THERE are plenty of games still to be played this season but Neil Warnock is not hiding away from Middlesbrough's early season failures with the club off the pace in their hunt for the play-offs. 

While there has only been six league games played, Boro have just the one victory to their name which came against Bristol City in their first home game of the season last month. 

They come up against a Nottingham Forest side later tonight who are already staring down the barrel of a relegation battle with just one point all season. Chrus Hughton's side are in desperate need of a win this evening while Boro and Warnock want to avoid getting into a losing habit following the 2-0 defeat to Coventry City at the weekend. 

The Boro manager honestly said: “No good lying and saying we’re not (behind target) I’m disappointed that we’ve not won at least four of the games really.

“That is life. You don’t get everything you deserve. I don’t think we’ve had much luck either. I still think you need a bit of luck here and there so I don’t think we’ve had much of that.

“You’ve just got to keep going. That’s all you can do.

“You know when you look around the country at the problems we’ve got, we’re very lucky to be in this job and the players are as well. We’ve got to try and give our fans something to cheer about at this moment in time.

“That comes with winning games.

“When I see certain teams who are higher up the table who I know aren’t anywhere near as good as us, it disappoints me even more.

“We’ve got to stand up and be counted and the players have got to stand up and be counted as well.

“Yes you can say they’ve not had minutes and they’ve not had minutes but you’ve got to get them minutes so you’ve got to play them at some stage and get them into the games. If that means we’re not as effective as we have been then so be it. But they’ve got to get games some of these lads so in the next two games I’m hoping we can give one or two more minutes.”