This is one of the things i hate about being a Forest fan. There's a *lot* of stupid fans who think we should be winning everything. Unfortunatly my season ticket for the last 10 years plus has been in the Brian Clough Stand where most of the moaning gits go.
I made on leave a game the other month. He was bitching about Reid saying "that Reid is crap" and "we should sell shit like Reid*. This pissed me off no end and it got to the point where i just stood up and yelled at him about how he should get a season ticket and not come to one game every 10 years or whatever and stop talking crap about the *only* creative player we have. Plus we get people saying things like "It's only West Brom! We should be thrashing teams like this" which is complete bollocks, but as West Brom were rubbish when we were good they will always be rubbish to a certain number of our fans.
We aren't the most fickle bunch of fans in the league god only knows who is.
But, i do think we should be a Premier League club. Not a top club there, but certainly a team the same sort of level as a Southampton or a Blackburn.
Unfortunatly we're paying the price for poor running at board level, and always have been. Brian even had to loan the club a 6 figure amount to keep the club afloat in the early 1980s - and that was when we were winning things! Irving Scholar though should particulary be responsible for our current predicament though - selling our captain Colin Cooper and our second top scorer Kevin Campbell when out manager at the time was on holiday. That made Peirre go on strike and basically made it impossible for us to stay in the Premier in the 1998/99 season.
I'm not even going to mention bloody Platt.
This years problem is down to, unfortunatly, Hart's poor eye for players. As long as they're under 18 he can spot a great one, however, spending £1.4m on two strikers who have scored 2 league goals for us this season shows that when he's given money he can't cope. Not to mention not only playing but also giving the captaincy to Gareth Williams who's publicly stated his intention to leave in the summer to go to the Premier *and* has been bad beyond belief this year....
Harewood and Williams both refuse new contracts. 21 goal Marlon is sold immediatly and the big girl Gaz is made captain. Explain that one Harty.
Kinnear will keep us up though, and does has experience of doing very well with no money, so I can see him staying on when his contracts up at the end of the year.
End of Rant.