To be fair
it's a minority and the large majority of fans are level headed and see last night's
result for what it was a friendly. A glorified training exercise and
experimentation, but there are those who are deciding to write off the season
before we've kicked a ball. These are the same fans that if we win 3 in a row
will declare we might as phone the bookies up and demand any bets on Forest to
go up and paid in full there and then. They are the archetypal knee jerk
reactionaries.
But the thing
is, are we worse than other clubs. Apart from those with glory hunters tend to
think at ties we are. I haven't noticed many Championship clubs fans go nuts
over relatively trivial matters. Most other clubs fans are level headed. Yeah
you see people who support the big clubs from afar doing similar over
reactions, but that’s because they haven't got a clue about actually following
a club, and their whole self esteem rests on 11 men far away doing well.
There is a
core knit few on Twitter who seem to cultivate a culture of pessimism and
distrust. Some do it deliberately for whatever reasons they do that. Some just
seem to try and minutely dissect every detail of every bit of news. They swing
from result to result on emotions and how they judge players, and fail to look
objectively with w idr scoped lens over a longer period, living game to game.
It's stupid. Football isn't like that. Theres a reason the season is so long.
So these things balance out and the best teams overall succeed.
A few things
for m have nurtured this underbelly of highly strung over the top fans. Being
born too late to see the great successes, or even the late 80's early 90's success.
Hell for some it's even seeing us in the Premier League. They are so starved of
seeing their club succeed it seems to rip at the fabric of their being. Demanding
to be able to experience those days. Almost resentful they never did.
But that’s being
simplistic and only a few. Some will rely on personality, but a lot is modern
football, a lot is a chairman vocal and present on Twitter, and a lot is how the
club has been run for years, not just under Fawaz.
People now
think that there is almost a direct voice to the ear of Fawaz that if they
tweet him, then he will listen. I absolutely dread to see the dross that must
get direct messaged to Fawaz. 14 year olds wanting trials, keyboard warriors
telling he should resign, Derby fans pretending to be Forest fans and all that
kind of crap, but its worse when you see grown men having a go. You should know
better.
But yeah, one
defeat to Rotherham yesterday with a defence that will bear no resemblance to
the one that starts against Blackpool and Pearce seeing what some players can
offer and trying different combinations of players and everyone goes crazy.
I suppose it
means there's never a dull day of the Forest timeline or gossip wise, but some
of our fans re seriously nuts. There's someone who used to reply to my posts on
the Facebook group regularly who was the most negative person. You’d be in 6th,
lose one game and he'd say we play like that again we'll be relegated. One
defeat and the whole thing come crashing down in their eyes. These peoples
blood pressure must be sky high!!
The trolls
are just annoying. Trying desperately to get attention, and usually getting it.
Someone will always respond in kind. I tried a different tactic of merely just
pointing out they were trolling rather than start a debate, but any attention
is good, so your best avoiding the obvious trolls. (Regular Twitter feed
followers will know exactly who, but I don’t want to publicise them or give
them the time of day)
To echo the
famous and now ubiquitous posters…. Keep Calm… and... Well Support Forest I
guess.
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