Carlisle frontman, and current Yeovil-loanee Paddy Madden spoke to the official Glovers website ahead of Town's League One game at home to United tomorrow afternoon, Madden disappointed not to be able to play in the match:
“As a player you want to play all the games you can so it will be hard to not be preparing for the game, but hopefully the lads will go out there and get a result. I am only on loan here until January but at the moment I am a Yeovil player and I want to do well for Yeovil, I have come here to get games and I am loving it at the moment but whichever team wins I will do well.
“I think we have some good players in the squad here and we are good enough to get into the play-offs, so we are all rooting to get in there. Everyone around the club has made me feel very welcome and this feels like home now here, I am loving it and I have settled into the style of play and it feels like my club. It doesn’t feel like I am actually on loan, it does feel like home, it is a great place to be.”
Meanwhile midfielder Ed Upson spoke to the official Town website at the end of his recent four match ban:
“There is nothing worse than just being able to watch and not being able to have any influence on the game. It makes it easier when the lads win obviously but it has not been nice at all. I can’t wait for Saturday now to get going again and get playing, we had a great start to the season and then a bad spell and now we are picking it up again and are flying again really. Carlisle are obviously below us in the table and are a team that we will be looking to beat to put more distance between us and them, so, we are looking for a positive result.”
In team news for the Glovers tomorrow, who were only able to name five substitutes in their 1-0 win at Crawley on Tuesday, they look likely to still have quite a few players missing through injury. Winger Nathan Ralph being out with ankle ligament damage, while left-back Nathan Ralph is sidelined having undergone surgery on a cyst in his knee.
Meanwhile, midfielder Dominic Blizzard has been missing recently with an unspecified injury and striker Reuben Reid missed the victory in midweek at the Broadfield Stadium with a minor knock. During that game defenders Luke Ayling and Byron Webster both picked up minor problems, Webster to his foot, and so their participation in the Carlisle game is uncertain.
The final Town absentee being frontman Paddy Madden who is unavailable for the Glovers tomorrow due to the terms of his loan spell from Brunton Park. In better news for Yeovil boss Gary Johnson though he does have Ed Upson back from suspension now that the midfielder has served out a four match ban after picking up two red cards this season.
Johnson then yesterday, on emergency loan deadline day with no contracted players now able to move clubs until the January transfer window, getting some cover in his defensive ranks by signing 22-year old centre-half Dale Bennett on loan from Watford. The former Latvia manager at the same time allowing left-back Curtis Haynes-Brown to move to Blue Square Bet Premier outfit Cambridge United on a temporary basis until the New Year.
The referee for tomorrow's match is Stephen Martin from Stafford and he will be assisted down the lines by William Bull from Southampton and Neil Radford from Worcester. Meanwhile the fourth official is Richard Hulme from Bath.