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"It was not an opportunity missed, because it was always a difficult game. If we had been ahead we might have felt differently, if it had been in our hands, it would have felt that way. We should have got a draw. We would have been agitated with that, but we would have felt better about it in the morning. It looked like someone was offside but (Karl) Hawley who scored the goal wasn't. The linesman was in a perfect position and we weren't.
"We haven't taken a point, but we have to pick up an away win soon. These are the games, through this period, where we need to take points. We are okay, we are delighted that Bristol City lost, but they will be delighted that we lost. Scunthorpe will be very happy at the top, but it will be very competitive. It has been a great night for Scunthorpe and Oldham, but not for us."
"You wouldn't complain about the first half, we were very unfortunate to go a goal down with just about 15 seconds to go. But the second half was played in a very different way. They played the clock well. I am a bit frustrated, yes. We did okay in the first half, had we got to half time at nothing each, we would have been better. But we were pick-pocketed at the end of the first half.
"We didn't apply enough pressure in the second half to keep Carlisle penned down and our set plays were ineffective, with the wind behind us we didn't pen Carlisle into their own half or apply enough pressure on them We were 15 seconds away from a fairly satisfactory first-half performance. We could have done better on occasions in the final third but we never found the right rhythm to our game and probably didn't get a clear-cut chance."
Meanwhile Forest striker, and Carlisle-born pantomime villain, Grant Holt, spoke about his love for his home-town club :
" It's always nice to go back, obviously I've supported them since I was a boy and it's always great to go back there. I try and get to as many games as I can, I'm not the biggest fans of theirs up there I don't think, a few things have happened in the past and I think a few of them still hold that in regard to be honest. Things are going well, all of a sudden a few seasons ago it all went wrong and we ended up getting kicked out of the Football League.
" We got a great manager in Paul Simpson who managed to pull them back together, get a good squad with the limited budget he had, and he turned it around and it's great to see them being where they are. I just with they'd pump a bit more money in and get them even higher. There is huge potential, you can see that when things are going right for them they get big crowds, and this year I think the average is about 6,000 a week which is good. I just wish that someone would pump a bit more money in and eventually do the step again and try and go higher, and see how big they can be. "