Doughty must not waste this window of opportunity

It gives me a really warm glow of satisfaction to do the double over Roy Keane's team! Forest's slender 1-0 win at relegation-threatened Ipswich completed a very satisfactory Christmas programme which yielded seven points out of nine and sets us up very nicely to mount a promotion challenge in the second half of the campaign.

Damien Delaney's own goal just before half time proved to be enough as Ipswich were thwarted by a combination of bad finishing and good goalkeeping by Lee Camp. Forest ended the match with one man extra as Ipswich had Grant Leadbitter sent off for a harsh tackle on Paul Anderson in the dying moments of the match.

The win puts Forest in seventh place with a couple of games in hand on many teams above them. They are now just six points away from second-placed Norwich City, and now that they seem to have sorted out their away form which robbed them of automatic promotion last term, the chances of playing in the Premiership next season look very strong provided this good run of form we are on does not turn out to be just a purple patch.

Hopefully we will be seeing two or three additions to the squad in the January transfer window, particularly as we have now lost the services of Aaron Ramsey who has returned to Arsenal after being recalled, and left back Ryan Bertrand is out injured for a few weeks. Forest's failure to make signings in the summer must surely put the pressure on Nigel Doughty to put the hands in his pockets this month, otherwise Billy Davies will not be a happy man and with plenty of job vacancies opening up following a spate of managerial sackings, Davies might just be tempted to go elsewhere.