Now's your chance, Forest, to make amends for last season

We all laughed at Colin Calderwood when he wouldn't shut up about automatic promotion even when we were eleven points away from second place. But in recent weeks Forest have gone on a very good run of form, and have capitalised on Carlisle's imploding by clawing back the deficit to just ONE point thanks to Lewis McGugan's 84th minute strike at Hartlepool. Now all we have to do is beat Yeovil on Saturday and hope that Doncaster fail to win at relegation-fighting Cheltenham, and then we are up!

Of course, there is the not very small matter of Leeds possibly winning their appeal to get their 15 points reinstated, which would hand them automatic promotion, and that would render Forest's, Doncaster's and Carlisle's bid to go up futile. But faced with the threat of being sued by whoever misses out on second place as a result, will the Football Association really give in? Let's pray that they don't, as everybody is so excited about Saturday, and if Leeds do win on Thursday, it will be very depressing and will leave a bitter taste in everybody's mouths.

The only good thing to come out of it would be that if Forest's destiny is indeed the play-offs, they would avoid having to play Leeds, who are the only team I fear would be too much for us. I dread us going to Elland Road in front of over 30,000 people for such a crucial game. We nearly got a victory there earlier this year, but Leeds were then going through a bit of a bad spell, and now they're in very good form again. They also won at the City Ground back in August, albeit in the last minute and undeservedly, so Forest won't be confident of beating them. As things stand if we finish third and Leeds in sixth place we will play them, which is quite ironic really as it's supposed to work out that the third placed team get to play the weakest team.

Assuming that Leeds lose their appeal, Saturday's home game with Yeovil will be a huge occasion. Every Forest fan worth their salt will be there, so the City Ground will be a sell-out with close to 30,000 people and the atmosphere should be awesome as the crowd roars the Reds on to victory while simultaneously listening nervously on the radio for news from elsewhere. From a neutral point of view, you really couldn't ask for a better way to end the season, but for those of a Forest persuasion, it's going to be extremely tense and nerve wracking to say the least. Not only are we desperate for a Forest victory, but we are all Cheltenham fans for the day as well. I'm not sure my nerves can take it!

I have to keep reminding myself that we are lucky to be in this position in the first place, having been so far away a few weeks ago, but now that we are here I'm getting greedy and, yes, I will be hugely disappointed if we don't win promotion on Saturday. I have this really sneaky feeling we're going to do it. Cheltenham are scrapping for their lives and I think are more than capable of picking up at least a point, particularly as their home form is pretty good and Doncaster have not won since March on their travels. And as long as we win our game, it doesn't matter what Carlisle do at home to Bournemouth. Of the three teams involved, dare I say it, but Forest may even be favourites! And what a fitting way to win promotion it would be to go up automatically against the very team who ended our play-off dream almost a year ago. And with Arron Davies scoring the winning goal.