that WBA match we didn’t know at the time but it was the high water mark of the season.
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(08-01-2021, 02:33 PM)Sabricadabra Wrote: (08-01-2021, 11:10 AM)wassy04 Wrote: (08-01-2021, 11:00 AM)Username Wrote: (08-01-2021, 10:09 AM)Salvatore Matrecano Wrote: On Friday 8th January 2010 superb goals from Radoslaw Majewski and Chris Cohen sent Nottingham Forest second in the Championship with a 3-1 victory at West Brom.
What a night that was.
There’s not many games in the last ten years where I’ve still been in the stand singing twenty minutes after the final whistle
10 years on and this has yet to be beaten in terms of best games I've been too.
Shows what a waste of time Forest have been over the years since I've been alive that this is the best game. We ended up finishing below them!
Last year’s win against Leeds which took us to a couple of points off top spot was almost as good. Certainly the highlight of the last decade. Like that WBA match we didn’t know at the time but it was the high water mark of the season.
Yeah Tyler's goal is sadly one of the most I've celebrated I reckon, was carnage.
Arsenal youth at home in the FA cup is probably the only other one I can think of. We really have been boringly average for the last 20 years or so!
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On this day 8/1 in 1975, Neil Martin scored the first goal of the Brian Clough era as Forest beat Spurs 1-0 in the FA Cup at White Hart Lane. Team: Middleton, O'Kane, Greenwood, Chapman, Jones, Richardson, Lyall, Martin, Butlin, Bowyer, O'Neill, Sub Cottam.
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(08-01-2021, 02:33 PM)Sabricadabra Wrote: (08-01-2021, 11:10 AM)wassy04 Wrote: (08-01-2021, 11:00 AM)Username Wrote: (08-01-2021, 10:09 AM)Salvatore Matrecano Wrote: On Friday 8th January 2010 superb goals from Radoslaw Majewski and Chris Cohen sent Nottingham Forest second in the Championship with a 3-1 victory at West Brom.
What a night that was.
There’s not many games in the last ten years where I’ve still been in the stand singing twenty minutes after the final whistle
10 years on and this has yet to be beaten in terms of best games I've been too.
Shows what a waste of time Forest have been over the years since I've been alive that this is the best game. We ended up finishing below them!
Last year’s win against Leeds which took us to a couple of points off top spot was almost as good. Certainly the highlight of the last decade. Like that WBA match we didn’t know at the time but it was the high water mark of the season.
They weren’t comparable to me.
That West Brom night was electric.
Stoke away last season was better than Leeds at home.
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(08-01-2021, 03:03 PM)Sniffer Dog Wrote: On this day 8/1 in 1975, Neil Martin scored the first goal of the Brian Clough era as Forest beat Spurs 1-0 in the FA Cup at White Hart Lane. Team: Middleton, O'Kane, Greenwood, Chapman, Jones, Richardson, Lyall, Martin, Butlin, Bowyer, O'Neill, Sub Cottam.
Just amazing that 2 members of that struggling team would be lifting the european cup a few years later.
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(08-01-2021, 03:20 PM)Paplane Wrote: (08-01-2021, 03:03 PM)Sniffer Dog Wrote: On this day 8/1 in 1975, Neil Martin scored the first goal of the Brian Clough era as Forest beat Spurs 1-0 in the FA Cup at White Hart Lane. Team: Middleton, O'Kane, Greenwood, Chapman, Jones, Richardson, Lyall, Martin, Butlin, Bowyer, O'Neill, Sub Cottam.
Just amazing that 2 members of that struggling team would be lifting the european cup a few years later.
Yes, incredible.
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