We'll be lucky to reach the play-offs at this rate

I had a feeling that we might lose against Doncaster, so in that respect I suppose I should be happy that we got a point. But really, it was a must-win game for us ahead of two very awkward away trips to Swansea and Leeds, and it's difficult to see where we go from here now.

I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the football we were playing in the first half, as I really expected us to be quite poor, but once again our final ball was really letting us down with Rob Earnshaw and Marcus Tudgay looking out of sorts. Earnshaw limped out of the action at half time and was replaced by Nathan Tyson, but this failed to have an impact on Forest's ability to find the net.

Doncaster were not really in it in the first half, but after the break they gave Forest a few scares, but fortunately like Forest, their finishing was poor. Even though there was plenty of goalmouth action, the 0-0 scoreline basically summed up the match rather nicely.

I don't know whether it's a problem with the side's confidence and team spirit, or our missing key players, but Forest can't seem to be able to beat anyone at the moment. After all if they couldn't beat Preston on their own ground, then why should they win against anybody? Now we have only won one match in nine games, which as Radio Nottingham pointed out yesterday, is as bad as it has got under Billy Davies.

Even though Swansea themselves have suffered a bad run of form lately, I am very apprehensive about Forest playing them next week. Then a fortnight later after the international break, we visit Leeds, who are now above us in the table. We'll be lucky to get one point from either of those games, and yet if we really want automatic promotion, we need to win at least one of them.

We really missed a good chance to establish a bit of a gap between ourselves and 7th place yesterday as Burnley suffered a shock 3-0 home defeat against Millwall. But it's not just Burnley we have to worry about now, as Leicester and Hull are also closing in on us. Even though I don't think we will win the play-offs, I think it would be better for our morale to reach them and then lose them than miss out altogether. To have been knocking on the door for automatic promotion all season and then not even make the top six at the end would be a lot more psychologically damaging.