| Steve:
Basically, Kev and I run our own
IT companies and Stanno's a sales manager. We're all members
of the Beeston Branch of the Supporters Club and I had a talk
to the chairman of the branch one night and said you haven't
got anything on the Internet why not? He said that they wanted
to, but nobody's actually done it so I said right leave it to
us and we'll get it up and running. It originally started off as just the Beeston Branch site but
obviously you can't do a lot with that once you've said whose
on the committee so we decided to make it more of a general
Forest site talking about the personalities and things about
the team and everything like that so what do you think of the
internet and have you had any exposure to it?
Larry:
Well it's a thing of today and not only that it's a
thing of the future.
At the moment I'm in the process of learning computers
myself. I'm of
the generation where we had an abacus to count so, you know,
I think its vital now that everybody, certainly in business,
but everybody, just for the sake of the future gets to know
the ins and outs of a computer. Certainly
how to operate one and what is available to you with
a computer, so yeah I think a lot of it that's why even at
my age I'm sort of learning all the time about them.
I've got my own in the house and I'm on the internet
so I have a little play around on that so yeah I'm all for
it I think it's a damn good thing.
Steve:
Have you visited our site yet?
Larry:
No I haven't .
Steve:
Because you don't know where
it is?
Larry:
. because I'm in the process
of getting it upgraded. Its three years old, its ancient isn't
it.
Steve:
Absolutely, well 6 months is old nowadays.
Larry:
Well mine's 3 years old I'm in
the process of taking some advice on either ditching it or
getting it upgraded. I don't think I'll get it upgraded you
know.
Steve:
The web site address is on that
(hands Larry a card) so if you get the chance pop along and
have a look.
Larry:
Yeah, well what I'll do when
questions start coming in on the show I'll keep that on the
Century file and get on with that.
Kev:
I went to the EGM last week and
two things there made me think that there was some sort of
animosity or paranoia about the internet within the Forest
camp and I was wondering is that a true feeling, did I read
it right or were they just isolated incidents.
Larry:
Well what I pick up is that sort
of three or four sites, there's yours, Jeff Peabody, you probably
know Jeff or you've heard of Jeff.
Correct me if I'm wrong but he does the official Forest
site and you do the Supporters.
There's one, somebody in Peterborough, trying to muscle
in cos he's written us a letter a Century, trying to muscle
in and Jeff's a bit pissed off with it. I told Jeff actually
that I was speaking with you today and he said that's great,
that's no problem, they're okay no problem but he said there
were some cowboys in Peterborough trying to muscle in or something.
Steve:
Oh right we've not come across
that one, its not the Eye, they're not in Peterborough are
they?
Larry: No,
the eye isn't, that's Carl in Vancouver.
Steve:
Yes, they can be a little bit
tongue in cheek sometimes.
Larry: Yeah,
but now that everybody up in the offices, particularly Phil
Soar and that lot, now they've realized its tongue in cheek,
he upset them in the beginning .
Steve:
Well they never name names but
they will say, you know, so and so who does so and so in the
club and you'd think that's me isn't it.
Larry: Yeah,
the galloping something he called someone it was obvious it
was Phil Soar, so everyone knew who it was and of course they
got a bit pissed off. Whether there's animosity towards them
now, I don't think so. I think they realize now that if its
responsible people running it then you know it can only do
us good can't it.
Steve:
It's a very powerful medium,
we've got people who look at the site on a daily basis from
all over the world, literally all over the world, we've had
a social evening a few weeks back and we had a couple over
from Salt Lake City you know, a guy from Plymouth etc.
Larry: On
Jeff's site, you know the Forest Site, you know there's Carl
in Vancouver they link up and I've had e-mails and all that
from people in bloody Hong Kong and all over the shop, I'm
saying its good and as you say it's a strong medium.
Steve:
Yeah I think it's alright so
long as you're putting the right stuff forward.
Larry: One
question I want to ask you I mean this ain't for the interview
its for my own personal thing.
You know how you say 'visit your site' what do you
get out of it?
Steve: Nothing.
Late nights staying up sweating over a hot computer,
it was 4 o'clock the other morning.
Larry: Well
yeah okay, that I understand as well, but you don't get £1
a visit or something?
Steve:
No. We do it for the love of
the club, we don't get a penny, and we actually pay to run
the site.
Larry: Why
do people do it then, can I ask you, your love of Forest I
accept that. I
was watching a thing on breakfast television you know cos
I'm always interested and its for my further education, you
know the cam sites I mean there's this woman in Glossop with
a camera pointed at a famous valley and she's got a web site
and that GMTV they've got into that and they show you the
actual picture coming from the Glossop valley, I said to Debbie,
that's my wife, I said what the f*#ks she done that for what's
she making out of it. Then it went on and she said she had
1000 visits last week to the site - just to see a valley in
Derbyshire. That's
a question I've been meaning to ask all you computers people,
do you make out of it financially?
Steve
et al:
No.
Steve:
There are commercial sites out
there but we aren't. We just do it as a hobby. I pay over
a hundred quid a year just to have the thing, no we do it
for the love of Forest cos we're supporters its another way
of supporting the club you know.
Larry: That
I understand, I know you and other clubs have got their sites
but like this woman I've just quoted! Perhaps if you have
a page yourself, like me, if I'd got one myself, advertising
my after dinner speaking and stuff like that, my money would
be made by "oh yeah lets book Larry Lloyd then".
Steve:
True, but we aren't really interested
in that. We do it purely as a hobby and an extension of our
support for the club.
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