Luke who's getting all the praise now

I would have been very satisfied to take home a point from QPR if we had all eleven men on the pitch, never mind ten. I really feared the worst when we had Radoslaw Majewski shown a red card for a two-footed tackle, but we showed great determination to recover from that setback and hold on for a well-earned draw.

Sky might have wished they could have billed this game as a battle between the top two, but results conspiring against us on Saturday meant that we had slipped down to fifth ahead of play, although victory at Loftus Road would have seen us close the gap on Rangers to just three points with two games in hand. With just one defeat at home all season, I didn't really rate our chances too much, although having won our last six games nobody had any right to call us underdogs.

Forest certainly began very brightly forcing a number of corners in quick succession, but QPR took the lead after a quarter of an hour had passed when the Forest defence were caught out when Tommy Smith made a good solo run before firing a 25-yard shot past Lee Camp.

The Reds were really up against it five minutes later when Majewski foolishly lunged in at Adel Taarabt and was promptly dismissed by referee Mark Clattenburg. Being notorious for dubious decisions, fans were not best pleased to hear he was officiating, but in this instance he had no choice but to send Majewski off.

I was feeling despondent then thinking the game was over, but Forest responded in the best possible fashion by equalising just three minutes later when David McGoldrick, who won the nod ahead of Rob Earnshaw to partner Marcus Tudgay, saw the ball fly off his leg into the net as a result of a Lewis McGugan free kick. The manner in which the equaliser came about may have been rather lucky, but nobody could argue that we didn't deserve a point as we really defended magnificently to really frustrate QPR and stop them playing.

Luke Chambers' recent solid performances at the heart of our rearguard have won him a lot of praise from Forest fans, but now he is being recognised by the wider football world, winning the Sky Man of the Match award for making a series of crucial blocks. We turned down a bid for him from Birmingham City on transfer deadline day, which says a lot for just how far he has come since he was given the chance to play in his much-preferred central defensive position. If he keeps this kind of performance up for the next three months, he will be a very strong candidate for Player of the Year, especially for his goals contribution at the other end of the pitch. When he was asked to play at right back, he got a lot of stick, but it was not his fault he was played out of position. He could have moaned about it, but he just got on with it without any fuss, and now he is in the best form of his whole career, and the fans are finally beginning to recognise he is a very good player who under the right management will do a great job. Bringing Chambers to the Club was one of the very few good things Colin Calderwood did for us.