Through the seasons before us..

Firstly, you might have noticed a new banner atop the site - thanks to Peter Collison for letting me pinch the very same picture he uses on his site, arf! The thinking behind it is a couple of things, firstly, I wanted to remove any images of players - the last banner had Kris Commons (admittedly beheaded) on the right hand side, the black armband he was wearing meant he was often mistaken for Breckin! I tried to think of what made me proud of being a Forest fan, and thus chose to feature only fans in the picture, and the ground.

I was half tempted to go back down a historical route that I’ve done before, but I also wanted the banner to be at least an implication of some positivity about the future. Whilst I don’t have a massive amount of faith in this being true necessarily, I have decided since I know I’ll buy my season ticket in the vain hope my cynicism is misplaced, I might as well carry on this venture too - I did so originally with a delirious hope that I was to witness the dawning of a new era, how ironic that instead I’ve spent a season documenting the dawning of our worst ever era of football! I suppose that in itself has proven interesting, albeit in a macabre sense.

So this post is designed to herald a fresh start and and a look to the future - be it positive or negative - for Through the seasons before us, apologies in advance to those who clicked from news feeds and find nothing but self-indulgence (I did try to make it clear from the headline), but I have no control about which stories are and aren’t syndicated elsewhere. For those of you who’ve regularly commented and emailed throughout the season, my heartfelt thanks - it’s been an interesting time, hopefully together we can look forward to commenting on better times ahead.

Oh yes, and with the overwhelming total of 35 signatures, I’ve made the executive decision that ‘the Wednesday night campaign’ appears to have insufficient support to really prove likely to yield any fruit!  Whilst a limited number of us seem to feel fairly strongly about it, it would seem that the passive majority don’t really see much difference between a Wednesday or Tuesday night game - I’ll leave the petition online, but I can’t see a sudden upsurge in interest somehow!

In a little over two months of blogging about Forest, the site has managed to get to almost 20,000 hits - and the last two days have been somewhat crazy, twice breaking the previous busiest day for the site - see what happens when you post something about fighting? I dunno, you lot are obviously all just a bit morbidly obsessed with such things! I’ve been pleasantly surprised though with the various comments being left and amount of traffic, so thanks, and please do keep commenting.

With that in mind I’ve done a couple of things - thanks to the wonderful people at WordPress (who host this blog - ideal for technical dimwits like me!), I now have my very own domain name pointing at the space - although the old address works too, so you can point your browser to either http://www.nffcblog.com or the old address of http://nffc.wordpress.com and they’ll both reach here - which is really rather exciting!

The final change is I’ve updated the header to be a bit more contemporary - whilst I’m as proud as anyone of our past achievements, I’ve decided the bulk of what I write about is current, with the odd diversion into the past - so the look of the site should reflect that, afterall, this whole project kicked off because I was half hoping that something good might come of this season, so imagery from this season seems more appropriate!

So anyway, not really Forest news at all, but just incase you’d noticed a few changes around the site, that’s why!