My first midweek game in ages against an “ambitious” side with lots of money and love of merry-go-rounds saw 23500 at the City Ground – a decent attendance for a cold Tuesday night, especially as QPR didn’t bring that many.
Mr Davies saw one change from the team against Reading, with James Perchio replacing the suspended Nicky Shorey at left-back. From the sounds of it we are working hard to secure a loan extension for Shorey, so I hope it’s not the last we see of him in a red shirt.
So the line-up was:
Gunter Morgan Wilson Perchio
Cohen McKenna Majewski Anderson
Earnshaw Blackstock
And again our unbeaten run continues, our fantastic form continues and our amazing football continues. The players look so confident they could beat anyone and everyone seems to be enjoying themselves – we barely broke a sweat as we banged them in.
One more goal would have seen us go top, above Newcastle – if I were a Geordie I’d be very nervous right now – when was the last time you complained about only winning five nil?
Lastly, Billy was on Radio 5 – he was stressing the importance of building your infrastructure slowly, of taking your time to go up. But the interviewer said if we carry on like this, we’ll have no choice – we’ll be up this year. To which Billy replied “I still have unfinished business in the Premiership – it holds no fear for me”. Absolutely awesome.
So what are you doing on Saturday?
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From BBC website (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/8471295.stm):
Nottingham Forest boss Billy Davies:
“Promotion, not a chance. At the moment we have achieved nothing – people can talk all they like.
“There are too many sporting moments in history where teams or individuals blew it at the final hurdle. It happens.
“But until it’s over there are a lot of teams outside the top six that believe they can catch us – and they can.”