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"This is somewhere we should enjoy playing and somewhere teams should fear coming. That's what we need to get to. We need to turn it into a place like that, and that's fans included. If teams turn up and it's loud and they don't fancy it then it gives us even more of a chance.
"Maybe teams don't feel intimidated here anymore. It's probably down to the season we've had so far. They come here and think they can get at us at home, and obviously they're going to try and use that to their advantage so we have to turn that around and try and turn the results around.
"Some teams come here to defend, to make it difficult for you and hit you on the break. That's something you have to adapt to in the games, but if we set out straight away to get at them and attack them straight from the start then that might change things.
"It certainly helps the buzz when the fans are right behind us and cheering everything we do and I think that will have an effect on the opposition. So the louder they are the better. A few people have doubted us saying we're not playing as a team, but that's definitely not the case. We are still together, we are in it together and we can get out of it together."
Meanwhile Spurs-loanee striker Jonathan Obika commented to the Advertiser :
"It will be my home debut and the players are looking for that elusive win - I definitely feel we will get that on Saturday. I thought as a team we played really well (against Colchester last time out) and the whole team is buzzing around the camp, we're looking forward to this weekend definitely.
"I haven't been here long but I know that everyone in the team have been talking to each other, geeing each other up. Everyone was buzzing before the (Colchester) game and I think that showed on the pitch. We took confidence from the performance, of course the result didn't go our way, but we know that this Saturday we can put it right.
"Playing with Elliot Benyon is going really well, we're starting to know each other's game a bit. In a way it's good the game on Tuesday got cancelled because it gives us more time in training to make it work. We're all looking up, we're good enough to get out of the position we're in and we're all focused on the job in hand."
And midfielder Matt Ritchie told BBC Wiltshire :
"I am confident we will not get relegated, we've got too much in the dressing room. We believe we're OK, we'll be fine, we just need to put it all in to place and start winning on the pitch. We have the right people around us in the manager, the coaching staff and the lads around the dressing room."
In team news for Town tomorrow they will definitely be missing three players, two of whom have played for Carlisle in the past. Pacey winger Alan O'Brien once more being sidelined with a hamstring strain, while striker Vincent Pericard has been struggling with a knee injury for several weeks now. The third of the Robins absent being former Celtic left-back Milan Misun who also has a knee problem.
Elsewhere in the home squad, young right-back Nathan Thompson is struggling with an ankle injury, and another youngster in 18-year old frontman Billy Bodin has suffered from both illness and an ankle problem recently. Finally the availaibility of French Guyanan-born defender Jean-Francois Lescinel tomorrow rests upon the fate of his wife who is due to give birth this week.
The referee for tomorrow's match is Dean Whitestone from Northampton and he will be assisted down the lines by Mark Howes from Solihull in the West Midlands and Mark Pottage from Wincanton in Somerest. Meanwhile the fourth official is Andy Hendley from Halesowen in the West Midlands.