Cheltenham Town – 0
Nottingham Forest – 3
Kris Commons continued his sparkling run of form today with three goals, one from the right foot, one the left and one a header – so a perfect hat-trick which we’ve not seen since Tyson netted three against Crewe last season. As with our other game this season featuring a player with three goals, whilst their performance of course must be praised, it was work elsewhere on the pitch that also caught the eye.
Forest started strongly, with Cohen whipping in a dangerous ball as early as six minutes, which yielded a corner for the Reds. This too was put in by Cohen, which after a few flick-ons was eventually cleared off the line by a Cheltenham defender. The goal would soon follow though, Cohen found Bennett on the left, who crossed for an unmarked Commons to glance a header into the net from the edge of the six yard box.
The goal sparked the home side into life, with Craig Reid forced a save from Smith – who was only able to parry the ball as far as Sinclair who netted it. Fortunately for us the assitant referee had his flag up to rule out the effort for offside. Whilst Forest looked good going forward, defensively we were looking far from comfortable.
Former Reds loanee Alan Wright forced a save out of Smith from a freekick – Chambers eventually clearing the ball. Commons had another chance to score with his head, but this time was just unable to find the target, with his effort going just over. Shortly after this Clingan put a cross in which Grant was very close to converting – but headed inches wide.
We were to get a second before the half time whistle though, Cohen played Commons through down the right had side – Commons passed Duff before turning to get the ball onto his left foot and burying the ball into the waiting goal, giving Forest a cushion going into the half time break, and into second place in the league (as other results stood at that time).
The second half started with both sides creating chances. Myrie-Williams had the first chance for the home side, but was unable to convert, shortly after this a combination of Commons and Cohen released Junior Agogo into a one-on-one situation, but after rounding the keeper he found himself in a wide position and couldn’t find the target.
A Commons cross caused bedlam in the Cheltenham penalty area, both Clingan and Agogo had numerous opportunities to force the ball over the line but were thwarted by the keeper and defensive blocks – Cohen in particular was really standing out with not only his quality but his incredible workrate, and a dangerous cross from him towards Commons forced Duff to head over his own keeper and goal for a corner.
Whilst Forest were looking tremendous going forward, when Cheltenham replied with attacks of their own they made us look very uncomfortable at the back, however, there wasn’t long to worry about putting the game to bed. The Cheltenham keeper came out to make a clearance which struck Grant Holt before ricocheting to Commons who was able to stroke the ball into the empty net from around 35 yards to complete his hat-trick.
Wes Morgan looked to have done himself a mischief when mopping up a mistake by Julian Bennett – Wes was treated but had to withdraw from the action, with captain Ian Breckin making his first appearance as a substitute to replace him. Cheltenham still probed forward and a long range effort from their rightback forced a save from Smith in the Forest goal.
Commons was withdrawn at this point to applause from both sets of supporters, and was replaced by Nathan Tyson with around ten minutes left on the clock. Shortly before full time Tyson broke at pace and crossed agonisingly close to Agogo, but it wasn’t quite close enough so 3-0 was the final score infront of a little over 5,000 supporters – with 1,400 of them travelling from Nottingham.
As the game finished it put us to second in the league, although as I type, Orient are beating Leeds at Elland Road, this would put them (Orient) back on top of the league, and us down to third – still with that game in hand against Oldham later this month. So massive credit is owed to the players and management team for such a tremendous run of form. Long may it continue!
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Erm, no thanks. Cheerio.
WE ARE TOP OF THE LEAGUE, PISS OFF AND GROW UP.
Come on you red ens, starting to look the part now, about time, we have been waiting for us to start hammering teams week in and week out and oh boy doesn’t it feel good.
Keep it up you trickies, and lets get out of this league.
Message for Calderwood, well done and keep it up. I was one of your critics but fair play to you, you have turned things around big time.
Calderwood out! CALDERWOOD OUT! CALDERWOOD OUT!
Oooooh, looks like I just woke up from my Paul Bunyan type sleep. Whats going on here?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Where r u all calling for the manager’s head? Where have you hidden?
Go Colin! Go Kris (and Chris)! Go Junior, Paul, Neil, Wes, Luke and all the mighty Reds!
UUUUUUUUUU REEEEEEEEEEEEEEDS
(I hope it was loud enough to be heard in the UK!)
Oh, and by the way “WE ARE TOP” etc…..
Time for a cold shower dont u reckon?
You can go to the woods and beat yourself against the trees as fas as I’m concerned.
Idiocy out of football FOREVER!
Maybe we just don’t like physical contact with almost-Scousers.
We’ll do our talking on the pitch.
Not for long
Calm down, la. We’re not really interested in woolly backs round here…
whats the betting this plastic scouser is 14 years old ? anyone can be rock hard with a keyboard.
Anyway, well done forest today, i will be honest and sayi did knock cc. i still think i was right to. with the players and support at forest you really should be able to get results. no other team including leeds have a player in the same class as commons. we have a lot of good players now who are all fit. to have perch and mcgugan on the bench gives you an idea of how strong we are. both of them would walk into to any other team in our league. so fingers crossed we should be ok this year. if we do go up it will be interesting to see how cc does then. sorry but I would still take nigel clough any day of the week !!!!. at least I am consistant.
You’re funny…
… if you really want a fight, pop into the Meadows after arriving in Nottingham, stand in the middle of the estate and shout something derogatory (sorry, big word, that means unkind or insulting) about Nottingham.
today commons scores a hatrick. Left foot, right foot and a header.
plastic scouser rates him as SHIT !!!
you may be a daft twat, but you make me laugh.
I hope top of the league is deleted from our site .We want real football supporters to contribute here,not mindless morons.Keep the run going Forest.Well done!!!!
Is that silly plastic scouser back under a different name? Oh well. Maybe his mum will take his computer off him once she realises what a fool he’s making of himself.
Last season vassillis CC said all the wrong things, played the wrong style of football and made serious tactical errors. His mistakes cost us another season playing the likes of Cheltenham and Tranmere. I feel I was justified in my criticism of both him and Mark Arthur (who incidentally should still be sacked).
However this year CC has brought in his own people. Backroom staff and players. And so far it’s working. We are finally starting to get our moneys worth. Bright, attacking football, for the most part played as Forest fans expect; on the deck into feet.
So well done CC. I never booed you or the players, but I certainly didnt want you here this season. So it’s credit to you that you’ve turned the tide.
Keep it up and I may even warm to you!
A football question for Mr WE ARE TOP OF THE LEAGUE.
How’s that Gareth Taylor getting on? Such skill. great mobility around the box!
Gets a regular game for your lot does he? Typical of the skill level?
What about Chris Greenacre. Wouldn’t have minded having him on our books.
One more thing, please calm down,you only drew at Walsall!
Hey plastic,
If we wanted him we could get him. Let’s face it he would walk to forest to sign for us ! But don’t worry we don’t need him anyway.
Hey plastic
No swear words ?
Mum in your bedroom ??
The league is coming together now and I expect the same top six at the end of the season with possibly leeds scraping in to the top 6.Forest to finish in the top two…..
I think you can keep that particular pleasure for yourself, have you had a look at this page?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_2/top_scorers/default.stm
I couldn’t see ANY Almost-Scouser players on there…
Mr “We are top of the league” – you aren’t any more. See you on the third, if your mum lets you out, and you’ve stolen enough motors to put bread on the table.
Can we not block this idiot’s emails ???
Why do you keep saying that you have got shit houses? Can’t they build them properly up in almoust-scouse land? I’d complain, if I were you. But then, if I really were you, I’d probably kill myself because of the empty meaningless of my miserable, scouse-infested life, and inability to write sentences in my mother tongue.
You just don’t get it, do you?
We are not interested in anything you have to say. You are a slow-witted, ill-educated, embarrassing child. Please go away, you are boring.
I’m not sure if I have the ability to block a particular commenter – but I shall investigate… not sure I can be arsed to waste my time deleting ‘em all, perhaps a policy of not responding might be in order?
It’s hardly a battle of wits afterall, is it?
NB: I’ve deleted a lot of comments from an inbred Tranmere fan, incase you’re wondering why the comments above don’t make sense!
In English that would be: “Are you defecating before removing your underpants? Why not meet up?”. I expect you really are a 14 year old. You have no friends, and your family find you ugly and boring. You claim a sizeable manhood, but the only “whopper” is the lie you tell when you say it. Strange, isn’t it, that you don’t have a girlfriend. Why do you think that is? No one listens to you, so you feel forced to write meaningless drivel on a rival club’s site. It would be funny, if it weren’t so pathetic. You won’t be in Nottingham on the 3rd of November, because you don’t go to away games, as your mum wants you home before eight, so she can tuck you up in bed with a night-night story and a litre of meths. Therefore I can’t meet you. I wouldn’t want to in any case – you’re simply not my type. I don’t find almost-scousers with more toes than brain cells the least bit attractive. Sorry, but there it is. If you need to talk, you can phone the Samaritans on 08457 90 90 90.
nffc, you better delete my last, then – it won’t make sense now! And I had such fun writing it!
I might leave it – it made me chuckle
Chambers to replace Wes at centre-back and Perch to drop in at full-back, anyone?
I think that’s the most obvious solution, mattyboy – although Perchy never seems quite so adept at getting forward as Chambers (bizarrely!). I imagine Smoulderwood will replace Wes with Brecks.
I may have been wrong about Chambers at full back. He seems to be doing well and I can’t remember the last goal scoring right back we had?!
I’m also very glad that CC is proving all us that doubted him wrong. Although he has such a strong, quality squad now that we should eat teams like Cheltenham for breakfast but credit where it’s due – well done Colin!
Commo jumps on the jock bandwagon!
If you’re born and bred in Mansfield, why on earth would you want to defect to the enemy? Is there really no loyalty left these days?!
http://www.icons.com/commons/diary.html?16.10.07
get in there we r up wat a game wat makes me mad is our average is 19 thousand a game then people come cuz we have a gd chance of going up
who sits in capital one i do season ticket holder each year