Season Tickets For This Year

[BadDog]

I have to accept that the clubs communication over the past 7 months, with its fans, has been downright shocking.

I appreciate we are in unprecedented times and this whole scenario is as new to the club (all clubs actually) as it is to those of us who just want to go and cheer our team on to victory. I get that!

But is this not THE EXACT time that the club should be coming forward and talking to the fans more? to alleviate any concerns or worries? As mere mortals, we have had to more or less become prisoners in our own homes for a few months. We cannot do the normal things we used to do anymore. For how long is this likely to continue? Nobody knows. It could be a few more months, a year or more, maybe forever. We are like mushrooms. Kept in the dark. But unlike mushrooms, at least they are fed S**t. We are not even being fed that by the club. 

The club have to open up to the fans and communicate with us. We are living our lives in hope. Hope that things return to normal. Hope that we can go back to the City Ground and sing our hearts out for the lads in red again. Hope we can get promoted back into the Premier League. Hope we will be able to sit in the seat many of you have paid good, hard earned money for. Hope to having a life again. Hope! Is it really so difficult for those with the money and power in the higher echelons of our club to recognise this? Are they so seriously off the mark in terms of the realities of life that they do not consider us fans to care about the club?, what is happening?, what is going on? Do we not matter to them at the moment as our hard earned cash isn't being spent at the City Ground? Have we become irrelevant? 

The Supporters Trust! Who are they? When do they meet? How do I join them? No idea! Considering they were set up to 'represent' fans of Nottingham Forest Football Club, I have not heard one single thing from them about anything. They have never asked me for my opinion. I have never seen a report in the Post asking for comments on behalf of the Supporters Trust. When is their AGM? How do I apply to become Chair? How can they seriously represent my, or anybody else's opinions if they never put themselves forward? So whose opinions are they feeding back to the club? Certainly not mine, nor do I suspect anyone else's from this forum. So that means the 'fans opinions' are coming largely from those who sit at the head table of the Supporters Trust. One or two people, who may all have similar opinions to things, which may not agree with the vast majority of other fans, not being heard by the Supporters Trust. They may be sat there in awe of those facing them at the negotiating table. They may want to impress, they may be fearful of upsetting those big earners from the club who want 'our' opinion. I may be completely wrong about all that, but without any meaningful communication from the Supporters Trust, let alone the club itself, what am I supposed to believe?

It is time the club took a long hard look at how it has dealt with its fans over the past year or so. It is time it learnt what the club ACTUALLY means to thousands of us who wear the tree on the river badge with pride. They need to understand that true football fans cannot just switch off their affections for their clubs when it is not matchday. We live, breathe, dream, bleed for our club. It is time that Nicholas Randall QC and his cronies realised these facts and acted upon them now. To each and everyone of us, not to some quango group claiming to represent us all, because that quango isn't working.

I'll go back into my corner now  :blush:

100% agree with all that.