United media officer and first team kitman Andy Hall spoke to BBC Radio Cumbria's James Phillips shortly before Carlisle's Johnstone's Paint Trophy Northern Area Final second leg at home to Leeds, Hall first talking about the fact that Joe Anyinsah will not be available for selection in the game :
" It is really unfortunate for Joe Anyinsah, he has had a couple of injections in his stomach and his groin. They have worked, he has been training fine and he has come down with a stomach bug which hit Gary Madine last week. So he is running in a different way, doing a little bit of different training at home at the moment.
" It is a real shame because Joe was on fire and to lose him to a bug is really unlucky for the lad. Absolutely unbelievable, he has had the injections, he came through them, he trained really well, he looked really good. The next thing we get is a phone call to let us know that he is actually quite ill.
" There has been a real buzz ahead of this game, I think there is an excitement that goes with it when you see all the scaffolding towers go up and all the press come in. Normally we know what we are doing week to week but with something like this, and the play-offs, it ramps up a little bit. It is all quite exciting, it is all good for everybody and it lets you know just what is at stake.
" I don't think memories of the play-offs will haunt the players because this is a completely different game for us tonight. What it will do is it will remind us that the job isn't done, we did a fantastic thing at Leeds by coming away not just still in the tie but actually ahead in the tie. We have got 90 minutes at home now where we have got to do things properly, not get ahead of ourselves and play the game properly. If we do that then we all know where we are going in March. "