Blues boss Paul Jewell was again left ruing his side’s tendency to give away goals when they come under pressure at vital times as Town conceded two in the final six minutes as they lost 3-2 at Nottingham Forest.
Jewell said: "It’s a bit of a sickener. I thought it was a good game. I thought there was plenty of effort and endeavour.
"I think that at vital times in games, and I’ve said it before, when we come under pressure we concede goals.”
The Town manager says his players were again guilty of making unforced mistakes: "Individual errors - the first goal is definitely the keeper’s fault and that’s right on half-time, a vital time in the game. The second one is someone not marking the man they were told to, although it was a good ball in.
"But Steve Cotterill will be saying the same thing about our goals - four set plays. In the end you need that little bit of luck, a deflection off Grant’s head has fallen right for their player. So, once again it’s a big disappointment for us.”
Jewell felt his side deserved more from the match: "It’s always frustrating but I think we came here and played quite well for periods of time. It was a game between two evenly matched sides, I thought. They were at home and the onus is on them.
"Again we’ve got ourselves in two winning positions and at vital times in the game we’ve given silly goals away.
"I thought we matched them all over the pitch at times and it’s still not an easy place to come, Nottingham Forest.”
He admits that the Blues’ form won’t improve until they stop giving away poor goals: "It doesn’t matter which way you dress it up, we concede goals and that’s not just the goalkeeper and the back four, that’s a whole team thing.
"I think we had the first corner of the game after about an hour, so it wasn’t a game of loads of chances, our keeper hasn’t had anything to do really. It was a game of two honest teams trying to win the game but not one with a plethora of chances.”
Jewell says midfielder Keith Andrews will be back for the Blues’ home game against Reading having undergone surgery on his broken nose: "He had an operation on Thursday morning and hopefully he’ll be back next week.”
Forest boss Steve Cotterill thought his side deserved the win: "What a fantastic advert for the Championship. Everybody was entertained today, that’s for sure.
"I think it was a game we deserved to win, it doesn’t matter about the two late goals.
"I think that showed their team spirit, their togetherness, their belief, I thought they worked extremely hard today and I felt it was a game they deserved to win.”