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Andrews has already been out on loan once this season when he joined York City for two months in early November. Making ten appearances for the Mistermen Lee was actually unfortunate enough to play for City during their worst spell of the season, York losing half of the matches in which Andrews featured. For United Lee has only made two first-team starts this campaign, one of them coming in the weakened team that took to the field against Burnley in the Coca-Cola Cup first round, the other coming in a 0-0 league draw at Lincoln on August Bank Holiday Monday.
The utility defender has been a consistent performer in the reserves for Carlisle this season, when they have actually played a game and not seen it postponed, playing in a unfamilair left-back role on occasion. Andrews swaps a relatively easy life in the United second-string for a battle for survival at the wrong end of League Two with the Gulls, Torquay currently being two points away from safety as they look to avoid the drop into the Nationwide Conference. He will also be reunited with one-time United manager Ian Atkins who has recently been appointed as a football advisor alongside manager John Cornforth at Plainmoor.
Lee's first game for the Devon outfit will certainly be a baptism of fire though as the Gulls travel to Adams Park to take on second-placed Wycombe Wanderers. A defeat there looks the more likely result in that game for Torquay but Blues players and fans alike will hope that Andrews, on his debut, can help out his parent team and take some points of the Chairboys in order to aid Carlisle's automatic promotion challenge. United still have the Gulls to play at home in their second last league game of the season but the loan deal stipulates that Andrews will not be allowed to play for Torquay if, as seems likely at this stage, the Blues still have something to play for.