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" I've been patient, but it's up to me to take my chance now. It's my job to prove to the manager (Gary Johnson) that I'm worth a place in the starting line-up. I didn't want James (Wesolowski) to get injured and I didn't want Grant (McCann) to get suspended because it's not good for the team.
" We want to win promotion and to do that you have to keep the injuries and suspensions to a minimum. But I will do my best to keep my place. Everyone at the club wants to play, but we are also all right behind the manager and the decisions he makes.
" Whatever happens on or off the pitch at a match is forgotten before the next game comes around. We've forgotten Tuesday night already. The biggest disappointment for us was not dealing with the circumstances better. Many teams will come and try and break our rhythm because they know how dangerous we are going forward, but we have to cope with it.
" It's a big game for us tomorrow because the sides are so close in the table. If we can win away from home at the teams around us at the top we are not going to be far away at the end. Carlisle will be tough opponents, but we know what we have to do. "
In team news for the visitors tomorrow they will first be without influential skipper Grant McCann who is suspended for three games after being sent off for a bad foul on Alan Judge in the controversial 3-2 defeat at home to Notts County on Tuesday, that has seen both sides charged by the FA after a brawl erupted on the pitch at the end of the match.
Fellow midfielder James Wesolowski and centre-half Ryan Bennett also being sidelined for the Posh as they both sit out the game with knee injuries. On the other side of the coin for Peterborough though winger Lee Frecklington and right-back Mark Little look likely to be part of the visitors matchday squad again after coming back from their own knee problems.
The referee for tomorrow's match is Peter Quinn from Middlesbrough, and he will be assisted down the lines by Paul Davison from Stockton-on-Tees and Duncan Street from Wakefield. Meanwhile the fourth official is Paul Kettlewell from Lancaster.