Three straight wins, nine goals, none conceded...where's the catch?

I said that I would be happy with a point against Yeovil, having won our previous two matches, so to get all three is absolutely brilliant, and it will be a tremendous boost to our confidence.

It's funny how things turn out as when I saw that we were playing Yeovil, I thought it was a real shame as I was sure they were going to beat us and dent our confidence, which before the game was sky high following back-to-back wins over Port Vale and Gillingham. But by the sounds of it, Yeovil hardly troubled Paul Smith, and Forest ended up winning comfortably without having to break out of first gear.

The introduction of Kris Commons seemed to breathe life into Forest. When he came on just after the hour-mark, we suddenly looked very threatening going forwards. Before that, the game had been extremely scrappy with passes going astray, but when Mr Goal Machine Luke Chambers netted his fourth goal in five matches, the game opened up and Forest just grew in confidence from there with further goals from Junior Agogo and Commons. And what very good goals they were, too, especially from Agogo who scored with an audacious lob from 35 yards out!

Forest appear to have learned a lesson that they must kill off games so they don't have to hang on in the dying minutes. They haven't had a 1-0 win yet this season, which tends to happen quite a lot when you play boring, defensive football, but Colin Calderwood, to his credit, has been far more attacking this season, and it's making a huge, huge difference. Forest are a lot more entertaining to watch than they have been in ages. This can only bode well for the attendances, which have taken a bit of a tumble this season. But if we keep winning and keep playing good football, people will come back, of that you can be sure.

We look in excellent shape for promotion. We're scoring goals and we're hardly conceding any. We've only let in four goals all season, which is not bettered by any other team in League One, and our goals for column looks considerably healthier than it did two weeks ago, having scored an impressive nine goals in our last three games.
It is hard to believe as the defence does look pretty shaky at times, but we have kept five clean sheets out of seven this season after all, so the back four must be doing something right.

With three wins behind us, the pressure is well and truly off Calderwood now – for the moment anyway. He's got us playing attacking football, winning games, and there seems to be a great team spirit. What more could you ask from him? I wanted him sacked a couple of weeks ago, but since our win at Port Vale, we've gone from strength to strength and with a game in hand on all of the teams above us, we will soon find ourselves breathing down the necks of the leaders Leyton Orient and second-placed Tranmere. If we make the most of our three home games in October, we will be right up there.