Saturday 16th November

[Crewelad87]

Who are Forest's main rivals according to them? Would it be Leicester and Derby?

Definitely Derby. They were chanting " we only hate derby" at the game vs Leicester the other week.

 

[mozzavale]

A load of Stoke and Vale fans came to Wembley to cheer for us in the 1997 playoff final

Remember it well. A lad I played football with went. He's a big Vale fan but the Sentinel made him wear a Stoke top for a photo

 

[Conker]

It’s Derby and it’s both ways, you know a real rivalry.

 

[mozzavale]

Funny one the Potteries derby. Stoke in a similar position to Forest in that they share a city with a much smaller team, but Forest unlike Stoke could not give a toss about the smaller team. Yet for all the perceived hatred from the Vale fans towards Stoke the last few derbys at VP have barely scrapped 10k (according to 11v11), that would be with at least 4k Stoke in there, plus one match under 9k, which probably meant more Stoke than Vale in VP, and that’s not including the daft diddy cup match the other season. Very odd, I’m sure there must be a valid reason for the poor Vale turnouts?

Can't speak for anyone else, I went them all. But after a few years of sell outs, 20k plus attendances early to mid 90s at both grounds...the level of violence put a lot of people off going. We got 8k the first season back in the Championship. Was an early kick off on Sky. I missed the kick off as I was playing Sunday morning and had to rush back for it. Then part of our ground was closed down by the council.

Our attendances plummeted around early 2000s. Not sure why. We had a sky game v Grimsby in the Championship where only 3k turned up. Can't really put a finger on why that happened, especially as we were in a league we could only dream of being in now. Over the years though, a lot have finally started to return. We get similar averages now in L2, and last season when relegated from L1, than we did at the tail end of our Championship years.

 

[jacobncfc]

Who are Forest's main rivals according to them? Would it be Leicester and Derby?

Derby. I live in Leicester and that’s almost as one-sided a rivalry as ours with them is.

Us and Forest is obviously a complete nothing of a rivalry and has been for a few generations, but that would change pretty quickly if we were at the same sort of level for any length of time. I don’t really care about them at all either way though tbh, possibly because I’ve never lived in Notts. I wouldn’t say I hate anyone really, the odd team I enjoy beating a bit more than the others but ultimately I am quite happy not having a ‘proper derby’.