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" I think that people are getting a bit fed up with the sideshow of my job and how I feel. We want to win games of football, I am getting fed up with it as well and I want to just put it to bed and say to leave that alone, get on the training ground with the team and try to improve it. That is what people want me to do, they are not really bothered how I am or what is going on with me. I am still here, I am in charge on Saturday and I am going to take a team out there that I hope will improve and do better things for everybody.
" Life does go on but it is very important that while you are in the environment that you are, and we are both working for our various companies connected to Carlisle United, that we do our very best. You do that, and I try my very best to work as hard as I can and get things as well as I want them to be. In those periods you get your ups and downs and you have to deal with it, in the same way that supporters want the team to get better.
" I felt that the reaction of people on Tuesday was very good, because it is so easy to come and just say that people can't do this and can't do that. To be constructive and support your team when they are not doing very well though is a real test for everybody.
" We are trying hard to change things around a little bit and move it about because the circumstances don't allow us to maybe be as consistent as we would like to be in team selection and stuff like that. We are trying to find the right formula and the right people to get this situation better. That is my total focus and my total priority and I will work the best I can to try to get that done.
" On Wednesday night I think that one of your gentlemen asked me a question after the game and asked if I had lost the dressing-room. On Wednesday night that whole dressing-room was together at the racecourse for the charity evening. There were guys on the catwalk having a good time, which is something they are not used to, but having a fun night.
" That was the idea of the evening, to raise money and have a fun night. My whole squad of players, my whole staff, the board of directors, were all there together. That for me answers that question in absolute volumes, that there is a togetherness here, there is something that we want to get right. None of us like it at the moment but we are trying very hard, both on and off the pitch, to stay together and work hard at turning this round.
" When we do then everyone will be pleased with the way that we have done it and we will all be better for it. The sideshow for me though should stop and we should concentrate on the team. That is where I am coming from, I won't comment on anything other than the team now and I think that is the right way.
" Nobody is really interested in me, they are interested in the team and getting it right, it is Carlisle United that we should be looking at and that is the first and foremost thing. The most important thing for me at the moment is looking after Carlisle United to the best of my ability, and I will do that. "