Ring in the changes

Colin Calderwood has signalled he may rest players in Nottingham Forest’s final three league games to maximise the team’s condition during the playoffs.

The Scotsman indicated one or two changes may be made in the starting line-up for Forest’s home game against already relegated Luton Town tomorrow.

Despite an uninterrupted week of training following the 2-0 win over Tranmere, Calderwood still feels it is the right time to rest players who may have clocked up a number of appearances in recent months.

He said: “We’ve got good honest competition for places and problems to be had when it comes to select the team.”

“We look at the number of games one or two have played and certainly recently there might be a case of resting but all it will do is blend in one or two who haven’t played so much.”

“But we’ve got a fairly tight squad really and the majority have played some part recently so it's just a case of maintenance through this bit.”

“We also need a little bit of focus on what we’re about and what we can do to get a little bit better and also what we must do to be as tight as we can at the back.”

"We want to go and try and play with a bit of buoyancy and go and express ourselves, we’ve got absolutely nothing to worry about at all so we just go and try and play with as much freedom as possible."