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Forest aim to keep quartet

23 May 2007 - 15:16:05

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Nottingham Forest have offered fresh terms to Kris Commons and three other soon to be out of contract players.

Forest manager Colin Calderwood released nine players following the club's failure to win promotion to the Championship through the play-offs, but Commons, Spencer Weir-Daley, Alan Power and Dale Roberts have been offered new deals.

Meanwhile, chairman Nigel Doughty insists Calderwood has the full backing of the board despite the disappointing end to the season.

Forest let a two-goal first-leg lead slip as they went down 5-2 to unfancied Yeovil Town in a dramatic play-off defeat.

"We remain fully behind the manager," Doughty told the club's official website.

"There will always be people who call for a manager to be sacked at times like this but that would be a knee-jerk reaction.

"We believe we have the foundations of a squad that can win promotion from this division."