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Preston North End – 3
Nottingham Forest – 2
Well, how on Earth do you sum up that?  Three-nil down at half time after a pathetic, abject and shapeless showing enabled Preston to capitalise with two excellently taken goals and a penalty.  Three nil a half time – and indeed, a performance that warrants it – makes [...]

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Ah, a trip to Deepdale – where the pies apparently are lovely, so I’m looking forward to that at least (if Jon Parkin and Neil Mellor are advocates, they’re clearly hard to resist!).  Billy takes his new charges to his old club and will be keen to get Forest’s away results back on the rails.  [...]

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Firstly the good news: skipper Paul “Kenna” McKenna’s injury does not require surgery and so there is a glimmer of hope that he may return before the season ends (which would be especially useful if we end up in the dreaded play-offs).

In the meantime, the sponsorship deal with Victor Chandler has been extended by two [...]

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Although he didn’t get the Championship player of the month award, Chris Cohen can at least content himself with a slot in the Championship Team of the Week (opens as a PDF).
New boy George Boyd (reminds me of “what are the scores, George Daws?”) had a very decent first half and a reasonable second period [...]

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A six-pointer against the team in fourth place. Lose and their game in hand puts them in pole position. Win and we gain some breathing space.
However, Billy was forced into some changes today;

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Gunter Morgan Chambers Cohen
Anderson McKenna Moussi Boyd
Majewski
Blackstock

Wilson and Earnshaw had both injured themselves in training yesterday, meaning [...]

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Of all the people.

You could almost see the knowing smirk filling Chambers’ chops as the cross sailed by the goalkeeper and landed on his forehead.

A long afternoon of clubbing balls into the stand and wrong-footing himself were forgotten in a second. Football at its best.[...]

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Nottingham Forest – 1
Swansea City – 0
Phew! Got a bit lucky there didn’t we? An evenly matched pair of sides met today in a game where chances were at a premium.  The Reds probably did edge it on chances created, although what looked like a foul on Pratley in the box perhaps should’ve given the [...]

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Third vs Fourth, and Swansea will have revenge on their minds as we pinched three points from them at the Liberty Stadium somewhat against the balance of play earlier in the season back in December.  Of course, there’s also the not-inconsiderable matter of new-boy George Boyd likely to be making his debut for the mighty [...]

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In what’s thought to be a slight case of fat-fingers by somebody sending him a text message, Terry took some time out of his increasingly busy schedule to take in the latest news that Forest had made a new signing.  Imagine his shock when he thought his kit repertoire was about to include feather boas, [...]

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I’ve tried not to be too impatient on the lack of movement in the transfer market – whilst Billy bangs the drum after each match I’m content to let him keep doing so.  Whilst of course, like any good football fan, I always want us to be strengthening, signing players and generally being awesome, I’m [...]

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To the eternal optimist our blood-and-balls slog against Sheffield United and Middlesbrough was the mark of a side grinding through adversity – as the triumphant invariably do.

To the discerning eye it was the paltry offerings of a spent force.

The reality is probably somewhere in between, and in any case we are far from crisis. But increasingly our fate seems mapped.[...]

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Leicester City – 3
Nottingham Forest – 0
There’s no getting away from it, a 3-0 reverse is an indictment that things didn’t go well, however, I don’t think it’s unfair to suggest it’s slightly flattering to the hosts today – who turned up their performance after a lacklustre first half to bag three second half goals [...]

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Makeshift left-back James Perchio has surprisingly been selected for the Football League Team of the Week. Billy Davies seems happy enough with his contribution but clearly doesn’t want him to play there.

Meanwhile, Chris Cohen has been rewarded for his tireless hard work (and no small amount of skill recently) by being nominated for the PFA [...]

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A trip to the Walkers Stadium presents a big test for Forest’s ailing away form – but, of course, also presents the perfect opportunity for us to get back on track with a morale-boosting win against a resurgent Leicester side.  The Foxes are unbeaten in seven games having had a bit of a wobble in [...]

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Worrying times for Nigel Doughty, as his lead agent Nigel ‘non-League’ Clough appears to be getting a little too into his role as the would-be manager of Derby County. His mission is to replace Derby’s squad with over-rated lower league and non-league playing staff whilst delivering a disappointing league finish.
There had been concerns that the [...]

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Nottingham Forest – 1
Middlesbrough – 0
Nine straight wins in the league at the City Ground, and huge congratulations to Billy and the boys for delivering it – a new club record.  Towards the end of our unbeaten run the fixation was on our going so long without defeat on our travels, in the meantime we [...]

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6 points from two tricky games, and a record of nine consecutive home victories. Crisis?
The now traditional home 4-4-2 saw us line up as follows:

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Gunter, Morgan, Wilson, Perchio
Cohen, McKenna, Majewski, Anderson
Blackstock, Earnshaw

Scrappy, physical, untidy. These are all just words. As are three points and clean sheet.

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It has gladdened my heart today to read Billy Davies’ comments in the Evening Post regarding the City Ground, and how Forest don’t do themselves any favours in terms of away ticket allocation and placement.  I suspect my bugbear on this subject may predate my guise as the blogger to the extent that I’d long [...]

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