I was speaking on a Nottingham Forest podcast on Friday evening and when asked for my prediction I said that we would need seven or eight of our players to play at the top of their game to get a positive result.
I feared if we dipped below that, then we could be on for a hammering. As it proved, too many were out of sorts, off their game and had it not been for Dan Bentley, we would easily have been on the end of a heavy defeat. Probably only Bentley, Alex Scott and Robbie Cundy come away from the City Ground with any real credit.
The defeat at home to Coventry City in midweek was hard to take as we had actually played well in the second-half and certainly deserved something from the game. No one likes to lose but when you put in a decent shift and the football is good on the eye, it makes the pill a little easier to swallow.
