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"We always knew it was going to be difficult coming here and in the league we are in you have got to come to places like this and get results and we did that today. I think we made it a little bit hard for ourselves towards the end. We had a good few chances and created some great openings, but didn't get the second goal to kill the game off. But we weathered the storm and thankfully got the result.
"Away from home over the last couple of years we haven't been great and it's been performances like this, where we haven't been able to grind out results. It was nice today to come here and grind it out. It's not always going to be pretty at times, but sometimes it is just about the result and that is what it was today.
"I thought that George Francomb came in and did a very good job, we have had a lot of the youngsters in and around the squad this year and they have all done fantastically well. Obviously it is a big ask every time you ask them to come in and play week in and week out but they haven't let anyone down so far and hopefully that continues.
"Wes (Hoolahan) has been in fantastic form and it makes a difference when we get him higher up the pitch so he can do his damage in their half and if he does get caught on the ball it isn't going to affect us too much, and that is what we have done over the last few games. His form has been fantastic like the whole team's has. "
"I got a little bit over-excited with my chance in front of goal. I don't really know what I was doing. I'm not used to being that far up the pitch! It's all about the result, that's the main thing. You want to be up and around the top six, you don't want big gaps opening up and be chasing people all the time. It's a big thing to be up and around it and it gives us a great chance now to keep going as we are throughout the season.
"That's where we wanted to be at the start of the season and it's no different now. We wanted to be up amongst it and that's where we have got ourselves. The gaffer (Paul Lambert) has come in and set things out how he wants them and at the minute they're going well and we have to keep that going.
"It's been a little bit hectic. My wife gave birth to a little girl yesterday evening and I didn't travel up with the lads so I didn't get home until the early hours of the morning. Then I got a phone call when I turned my phone on saying there would be a flight available to me to fly up here at 11am this morning. I told my wife when she came round. She was a bit sleepy and I said, 'I'm going off to Carlisle now'.
"I landed and got in the dressing room about a quarter to two and just got changed and came out and played. It was fantastic for them to do that for me. Obviously they were coming up themselves and for me to jump on the plane with them has been brilliant to allow me to play. Now hopefully I can get on that plane back because it only takes about 50 minutes so it's a bit easier than getting on the bus.
"It was best behaviour on the plane with Delia Smith, I kept myself to myself. But they were fantastic and obviously for them to do that for me and obviously they were coming up themselves, for me to be able to jump on the plane with them has been brilliant to get me here to be able to play in the game. Obviously I just want to go back now and see my wife and my family, I am not going to get any sleep though, that is the only problem."