I’ve been away for a few weeks so have missed some of the preseason games (thankfully i missed ‘Sir Lee Hughes day‘)but i was back in time to see the games against Premiership Stoke and Birmingham, Forest looked very good in both games and hopefully they will be able to continue playing good attacking football when the season starts away at Reading on the 8th August.

Reading preview will be online early next week.

LTLF Forestforum have just put a competition online to win £50 worth of bets at Paddypower, the only condition is that you must have signed up to Paddypower using the links provided on the LTLF sites.

To be in with a chance of winning all you need to do is correctly predict the score of Nottingham Forests 1st game of the season away at Reading on 8th August. Click here for full details

After saturdays win over Sporting Lisbon, i’ve decided to take another look at the season odds for Nottingham Forest. I predicted that we would see some lowering of the odds and so far only Paddypower have (maybe they are still coming to terms with having to pay out at 5/1 for the friendly win!).

Paddypower are still the only company to offer odds on Forest making it into the playoffs.

Nottingham Forest won 1-0 in tonights preseason friendly against Sporting Lisbon, hopefully plenty of you took up PaddyPowers offer of 5/1 on the win and are now a little bet better off than you were before kickoff.

After this result we fully expect the odds we posted yesterday for champions/promotion/playoffs will reduce within the next 24 hours, get your bets on now before the bookies get chance to update the sites!

Nottingham Forest take on Portugese team Sporting Lisbon on Saturday Night (9:15pm kick off). Many Forest fans have travelled over for the game, if you are 1 of the unlucky ones stuck at home in Nottingham or the other side of the world you will be able to follow the match on the Nottingham Forest website (subscription required).

Forest captain James Perch has not made the trip due to an injury he picked up earlier this week in training. Adebola, McGoldrick, Anderson and Camp should all get to make an appearance.

The game should also see the new Victor Chandler branded forest kit in action for the 1st time.

	Sporting Lisbon	Draw	Nottingham Forest
Coral	8/15	12/5	9/2
Paddy Power	4/9	14/5	5/1
Victor Chandler	1/2	11/4	9/2
Sportingbet	9/20	3/1	19/4

Odds quoted above are correct at time of publishing and are subject to change.

Fancy putting a season long bet on Nottingham Forest?

Here are the latest odds on offer from the various betting sites..

	Champions	Promotion	Playoffs	Relegation
Coral	18/1	11/2		16/1
Sportingbet	33/1
Sky Bet	25/1	10/1
Ladbrokes	28/1	9/1
Paddypower	28/1	15/2	7/2
William Hill	25/1	9/1		5/1
Victor Chandler	40/1	10/1		8/1
Betfair	30/1	11/2		6/1

Odds stated were correct at time of publication, please check the relevant sites to view the current odds.

Following on from the Paddypower specials, Victor Chandler have also created some special Forest markets.

The Specials currently on offer from Victor Chandler

Win Championship – 40/1

Finish Season in front of Derby County – 11/10

Win promotion to the Premiership - 10/1

Win the FA Cup – 250/1

Reach Semi Final of FA Cup – 40/1

Win the Carling Cup – 200/1

Reach Semi-Final of Carling Cup – 33/1

Relegated to League 1 – 8/1

Lead the Championship after 23 games – 25/1

To be top of the league on Christmas Day – 25/1

Billy Davies to be manager of the August manager of the month – 16/1

Victor Chandler also offer bets on Top Midlands club, red Cards, Goals Scored/Conceded and Total Points

Betting on Nottingham Forest this season could see for some interesting bets after 2 announcements from different bookmakers getting involved with the club.

Victor Chandler have done a deal with Nottingham Forest to become shirt sponsors and Paddypower have joined up with Nottingham Forest online supporters group LTLF / ForestForum. We could well see these 2 companies increasing the odds as the battle it out for the supporters bets.

Here are the current specials available from Paddypower

Nottingham Forest to finish in the top 6 – 7/2

Top Forest league goalscorer – Earnshaw 13/8, McGoldrick 10/3, Adebola 7/2, Tyson 15/2, Garner 8/1 + others

1st League goalscorer of the season – Earnshaw 3/1, McGoldrick 4/1, Adebola 4/1, Tyson 6/1, Garner 7/1, McGugan 11/1, Cohen 12/1 + others

Total penalties awarded to Forest (league matches only) Over 4.5 evens, under 4.5  8/11

Total Red Cards – over 3.5 5/6, under 3.5 5/6

Remain unbeaten against Derby and Leicester – Yes 9/2, no 1/8

Total championship goals scored in August – over 6.5 11/10, under 6.5 4/6

First Forest player to be sent off – Perch 10/1, Morgan 10/1, Cohen 10/1, Tyson 12/1, No player sent off all season 16/1

Total Season Points – Over 50 1/5, over 60 evens, over 70 10/3

* Odds stated above were correct at time of publication please check Paddy Power for latest odds.