Nottingham Forest 0 Blackburn Rovers 0: match report There are going to be a lot of candidates, I am in the position and will give it everything. We have to win games whether it's me as manager or somebody else. Black, who also guided his team to a creditable draw at Charlton last weekend, is expected to be named on a shortlist that will be drawn up next week, with global adviser Shebby Singh insisting the club have been inundated with interest for the post. Tim Sherwood, a former Rovers midfielder and current technical coordinator at Tottenham, is believed to be the preferred choice but far wealthier clubs than Blackburn have found Spurs chairman Daniel Levy to be one of the toughest negotiators in English football. Alan Shearer is the romantic option but would have to swap the comfort of the Match of the Day sofa for the muck and nettles of the Championship, while Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Roy Keane have also emerged as possible candidates. With Kean finally gone, the 1,158 travelling supporters concentrated exclusively on backing their team here, though the first half was almost a non-event. Nuno Gomes tested Lee Camp with a low drive after four minutes but it was a tedious encounter. Sean O'Driscoll, the Forest manager, is still struggling to determine his best starting XI, after a substantial summer recruitment drive bankrolled by the club's new owners, the Al-Hasawi family, and their project is clearly a work in progress. Their willingness to make signings has only complicated O'Driscoll's job. Moves were made earlier this week to take Spurs goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes on loan, after a less than convincing start to the campaign by Camp. Seven summer signings started here but it was Lewis McGugan who produced the first nervy moment for Paul Robinson a minute before half-time when his low shot was scrambled around the post. Robinson made an even better save on the hour from Henri Lansbury as Forest gained control. Lansbury's replacement, Radoslaw Majewski, wriggled into the area but his cross eluded a team-mate before Billy Sharp blazed wide. O'Driscoll introduced his latest recruit, Jermaine Jenas, with 18 minutes remaining but the game fizzled out to an inevitable stalemate. Match details Nottingham Forest (4-1-3-1-1): Camp; Halford, Ayala, Collins, Harding; Gillett; Cohen, McGugan (Jenas 72), Reid (Coppinger 85); Lansbury (Majewski 63); Sharp. Subs: Evtimov (g), Moussi, Greening, Moloney. Blackburn (3-5-2): Robinson; Hanley, Dann, Givet; Orr, Murphy, Lowe, Formica, Olsson; Gomes (Kazim-Richards 63), Rhodes (Dunn 86). Subs: Kean (g), Nunes, Pedersen, Rochina, Ribeiro. Referee: M Russell (Hertfordshire).