CHRIS Cohen is certain Nottingham Forest would already be promoted to the Championship if they’d showed their recent steely character in more games earlier this season.
The Reds enter the season finale at home to Yeovil Town in third place with a chance of gaining automatic promotion back to the second tier if they win and Doncaster fail to pick up three points at Cheltenham.
And their ever increasing confidence from five wind and a draw in the last six games he feels can only give them every chance of getting over the finishing line, even if it does mean doing it the hard way through the play-offs.
He said: “The way we’ve ground out results recently, if we could have done that a few times earlier in the season then we’d have probably had automatic promotion wrapped up along with Swansea.”
“We’ve had a lot of games where we’ve played well and didn’t take the points and even though you come away saying we played well today we deserved three points, there’s no use saying that because we haven’t done it and in the last few weeks we’ve shown a lot more steeliness and character especially away from home.”
“We know we’re capable of scoring at any time we’ve just got to make sure we keep it solid at the back and go up the other end and try and put a couple of chances away.”
“We haven’t got a massive squad a lot of players have played a lot of games so the perfect scenario would be go up and be able to rest up for a long as we can before we go into the league above.”
The 21-yearold also highlighted automatic promotion would be ideal-if only to give the club the best possible chance time wise to compete in the Championship.
He added: “You look at Derby and the way that they’ve struggled and it was maybe a surprise for them to win the play-off final so they probably hadn’t prepared to be in the Premiership and that showed this year with the way that it’s gone for them.
“Even Blackpool in the Championship have struggled and only just got safe and again they only had a month to prepare and get players in.”
The Reds enter the season finale at home to Yeovil Town in third place with a chance of gaining automatic promotion back to the second tier if they win and Doncaster fail to pick up three points at Cheltenham.
And their ever increasing confidence from five wind and a draw in the last six games he feels can only give them every chance of getting over the finishing line, even if it does mean doing it the hard way through the play-offs.
He said: “The way we’ve ground out results recently, if we could have done that a few times earlier in the season then we’d have probably had automatic promotion wrapped up along with Swansea.”
“We’ve had a lot of games where we’ve played well and didn’t take the points and even though you come away saying we played well today we deserved three points, there’s no use saying that because we haven’t done it and in the last few weeks we’ve shown a lot more steeliness and character especially away from home.”
“We know we’re capable of scoring at any time we’ve just got to make sure we keep it solid at the back and go up the other end and try and put a couple of chances away.”
“We haven’t got a massive squad a lot of players have played a lot of games so the perfect scenario would be go up and be able to rest up for a long as we can before we go into the league above.”
The 21-yearold also highlighted automatic promotion would be ideal-if only to give the club the best possible chance time wise to compete in the Championship.
He added: “You look at Derby and the way that they’ve struggled and it was maybe a surprise for them to win the play-off final so they probably hadn’t prepared to be in the Premiership and that showed this year with the way that it’s gone for them.
“Even Blackpool in the Championship have struggled and only just got safe and again they only had a month to prepare and get players in.”
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