Thirteenth-game unlucky as winning home run comes to end

It's a rather strange feeling not winning a home game, having won our last 12, but I guess it was always going to come to an end sometime, and earning a point against an in-form Cardiff City is nothing to sniff at.

It would have been nice to break the record and win 13 in a row, but I'm sure that Billy Davies is more than happy to share it with Cloughie. Let's just hope that Forest won't suddenly crumble at home like they did away when they lost their 19-match unbeaten record.

To be honest, I'm just relieved to get a point out of it, because for a long time it looked like Cardiff were going to make mince meat out of us. They were dominating in the early part of the first half and Forest were playing like an away side. Thankfully we did get more and more into the game, though, and by the latter stages of the match Forest were looking the more likely to score. Our final ball was not good, though, with Rob Earnshaw and Dexter Blackstock looking out of sorts. Both of them had one-on-one chances to score, which when in form, they would probably have buried.

It was good to get yet another clean sheet at home. I can't remember when we last let in a goal at the City Ground. It certainly bodes well for the play-offs if we can take this impressive form into the semi-finals in a month's time. Whoever we play, I don't see us having an easy time of it, though. If we are playing Leicester, I can't see us thrashing them like we did back in December. And if our opponents are Swansea or Cardiff, we already know that we are in for a tough home leg against them. The key will be our result in the away leg. We might be able to get away with a 1-0 defeat, but if we lose two-or three-nil, I would say that's probably game over, because I can't see us overcoming that in the second leg. In the meantime, we have four Championship games left, and we can use them to discover our form in front of goal in readiness for the more important matches in mid-May.