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JP
Your feelings on that game today? It must be tough for the players to take, coming back and then losing it at the death?
CC
Yeah, we are devastated but that is the way it goes. We didn't turn up in the first-half so that is what happens.
JP
What do you put that down to? Greg Abbott has been talking about the injury situation and it is right that people do because you are missing a lot of players out of the squad in key areas. But, the way that you played in the second-half shows that it was always within you but it didn't just quite happen in the first 45.
CC
Yeah, it is a shame that it took us so long to get into it. It is a shame we couldn't have started like that, we have got a lot of top players missing but we showed we could have done it in the second-half. Hopefully we can start like that in the first-half next week.
JP
It is always easy for fans and commentators to say what should happen from up here in the stands, but do you yourself feel you really should have got your second and third goals today with that opportunity you got early in the game?
CC
Yeah, but we move on and we go again next week and that is the way it has got to be. I can't change the past, I can just work on what is going to happen next week.
JP
What did you feel when you did get the goal though? You must have been delighted to get that and at a key time as well because it was the one that really put Carlisle properly on that fightback.
CC
I just wanted to get restarted as quick as possible and get the third one. At 3-3 I was thinking that we were going to get a fourth one and again we were punished.
JP
In terms of having two such awful injuries as the club had going into the game and then getting two more key ones with Francois Zoko and James Chester going off. Were the players starting to feel maybe that the world was against them at that stage and at 2-0 and then 3-0 down as well?
CC
I think it is hard not to, but we can't let that happen. The lads that come in are good enough players, we have got a squad full of good players, not just a first eleven. I am sure that the lads that do come in will do just as good a job.
JP
What was the manager saying to you at full-time then?
CC
Well, we were all devastated really, but he was saying that we have got to start better, which was clear for everyone to see. We know that ourselves and I think that is something that we have got to put right.
JP
Someone once said that you learn more out of defeats than victories, in terms of the way you fought back as well, what does it tell you about what you can do next time out at Bristol Rovers?
CC
It shows us that we can do it, but it also shows us that we can't be naïve and we can't give teams too much respect, especially when we are at home. I think that is something we can learn for the season coming.
JP
In terms of yourself individually, our co-commentators Jeff (Thorpe) and Tommy Cassidy as well this season have sung from the hilltops about the work that you put in for Carlisle United. But, do you think that you do need to add one or two more goals to your game?
CC
That is the plan, nothing has changed, I am still the last one off the training field to try to put that right, which is something I want to put right, so it is something I will be working just as hard on. So, it is not something I am just letting go by me, I am working on it and that it something that will come.
JP
And what will you and the players do now to try to get ready over this next week? I guess just trying to patch up your team-mates and get as many of you out there on the field at Bristol Rovers?
CC
Yeah, we have got a good squad and I am sure whoever steps in will do a good job. We have just got to start right from the first minute next week and not the first five minutes of the second-half or after 30 minutes or 60 minutes. We have got to start right out of the blocks.