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" They have got goals, they can score goals from a number of areas. They have got some real decent players and players that can cause you trouble on the day. I know that they have just recently brought in Jason Price who is a real handful, people like (Scott) Dobie, I know he has been out recently but they have got some decent players and players that can actually hurt you on their day.
" I think they have had goals from all over, especially from the midfield area with people like (Adam) Clayton who they have got on loan from Manchester City. He is a player that I admire immensely, I think he is a very good lad that has come through the system. At home they are a real tough team to beat.
" We won't be complacent because we know that we are still looking over our shoulders. It is all well and good, I have been speaking to some supporters and they were saying that we have practically stayed up now and I don't see it that way.
" I see it that we keep running and we need to keep getting to that finishing line as quickly as possible. I don't want to slow up to the finishing line, I want to go through it as quickly as possible and I want us to keep driving forward. I want us to keep driving each other on to make sure that we get there as soon as possible.
" Because what we can't afford to do is that when you go on a good run you can just as easily go on a bad run. So we have got to keep our feet on the ground and keep driving away and keep enhancing all our personal, and as a team, reputations in how far we have come this season. "
" For me I have said about ten times that we are going to have good months and we are going to have bad months. What is important is that when we do have the bad months that the supporters are right behind us so that we know as a squad and a team that we are appreciated in the job that we are doing.
" Everybody knows, I have been having to make our supporters aware of the fact a few times. But secretly within the dressing room we are a very confident bunch of people and we do think that on our day we can give anyone a game.
" But we have got to do it with humility and we can't go shouting our mouths off because we haven't really got the sort of funds to go up against Leeds and say that we are going to come up here today and spank Leeds. That is not the way that we want to be as a team, we want to be a humble team that goes there and has a good reputation rather than a team that shouts their mouth off and can't back it up.
" We did kids for a quid on Saturday and the support was excellent. We really do need that and there were a few more people who came out for that game. I think now with the weather being a little bit better, well fingers crossed it is, the pitch was playing a little bit better on Saturday and it was more conducive to us playing the way that we played earlier on in the season.
" So hopefully the groundsman has done a fantastic job in sort of redoing the pitch and making sure that it doesn't cut up so much. You could definitely tell that in the performance of the players on Saturday that we played good football for longer periods rather than normally we were playing well for 45 minutes and then the pitch cut up. Then we seemed to struggle later on in games.
" So for us it is a case of if the pitch is good and we keep playing our football and maybe bring one or two more people in just to get that little bit of back up and cover. And also even bring a little bit more quality into the squad then I think we can finish the season strong, and that is what we are looking to do. "
In team for the Glovers this evening they will be definitely be missing two players from their first team squad, while doubts remain over another. Dutch centre-half Stefan Stam being sidelined with a long term hamstring injury while on-loan Bristol City midfielder is out serving the first match of a three game suspension for, in the eyes of referee Steve Rushton, headbutting Andy Monkhouse in Yeovil's 4-0 home win over Hartlepool on Saturday.
The player who is rated is doubtful to take part in the game tonight is Jean-Paul Kalala, the Congolese midfielder having come off with a hip injury in the second half of the Hartlepool game. Kalala apparently having not travelled north yesterday with the rest of the team, the plan being that he underwent a fitness test this morning and would then travel up to Carlisle today if, as seems unlikely, he is available for selection.
Finally, in the tale of two loanees, Town yesterday signed 22-year old midfielder Scott Davies on loan from Reading for a month, while striker Ryan Mason, 18, returned to Tottenham following the end of his temporary spell at Huish Park. Mason, ending his season-long loan early having scored six goals for the Glovers in his time with the club, two of those strikes coming in Yeovil's 3-1 home win over Carlisle in mid-October.
The referee for tonight's match is Tony Bates from Stoke-on-Trent, and he will be assisted down the lines by Ross Joyce from Middlesbrough and Lee Metcalfe from Preston. Meanwhile the fourth official is Stephen Smith from Middleton St George in County Durham.