Wycombe Wanderers 1 Nottingham Forest 4

Okay, so I may have go a little carried away when I described Forest’s display last night a master class in this morning's paper, but they were extremely good for large chunks of the game.

And I make no apologies for calling Wycombe plucky. The Chairboys could have been forgiven for letting their heads drop after shipping two goals in the first six minutes and the fact that they kept plugging away probably gave boss Gary Waddock a little hope for the rest of the season.

Wycombe’s min aim has to be survival in League One this season, but to do that they are going to need a squad of battlers not bottlers and, on last night’s performance, that’s what they’ve got.

Back to Forest though.

Steve McClaren told me after the game that he is down to eighteen fit players (although he hopes to have four more back before the weekend game against West Ham) and, if he can keep this eighteen healthy, who knows what they could do?

The biggest surprise of the evening was that Lewis McGugan only scored from the spot as he peppered Nikki Bull’s goal from all angles. More often than not Bull was the man to keep him out – whether it be finger tip saves or blocks with his chest!

Veteran Jonathan Greening and Poland international Radoslaw Majewski ran the midfield alongside McGugan and were pinging the ball about for fun. Majewski in particular caught my eye in the first half and set the tone for the way Forest played by making himself available for every pass everywhere on the park.

Miller looks a beast of a man (in the nicest possible way) and there won’t be too many central defenders who fancy taking him on this season.

All in all, this was a good evening’s entertainment which showed the gulf in class. As Waddock pointed out afterwards: “We’ve just come up from League Two and they have been finishing in or about the Championship play-off places for the last few seasons. They came to do a job and did it.” They certainly did Gary, but you can be just as proud of the spirit and guts your boys showed.