Nottingham Forest - Middlesbrough

[Jean_claude_killy]

I find some of the reactions surprising and lacking perspective.

Players have bad games and managers make mistakes; that happens at every club, not just ours.

We look a far better team away than we do at home, and it has been that way all season.

We have a limited squad, which is paper thin in some areas, who have performed way above most peoples expectations this season.

The manager has been here just over 5 months, Modesti around a year and Anigo considerably less; on top of that we have a good few new players and others playing in new positions.

When you take all of that into account, being in the top 6 at this stage of the season is a remarkable achievement.

We have money to spend next month and it looks like we will be spending it; if next months acquisitions are as good, or better than those in the Summer, we are set for a good end to the season.

The two teams pulling away at the top have at lease 12 months start on us in terms of building a team, so it should come as no surprise they are doing well.

That should not detract from the fact that we are doing very well.