Name:
Luke Chambers

Position:
Defender

Born:
29 August 1985 , Kettering

Signed from:
Northampton Town, 30 January 2007

Debut:
3 February 2007 vs Bradford City (Valley Parade)
Coca-Cola League One - Substitute for Grant Holt - DREW 2-2

Season
Club
League
FA Cup
League Cup
Other
Total
Division
Games
Sub
Goals
Games
Sub
Goals
Games
Sub
Goals
Games
Sub
Goals
Games
Sub
Goals
2002 - 2003
Northampton Town
D2
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
2003 - 2004
Northampton Town
D3
19
5
-
-
2
-
2
-
-
1
-
(LDV)
22
5
-
2004 - 2005
Northampton Town
L2
21
8
-
1
1
-
1
1
-
1
1
(LDV)
24
11
-
2005 - 2006
Northampton Town
L2
42
1
-
4
-
-
2
-
-
1
-
(LDV)
49
1
-
2006 - 2007
Northampton Town
L2
29
-
1
3
-
-
1
-
-
1
-
-
34
-
1
2006 - 2007
Forest
l1
12
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
12
4
-
2007 - 2008
Forest
L1
40
2
6
3
-
-
3
-
-
1
-
2
47
2
8
Nottingham Forest Total
59
6
8
Career Total
188
24
9

Highly promising young centre back who is something of a protege of Colin Calderwood's; CC nursed him from the youth ranks at the Cobblers and then brought him to Forest not long after moving up the M1.

On the basis of his first few months, Chambers looks a good player in the making; he certainly steadied the ship at the back when he arrived - Wes Morgan and Ian Breckin had been leaking too many soft goals for anyone's liking during Forest's horrible (and eventually fatal) slump in form in the middle of the 2006 - 2007 season.

However, 2007 - 2008 started with a number of injuries, so Chambers was asked to fill in at right back - a job he did with considerable aplomb for some months. Though he did a decent job out of position, it meant that we missed him in the centre; the Perch-Chambers-Wilson-Bennett "dream team" defence, so promising on paper, has yet to be seen in real life at the time of writing (February 2008).

Statistics up to date to 1 July 2008