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Phillips
How did you find that today?
Price
The first-half hour, obviously I have had two chances I should have scored with really and I put a little bit of pressure on myself. Then we have scored, not against the run of play, but with our backs to the wall a bit and I am just happy to get my goal.
Phillips
It was a lovely little poacher's finish and you mentioned the two chances earlier in the game, but you were in those areas which is something that Carlisle have been lacking. Have the fans seen today what you are about or is there more to come, less to come?
Price
That is my limit I think, no, I was upfront on my own against two big centre-halves (Matt Heath and Magnus Okuonghae). I was getting battered and bruised but I was winning my headers, I was chesting them down, I was getting boys into play which the gaffer (Greg Abbott) said we had missed a little bit. I am a bit stiff at the minute but I have given my all today and I am just glad to come away with a goal.
Phillips
You mentioned that you did get battered around, you played with a smile though, you did look like you were enjoying that physical fight with the two big lads at the back.
Price
Yeah, at the beginning of the season I was just arguing with everybody, the referee, the players, I was losing my game a bit. So I have been told just to smile and just have a bit of banter with everybody, so that is what I have done today. Obviously the referee (Jock Waugh) has given a couple of decisions against me but most of them were for me, so he helped me out.
But we have come away with a 2-1 win against a good team that is effective in what they do. We knew what they were going to do before the game and we have conquered that, so I am just glad to come away with the three points.
Phillips
What is the dressing room like? What are your new team-mates saying after a day like that?
Price
We have enjoyed it, everyone has come in with a smile on their face, music playing, all the Irish boys dancing and the Scottish boys are dancing. The gaffer was over the moon, we knew what we were coming up against before the game. They are good at what they do and we are good at what we do.
Ten men in the lower leagues, the opposite side don't use the extra man to the advantage, Premier League boys do, the lower leagues don't. So as long as you give 100% when you have got ten men, it is like playing against ten men to be honest with you, their eleven - they don't use the extra man wisely.
Phillips
That clearly worked and in a way it galvanised Carlisle, it almost spurred you on, it was almost like there was a feeling of injustice that you wanted to right.
Price
Yeah, I have been in a situation where I have been playing against ten men and you think you are the extra man and then the next man to you thinks they are the extra man, so it doesn't work out that way.
Phillips
What was it like when you went behind as well? The reaction was inside a minute to get the equaliser which of course you set up for Ben Marshall. It was some debut for you but what did you feel like when you went a goal down? Did the heads drop at all or did you just think no this isn't going to happen, not today?
Price
The person who won it for us today was the fans because although we went a goal down and a man down they were unbelievable today. Because they put the referee under pressure, they put their boys under pressure and they gave us a lift. That is what won it today, the fans won it for us today.
Phillips
You will endear yourself to them with comments like that I am sure. But how does it rank in terms of debuts for you to set up a goal, score a goal and also be involved very effectively in all action display?
Price
I was the new boy in training yesterday, I made a couple of mistakes in training yesterday as in messing around. But it wasn't my fault, they were blaming other boys, that is what it is like as the new boy, don't blame the new boy and all that. So they have taken me in quite well to be fair but I have only been here two days. I know a couple of the boys anyway so I have enjoyed every minute so far.
Phillips
And has anyone threatened to try to recreate your hairstyle on themselves to keep you feeling at home?
Price
No chance. The boys have been great, I am playing with a smile on my face now, and I have scored and set one up so I am happy.
Phillips
And you have beaten a team who are right there and thereabouts, as you say very effective at what they do. You have got a side (Yeovil) who are with you on 44 points in the middle of the table here at Brunton Park on Tuesday, all eyes must be on that and I guess there is a bit of confidence come back into the squad.
Price
The boys were confident before, like the gaffer said, we haven't had a big boy in the box to do anything. Which today, I am 6'2, if I am honest I don't use my 6'2 to my advantage all the time, I try to pin people and they are a lot bigger than me and it doesn't work out that way, but today it did.
I am battered and bruised and I am as stiff as hell, I have tried to stretch off but I am going to have to do a little jog tomorrow to try to get the stiffness out, it is hard being 32, erm, I mean 26.
Phillips
Did you feel in that role upfront, Greg Abbott has talked to you about the need for a player like you in front, did you feel like you could see how the team worked with having somebody like you to start? I am not saying it is all your fault and you take all the credit but did you feel that your addition in there really made the team dynamic work out there?
Price
The gaffer has told me to come out of the spine of the pitch, which is in the box. He said that is what we need, as soon as the ball goes out wide he said that our wingers are going to cross it and that is what has happened. (Graham) Kavanagh has put me in with a little flick and then a cross has come in which I volleyed there which I should have got a better connection with.
So we should have been 2-0 up before we went in at half-time and I apologised to the lads at half-time, because I was thinking that if we come out with a loss here then it is my fault. Not my fault but I would have a little part to play, because we should have been 2-0 up by me.
When we were a goal down I looked around and you could see the boys still had spirit there and then the fans got behind us and everything. Then we scored quite quick after they scored and I thought we were going to win it, although we are down to ten men we are going to win it. Then obviously I have got a nick on that one and that is the end.
Phillips
Fantastic goal, assist, man of the match on your debut, not a bad start?
Price
Yeah, I just dedicate that to my brother because it is his engagement today and I can't make it obviously because he is six hours away in Wales. He has even done it, because I was at Millwall he was planning it on the home game, then I was at Oldham and he was planning it on a home game. It is a bit of nightmare so I will dedicate that to him because I won't be there.