I can’t say the news of Sherwood the Bear’s ‘retirement’ had any particular impact on me, to be honest, I could quite happily carry on supporting Forest sans a mascot. But this clearly is an issue dearer to the hearts of other fans, and I suppose those who take their kids in particular may have more to say about it than I would regardless (although, I must confess to ‘meeting’ the bear once when I was down on the lower tier one game – so maybe I’m supressing something).
Rish over at a fellow blog site has taken up the campaign in earnest – he was even on Radio Nottingham this morning who have picked up the campaign. Whilst I’m not bothered about Sherwood, I do resent the idea of a man prancing around in a Robin Hood costume, presumably featuring tights etc, to try to provide that much needed entertainment for the kids. It’s just a bit creepy, isn’t it?
Also the decision to do this appears to have happened without any consultation with the supporters – for whose benefit the mascot is present anyway – so that is a bit remiss. So should you harbour similar fondness for the big daft bear and his fairly limited goalkeeping skills, then feel free to pop along to the Nottingham Forest blog and register your disapproval. And if you’re reading, powers-that-be, at least reconsider a sinister man in tights cavorting with the young Reds fans.
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Damn it… I have to admt it, I’ll miss the big stupid bear.
at the notts county game people were singing “we want our sherwood back we want our sherwood back”
I remember one game where we were playing shit people chanting bring on the Sherwood. Presumably because we had bugger all options up front
Lack of options up front? Sounds familiar – maybe he’s been ‘retired’ so that he can be drafted in to partner Dobie up front for the Bournemouth game?!
nffc……….dont even jest about such things!
Anyone else remember Robin Hood Squirrel? He was good…admittedly not as good as Sherwood though!
I remember Robin Hood the squirrel. His main problem was that he looked a bit like a fox – obviously not good considering our illustrious neighbours… The tannoy man even started referring to him as the “foxy squirrel” (although maybe he just fancied him).
He was OK but pales in comparison to the mighty Sherwood…
Thanks for the support NFFC!!
Why dont we have a TREE as our mascot???? I mean these “foxy” (sic) animals are so ………well passe!
At first I was pleased about the change, but now having seen him….Save Sherwood! Or get back the Squirrel!