After an in-different start to the season, manager Aitor Karanka is struggling to find his best eleven from one of the largest squads in the Championship, following a summer that saw numerous new faces arrive at the City Ground.

Karanka will need to find a settled squad sooner rather than later, and start picking up the wins he needs or fear becoming detached from the early season league leaders.

But are the constant changes to line-up a sign that Karanka is panicking?

We discuss.....

Alfie Burns

He’s juggling a massive squad and it is no surprise he hasn’t found his best starting XI.

You get the feeling that Karanka is just waiting to stumble across that XI.

I’ve not been impressed by Karanka at all this season.

Jay Taylor

It certainly seems that way.

Aitor Karanka could name a different XI from now until the end of the season and he still wouldn’t know his strongest side.

The constant chopping and changing of personnel brings no continuity or understating between the new players where that is vital.

And that indecision from the manager will filter to the side and then there will be chaos abound between the coaching staff and the players and it could all end in one big mess.

George Dagless

I'm not sure.

I don't think it is panic - it's more uncertainty than anything else. He needs to try and find his best side and with all his players that is going to take time.

Gary Hutchinson

It shows he is clueless. He wants instant success and think he’ll find it by shuffling his pack. It doesn’t happen like that.

The side needs time to settle, the same XI needs to start four or five games and learn each other’s patterns of play.

They’ve got a top six squad, but at the moment the manager isn’t showing he’s a manager who can earn promotion.

It’s desperately sad for Forest fans that they’ve got such talented players and a man at the helm completely at a loss to get the best out of them.