Forest 0:0 Swansea

The atmosphere's always better at night games, but this one was a little bit subdued. Swansea City were the visitors, and there was a definite air of concern over the outcome. While we sometimes struggle to beat teams we shouldn't even have to worry about, here were a side quite justifiably top by a distance, and we could have been facing up to a right royal hammering.

As it turned out, it was a good game, the first half the best 45 minutes of football I've seen at Forest in years, nice passing, attacking football, swift breaks from both sides, plenty of chances, football as it should be.

The second half petered out a little as Swansea began to settle for a point more useful to them than us.

But, and this is still a huge BUT, had Forest played 4-4-2, with the best players in the correct positions, we would have won this and won it comfortably. There is no doubt in my mind that man for man, we had the best 11 on the pitch, but, football is a team game, and Roberto 'why has he got a woman's coat on' Martinez has got his 11 players playing better as a team, ball on the floor, wingers on the wings, not giving the ball away. Simple stuff. Simple, but ridiculously effective.

Grant Holt is NOT a winger while Arron Davies is sat on the bench like a plum.

If Neil Lennon can go, why is he even there at all ? When he came on in the second half it was clearly because Calderwood had decided we weren't passing it backwards enough.

If Leeds don't bottle it post-Wise, they should join Swansea in the top two, leaving us the lottery and ultimately inevitable heartbreak of the play-offs.

And it shouldn't have to be like that.