Bristol City v Nottingham Forest

My last visit of the season to Ashton Gate today and so I will have seen both Nottingham Clubs in the space of a few days.

Unlike County though, Forest are on the up.

Nicky Maynard’s horrendous season has come to an end. The striker was sent off in the 42nd minute of Saturday`s 3-2 defeat to Sheffield United and, thus, will be suspended for the rest of the season of which he missed the majority with a knee injury.

City hope that club captain Louis Carey may play some part in today’ game. It will be his first outing since he fractured his skull against Scunthorpe at the end of February.

Billy Davies has a good squad of players and they are in pole position to nick one of the play-off places.

American Robbie Findley finally took part in a game on Friday when Forest beat Leicester. The pacy striker came off the bench in his first appearance since he moved to the club in January … and then tore a thigh muscle in his first training session!

City boss Keith Millen was furious after Saturday’s defeat to strugglers Sheffield United and claimed he would have subbed all eleven players at half time if he could have done. Keith’s a nice guy, but has an edge to him that all good managers need and I suspect that the smarter players in the squad will realise that they need to put in much more of an effort if they wish to be City players in August.

Mr. Roger East from Wiltshire is the man in the middle and has shown an incredible 112 yellow cards and four reds this season so far – you’d better be on your best behaviour boys!