Championship - No long-term deal for Calderwood

Eurosport - Mon, 14 Jul 12:46:00 2008

Nottingham Forest chairman Nigel Doughty says there are currently no plans to offer Colin Calderwood an improvement on his rolling contract.

FOOTBALL 2007-2008 League One Nottingham Forest Colin Calderwood - 0

Calderwood took over at the City Ground two years ago, guiding them to the play-offs in his first year at the helm before securing automatic promotion last season.

But Doughty says an extended contract is not a point of discussion at the moment.

"He has had five years in management and I keep telling him he has failed during three of those years because he has only got his teams into the play-offs," Doughty told the Evening Post.

"He has had two automatic promotions as well though and you can't say fairer than that.

"Colin has a rolling contract, so it is not right to say he only has a year left on his deal."

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  1. Forest achieved promotion this year depite rather than because of Calderwood.His inability to bring any players of real class to the club even now with promotion achieved proves his lack of ability to inspire.The only reason many of the so called big clubs are still in the premiership is because of the obscene amount of money they receive from SKY which allows them to bring in the mercenaries from abroad.Wrong place and wrong time for Forest and others like them to be in search of promotion on a 10th of the money someone like Blackburn is given.A level playing field is something there will never be again but it would be interesting to see just who would be a big club without Sky's cash.

    From philmasontbt, on Tue 15 Jul 2:36PM

  2. Small team with small aspirations who won't even reward their most successful manager for 10 Years with an extended contract.

    Go away and play with Leeds and leicester in the lower leagues and stop living on past triumphs.

    From Paul C, on Tue 15 Jul 9:44AM

  3. So you think Forest are a smaller market team.Is that small as in Wigan,Blackburn,Bolton or Portsmouth.Calderwood may not be the one to lead us there but the premiership is our rightfull home and we will be there ahead of that bunch of sheep shaggers down the road.
    Noordhoek Norman

    From philmasontbt, on Tue 15 Jul 9:22AM

  4. Hardly a vote of confidence for the coach who, whatever his faults, got Forest back to the 1st division, where they will struggle to stay in the middle of the pack. I don't like the off-season signings -- older players designed to keep them competitive, instead of continuing to assemble good, younger talent. It's a far cry from the Clough days, but the game in England has changed a lot since then. The top levels are now dominated by foreign-born players. Can anyone imagine a Larry Lloyd playing at the top of the premiership? Forget it. Forest are right where they should be -- a smaller market team in a smaller market division that feeds the odd player to the premiership.

    From James Russell, on Mon 14 Jul 8:12PM

  5. Calderwood will be gone before we are tucking into the festive turkey.....sorry forest fans but you are nowadays way out of your depth and i just feel for the older fans who really can remember a great side from Nottingham.....you will be relegated[i am not a Derby fan....but you are going to hurt for some time when you see them promoted back to the prem]....sorry but try to argue at the end of the season

    From blip1blip, on Mon 14 Jul 7:14PM
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