United media officer and first team kitman Andy Hall spoke to BBC Radio Cumbria's James Phillips shortly before Carlisle's League One match away to Huddersfield, Hall first talking about the splendour of the Galpharm Stadium :
" There are a few more of these new purpose built stadiums around now that we are going to more and more these days. One of the ones that hit the spot, I don't know whether it is because it is multi-purpose, whether it is a leisure facility and a rugby stadium and a football stadium all in one I don't know but this one works.
" It was a crushing defeat at Colchester at the time, it was a hammer blow to the stomach. But the reaction afterwards from the manager (Greg Abbott) and from the lads themselves, because what they are looking at, and I think it is right to do this at this stage of the season, are the positives.
" The way that they are playing, the 45 minutes that we have seen in the first-halves against so many teams recently, if we can transfer that to 90 minutes, which isn't an easy thing to do, then we are going to be a very difficult team to beat.
" That is the message that has been hammered home by Greg Abbott today, yesterday, over the last couple of days, is that the team has got to play that football for 90 minutes. Whether it is concentration, it is definitely not fitness, we know that from the boys, whatever it is they have got to find that ingredient and then we are going to be a very difficult team to deal with.
" You are looking at games where it looks comfortable, you think all we have to do now is not so much shut up shop, but nothing naïve, nothing silly, keep the ball, pass it around. Whatever happens, you can say that you give the home side in those situations a bit of momentum and you are in trouble, and we have seen that a couple of times in recent weeks. "
" It is Greg's decision all ends up on Tom Taiwo and Paul Thirlwell, he has got to make his decision on who starts the game. What he has done is he has looked at his players, with Tom in particular he is a young lad who played a real run of games and he was starting them. I think everybody would agree that he was starting to look a bit tired towards the end of those games.
" Greg has chosen this period here where the pitches are heavy, where the games are full on, where he is going to have a look at other options in midfield. Certainly with the way that he is playing this five across the middle, and I know he hates me saying it but it is a five across the middle, and they get forward when they can.
" The way he is playing that it is more suited in his opinion to the players that he is choosing at the moment. Tom can play football as well, if you think back to that Everton game and the way that he played, Tom Taiwo has got a massive part in what Greg wants to do. I think it really is just a case of looking at who he has got and how best he wants to use them at the moment.
" It is easy for new players to settle in at Brunton Park, anybody who is following the Twitter page that I do will see the kind of fun things that are going on all the time. That is the kind of place that it is, yes they take it seriously because if you get a couple of defeats or you lose a couple of goals in the second-half as we have been, you have to find out why and you have to work at putting that right.
" But behind all of that is a real sense of this team is united at the moment, they want to move forward, we want to progress. Certainly the atmosphere we have got down there helps that. "