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Their last home league defeat was when Plymuff beat em 3-0 in January. Surely we should emulate that?

Carlisle 0-4 Swindon Att: 5,488 (731 of us)

Their form has improved a little but their defence has been like a leaky sieve all season.  With our current best XI being available, we look like we have a real opportunity to get a positive result in this one.  We have also not feared long away trips on weekends in recent times, so I think we'll get a 2-1 win.

Will take a point, although I think we can take 3.

Hope and Yates to score against their old club.

Carlisle should setup in a way that we could take advantage of.

Should be goals.

Tidy side are Carlisle. I think we’ll win but not by much.

1-2 with 632 travelling. Hope and Yates to get pelters all game!

I'm probably going so undoubtedly a defeat, although taking note of my recent inability to pick a winner for love nor money I may have a bet on a Carlisle win to try and offset things.

I'll be at a prom dress fitting in Marlborough on Saturday, so sadly can't make it.

Carlisle 0-0 Swindon in front of 4,795 with 621 Swindon fans there.

With the team we have assembled now we should be winning games like this. The weather is bound to be crap and the pitch will probably be shite, but I reckon we will come out on top, grinding out a 2-0 win, with 700 odd town fans to witness the spectacle.

This game will have 5 goals :)

Carlisle 1-2 Swindon Hope & GP  4,248 with 528 Swindon fans there.

  ???

Hope you've been dieting #breatheInSqueezeIn

💃 I’m sure you’ll look lovely.

Another storm forecast for the weekend. Bad weather seems to be following us around.

Its only 50 MPH winds and rain forecast, that a nice spring day up here!

2 years ago we had a weekend booked in Lisbon which was cancelled due to high winds. It looks like we are extremely lucky and we might get away before the storm hits the UK this time!

One change for me - Zeki should come back in too.

Benda

Caddis
Baudry
Fryers
Hunt

Grant
Doughty

Hope
DJ
Yates

Pele

Expecting to win. Every relevant data point we have points to a win. 3-1, 420 town fans.

I was on the summit ridge of Skiddaw a few years ago and the rain came in horizontally  :) Those wind shelters came in handy.

That will be to our benefit then, what with us being used to playing in our cheating wind tunnel

Must have been close to that at times on Saturday TBH, but then we designed the CG to be a wind tunnel.

A agree with that, if everyone is fit.

See Anderson is travelling with the squad on Friday, we have ridiculous depth now.

It looks as though the worst of the weather will be from late evening on Saturday. There's another spell of windy weather forecast for Tuesday, but again it should have died down before ko.

Yeah thats basically what BBC weather said earlier, the worst weather coming in very late on Saturday until Monday.

0-0 Will do for me,   but a win would be more than acceptable.

Win. 3-1

A must win to keep our momentum going  :)

We could do with keeping a few more clean sheets as we did in the November and December 8 wins in row.

Maybe if Zeki Fryers is fully fit that might be the difference resuming the partnership with Baudry.

In the context of looking at getting 26 points from our remaining 15 games, making 85 total ( I think 84 or 85 will be enough for top 3)  I look at these two away games, tomorrow and Tuesday, and think a return of two or more points from the two games combined would be fine. To suggest tomorrow is a “must win” is hyperbole.
On paper tomorrow looks the easier of the two, but things often pan out differently. As others have pointed out, the weather forecast suggests that conditions will be tricky tomorrow. Wellens also indicated that with a bigger squad /more options he could rotate players - it may be some are rested with Tuesday in mind if RW feels Tuesday’s is the tougher opponent.
I think we will win tomorrow, but would take a draw.

BBC suggesting 50 odd MPH winds in Carlisle at 3pm tomorrow.

I cannot wait!  ::)

Are you attending a game?  :eek:

Oh thats move earlier in the day than the BBC were suggesting, so many games over the last couple of seasons have been ruined by strong wind (no not Flash's arse with 4D!) its a proper match leveller.

Its Horlocks local game only about 40 to 50 miles up the road isnt it?

Tongue in cheek, I am sure he didn't attend Morecambe away the other season? Could do with with Flash's arse up there to counteract the storm  :)

Our one and only travelling wind tunnel.

Yep, so we are undoubtedly gonna lose! May actually be sitting on my tod as whilst going with FiL his Carlisle supporting mate is also coming with us so he will have to decide which end he wants to sit in, and I imagine the view will be much better for the home fans rather than hanging off the end oif the pitch with the away lot!


Bout 60 miles up the road, although it will be the train taking the strain tomorrow. Morecambe is closer and if we stay in this godforsaken league next season Barrow would be even better!


Went to Morecambe in the PdC season when we won (may even be the last time I have seen us win!), not made Morecambe for the last couple of years as its always fallen on dates when we are away, hopefully make it this year albeit its a twat on public transport!

As already said by many, it's clearly not a must-win game but Carlisle are precisely the type of opponent we did well against in 2019 and need to resume beating away in order to maintain the gap to 4th place.

Wind and pitch may fuck us but I'm still confident.

1-2  Yates & Doughty.

Many saying something doesn't make it so, any more than saying we did well v Carlisle in 2019 does when we lost 2-1 at Brunton. In my book losing 2-1 means we didn't do well.

I think the 2019 reference was limited to this season and how we've been pretty good against teams in the lower half of the table.

I see... confusing, nevertheless correct in identifying the need to win, in terms of maintaining a healthy position.

So, do you think we’ll win, lose or draw,Reg?

No idea... given good circumstances we should win, but the weather is a wild card, so who knows.

We seem to play quite well in inclement conditions (Crawley away, Crewe and Exeter at home), so the wind shouldn't be a factor. What we can't cope with is ploughed field pitches and set pieces against teams of giants.

I'm going tomorrow, looking forward to it.

406 sold in advance which isn't too bad at all.

Plymouth would take at least 3x as many.
1-1

Carlisle manager Beech getting the excuses in early -

“They’re League One players on League One budgets.”

“I know managers will play it down but they have got a massive budget, because I do know of some of the players they’ve recruited – I did have a little knock on the door myself and didn’t get them.”

“The pressure is really on them to make sure they can back up their investment and get promoted. On us is the challenge to say ok, we’re taking on the best in the league".

“They’re backed up with a right-footed left-back [Rob Hunt] and [Paul] Caddis with his experience. People would think, ‘We can get at him, run at him, he’s getting old’ but it doesn’t work like that, they use their bodies well, get help off the linesmen and referees, talk them in, almost referee the games – young referees get sucked into the way they go about that, they’re very clever".

Mourinho would get charged for comments like that prematch

Yeah but he's a cunt and should be fined for looking smug, even before he opens his mouth.

Is he talking about us?  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Running scared. He knows we've already got good equity, returning on Hope already and he's just bound to score against them or at least be very integral to one of our goals.

You lot leave our Chrissy alone you bullys, he's doing 'quite alright' thank you very much.  :D
Anyway on to tomorrow, i noticed a message up above stating the weather and the terrible pitch. Apparently the weather is going to be a bit blustery but otherwise fine and dry, he also mentioned the 'possible' terrible pitch. Come on folks we are not Newport or Tranmere, we are Carlisle and our pitch is one of the finest in the land, infact it's as good as most premiershit pitches.
On to the game, it will be interesting to see Halam back, he will probably get a mixed reaction from our lot, he kind of split the support base right down the middle, some loved him and some thought he was very average and a bit lazy/disinterested. I liked Halam always tried his best, and always 'put in a shift' as the say, and as I got to know him personally, then you couldn't wish for a nicer guy, although after 5 years here then I did think it was time for him to move on.
Yates is the one we fear, an absolute pest to opposition defenders, and Mr Webster and Mr Haydon are going to have to be at their best to snuff him out.
As far as our team is concerned...Beech has moulded them into a reasonable outfit, he seems to have plugged the holes in defence, stopped the fannying around at the back, made them fitter and stronger and given them a 'never say die attitude', what more could you ask for as a fan?
Not sure whether were good enough to take you lot on, but then we never expected to win 4-0 at your spot not that long ago  :D.
I'll be happy with a draw, good luck after tomorrow of course. 

Excellent post and thanks for the pitch update as it was only a few years ago when it was a few feet under water when the river close by burst it banks and ruined many of the local houses which they showed on homes under the hammer

Nice, all you need in a situation like that is Dion Dublin turning up on your doorstep in a pair of waders.

Yea thanks, terrible time for the folks who lived around the ground, would you believe that some folk only moved back in to their homes recently, there were 2,000 homes affected?? It was completely heartbreaking to see everybody possessions simply dumped on to the streets, it was like (I imagine) a bombed town.
For those that are making the trip, take care on the way home the M6 looks like its going to be anything but fun.

I agree very upsetting for the residents close to the river and I won't forget how deep high the water marks were inside the homes.
I've got good memories against you guys and remember playing you in a FA Cup reply which we won 1-0 aeound 84/85 and also when you were top of division one after beating chelsea away around 76/77

I would prefer Martel Maxwell😁

74/75 it was, Chelsea away won 2-0, Middlesbro away won 2-1, Spurs at Home won 1-0   ahhhhhhhhhhh happy days.  :pint:  :D
Didn't last long of course and I doubt it will ever happen again, but the football world stood up and took notice of us for once.

As a matter of interest I was working next door in the Rugby Club at the time of the floods, (I was club manager there) and I was first in when the water subsided, it had been 8 feet deep, everything had been destroyed, computers, furniture, carpets, bars the lot everything went into skips, and the weirdest thing............the Xmas trees still had ALL their decorations on and looked like they hadn't been touched, really weird.  :hmmm:

Great football memories bluebry and like Swindon we had one season in the top league and doubt if it we will ever see that again in our lifetime.

That must have been a really strange experience with so many affected and must have took years for the area to recover and I hope that they have put things in place to stop it happening again

Memory's playing tricks, I think, Jimmy. I think you must be thinking of 83/84 (season of our lowest ever League position as Reg likes to regularly remind us), when we drew 1-1 at Carlisle and won the replay 3-1.

Lost 2-1 at home to Blackburn in the next round.......goalscorer - Jimmy Quinn ☺

Only one year out Bob and yes you're right it was 3-1 in the replay and remember the Blackburn game as it all kicked off down county road after the game whilst trying to get the bus!

I went to the "flooded" game. Sheesh how you ever got that game on i have no idea. Went to bed the night before with photos of half the pitch under water. Left home at 6am on a wing and a prayer. Pulled into Carlisle at 12.15 and still didnt know if on or off. Got to the ground and well.. That below ground level car park was up to the pavement (about 6 foot of water) Game on and the pitch was actually pretty good. Cracking night out after and the 8.30 train back home Sunday. I like going to Carlisle.

Well they have ....sort of???
There has been extra floodbanks built which can contain 'one river'. Unfortunately Carlisle is built on 3 rivers, The Eden, The Caldew and the Pettril, but it will take just one of those to burst its banks and then flow into the others causing a domino affect, so all the more likely it can and probably will happen again, sadly.

That's always the worry and god knows how they sell those houses

Most of the houses have been sold, some have been 'turned upside down' so to speak, bedrooms on the ground floor and kitchen and living rooms in the old bedrooms upstairs, which limits the damage if it floods again. There is also a lot of 'student lets' because landlords have got them cheap.

At least owners have made the most of a bad situation

I like Carlisle

Its a fuck site better than south London for sure

Hallam, it’s Hallam.

Can we have chants along the lines of “You’ve got no Hope”?

Thank you.

Give me Hope, and then a
Give me Hope, and then a
Give me Hope, and then a
Give hope until the 3 points come.

Needs some work, but I think you'll get the gist.

(Eddie Grant, in case it was missed)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpMgzWBpu2o

You've got no Hope, we've got one he's called Ha-llam,
You've got no Hope, that why you'll score no goals,
He is strong, when playing off the shoul-der,
He'll raise us up, towards the Premier League.

https://youtu.be/9bxc9hbwkkw


This is all your fault.

https://youtu.be/qFcmNu4KdGI

We've  got Hope,  hallum
 We've got Hope,  hallum
we've got l Hope, hallum
when the goal rush comes

ok needs better/more lyrics

So who’s out on the town in Carlisle after we (fingers crossed) pick up all three points today?
Any recommendations on where to go for a good night out, been a long time since I’ve been!

Pretty fair comments really - I've said all season that we look like a L1 side and it can't come cheap. And Caddis and Grant (and others I'm sure) are masters in the dark art of shithousery.

I assume the curse of the ex-player works for us as well as against us so...

0-2 Hope, Yates (Doyle's long barren run to continue  ;))

Does sound a bit like it. That said, how many times over the years have we been on the receiving end of teams like we’re supposed to be as described by their manager?
Never give a sucker an even break...

Always good to hear the views of opposing fans as long as they are not absolute idiots like PNEThor who had some form of serious mental issue.

Should be a decent game, you have made a few signings in the window and got rid of a few too like the massively under performing Carroll who looked half decent with us but a walking red card.

A few good memories of games with your lads over the years, had a few visits up to the Northern outpost, was up there ironically for the first game at the CG this season, bad timing!

The special train in 84 was a great day out, leaving Swindon at 7 and arriving in Carlisle at 2 and having a massive police escort to the ground, about 1,000 of us in the rain for a hard fought 1-1 draw and then beating you in the replay as you were doing well in Div 2 back then and us in Div 4 but we were at our lowest ebb and on the brink of our upturn then under Macari a couple of seasons after.

Glad the pitch is sorted as we have faced a fair few teams with shocking pitches, although your comment about having one of the finest pitches in the land, you haven't seen the County Ground pitch then ;)

Anyway please post your thoughts after the game and ignore any insulting remarks you may get, its great to hear the views of us and your team afterwards, so few fans do that now, it used to be common, now its just insult after insult, honest fans of other teams always welcome!

Clear blue sky over Brunton Park at the moment. Don’t know how long that will last.

The forecast must have put quite a few off going.

Arrived and in the pub, bit of rain on the m6 but sunny in Carlisle atm.

Roadworks near the ground which is causing traffic issues so best parking in Botcherby I think it's called otherwise it'll be a nightmare after the game!

Pre match waitin' for the wind in the William Rufus.
Sunny and ok in the Border City at the moment.

I guess border reiving will become all the rage around here again when the Scots go their own way.
So, first prize of an ill gotten heifer to anyone who can name the two former Town managers who also played for Carlisle.

They've like a good siege or two over the years here.
Hopefully the locals will be suitably impressed when their football team finds itself surrounded by Anthony Grant later on.

Hope the trains will still be working this evening and safe journey to those heading home in their horseless carriages.
In the meantime there is drinking to be done.

is ifollow being a twat or is it me being a twat I can't log on.

You are 2 hours early for the feed to be turned on.

Also are you VPN'ing?

Uncle John Gorman is one and sans Google, maybe Ken Beamish?

I realise I m a bit keen but I can't even log on to the club site. ( not vpn just audio feed today )

And Bob Smith?

Yes, John Gorman.
The other one was before Beamish.

No, before him and an association with the other end of the A420 as well.

I'm no help as although I've stayed over a couple of times. I have no clue where i went, although I did enjoy it. I do know I went to subway once there, as I woke up in the premier inn the next day with half a foot long on my pillow.

Check FB messages mate.

Just guessing. Couldn’t be Les Allen or Sir Danny. Maybe Fred Ford but I think he was a localish fella

Yeah, Fred Ford.

Well done Audrey. Downside is your prize is a framed print of some northern Wetherspoons carpet.

Ooooo err

I read that as you shat on your pillow; eurgggggh

Newcastle

Sat in Woodrow Wilson with 4 cumbrians and a Frenchman. Round of 6 pints, £13!

Is it Vincent Péricard?

And very nice they are to.
A steak on the hoof delivery might be difficult but could stretch to buying Audrey a pint in The Merlin as and when he comes over.

Nah, just promise him something then never send it. Works every time.

As long as its not Baudry.

I’ll be in there for the Salford game! Or whatever boozer we use at Walsall the week before!

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQQW4p2XsAABRV4?format=jpg&name=medium)

Fryers for Baudry? Yikes!

No Baudry is a big loss, at least Fryers is fit.

Baudry not even on bench, has a knock or rested for tuesday ?

I hope its rested, "on paper" this is a less difficult game than Tuesday.

He picked up a knock in training apparently.

At least we are no longer short of numbers at CB so not such a major issue that it was a few weeks ago.

Looks a nice winter afternoon up in Carlisle at the moment, looks blustery rather than windy like it was last week.

The pitch looks very bumpy and not a patch on the CG but certainly no Newport.

So where's the "home grown", "youther" or "only six if not"?  :hmmm:

And what about a home grown? 7 subs?

Make a wish, bamboo :)

According to Wellens in the week we have special dispensation to not have to include one.

From the FL.


Wellens said the FL have allowed us not to have to comply with that for whatever reason he said about our selling of young players.

We certainly have no player in that squad that qualifies as that.

I see Carlisles "best form" striker Kayode on loan to them from Rotherham since deadline day is not fit to play today. Scored 2 in 3 games.

From their forum.


I know the last was a joke post, but how wrong is he?!

I know we have dispensation but I thought that was on the premise of only naming 6 and not 7...otherwise defeats the object. We already have an unfair advantage, what with a purpose built wind tunnel, a,sugar daddy owner and now this 😉

The dispensation is the reason we don't have to name 1 DP in the squad, without dispensation then we would have to leave a space free on the bench.

After all the fuss about the weather its virtually bloody still here.

Weather 100% better than it was last season!

The wind is getting up and blowing down the pitch, looks almost as strong as last week vs Exeter :( another wind ruined football match, lets hope we can get to grips with it today.

I think Carlisle made their ground to give them an unfair advantage with the wind tunnel effect :D

Carlisle have a couple of fucking huge players, towering over even Benda.

Surprised he’s made Doughty captain ahead of Caddis.

Town kick off against the wind.

Me too.

Doughty gives away a foul in our half.

Shocking delivery at knee level.

Shot hoofed 20 yards high and wide from their CB.

Fryers long pass goes into touch against the wind.

Fryers 2nd pass into touch from 10 yards away.

REG with a good jump winning a header.

Scrappy game so far.

Carlisle started the better but Swindon just looking to get into the game.

Fryers head doesn't look in it at the moment.

But isn't that what we did in the last few games (with dispensation)...oh well trivial shit. Come on Town.

DJ with a good run down the left, beats 3 men but can't get the final touch for a cross and it runs into touch.

Can only hear the town fans so far.
Slow start for town on the pitch.

No mate, this is the first time we have not named either Haynes/Romanski/Twine on the bench in a game as the 7th sub, otherwise we have only named 5 or 6 subs instead leaving the DP place empty.

great tackle by grant there, sets up Yates who dribbles the length of the pitch.

Corner to Town.

1-0 OG

The one and only REG!

REG volley deflected over the line, we never score from corners!

Sky haven given it to REG

get in

Plymouth losing. Good couple of minutes!

REG volleyed it into the defenders midriff who pushed it into the net, it will be given to REG.

Colchester 1-0 Plymuff

Deep cross from Hunt midjudged by the defender but he gets it to his keeper.

Colchester can win that one!

Hopefully !!!!.

Grant is a beast in the tackle.

What a tackle by Grant, lucky he got the ball because that would have been red

We don't score from corners, again. Oh and Plym losing v Col U. Any points dropped by Pilgrims will strengthen our position.

Carlisle player taken out by Grants great tackle is moaning like fuck at the ref, Grant took all the ball not the player, hes so lightweight he couldn't deal with it.

Caddis finds DJ in the box but his shot is wayward.

Cheltenham 1 down at Scunthorpe.

Cheltnum losing too which we will take

Town the better side now since the goal.

Fryers long passing is shocking so far.

Doyle and Yates are really up for it and chasing everything.

Nice move by Town, DJ to Doughty but his pass to Hunt was a yard too fast.

Another great tackle by Grant

Hunt wins a corner.

REG difficult turn in our own box makes space and finds DJ to DOughty to Hunt, nice move.

3 or 4 good efforts by Town, DJ Doyle and Reg all have good goes, DJ missed a good effort tho and its saved.

Great hit from Doyle, had goal written all over it, blocked by the face of a defender

Thought that was going in

Doighty gives away a foul in our half, hes too clumsy in the tackle.

DJ is a real handful again today.

Good interception by Fryers in our 6 yard box, good reading of the cross.

Shot by them deflected for a corner off REG.

Bloody crap Carlisle cameraman totally missed the result of the corner.

What a save by Benda after a shit pass by fryers put us in trouble.

Great save by Benda - Zeki is having a bit of a nightmare so far

What is Fryers playing at?

Rubbish 20 yard shot by them easy save for Benda.

Plymuff now 2 down.

Hes just not at the races today so far.

Colchester 2-0 Plymuff - Theo

Lovely.

Even worse shot from 40 yards nearly hits the corner flag.

Carlisle putting us under a bit of pressure the last 5 mins.

Hunt reading the long balls well so far, much better than Fryers.

Shot well wide from them on the edge of the box, nice move, shit shot.

Nice defending by Yates with a header to Benda.

Hope has been a bit of a passenger so far this half, not been too close to much play.

Doughty with yet another foul on the edge of our box.

Doughty’s terrible at tackling from behind isn’t he.

This looks very dangerous.

Exeter 1 up..

End that there!

Exeter 1 nil up over Stevenage

Blocked by our wall for a corner to them.

Thats a banker game.

Plymuff 3 down, agent Theo again

Plymouth Collapsing - 3 down now !!.

Excellent!

Town haven't looked in it for the last 5 to 10 mins.

REG has brought the ball out very confidently today. Looks like he gets Wellensball.

I will be happy if we can go in at half time 1-0 up.

He has, despite me being a bit nervy when he does that!

We are a bit light in midfield, 4 up front with only really Yates defending.
Dangerous spell this one for Carlisle.
Hopefully we make better use of the conditions in the 2nd half

Our big fucking German can't reach the half way line with a lot of the kicks so far. he is possibly the first Town keeper I have seen that is good with both feet.

Yes I think most of our problems stem from us facing the wind so far. Fryers excepted.

Why does he keep on saying Bradford are playing Orient. They're at home to Grimsby today. Or have I missed something?

When we actually get the ball to DJ they don't know how to deal with him except foul him.

Some lovely movement by Town, Doyle, DJ and Caddis all doing well.

3 mins added.

Carlisle sub already.

Yates down injured.

It’s Bradford on Avon against Leyton in the FA Vase.

Corner for Town, Hope should have done better with that shot before it.

Ah!

DJ and Caddis linking up well so far.

HT 1-0 to Town, happy with that.

Not the greatest performance so far, and perhaps a little fortunate to be ahead.

I know what we need. We need some half time ska.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAfqguL88tA

Maybe slightly lucky to be ahead, we have the wind second half though thankfully!

Thank God for the BFG!

Poor defensively - they seem to be able to pass through us up to the pen area. Saying that, when we actually get it down in their half we look likely to score again.

Fryers having a mare.

Get fryers off !! :headhurts: :headhurts:

Comment from Carlisle fan

‘Dirty hacking bastards’

Oh dear Plymouth  :)

Bit rich coming from the team who seem to be claiming decisions that I can't even work out what they're complaining about.

The ref is giving them almost everything, Doughty can't tackle to save his life.

DJ, Yates, Doyle, Grant, Benda, Caddis, Hunt, REG all having good games, Doughty very hit and miss should be better with the wind. Hope a passenger for 99% of the game so far, missed a good chance where he tried to be too flash with his shot instead of doing the easy thing. Fryers made one good interception but every pass has been wayward so far.

Town now with the wind behind them. COYR!!!!

Carlisle KO straight into touch near the corner flag.

Poor pass by Grant as we hit them on the break.

Now Crewe go a goal down at Oldham.

Crewe losing

Carlisles defence look really shakey but we need to get the ball down and run at them as thats what we do best.

Hate to say it - but carry on like this it will be a good day for us.

FVR losing

DJ fouled just 8 yards outside the box.

Att: 4,620 with 531 Town.

Did the flash go to this?  ???

Doughty free kick wide

It’s his first game back FFS. You clearly have a thing for Broadbent but we need at least one of Fryers or Baudry playing as much as possible.

Crewe now losing.

Not a great free kick by Doughty well over.

Corner Swindon

Poor corner

Yates wins a corner.

Can we retire this “joke”?

We are still quite poor at corners.

Yes but Flash does put the Wind in Swindon! :D

Wind very much with Swindon here. Carlisle struggling clearing the ball.

FFS the ball boys won't even get the ball for us.

DJ is, as the Yoot say, a baller

This x1000

Crewe equalise

Our 1st touch has been pretty poor so far this half, thats unusual for Town.

DJ brought down near the touchline 30 yards out.

Better free kick from Doughty just beyond Doyles head.

Oxford having their usual post Christmas slump.

All Town so far this half, not creating a lot yet though TBH.

Miserable git.

This pleases me.

Doughty runs into the box, he finds Doyle but Doyle goes down in the box, ref doesnt give it.

 :moon:

4620 with 531 town

Great interception by REG in the 6 yard box.

Shit.

1-1

See previous page ;)

Time for a sub methinks

bollocks

FFS

1-1 undeserved.

Against the run of play

Totally unmarked header from the corner.

Time to rally boys  :)

Nathan Thompson sent off against oxford...

We can't seem to get the ball down and do what we do best, pass and run.

Their player grabbed Benda’s shirt to stop him getting to the ball, should have been a foul.

Hope has been poor today.

Yep but the ref has given us nothing.

Hope coming off. Admiral on

I wonder if their manager will comment about that   :sherlock:

Muskwe for Hope.

Who gives a fuck

Easy save for Benda.

Admiral nearly scored. Good save

Shot by Admiral saved at the near post.

I much prefer Yates as a wide left player rather than wide right where he was first half.

Benda clearance a bit beyond Doyle out for a goal kick.

Northampton 0 PV 1

Fryers nearly sets up Caddis with a 60 yard pass.

cobblers  1 down

Terrible cross from Doughty after a nice passing move by Town.

Not a lot of quality on show today.

Great long shot by Doyle saved by the keeper, good dribble by Yates.

Admiral should have done better in the box.

Short corners . . why ?

Exeter 1-1 Now.

Top 3 all at 1-1 at the moment, not a bad day at the office if it stays like this.

Not been a great game, too few signs of skill as we attack from us to make the difference where it matters.

Carlisles defence is pretty crap, we havent tested them enough.

Shit, Exeter now 2-1.

Carlisle could easily have scored there, we got a bit lucky he didnt connect in the 6 yard box.

Now we are looking a little shakey.

Fair comment. As the man wearing orthopaedic shoes said " I stand corrected "

Why the fuck are we still hoofing the ball up in the air?

Isgrove on for DJ for the last minute.

Ha Grimsby equalise in the 90th

Woolery on for Doyle, buying some time.

Corner Carlisle

Phew

1-1 ft

Benda drops it but gets away with it.

FT 1-1 probably fair, not much quality from either team, not a great game.

How the frec did Fryers deserve 90 mins

fucking hell that was hard at the end

Move on. Games should start becoming a little 'easier'. I hope.

Not a good performance, passing was poor. Could do with a result at Northampton.

Suppose we have to be happy with that, Benda could have cost us in the dying seconds, Northampton lose, will that fire them up for Tuesday or are they on a downer ??.

Crewe score at the death !! Winning 2-1 Booo....

Can someone just turn the fucking wind machine off that must be in the Irish Sea?

Pretty much every game since September has been played in either a gale or with the rain pelting down.

Horrible game of football, neither team did much of note, a couple of chances each that were not taken.  Stick the point in the bag and take it home.

Fair result. Poor performance. Great point with other results.

That cuts our lead now to just 2 points,  Tuesday looks a 6 pointer now.

God that was a trial. Horrible game, very little control from either side. Credit to Carlisle for limiting our service up front. MoM probably REG for some very composed playing out, plus a goal.

Must win game

Crewe's, Exeter and Plymouth can equal our point with games in hand.
Tight up there.

Not quite. Crewe’s game in hand is against Exeter.

Not a good day with results elsewhere. Northampton losing at home for the first time in several months will make them even more fired up on Tuesday.

Shit.

I had Crewe and Exeter in my accumulator...and...they both won.
That doesn’t usually happen.

Tuesday nights games,       Crewe v Crawley,     Exeter v Oldham,     we definitely need a result at Sixfields.

1 hour ago I was happy

...or a Northampton are on the brink of a capitulation/wobble.

...or Town will be fired up after the injustice of the home game.

What will be, will be. Just need to prep accordingly and stay in those automatic places.

Not unhappy but twitchy bum time.

But did the others win ??.

It is tight, but it's fine, we're winning this league.

Sound like us?

‘Swindon are a brutal team in fairness, I didn't expect them to be so physical. They're your typical horrible southern team, full of those dirty, niggly little kicks on our players. Saying that though, we've defended quite well - and despite them kicking McKirdy out of the game we haven't let them bully us.’

Streamed it and haven't read back yet.

Overall, two points dropped but we nearly lost the point at the death.

Passing was too elaborate at times.

Both goals were soft....Brenda has to play the whistle for me...too weak.

Didn't play well enough in the second and a draw was a fair result but they were there for the taking.

Not too grumpy at an away point.

Draw away and win at home and we is up....a title would be a cherry.

Yes.

Let’s be honest. The chasing pack are pretty crap.

god damn it. we'd have won that if they hadn't turned their ground into a wind tunnel

If the referee did his job we’d be talking a professional 1-0  victory. Playing to the whistle is one thing but a foul on the keeper that blatant being missed sums up the refs in this league.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Possibly, although look on the bright side, a win today and on Tuesday would have had them right up our arse with a game in hand... it at least keeps them back a bit. Plymuff's defeat also means we can't drop put of the top 3 on Tuesday.

I'm not too worried. We may well lose/draw on Tuesday and possibly lose top spot, but I fully expect us to beat Scunny and Grimsby at home, and we'll pull away from the rest from March. This is our year.

It was a shit performance, but I'd always take a point away.

Regardless, we are still one point and one game closer to promotion.

As a matter of interest does anybody know how many points we've dropped from a winning position  and how many we've won from a losing position?

dunno, but it does feel like we've 'given' a fair few points away late on. I guess that didn't apply today but Benda got away with one

I'm sure some statto will prove that wrong.

On the road we've been ahead at Numb, Crewe, FGR and Colu and failed to win, Numb and FGR were drawn Crewe and ColU were defeats.... FGR, Numb and Crewe all involved late goals.  On the road we haven't won or drawn with a key late goal sthat I can think of.

Can only think of Exeter 1-1 Swindon (Doyle 88).

This, we didn't lose.

How late was the winner at Plymouth? Inside Last 15mins ?

Yep 13 mins.

Fact is, we’re a point better off regarding the 4th place team then we were before kick off.

Indeed.

I hope Plymouth's loss today will burst their bubble.

Oh, and Oxford lost 4-0 today.

It's looking increasingly likely that we'll be playing them next season. *touches wood*

At a services somewhere near Manchester. Haven't read back.

We were pretty shit for the entirety of the game, didn't deserve to win but they were pretty shite as well.

Decent enough point considering the other results. Big game on Tuesday

Just got home, what a dreadful game of football. Not sure what was going on with our midfield.

But a point is a point.

Annoying that result would look a whole lot better if Exeter hadn't (again) scored a late winner, but on balance it's a point away from home and 1/3 of a Williams Win. Win our home games and pick up points away and we're up. That'll do me. Bear in mind the chasing pack will drop points too, as Plymouth, Northampton and Cheltenham did today.

Too many attacking players up front for me.
Drop one and put in Lyden.
Midfield was bypassed too often today.

Nice position to be in but cant shoehorn them all in.

Kneejerk overreaction of the day goes to everyone's favourite Cheltenham fan for saying that Benda now has to be dropped in favour of McCormick :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Not sure what Benda was doing for their goal. Protesting mostly.

https://www.skysports.com/football/carlisle-vs-swindon/report/410825 (https://www.skysports.com/football/carlisle-vs-swindon/report/410825)

WTF is going on with our goal celebration? Looked like they were doing rhino impressions?

Freeze it as the cross comes in, Benda has his shirt pulled back as he’s about to come for the ball, absolute blatant foul.

Dropped for getting fouled, makes sense!

Yep, but you still play to the whistle though

Hey, he used to run a business and a small football team, now runs a Beefeater. He knows what he's talking about!

Indeed, it would go up to the strikers and literally nothing was coming from behind to support them.

Smacks of somebody looking for attention to me.

Sounds like a point was all we deserved.

Would have been a good set of results without the 97th min Crewe winner.  As it was still not too bad.  I think that at the end of season that will be 1 point won rather than 2 points dropped.

Get through Northampton (i.e. win or draw) and we are looking good.  And a loss not a disaster.

We are 6-4 to win league but 1-6 to get promotion which seems about right.  Easy to see how one or even two teams might overhaul us but not three.

Obviously not there yet but plenty of reasons to be confident.

Looked more sharky to me?

Used to run a pub called ‘The George’ in Tewkesbury. Made us all shut up when it got to 7:30 or 8pm so his regulars could watch Eastenders or Coronation Street. Needless to say he wasn’t around long.

And Tewkesbury was one destination where I learnt cellar work. Used to have loads of pubs IIRC.

Brief thoughts of yesterday as a first time seeing them play in the flesh this season. Probably first time been excited to go to a game since the Di Canio season, after reading good reviews on here, can only assume we had a stinker!

Benda is good with his feet and bright for a keeper (something their keeper was sorely lacking), might have been a foul as couldn't see but play to the whistle, one good save.

Fryers/REG - Fryers passing was crap but possibly just rusty, REG is a proper player, great on the ball (albeit gets your heart rate up when he is dicking their centre forward) and can defend, reckon he will go somewhere in the game and I can say down the pub that I saw his first pro goal. Incidentally the Carlisle fans I travelled back with were most impressed with the quality of our centre halves rather than anyone else.

Hunt/Caddis thought both played well, Caddis (who looks about 50) especially was well up for it second half,  assume we had identified their left back as a weak link as most things went that way.

Midfield, what the bloody hell was going on there. Grant didn't really catch the eye but was efficient, Doughty cannot tackle and whilst he tried some clever balls they didn't pay off, DJ his fucking huge (had always assumed he was  typical little tricky player) great skill but needs to learn that dribbling around their whole team whilst going across the pitch doesn't achieve a great deal (seems to be our version of Sterling in a way) whilst Hope lived up to his Carlisle nickname of Hallam no Hope, after about an hour I had to resort to my phone to see who was our other midfielder was he had been so anonymous.

Up front you can tell Doyle and Yates have class, but with no service and no support they had no hope and just dropped deeper and deeper looking for the ball. I assume we have been much better in this department as on yesterday cannot see how they could have 10 goals between them, let alone 30+

It was fairly obvious from early in the second half that the system wasn't working as there was a massive gap between the midfield and strikers and Carlisle were just mopping everything up in that area, don't recall us ever winning a second ball, Wellens possibly needs to take some of the blame for not changing it but hey ho. He can talk about us creating chances, but we only troubled their keeper once and that from a shot outside the area.

Carlisle were apathetic, long balls (mainly straight to Benda, their keeper must have kicked 5-6 goal kicks straight to Benda first half, I know its windy but not rocket science) no.7 looked quite handy but that was about it. Going up the Carlisle fan we went with (used to be a regular doesnt bother now) said the fans are sick of shit football (reinforced by the fact we met three of his mates in the pub before the game, all old regulars and none came to the game with us choosing instead to go out on the lash in town), they were very quiet and bizarrely seemed to ignore Hope until he got hooked then made a big deal of booing him.

All a bit meh really, but a point is a point. If they could turn up at Morecambe that would be nice.

Feel a bit sorry for you. I watch every game home and away on ifollow from spain and I would say that was one of our worst performances of the season

I know it’s early days, but I can’t see any benefit of having Hope over Woolery. I know he’s scored twice but does very little else. Woolery, whilst frustrating, puts a shift in, decent in the air, is involved somewhere along the line in a lot of our goals and scares defences shitless with his pace.

Tuesday needs an extra body in midfield - Lyden for Hope - and Broadbent is a must against another mega hoofing side.

I'd rather see Isgrove for Hope. Isgrove on the right, Yates on the left, Doyle in the middle.

I agree, it was a really poor performance, not a great one to be your first of the season to see in person. Horlock take the blame :D

Same for me, Hope has not impressed me in any game so far even though he has scored 2 goals. Yates is better wide left IMO and only looks comfortable there.

DJ probably has to play and I know he has his haters but even Woolery offers more than Hope for me.

Its still early though and he could come good, a it like Bennett last season when his first 3 games he was useless but improved no end afterwards.

Far too early to say hes not good enough but hes way behind the players we had already at the club.

I'd also say the same about Hope. But it's early days.

Just hope - no pun intended - that Wellens doesn’t feel he has to play him because he wanted to sign him and he cost money.

I thought that too, I hope hes not stubborn about it, every player must earn his place.

As always some comments from Carlisle fans about the game.


They seem to think we are dirty and cynical in the main, ok then, they obviously havent seen Newport or Lincoln last season!

And if that was them playing some of their best football of the season, wow poor bastards have seen some shit this season.

That was up with probably our worst 3 or 4 performances of the season, we should have buried them when we were on top TBH we always sit back too much when we go a goal up, which frustrates me a lot.

Apologies if this has been answered but how many did we take up there?

Agree about Hope.
The team needs to be setup to get the best out of Doyle.
Not sure that it's quite there at the moment.
Might be because we seem to have gone a bit more direct in recent games, so lost a bit of control in midfield as a result, but I'd put that down to having to adjust to the conditions more than anything.

Grant brushed past me as the delay repay train was pulling into Euston last night.
He looks a lot smaller in err real life than he does on the pitch if that makes any sense.

Yeah I have stood next to Grant and he looks just normal in size, but on the pitch he looks like a beast, could be thats because of the propensity of players now being very slight and thin athletes, whereas Grant is a solid unit of muscle.

530.

The 1 was me and I am already up there!

Would that be the Anderton who in the second half when a couple of throws were given by their corner flag ended up taking near the half way line whilst having little love chats with the linesman.

Strangely quiet on their player booting Yates in the head as well.

Btw in terms of officials buggering up, FWIW, that late corner that benda dropped was never a corner. My FiL was stood in the paddock on that side in line with the goal line (it was near the toilet and after 4 pre match points he had 3 visits in the first half alone), it never went out by a Mike and should have been a throw at most.

This should possibly go in the winds me up thread.

Why were we wearing our away shirts, the fact that it was shirts only suggests to me it was not altogether planned, was it because their keeper was in orange?

As always some comments from Carlisle fans about the game.
That was up with probably our worst 3 or 4 performances of the season, we should have buried them when we were on top TBH we always sit back too much when we go a goal up, which frustrates me a lot.


But you never went a goal up !!!.