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By Chris Boden


STRIEICR Joe Gamer has taken to Championship football like a duck to water. - After recovering from a cruci­


y' f e :


ate knee ligament injury, the 20- 3iear-old, who hails from Whalley, has hit three goals in nine sta r ts . for Nottingharh Forest, including two in his last two gam^ Forest showed a; lot of beli^ in


his ability in the summer, pa3dng £1,140,000 to Carlisle for his


■ services, while he was halfway down the road back to fitness. And he h a s returned just in; time for Forest, struggling in the


, releigation zone after last season’s promotion.


' Forest boss Colin, Calderwood believes Gamer will only get bet-


' ter, althoi^gh he admits he is due abreak!' ,


The former Spurs centre back


said: “It is really tough for any player to come back from a seri­ ous injury and not have a period where you, as a manager, would


' think about leaving him but : ; "But heeds must a little bit at


. the minute, and he is genuinely a tou^boy.


, "And I think we will see an improvement in him just from continuing to play him. _ s' ' . “His performances might not


' ^w a ^ Im to the level he wante, or to the level we believe they could b e


-"But we have waited long


enough to get him back, so we will persevere. ■


“He is beginning to find the


goalsnow.” And Calderwood is.delight-


ed -with what he has seen froni Garner so far, bn and off the pitch: "He is a small tar- getman.


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■; ;V "He is eveiythinig and prob­ ably more than we envisaged. "He has a great ganie


understanding and knows sometimes it is about being brave and putting your body across defenders. "He looks a fter the ball


well, he also does not just give it back to midfield players behindhim. “He is able to spread the


game but he is a goalscorer, that is what we want him for. "I think we had a good


imderstanding, working with him, what type of person he was and he h ^ showed that. ".There are no real frills


i s ^ - . By Phil Simpson


PET E Smith believes th e next six games could well shape the remainder of Clitheroe’s sea - son.


“We’ve had the chances to win, and i t ’s not like we are. going


.. through ^mes not creating chances, because we are. “But we jiist can’t seem to get a


; ' The Blues face a tough run of'


fixtures over the festive p eriod ,. with all six coming against sides currently in the top 10. : That se4uence kicks off with a home game against league leaders


• Bamber Bridge at'Shawbridge on Saturday (kick-off 3 p.m.), an d .. assistant boss Smith is confident of a performance. B[e said: “We’ve been unlucky , this season in the games we’ve lost,


j and it’s not as if we are the only ones . who are losing. ;'?Teaiiis in and around us are tak-


. ing points off each other every week, so we are still in the mix despite the run we have been bh. ■ ^ . “We’ve got some very tough


games coming up, starting.with. Bamber Bridge on Saturday,' and these could well shape our season’’.! ■


:


- The Blues also face Lancaster; City twice,'as well as Newcastle' Blue Star; Diu-ham City and Traf- ford in that period..: ' And they lopk like embarking on.


it without the services of influential centre half Jonathari Smith; who was given a straight red 'card just before half-time in Saturday’s 3-2 loss at Wakefield. •


- That suspension looks like com­ ■ -' iPeter.Smilh ' ■


- “But you could see that the guy was provoking him for quite a while,


: and the referee just happened to turn around at the wrong time. '“I’m not.cbndonirig what he did


\-


mencing with next week’s trip to':. Newcastle Blue Star, and,Smith : commented: “It looks like we are set to lose Johnny for a while because of • the sending off.


., “He was the first to apologise for ■ his actions, because he loiows it has > probably cost us the victory. ^


■at all,ihe dKeryed to be sent off and. he knows it. but 'that is in the past now and we'inove on.’’ ' ■ As for the defeat.at.Wakefield, Smith' added that he didn’t feel the Blues got the reward their efforts, merited: “The performance from ns was good, we deserved something, but the turning point is obviously, the sending off.


-


run going, ^mes are being called off left, right and centre, after all the cup games and replays tlmt we had earlier in the season. : “ It’s not ah excuse, it’s fact - we


had a little run of league games ear­ lier in the season and won them all.. “But we put a lot of pressure on ourselves after, the start we had, • because when you have a start like


'.that then the expectation levels are .-.high.':,,';!;! _


“But that run proved we were


.'.capable of having a good run of ■ results, Md that’s what we need to


•-get back to. , -■ “.We know we can win games, we ; prov^ it in August and September, ■ and with all these rearranged games


■ in the pipeline, if we'cah start it with a few wins we may be able to - get that consistency back. “I t ’s not as if this bad run has


. dropped us out of the running — we still have eight .vrins from 14 games and are'in a good porition to move into the top group;' ; “Other teams have played more .


and have the points bn the board,. and tb be faiiiT^would father be in .■ their shoes with the points on the board.


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“But we have a chance to put it .: right over these next six games, a n d :


■ we start;with Bamb’er.Bridge on Saturday.” ' ;


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about him, he just is a proper player. ' “A player who is not besot­ ted by the glamour of foot-'


b e e r s ' lives or celebrity sta­ tus.” • His first Forest goal came


when he opened the scoring in a 2-2 draw at Bristol City on November 15th, before, two weeks later, he headed home his first City Ground strike, to effecti'vely save Calder- wood’s job by sealing a 1-0 win over Barnsley. Garner then backed that


up on Saturday with Forest’s second equaliser in the 2-2 draw at Coventry.


“He is beginning to find ' the goals now”—Colin


' Calderwobd on Joe Gamer who is pictured celebrating his winner against Barns­ ley at the City Ground, (s)


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