The club now sits seventeenth in the Championship, having been rock bottom only a few weeks ago, a feat many would have seen as impossible, with much of the success attributed to the new manager whose influence has seemingly spread throughout the club and lifted the fans and players alike.
Striker Lyle Taylor told BBC Radio Nottingham: “The atmosphere around the place is fantastic and as a player, you go about your business, you go to work but if you can go to work and enjoy what you’re doing, get some sort of real buzz about the place and a real sense of achievement and then take that onto the pitch as a squad, not just as 11 players but as a squad, you’re going to do well and that is all led by the man at the helm.”
Preparations now turn to Saturday’s game against Blackpool who currently sit twelfth in the Championship, a win could see Nottingham Forest climb to thirteenth in the table, if other results go their way, a turn in form and league position that will shock many who deemed Forest to be favourites for relegation.
Nottingham Forest’s resurgence under Cooper is just the start, with the manager planning a Norwich-esc revolution at the club, having told the Nottingham Forest fan forum: “As a rule of thumb, teams that have done well in the Championship and got promoted have had homegrown players in there that just run a little bit more with that youthful enthusiasm”.
Steve Cooper’s time at Nottingham Forest is just beginning, and with a club that has faced tough times in recent seasons, fans will be very excited at the prospects that Cooper brings to the club.