What it's like to be a Forest fan today.

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We asked - What does it feel like to be a Forest fan today? And here are some of the responses we got.

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Expensive.
Tiring with having to battle with the robo stewards at every game.
Boring, regarding games and transfers.
Not apprieciated.

- Garibaldi

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To be honest the same as i have felt at the end of most seasons recently. Crap and disgusted especially with how much palyers are paid weekly to run around a field daily and not put in 100% effort. How many of us would have been sacked in our jobs if we under performed on a weekly basis ??

- Forest forever

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Living in Birmingham, I get endless stick, particularly now as Birmingham have gone back up. The constant barrage is boring and I always have been and always will be proud to be a Forest fan and no one can take away my memories.

The problem is that I have nothing left to fight back with apart from the now distant memories and like Doughty and CC and whoever else, I have ran out of sensible excuses.

Like I said, proud but tired and disillusioned.

- Brummie Red

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Joking aside I will confess that over the past two seasons I have become a bit of a part time supporter.
If you'd told me that would happen five years ago I'd never have believed it.
Cut me and I bled red, but you can only invest so much emotion in a team who are being allowed to slide down the pan.
You need something back to make the suffering worth it.
I'm not bothered about the money, but I don't let anyone piss me about - and that includes a football team I used to adore.

- Rivers

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Embarrased and hurt at what Doughty has managed to achieved but also a sense of passion that all forest fans are in this together.

Living in a town mixed with leicester scum and forest i'll always be passionate about my team. Why should Doughty stop this?

- Barn

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3 or 4 years ago i would have been so embarassed if Yeovil had stuffed us, i'd be enraged too, and moody. Now i've become so accustomed to it that i feel absolutely nothing anymore, no emotion. I feel like i've been totally cut from the club, total apathy, and i never get bothered about it anymore. Don't get me wrong, i still love the club as much as i did 4 years ago, its just that when we lose, its like, oh well thats Forest for you.

Watching the decline of Forest could be likened to watching a loved one die, at first its really upsetting and disturbing, but after a while you become accustomed to it and sense of numbness overcomes you. Thats when you don't feel anything anymore.

- Jay Excel

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Totally demoralized. Derby gaining promotion has really put the icing on the cake, which must of highlighted even in the Doughty apologists minds that our board hasn't got a clue.

I've been a season ticket holder for 17 years and enough is enough. Until there is a regime change or we have a manager that I have faith in, I'm not going to renew.

- MagicWoand

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Used, taked advantage of, taken for granted, completely disallusioned.

Thanks Nige, for everything.

- H-Block

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Utter despair. Totally empty, but still angry. For the first time in many years I have decided not to renew my season ticket.
Until Calderwood leaves I see nothing but pure negative football.
I could go on but really at the moment I can't be ar**d.

- Red Middo

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Complete apathy. It's not a very nice feeling being a Forest fan at the moment.
I find much more fun in following Hibernian at the moment, and of course.. Rangers!!

- Forest Frog

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Forest Fan or employee?

I'm sure I'm not the only one who works for a large organisation, and I am also sure that those who do will feel the same as I have the past few years. We are no longer valued employees but a number. My managers manager who I see in the office most days does not know who I am, he simply knows that I am employee number 24601. No effort is made on his point to make me feel like a member of the team here and why would they too. There are plenty of people out there to take over my job so I will do as I am told or face the consequences. Maybe that isn't true, but no effort is made to make me feel otherwise no matter how many times I might bring it up.

Recently I have felt the same about Nottingham Forest, the club I have followed since I have been old enough to know what Football was. I have had a season ticket for many years now, apart from a brief sabbatical when I was travelling and so unable to go (you guessed it, the playoff season under Paul Hart), and I used to love going. However I am now no longer a valued season ticket holder but season ticket number 24601. No effort is made to make me feel like I should continue to support this club, and why would they. The affinity football fans have with there clubs means that I am always there for the taking and will never leave. I feel like I am being taking for granted, and not only that but I also feel like I am being treated like an idiot. This season alone I have read quotes from Nigel Doughty and Mark Arthur saying that the cost of my season ticket will increase because they need to invest in the squad, and then hearing a plethora of excuses from the same people about why we haven't that they surely can't expect me to swallow. I have heard Colin Calderwood amongst other things try and tell me the league is more exciting now that we have dropped our lead of 7 points at the top of the table. Are we really expected to believe this?? Do the club even care if we don't??

As with my job, I currently feel very apathetic towards Nottingham Forest. Of course my support for the club will never wane, but I feel very indisposed to imparting any more of my money to it. Despite the number of home victories this year I can only remember 3 or 4 games where I have walked away having enjoyed it. Is it really worth me giving my hard earned cash to not be entertained and, even worse, not even be valued. Maybe that isn't true, I'm almost certainly being slightly melodramatic, but no effort is made to make me feel otherwise.

I cannot put the cause of this feeling to any other people except the current owner of the club, and what is worse is that I cannot see a light at the end of the tunnel. I am certain that prices will increase this year, and I am certain that some more quotes about squad strengthening and promotion pushes will be promised and not lived up to. I think it is time the owner left and that this club take a fresh approach to it's team and it's supporters. Value the fans and not just SAY that you value the fans. Encourage fans to go to games and not just expect us there. I want to go back to enjoying being a fan of this club and enjoying the match days.

This is not a response to a play-off failure. I have deliberately waited a few days to see if my anger at the clubs total mismanagement would dissipate, but it has instead just been simmering. At the moment being a Forest fan feels like a chore, like another job. Well at least I get paid for feeling undervalued at my work.

- random task

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NUMB is what I'm feeling at the moment but this has worked up over the last 3/4 years.

From being the eternal optimist when we was last relegated form the Prem.
I am now one of many pessimists due to Doughty and his lack of ability as a Chairman.

My whole mindset has been eroded from me being a clear thinking optimist to the pessimist I am today.

What the morons who run the club, do not understand is how it affects peoples life styles, not just during the football season but throughout the year.

I know several friends/supporters wives who say that their husbands attitude to life has changed (not for the better) over the last few years and they are sometimes unbearable to live with when things aren't going well.

So, not only is it frustrating to see our once great club in this mess but it also has affects on people’s family & social life.

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