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DEXTER BLACKSTOCK: WE WON'T LET YOU DOWN, BILLY

ABOVE: Forest striker Dexter Blackstock has promised boss Billy Davies: We won’t let you down

8th February 2010

By Ian Bayley

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NOTTINGHAM FOREST 2 SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY 1

Forest striker Dexter Blackstock has promised boss Billy Davies: We won’t let you down.

Blackstock insists Forest can keep the pressure on Newcastle and West Brom at the top of the Championship, despite Davies’ disappointment at failing to bring in new players.

The Scot expressed his frustration at the lack of activity during the window after Newcastle made six signings and Albion brought in two new faces.

Davies missed out on his top two targets – Crystal Palace striker Victor Moses and Swansea’s Darren Pratley – and is rumoured to be unhappy with the club’s transfer panel, which is headed by consultant David Pleat.

Blackstock, though, says the lack of signings won’t affect the players.

The striker said: “If the manager didn’t get in the people he wanted, that’s nothing to do with us.

“We are not here to get involved in transfer talk. We are here to play football.

“It shows the ambition of our manager – the fact that we have lost one in 20 in the league and he still wants to add to the squad. But it hasn’t happened and as we see it it’s no problem. We will go with what we’ve got.

“The squad we’ve got now has got us to third place in the league.

“If we have to continue with what we already have, that’s not so bad a thing.”

Blackstock took his season’s tally to 11 goals with a first-half penalty and a late winner after Luke Varney had equalised for Wednesday.

Owls boss Alan Irvine lost only his second game in six since taking over from Brian Laws and pipped Forest chief Davies to the Manager of the Month award for January.

Wednesday remain two points above the relegation zone, but Irvine said: “If we can get nominated for the Manager of the Month four months running – like Billy (Davies) did – we will be in a good position come the end of the season.”

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