23 Feb 2020 11:03:26
I've been thinking a lot about the matches we've played, the players we have got and the comments on here. I have to agree that at home we do not play in the same way as when we are away, but I also think many of us are over-thinking things, and not seeing some realities.
Hark back to the beginning of the season - new Manager, new untried players, a background which was shaky with so many managerial changes. Who would have thought then, that with 12 matches to play we would be in the top six?
What have we got this year?
1. A brilliant Goalkeeper
2. A settled but attacking defence (remember how Worrall was pasted both at Rangers and here, Dawson has taught all of them a lot, and we have a very good Left full back, where before we had a problem.)
3. We have a duo in Midfield with a Stopper and a Sweeper (Sow and Watson) who we had been looking for.
4. We have a 20 goal a season striker who we have not had for a long time.
5. We have an Owner who is building a Stadium for the future.
6. We are within FFP rules and not over-reaching ourselves, so the money is being well looked-after.
Does anybody really think that our football is of Premiership standard yet? Dream on. WBA are where they are because of their Premier players, and nobody in our League can yet match them for quality.
We have some as yet unknowns - Diakhabi, Da Costa, Mighten, Walker, and host of U23 players who could yet emerge to be really good.
We've come a long way since last May in a short time, and our new Manager is learning how hard this League is on a weekly basis with as yet an incomplete squad - we cannot say that every position in the team has two players as good as each other and therefore interchangeable.
The last few years I've been worried that we might slip into the bottom three, and we had plenty of relegation dog-fights.
We are now a different proposition, and although we have lost and drawn too many games we might have won, in my opinion we have made giant strides in quality, team spirit and knowledge and know-how.
Wherever we finish the season, all the teams in this league will know next season that Forest are a powerful team, to be respected and feared rather than a team with lots of weaknesses and instability in their management and background.
I shall go and see them play next month, and will look forward to it, rather than worry about it.
36 points still on offer. Sabri can motivate the lads to get as many as possible barring bad injuries, and the other teams will be just like us, so it's a fight this year at the top end of the table. Let's support the Club to the hilt and see where we get to!

1.) 23 Feb 2020
23 Feb 2020 11:33:47
Well put bsered, can't add to that.

2.) 23 Feb 2020
23 Feb 2020 15:24:10
Great post that.

3.) 23 Feb 2020
23 Feb 2020 20:37:27
100% real talk there bsered. that's the balanced view given perspective. Its just hard when you start to let yourself believe we might be have an exciting finish to the season. Realistically, do we have a better squad than the billy davies teams? Prob not.