Welcome fellow travellers

It is the year of our Lord two thousand and fourteen.  Pent up paranoia and siege mentality abound at the City Ground, with the medical treatment table resembling something out of a season ender of Grey's Anatomy and the hopes and fears of Forest fans spilling over into anger, recrimination and factions in the twittersphere.

Some people cope by booing the team.  Others by booing the booers.  More still by tweeting hostilities obscenities or gallows humour.  But I have finally decided that 140 characters just isn't going to cut it for someone as long-winded as me, so expect periodic and haphazard musings, charts and all manner of trivia as I make sense of the roller coaster that is the long road back to the top flight for our once-great club.

If the rantings are cathartic, how much more enjoyable is being able to set me straight when you think I've lost the plot.  Go ahead, have a ball!  I appreciate everyone who takes the trouble.  (Well maybe not trolls, haters and derby fans, but almost everyone)