United striker Danny Cadamarteri (DC) spoke to BBC Radio Cumbria's Paul Newton (PN) this afternoon ahead of Carlisle's League One match at home to Notts County on Saturday, Cadamarteri expecting an open challenge for the title this season:
DC
I think that it's going to be very open, I don't think that you could at this moment in time turn round and say you expect one team to go out and win the league outright like last season. By the same token I don't think you could put your money on who you would expect to be relegated either.
I think if you would have expected Tranmere to be unbeaten in this division and flying, knocking teams three and four and five each game and heading the table at this point in the season then you wouldn't have expected it. So, that gives you an indication that nothing can be taken for granted in this division now.
We have had a reasonable opportunity to get to know each other and we have had a couple of loan players coming in and bedding in now. We had Jake Jervis in for a while and getting myself and Mike (Edwards) coming in as well, and the new loanees coming in as well with Kallum Higginbotham as well.
So, they have got to take a little bit of time to bed in, but at the end of the day we are all professionals and this happens in football, players come in and out. So, we have got to be professional and just adapt. I think that as maybe some of the loan players coming get a little bit more of an understanding I think you will start to see even better performances from the team.
PN
Talking about the bedding in period, you didn't seem to need that, you seem very at home already at your new club?
DC
It is maybe a little bit easy for players like myself and Mike Edwards who are a little bit older, we have been about the houses for a few years and are used to coming into new dressing rooms. I am quite an outgoing person anyway so I try to fit in anywhere. So, it was a little bit easier and with the dressing room we have got where they are some enthusiastic young lads and some outgoing kids as well that we have got playing then it is easy to fit in.
I have been a little bit surprised to get some of the man of the match awards, obviously I am flattered and at the end of the day you look at your performances and you are judged on your performances by goals. I have probably not scored as many goals as I would have liked to, but again my performances can only be judged by the efforts of my team-mates that they put in as well.
So, I have been fortunate that in quite a few of the games the lads have performed and helped me to perform. Obviously, you are always confident in your own ability, and I know what I am capable of and I still think there is a little bit more to come as well.
PN
You mentioned the goals there, do you set yourself a target at the start of the season of how many goals you would like to get?
DC
No, I gave up setting myself targets years ago because I tended to find myself starting off the first couple of games of the season at clubs playing as a striker, and before I knew it I was playing either left wing, right wing, left wing-back or right wing-back. So, if I set myself a target of 15 goals as a striker and then find myself playing at left wing-back it might be a little bit difficult to try to reach that target.
So, from my own point of view the most important thing is to play as many games as possible and as many minutes on the pitch, have as much impact and contribution to the team performances and be able to sit back at the end of the season having achieved something. Hopefully a promotion and say that I have had a lot of minutes on the pitch, I have played a telling contribution and been a major part in where the club has gone.