Clueless Calderwood should be chopped

On the face of it, a point and a clean sheet at Swansea City is a decent result, especially after being outplayed in the first half.

But Swansea City are not Manchester United or Chelsea. Forest are the big boys in League One, and they are the ones who should be dominating teams. Why should places like Swansea be such scary places to go? Why? This has to stop. We have got to start stamping our authority in matches like these, instead of being steamrollered. We deserve better than this.

The fact that Colin Calderwood was booed off the pitch yesterday even though we had just got a decent point, suggests that his days are numbered. I just cannot see him turning into a good manager at all. Sure he came here with a good reputation, having got Northampton promoted, but that is not the full story. Most Cobblers fans were actually happy to get shot of him, even though he had got them into League One! What does that tell you?

We've just drawn our third consecutive game 0-0, so at least we've tightened up defensively, but Paul Smith still had plenty of saves to make, despite the side having seven defensive players. Yes, seven. No wonder we're not creating anything! Just take a look at our right side. Brendan Moloney, a right back, is currently playing right wing in midfield, and Luke Chambers, a central defender, is playing right back. Chambers had a bit of a 'mare there against Swansea, but that's Calderwood's fault for playing him in the wrong position. It's hardly surprising that we are struggling to score goals when our right wing has two defensive players trying to do an attacking job there.

The left side of midfield is not much better at the moment. Kris Commons has been very poor since the season started. He looks like he's been having second thoughts about staying. I don't think he is bothered. Mind you, he rarely ever is. He doesn't bomb up and down the left wing or deliver teasing crosses much at all. All he is good for is coming up with a goal out of nothing. He is not much of a team player at all. It's all about him, as exemplified by the amount of goals he scores from long-distance.

I don't think that warrants a first team place, personally. In fact, I think it would give him a much-needed jolt if he was dropped for a few games, because his attitude stinks. I had to laugh when he wrote in his blog that he had decided to put in 110% effort for Forest, after sitting with the fans and realising how important it was. He should be doing that every game anyway!

When Matt Lockwood signed, we all thought that he and Commons would forge a great attacking partnership, but last week against Bournemouth, we saw precious little sign of that, as ruddy Calderwood was too obsessed with keeping a clean sheet to let Lockwood attack.

I was all for giving Calderwood a chance this season, but I've changed my mind. I really don't see things improving at all, even when we have a fully fit squad to choose from. I just find him so boring. I never listen to his interviews. He just drones on and on and on, and says the same thing every week. I just cannot see how somebody like him can motivate the players. If a manager has charisma, I think you're three-quarters of the way there, but Calderwood, while being a nice enough human being, just isn't cut out for management, at least not at a big club like Forest, where there is a huge amount of expectation.

If the fans continue to get on his back, and they will if things don't drastically change soon, I cannot see him wanting to stay. He's not arrogant like Megson. He will walk, no mistake, and that will save Doughty a bob or two, which I'm pretty sure is what is holding him back from sacking him.

The first season in League One was always going to be about acclimatising, so the fans were willing to put up with a second term. It looked as though we were heading for the Championship at one point last season where we had a comfortable seven-point lead. But we missed out in the end after that awful play-off game...the less said about that the better. Only a glut of promising signings in the summer persuaded 10,000 people to renew their season tickets for a third year in League One, but I am not so sure that they would come rushing back for a fourth season if we fail to get promotion again. We simply have to get promoted this time, but on the evidence of our lacklustre pre-season and first three games, things are going to have to change pretty quickly if we are going to be third time lucky.