Fan Advisory Board

[Flaggers]

Want to be on the NFFC Fan Advisory Board?

Apply here https://www.nottinghamforest.co.uk/news/2023/september/26/fan-advisory-board-applications-now-open/

"Nottingham Forest is delighted to open applications to join our Fan Advisory Board for the 2023-24 season.

We recently announced our Fan Advisory Board as part of the Premier League’s Fan Engagement Standard, that all 20 Premier League member Club’s voted unanimously in favour of in November 2022.

For more information on the FAB, please view our Fan Engagement Plan here.

The makeup of the Fan Advisory Board includes Fan Representatives from each of the below key supporters’ groups:

Nottingham Forest Supporters Trust
Nottingham Forest Supporters Club
Punjabi Forest
Disabled Supporters Association
Forza Garibaldi
Nottingham Forest North America
There will also be two independent representatives chosen to sit on the FAB for the 2023-24 season and details on how to apply for the FAB can be found below:

To apply please complete the application form before 23:59 PM on Tuesday 10th October to apply for a position on the Board. Applications will be considered by the Club’s Nominated Board Level Official and Fan Engagement Manager and the two successful candidates will be selected through this process and will be required to sit on the FAB for a mandatory period of two seasons."

 

[Flaggers]

It's going well, according to twitter...

 

[Grenville 1898]

Are there seats on the FAB for Lady Penelope and Parker?

 

[Strummer]

Another IT catastrophe for Forest!

 

[valspoodle]

Jolly good idea.

I wonder how they are going to keep in touch with an older member who doesn't belong to the specified groups and who doesn't have contact via twitter/X etc.?

Will there be a special section on the OS?

Indeed will there be any special contact at all? Or is it a talking shop between the football cognoscenti as usual?

 

[Jah]

Club acts on Fan advisory board demands for players to "Gerrit Forrad"

 

[Raymondo Ponte']

An get some clean runnin waaatah.

 

[Redemption]

Jolly good idea.

I wonder how they are going to keep in touch with an older member who doesn't belong to the specified groups and who doesn't have contact via twitter/X etc.?

Will there be a special section on the OS?

Indeed will there be any special contact at all? Or is it a talking shop between the football cognoscenti as usual?

To be fair, it's a not a representative body.

It's a fans advisory body. It will have a range of fans, hoping that with sufficient numbers, most views will be covered.

Claims on non-representation are a weak form of criticism, imho.

We need more fan engagement, this will deliver it. Will it be gold standard? Probably not. Will it be better than none? Surely so.

And, as its a EPL initiative, a best practice will emerge to set the standard.

If you want criticise the club for anything here, is that it's only doing this because it's a condition of the league.

 

[Raymondo Ponte']

I think it's a token gesture from some "think tank" to appear as though there's some form of club/fan love in relationship.
Whereas in reality there's fuk all from clubs except "Where's ya fukin money twat?"

 

[Bonalair]

Jolly good idea.

I wonder how they are going to keep in touch with an older member who doesn't belong to the specified groups and who doesn't have contact via twitter/X etc.?

Will there be a special section on the OS?

Indeed will there be any special contact at all? Or is it a talking shop between the football cognoscenti as usual?

My 84 year old mum’s GP have decided no one can do repeat prescriptions via phone or even email, it has to be via their extremely complicated portal online.

You’ve got zero chance of a pensioner friendly fan forum if a lady who takes about 25 different drugs to keep her alive can’t order them without IT assistance

 

[Cloughie1975]

My 84 year old mum’s GP have decided no one can do repeat prescriptions via phone or even email, it has to be via their extremely complicated portal online.

You’ve got zero chance of a pensioner friendly fan forum if a lady who takes about 25 different drugs to keep her alive can’t order them without IT assistance

I’m afraid the world’s gone mad,Bonalair.

 

[valspoodle]

To be fair, it's a not a representative body.

It's a fans advisory body. It will have a range of fans, hoping that with sufficient numbers, most views will be covered.

Claims on non-representation are a weak form of criticism, imho.

We need more fan engagement, this will deliver it. Will it be gold standard? Probably not. Will it be better than none? Surely so.

And, as its a EPL initiative, a best practice will emerge to set the standard.

If you want criticise the club for anything here, is that it's only doing this because it's a condition of the league.

I said it's a jolly good idea, no criticism.

Simply wondering if we're going to be told what the fans are advising and what the club intend to do about it. As yet nothing along those lines. So those independents who might wish to stand for the fans have no real idea what they are taking on.

 

[Redemption]

As yet nothing along those lines. So those independents who might wish to stand for the fans have no real idea what they are taking on.

There is quite a bit ob the EPL site about v what they expect from Fan Advisory Boards.

If I was standing, I'd start by reading the associated documents like the 'Fan Engagement Standard' etc

Premier League launches Fan Engagement Standard

Fan Engagement Standard designed to reinforce clubs' relationships with their supporters

www.premierleague.com

 

[DizzyBala]

Didn't they try and do something similar a couple years back and it not go anywhere?
Engage with me as a fan, Forest, and give me hot water in the sinks and my membership gift package that you promised me.

30% off Retro Shirts and empty initiatives that are about as useful as the Supporters Club doesn't do much to engage me. Getting what I paid for and being able to wash my hands after holding me cock is what I'm after!

 

[valspoodle]

There is quite a bit ob the EPL site about v what they expect from Fan Advisory Boards.

If I was standing, I'd start by reading the associated documents like the 'Fan Engagement Standard' etc

Premier League launches Fan Engagement Standard

Fan Engagement Standard designed to reinforce clubs' relationships with their supporters

www.premierleague.com

Ah, but you're a guy who obviously, from your many posts on here, looks around and likes to read all this stuff. Some of us don't.

When you dealing with the public, you should try and proceed at the speed of the slowest. I know that the ones who don't enjoy reading this guff probably don't enjoy committees etc, but don't we deserve to know what's going on with a brief synopsis of the plan from the club without all the preliminary boning up? Which might determine whether you're prepared to apply.

Like the current ticketing fiasco, a little communication goes a long way.

 

[Redemption]

Ah, but you're a guy who obviously, from your many posts on here, looks around and likes to read all this stuff. Some of us don't.

When you dealing with the public, you should try and proceed at the speed of the slowest. I know that the ones who don't enjoy reading this guff probably don't enjoy committees etc, but don't we deserve to know what's going on with a brief synopsis of the plan from the club without all the preliminary boning up? Which might determine whether you're prepared to apply.

Like the current ticketing fiasco, a little communication goes a long way.

Im sorry but I think that's utter nonsense.

If you're applying to be on a fan advisory board but can't be arsed to look around, what's your value add to be on the board, apathy?

 

[Master Yates]

How have those fan groups been chosen to have representation on the board? Not saying they shouldn’t, but a bit of transparency would be nice.

Maybe they could even open it up to other “fan groups” to offer representation? LGBT trickies, or god forbid, LTLF. We could nominate Omar and Emmerson to tell the board how shit Forest is at everything.


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[Omar Devone Little]

How have those fan groups been chosen to have representation on the board? Not saying they shouldn’t, but a bit of transparency would be nice.

Maybe they could even open it up to other “fan groups” to offer representation? LGBT trickies, or god forbid, LTLF. We could nominate Omar and Emmerson to tell the board how shit Forest is at everything.


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I'd love to represent the fans. Nothing changes if some clapper just agrees with everything and tells the club how brilliant they are, like it's been in the past.

 

[congo_red_49]

I'd love to represent the fans. Nothing changes if some clapper just agrees with everything and tells the club how brilliant they are, like it's been in the past.

On the other side of the coin, if the club gets told that everything they do is shite, they'll change the wrong things, prioritize the wrong things and likely waste a bunch of effort.
Balanced and realistic feedback is a more sensible path.

 

[Omar Devone Little]

On the other side of the coin, if the club gets told that everything they do is shite, they'll change the wrong things, prioritize the wrong things and likely waste a bunch of effort.
Balanced and realistic feedback is a more sensible path.

Should have me and Rzar on a 2-man panel. The yin and yang.

I'd have my best grumpy face on while he had his Forest foam hand waving about shouting 'YOU REDS' constantly. What could go wrong?

 

[Strummer]

We could nominate Omar and Emmerson to tell the board how shit Forest is at everything.

I would be in favour of this, mostly because it would be bloody hilarious.

 

[Morpeth]

In terms of me being on the fans advisory board...

 

[incident]

How have those fan groups been chosen to have representation on the board? Not saying they shouldn’t, but a bit of transparency would be nice.

Maybe they could even open it up to other “fan groups” to offer representation? LGBT trickies, or god forbid, LTLF. We could nominate Omar and Emmerson to tell the board how shit Forest is at everything.

Probably that they chose the only 5 (counting the various supporters club branches as part of the same thing) groups that are both notable and formally organised as such - and then to get the 6th added one of the overseas branches of the Supporters Club. I don't see anyone obvious being left out here.

I agree that LGBTQ+Trickies would have been an easy choice, and I assume the club would have included them, but I don't think they formally exist anymore - the limited company has been wound up and all of their social media accounts appear to have been deleted.