Cherries boss Lee Bradbury spoke to BBC Radio Solent and the Bournemouth Echo ahead of his side's League One match against Carlisle at Brunton Park tomorrow, Bradbury hoping the Cherries can get back on track after losing their last two games :
"We have picked up quite a few injuries and haven't had the results that we would have wanted in the last week. So, we are looking forward to another game now to try to put things right again, a big chance for us now to go up to Carlisle and put that right. Losing at home to Southampton on Saturday was a massive blow, it is a big game for the fans and everyone concerned but it is still three points that every game is worth and we will be trying to get as many as we can as we go along the road and it is on to the next one I'm afraid. But, it is disappointing and so was Tuesday, but it is how we bounce back from it. We need to go on another run that we have been on in the previous ten games before that and see where that takes us.
“The top seven have managed to pull away and there are some amazing runs in there. Huddersfield are unbeaten in 16, which is their best run for about 84 years, and Orient are also flying. Peterborough are winning games convincingly and Brighton and Southampton are also going well. We have also been on a great run. We have had a two-match blip and that will happen to them as well. We just need to make sure we get back to winning ways.
"I think some people can get a bit carried away thinking we should be top or second. At the start of the season, if anyone had said we would slip from second to fifth in the middle of March, we would have thought happy days! I think everybody deserves a bit of credit for the progress we have made. The team has made giant strides to be pushing some of the bigger clubs in the division. We have only lost two in 12 and three in 16 since the turn of the year. We know we need to turn a corner after two defeats and need to start putting some points on the board again.
"The squad have been fine, they have been training hard and they are looking forward to a game on Saturday now to try to put things right. I have changed my approach a little bit after the defeats, you have obviously got to try to get them back up, not get them motivated because they are a motivated group anyway, but just get their chins up a little bit. Tell them to look forward because things have gone now and all we can concentrate on is what we can effect, and that is Saturday, so let's try 100% and prepare right for that.
"Luckily the club are doing it right for us and we are flying to give us the best chance possible. We don't want to be sitting on a coach for eight and a half hours and pick up injuries from that. The lads can get stiff backs and strains from sitting on there for eight or nine hours. It is brilliant that the club are flying us up and dolng it right at a time when it is vital for us to try to push on.
"They came to me and asked if I would like to fly and it would be a good time for us to do it, obviously I said yes and that it would be great for us to do that, to get an hour flight instead of eight hours on the coach is brilliant for the lads, because boredom and all that sets in. It is a long trip, but having said that, the fans will make that journey and fair play to them for doing that, it is brilliant for us. The supporters can continue to play their part. They have been brilliant and been right behind us from day one and have really pushed us on. We need all of them to stay with us from now until the end of the season, being 100% behind us.
"Carlisle are a little bit up and down aren't they, they drew 1-1 against Plymouth on Tuesday and they will be looking to turn a corner a little bit as well from losing 6-0 at Peterborough on the Saturday so it will be a good game for us. They have got a good pitch there, a big wide pitch with good grass on it and hopefully it will be the sort of game that we can express ourselves in and come out with a positive result. I remember our last time there and it is for all the wrong reasons really because we got relegated. It is something that lives in the memory and it sticks with you forever and it is not something that as a player you want to come across very often at all, if it all. It is the other side of the game that you want to experience, which is the promotion and the play-offs and all that sort of stuff. and the success stories, which we have got a great chance of still doing something."