Moody McKenna reminds me a bit of Psycho

I feel safe as houses watching Forest at the moment. Every time they play now, I'm confident they are not going to lose. I'm actually beginning to think that we might just be a bit too good for the Championship now, and perhaps it is time we tested our mettle in the top flight again!

We were head and shoulders above Preston last night. We made them look like a team several divisions below we were that good. We kept the ball really well and we were allowed so much space. They just had no clue whatsoever how to handle us. It was written in the stars that Paul McKenna would score against his old team, and what a goal it was. I had a weird premonition just before we scored, as well. I suddenly got this gut feeling that we were definitely going to score right then, and as McKenna struck the ball speculatively, I knew instantly that it was going in. Sportingly, he didn't celebrate out of respect for his old team mates, but you could see a faint smile appear on his face. But I don't think I've seen him smile once since he's been here. He reminds me a little bit of Stuart Pearce, who always had a mean and moody face on him when he was out on the pitch. But maybe his sulky demeanour is what makes him such a good captain. He goes about his business in midfield quietly and doesn't grab headlines, but the difference he has made to the side has not gone unnoticed, believe me.

Even at 1-0 up we looked like we were coasting it, so when Dele Adebola made it 2-0 with a tap-in 25 minutes into the game, it felt like the three points were already in the bag as we were completely dominating. The only real surprise was that we didn't score any more until Lewis McGugan once again lived up to his 'super-sub' tag when he dribbled the ball into the net with eight minutes remaining.

As a result of several postponements owing to the weather, including West Brom and Cardiff's games, Forest have gone joint second on 39 points! If we had managed to turn a few of the nine draws we've had into wins, we would be breathing right down Newcastle's necks. But to be so close to the automatic promotion places at Christmas is absolutely fantastic and a terrific reward for the amazing work that Billy Davies and his staff have put in to transform us in such a short space of time.