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" Carlisle have had a few changes of personnel. They've got loan players in from Leeds and Manchester United, they've got Craig Curran who played for us, they've got James Berrett who we were trying to get in the summer and they've got Mike Grella up front who we've been trying to get for a number of months. So we're quite familiar with them.
" Craig gives 100% all the time, it's just in his make up. He was fantastic around the place and he's a great lad. You have to calm him down sometimes, you have to stop him training and exercising. If he sees someone else picking 50 kilos up he'll want to pick 60 up. He's that type. It's something fans don't see. They just see the performance on the Saturday, not what's gone into making that performance. Craig is one of the two or three most hard working pros I've ever worked with.
" We see with our own lads that when they are playing against one of their own teams there is a little bit more of a spark there, and Craig will be the same. You hope that they don't play against you because they will be doing everything that they can to put one over on you.
" We've done OK away from home and let's hope that it continues because we need to keep the momentum going. We need to be going to Bournemouth on Saturday with a run of results going for us. The lads have got to be full of confidence, I think we had a reversal there last year, I think Shaleum Logan got sent off just before half-time and we never dealt with that and we ended up being beaten 3-0.
" We will go there full of confidence, we will go there looking for a result, we say before every game that we don't go into any game looking for a draw. We go into every game looking for a win and then we just take what comes along. They're now probably going out expecting to win and expecting to score goals, and as we all know confidence plays a massive part in football. If our lads go out feeling that they're going to win we're always going to be close. "
" Mid-table has got to be our aim, we are forever being told we haven't had two consecutive wins, well we have now. If everybody was keen to put the fact that we went out of the Johnstone's Paint Trophy to Accrington, everyone was keen to put that down as a defeat. So, I am keen to put it in as a victory, so we are looking at it that way, so we are looking at it as three victories on the trot.
" Getting injured players back is two fold. One is that you've got the extra players to call upon. The other side is that when you're only travelling with 17 pros and the six that you've got on the bench are near enough all from one area of the pitch position wise, players on the pitch don't feel any pressure to perform because there's nobody pushing them.
" Suddenly when you've got 21 pros to pick from, there's people on the bench who are quality players and there's people not even on the bench who are quality players so people have to perform to stay in the team. Cresser (Aaron Cresswell) is a good example of that because up to now he's been the only one in the team who has had a ready made back up to step into his shoes.
" Without a doubt Dale (Jennings) is going to get special attention. Teams will look at his performances over the last few games and think they've got to do something to stop him. It means there will be games when we don't get that much out of Dale because teams will double up markers on him. There are positive things from that as far as we are concerned.
" There's only ten outfield players on either side and if the opposition take two players to calm Dale down, that means we have got to have a free player somewhere else. Dale is a quiet lad who gets on with things. He has taken things in his stride. Touch wood it has not affected him yet and I don't think it will. We will try to keep his feet on the floor. "
The visitors have numerous selection problems ahead of tonight's match, starting off at left-back where they are two players down, Aaron Cresswell continuing to be out with a hip injury, while Zoumana Bakayogo serves a one-match ban after a two yellow card sending-off in Tranmere's 4-2 home win over MK Dons on Saturday.
Staying at the defensive end of the field Manchester City-loanee goalkeeper Gunnar Nielsen has been sidelined since pre-season with a shoulder cartilage injury. While finally further up the pitch Rovers are without a trio of midfielders, the missing triumvirate for the Wirral club being Paul McLaren (back), Ash Taylor (knee) and Alan Mahon (knee).
The referee for tonight's match is Eddie Ilderton from Shiremoor in North Tyneside, and he will be assisted down the lines by Dave McCallum from Wallsend and another Tyne and Wear man in Seb Stockbridge from Dunston. Meanwhile the fourth official is Glen Hart from Darlington.