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" The fitness is coming game after game, as I said when I first came I'm not match fit but the gaffer (John Ward) has put me in there and I'm just giving 100% every game and my fitness is picking up. As long as I'm playing I'm really not bothered what position I play, with the two or three years of injuries that I have had and not playing I'm just glad to be on the pitch.
" Injuries have been my main problem, it's been a while since I've been here. I've had a good four years at West Brom and Nottingham Forest wasn't the best of times for me, and a little spell at Millwall. Hopefully the injuries are behind me now and I can start doing the business for Carlisle.
" I heard at the start of the season that Carlisle might have been interested but the manager at Nottingham Forest at the time (Colin Calderwood) was saying that I was still part of his plans. Then he was changing his mind saying I wasn't and he was umm-ing and aah-ing over my future which wasn't the best for me after having two years on the sidelines.
" I wasn't involved there as much as I would have liked to have been, I was on the bench and not coming on or coming on for ten minutes. Carlisle kept their interest going until the next transfer window though and it's a done deal.
" I'm not the youngest player in the squad any more, I'm getting on, well I don't know, I'm 29, but I am coming home and I can settle down. My wife and I have just had a little girl so I'm bringing her up as a Cumbrian. I think I might put her as a right-back or a left-back as it's an easier job than centre-forward. "
" For myself it's just giving what I can every game, I think a goal will certainly help with my confidence. I am lacking in confidence at the minute, I am getting the ball and looking for the easiest pass, turning and laying it off and there is only now and again when I am getting it and running at people.
" I'm sure that will come with games, the two or three years that I have had you do question, with injuries and not being involved, I think any striker or player would question their ability. So I'm just hoping to get the first goal and get my confidence back up. As long as the team is winning and doing well then I'm happy.
" It's only early days yet, I haven't finished a game yet. I've had half a game upfront and one and a half games out wide so I'm not going to put pressure on myself by saying I am going to come and score this many goals or that many goals. I've never been a 25 goal a season player because I do play quite a lot wide.
" I think that I bring other things to the team, assists and all that sort of stuff. Once I get my first goal I will settle down a bit but it is not something that is playing on my mind. I'm too old a player now with experience to let something like that bother me, I know that goals will come. Like Danny (Graham) has just had there you do go a while without a goal but as long as the team is winning then that's the main thing.
" The first thing I said when I came is that the difference between here and Nottingham Forest for me is the changing-room. The squad is a squad of lads together rather than at Nottingham where there are groups of players, where there are friends in this corner and friends in that corner.
" Everyone here just gets on and I think you could see that with the goal for Danny on Saturday, everybody joined in celebrating, that for me is a massive difference. I'm getting a bit of stick off a few of the lads for my accent but they have got to get used to it. This is what the accent is like up here, so I'm proud to be a Cumbrian. "