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There’s two ways of looking at Forest, I suppose. You might say that, after a disastrous week, losing two home games, the last thing we need is an away game at Forest, a team with a squad that ought to have them in the automatic slots. However, we do have a better away record than home and this is Forest we are talking about.

Let’s not forget, we are their bogey team. They just seem to find us impossible, so much so, in fact, that we haven’t lost to them in the last ten games between us. From when we memorably beat them in the League Cup (thanks in great part to Andy Watson), despite them having the young Jermaine Jenas in the side, through Jorge Leitao giving a youthful Michael Dawson an absolute roasting, the referee gifting them a point with two ridiculous decisions at their place to get them back to 3 – 3, when the extra two points that season would have kept us up, to Paul Merson having one of his few good all round games for us (and Gary Birch scoring!) in a 4 – 1 home win, right up until Michael Ricketts’s winner at the Banks’s this season, we have just had the Indian sign on them. So much so, in fact, that we now have Forest regulars on the message board (yes, I do mean you, Bitter Tree Hugger!). Let’s hope the trend continues tomorrow, as it needs to if our play off hopes are to survive.

The Saddlers will be without Richard Taundry, of course, following the loss of his appeal against Tuesday’s red card. Edrissa Sonko will be hoping to be back, as will Alesanne N’Dour, as Money may be tempted to play the 4 5 1 that has worked well away from home.

The team is likely to be from:

Ince, Weston, Roper, Gerrard, Boertien, Betsy, Wrack, Sonko, N’Dour, Bradley, Holmes, Mooney, Moore, Demontagnac, Nicholls, Deeney, Dobson, Bossu, Smith.

Forest will definitely have Nathan Tyson starting, according the their manager, as he has almost recovered full fitness following an injury. He’ll be needed, as loan striker Will Hoskins has returned to Watford suffering from a back injury. Former Saddler Julian Bennett has also had an injury, but he’s expected to be fit to play. Amongst the best news, however, is the absence (almost certainly) of the dangerous and influential Kris Commons, also through injury.

Predictions?

Walsall go into this one fifth, Forest in fourth, with three points more and a game in hand. Walsall do, however, still have the third best away record in the Division, following Swansea and Doncaster, and there is the small matter of that record against Forest. I think we might well get ourselves back on track tomorrow, something we badly need to do, as there are now seven clubs below us within four points. It’s tight at the top.