If you read my preview for this, I held out little or no hope for us getting a win so hats off to Steve Cotterill, his staff and the players for getting a deserved win against a team yet to taste defeat at home this season. Against a manager who hadn't experienced defeat at all at home in The Championship [.

Concluding the final part of his assessment of the Nottingham Forest Academy, Grant Nelson asserts the importance of a link between the Academy and the first team and identifies some of the players to watch in the future. Recent years for Nottingham Forest have been turbulent at senior level. First-team managers have come and gone [.

The Reds travel to St Andrews in the West Midlands to try to build upon their first win in six games at the weekend. There aren't many places less likely to yield a win for us (well, in fairness, you could probably select most of the top half of the table and find it rather daunting). However, the thrill of three points and the glad viewing of not being in the relegation zone thanks to Pompey's fiscal foolishness may have ignited a bit more belief in the Forest camp [.

Our friends over at Football Aid have asked us to thank you for your support so far, and to let you know that time is running out to bid for your place [...] Read the original post on eighteensixtyfive

Larry Lloyd's Hard Man: Hard Game is one of the best accounts of Forest's golden years that I have read. I think Lloyd benefits hugely from having a female ghost writer. At the risk of being sexist, it just allows one of the hardest men I have ever met to admit to all sorts of things that I am not sure he would if he'd have played it safe and used a male sports journalist to help him write the book [.

Following last night's dramatic quarter-final exit against Chelsea in the FA Youth Cup, Grant Nelson continues with the second part of a three-part profile of the Nottingham Forest Academy. In terms of scouting, Forest have an interest in almost all major countries in Europe from France, Spain and Germany to the likes of Greece, Cyprus [.

Ahead of tonight's quarter-final against Chelsea in the FA Youth Cup, Grant Nelson kicks off a three-part profile of the Nottingham Forest Academy and its youth programme. Nottingham Forest FC have a long and proud history of producing its own footballing talent. From players like Ian Storey-Moore, Duncan McKenzie, Viv Anderson, Tony Woodcock, John Robertson [.

Following a rousing victory over Coventry City on Saturday, Nottingham Forest are out of the drop zone for the first time in weeks. Peter Blackburn takes a look at the tactics and players behind optimism for survival. There have been calls in recent months and years for a fluid Forest side, playing a 4-2-3-1 formation [.

Coventry hadn't won away all season and, with Forest's form, points were crucial for both teams. James Bolton reports from the City Ground [...] Read the original post on Seat Pitch

Nottingham Forest 2 Coventry City 0 Phew. What a relief that is results elsewhere combined of course with the points deduction handed out to Portsmouth mean that not only have we registered a much-needed home win against a relegation rival, we have also found ourselves three points clear outside the drop zone.

The very definition of a relegation six-pointer with two struggling teams in the bottom three going head to head [...] Read the original post on eighteensixtyfive Find out more about Forest blogs on LTLF

I jokingly referred to this mouth-watering fixture as the 'Clash of the Titans' to a friend earlier in the week. "Clash of the Titans? Clash of the Shite 'uns, more like!" he quickly retorted. Perhaps not quite up to Oscar Wilde levels of wit, but it tickled me regardless [..] Read the original post on Through the seasons before us

I don't understand why I support Nottingham Forest. It's pointless and it hurts. Nevertheless, once we're over this intellectual hurdle it's obvious why I take a calm approach to most aspects of support, however irrational the initial premise. I can't say the same for all my fellow Trees, mind you [.

The charity appeal set up to raise money in memory of Nigel Doughty has reached the £4,000 mark in under two weeks. The tribute, set up by LTLF Forum member Paul Elmore, has been raising money for ChildLine, one of Mr Doughty's favourite charities. With gift aid included the current total raised is £4,822.

I didn't catch much of last night's game. The first half was on as I got ready for work, I left 2 minutes before the break, got there to find we'd conceded 2, some subs had been made and the internet was going apeshit at Steve Cotterill again. I resolved to read up on the match afterwards instead of try to follow the game because however much we might be an improved squad we're not going to pull back 2 goals away from home [.

It's sad to have to say this but Steve Cotterill is clearly not capable, even by deploying his hideous brand of percentages football, of turning this around. I would be delighted, come the end of the season, to have been proven wrong on this assertion, absolutely thrilled. The final straw was getting to hear his post match comments this morning: "If we'd kept a clean sheet we would have won" words defy me [.

You know you are doing something right when petty, inarticulate retribution efforts start coming your way [...] Read the original post on Pissing Red

After two weekends without a game, it was an emotional return to football at the City Ground as Forest shared the spoils with Watford. James Bolton reports. Steve Cotterill gave loanees Scott Wootton, Danny Higginbotham and George Elokobi their debuts while Marlon Harewood and Luke Chambers returned to the starting line-up.

A vastly improved performance from Reds team with a completely revamped back four, and plenty of muscle throughout the team [...] Read the original post on eighteensixtyfive

Gunts will probably want to forget his assorted misses today! Nottingham Forest 1 Watford 1 It was always going to begin an emotional day the first gathering of the Forest family since we lost our biggest benefactor. Many had like me taken time out pre-match to write in one of [...]