United chief executive David Allen spoke to BBC Radio Cumbria's Paul Newton on Wednesday morning about last night's floodlight farce at Grays, Allen suggesting that Carlisle might look to take further action :
" We are obviously very, very disappointed, the fact that players and fans turned up a week earlier down at Grays and they couldn't get the floodlights to work at all and that game was abandoned. I would have thought that Grays could have had it sorted for last night. They were blaming the water in the Thames rising and the damp getting into the electrics. I think that in 2008, I think that excuses like that, they should be doing something better.
" We don't have confirmation yet on when the game will be replayed. The Football Association offices open at 9am so John Nixon is down at the club now and he is going to speak to them at 9am. I know that it has been talked about having it a week on Saturday, we are hoping that we can get it changed to next Tuesday night. Playing the game tonight was no good either was it.
" Grays should forfeit the right to have the game at their own ground and that is something that John Nixon is going to mention to the Football Association. The rules are as we understand it though is that it is to be played at their ground so unfortunately we are working on that basis. We will know more this morning but we are working on the basis that it is going to be away at Grays and hopefully it will be on the Tuesday night and not on the Saturday. We will try to let people know later this morning though as soon as we get confirmation.
" Making an official complaint has been discussed and we will have a meeting about it later this morning and decide exactly what we are doing. Obviously it is very, very unfair on the club, Andrew Jenkins has been a director for 49 years and he has never seen anything like it before where a match has actually got abandoned. There was one where some floodlights went out for a while and they were got back on, but not to have a game abandoned altogether.
" Part of the Football Association rules in these games are that the club does get its expenses back, so the club won't be out of pocket with the expenses. What the club is going to do, the club is very sympathetic for the fans who travelled, it is an awful long way to go just for a few minutes of football like that and then travel all the way back.
" So what we will do, any of the fans who travelled with Blues Travel, the official club coaches, the club will put coaches on again for the replay at no cost. If there are any of the fans who can't travel to the replay then the club will reimburse them the cost that they paid for the travel. "