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" Obviously I have played against Carlisle or have been involved in teams that have played against Carlisle for the last three seasons. Every time that I have played against Carlisle it has been tough games you know, obviously my first season I think that you made the play-offs and then you were very unlucky not to go up. Then I think that last year was a very false position for the club.
" Looking at the team and training with the boys for the first time today there was no way that what I saw out there today was a team that only stayed up on the last game of the season. So the potential is definitely here for us to get back up into that top half of the league and pushing for that play-off position, so hopefully we can do that again this season and get back to where they were a couple of seasons ago.
" Obviously I have been at Chelsea, Watford and Millwall for a few years, so I am still young, I am only 25 but as a goalkeeper that is still pretty young. I just hope that my experience does come through in ways that I can't really explain, but I just think that I can mature a little bit and get to learn the game. You see what is happening in the game a little bit more, you don't get too carried away making rash decisions and stuff really. So hopefully I will just be a more consistent goalkeeper.
" I have signed a year's deal so I will be living up here for a year initially. They are all the clubs in the capital before and I have never lived outside London all my life, so it is going to be a fresh start up here but I am looking forward to it. I think that it was time for me for a fresh start, so I thought why not give it a go you know.
" I think that it was 65 games that I played for Millwall and they were all in League One, so I know what this league is about now. Before I hadn't played in this league but I know what it is about and it is about going away to lesser teams on a Tuesday night and really digging in.
" It is not always about your flair players and that, it is a lot about mental attitude and the way that you approach games and being a good professional. That is going to get you a long way in this league and team spirit I think is huge down in this league. So if you have got eleven players that want it more than the team you are playing against then I think that you stand a good chance.
" I think that every player likes a little laugh and a joke off the pitch and I am no exception. Obviously looking back now when I was 19 or 20, even going back a couple of years I did obviously like to have a laugh and a joke. I have had a baby though which has calmed me down quite a lot, settled me down, and it is about me playing football. Everything else comes after my football at the minute so coming up here I don't have any distractions apart from football. "