Glovers striker Steve MacLean spoke to the official Yeovil website ahead of his side's League One game against Carlisle at Huish Park tomorrow, MacLean looking for Town to put on a good performance at home :
“It is a big game, especially when we got a good result last week away to Colchester, so it is important we move on from there and look to try to put on a performance at home, we let ourselves down the last time we played at home and it is a big game for us and we are looking forward to it. It is important that we win our home games and then when we go away we pick up points, at home we owe ourselves one, we owe each other one and we owe the fans one as well so we are going to be up for it and we are looking forward to the game.
“I think we have showed in spells that we are a good side but we have got to put it all together in one and hopefully it starts on Saturday. Carlisle are a good side, I know a couple of the players, big Lee Miller upfront who is a good player and they have had an OK start, so they will come down here and they will work hard and they will put us under pressure, but we have got enough in the dressing room to hopefully turn them over. I think if we turn up and we do the simple things well and we do things right then hopefully we will win the game.
“Doing the double over them last season doesn’t make any difference, the only thing it might be is that they will know that and they will be looking to turn us over, so I think we have just got to approach the game positively and take it from there and go at them and try to get the three points. First and foremost we have got to give the fans energy and give them the will to win, so hopefully we can do that and the good play will come and the goals will fall and we will win the game.
“We are in the relegation zone just now so we need to try to get out of that, and if we can string a few results together then you never know in this league. I think we are better but the table doesn’t lie, so we have got to prove that we deserve to win games, and we have done well in patches but we have got to put it all together and start going on a run.”
While fellow frontman Gavin Massey commented to the official Yeovil website :
“It is another big game at home, so we have got to show our fighting spirit that we showed last Saturday, and even in the later stages of Bournemouth of what we can do. We are not a team that should be in the relegation zone, but there are a lot of games to play for, a lot of points to play for and I am pretty sure that we will get out of it, it is no problem."
In team news for the Glovers tomorrow we have to start in goal where they have had a big concern this week. That being that goalkeeping coach Gareth Stewart was having to prepare to put the gloves back on this weekend after 19-year old loanee stopper Jed Steer had to return to parent club Norwich City this week with a thigh injury. Glovers boss Terry Skiverton ending that possibility today though by signing Czech Republic under-21 international, Marek Stech, 21, on loan from West Ham for five weeks.
Aside from that problem Town also have five players definitely out of action tomorrow, the quintet being Dominic Blizzard, Kerrea Gilbert, Jonathan Obika, Andy Williams and Gavin Williams. Short term-wise former Bristol Rovers midfielder Blizzard is absent with a knee injury while ex-Arsenal right-back Kerrea Gilbert is missing due to a hamstring problem.
More long-term on the treatment table midfielder Gavin Williams and striker Obika, who scored in both games against Carlisle last season, are out with knee ligament injuries, while winger Andy Williams is sidelined with an ankle problem. Meanwhile, there are also doubts over the participation of Carlisle-born centre-half Paul Huntington who is rated as 60-40 to play after dislocating a finger in Yeovil's 2-2 draw at Colchester last weekend, and right-back Luke Ayling is also expected to feature despite suffering a broken nose in the same game.
The referee for tomorrow's match is Surrey FA man Carl Berry from Cheam and he will be assisted down the lines by Simon Knapp from Bristol and Colin Lymer from Basingstoke in Hampshire. Meanwhile the fourth official is Adam Nunn from Trowbridge in Wiltshire.