Crowe's a no-go

The fixture list came out today. Our first game is against Bournemouth at home. I'm quite happy with that as I always want to go to the first game, and I wouldn't have been very happy if it was at some ground hundreds of miles away.

It's imperative that we win that first game, because the fixtures in August don't get any easier after that. Leeds United come to the City Ground two weeks later, and that is sandwiched in between two tricky looking away trips to Swansea City and newly promoted Bristol Rovers.

Still, it's probably best to get the tough games out of the way first, and I am not going to take any notice if we make a flying start again this year, as look what happened last time. We didn't get promoted, did we? Perhaps it will be best to be a slow-burner like Bristol City were.

Guess who we have on the last day? Yep, Yeovil. I'd like to think that we will have been promoted by then, and will pick up the League One title – and on that same day condemn Yeovil to relegation. That would really make up for what happened this season, but things like that don't seem to happen to Forest. Their fairy tales always have a bad ending.

I thought I was going to be writing about signing Jason Crowe, but would you believe it, he's signed a new contract with Northampton! He was supposed to be a dead cert, at least according to the Nottingham Evening Post, but he would rather play in front of 5,000 people than 18,000. Are Forest really that unattractive these days that they can't even tempt players away from the likes of Northampton? Oh well, it's his loss.

It looks like it's back to the drawing board then in the search for a new right back. Some of the fans reckon Brendan Moloney is good enough, but even if he is, we still need at least two players who can play there in the squad. Calderwood better make that a priority before anything else.