United media officer and first team kitman Andy Hall spoke to BBC Radio Cumbria's James Phillips ahead of Carlisle's League One match away to Bristol Rovers, Hall first talking about the return from injury of Danny Livesey and Lubomir Michalik this week :
" Danny Livesey is back on the bench and Lubomir Michalik is back in the centre of the defence starting the game as well. It has been a good week for those two, they had an hour down at Penrith in the Cumberland Cup, both of them, on a really, really tough surface and difficult conditions.
" Probably the best thing that you could have asked for to test the pair of them on that night as the weather conditions were horrible. They both came through it, and they have both travelled this weekend as you can see.
" Penrith were superb, in the first 45 minutes you were looking at them, and to use the word dominate is probably a bit strong, but they were certainly the team that had the attacking momentum. And who knows? Lee Hoolickin, it looked from my angle like he had an open goal at one point, if he had put that away then who knows?
" Because they are a good side are Penrith, we saw in the Cumberland Cup final last season against Workington how well they can play. So, full credit to them for the night that they gave us, weather aside it was a good night for everybody. "
" Danny is at the point where he has had a good long chat with Greg (Abbott) and with Dolly (Neil Dalton) about what he feels he can do. He feels he is at the point where if he was needed for half an hour then he would be able to come on and do that with absolutely no problems.
" We saw that with the conditions on Wednesday, and training yesterday, he was involved with everything. The eleven v eleven game which was full pelt as it always is on a Friday, he didn't shy out of anything. So, yes, you do need that added bit of match fitness but he is not too far off.
" The system today is exactly what we said last week about how flexible it is going to be. If we have got the ball you will see us as 4-3-3, if we haven't then we will sit more or less like that diamond where people are pulling themselves and pushing themselves almost out of position to cover what is a very mobile Bristol Rovers team.
" Mike Grella is going to be in the Francois Zoko role, Craig Curran has been told to do that. Whenever Mike is in a position where he can get forward you will probably see Craig slotting back a little bit just to make that late run hopefully that will bear a bit of fruit for us. "
" Matty Robson did OK in the second-half against Charlton, I think everybody was disappointed with the first-half last week. I can assure you that the efforts this week to get the left-back in were unbelievable, it is as busy as anything I have seen club-wise to try to secure a signing of a left-back.
" But, the fact is that it hasn't been done, Matty has played that position for Hartlepool he was telling us this week and he has done it in the reserves. He did it successfully in the second-half last week, there is no reason why he shouldn't carry that on.
" I think we were 2-1 and cruising here, and we were playing well weren't we last season. Two goals from nowhere in the last ten minutes, I think it was Chris Lines who nicked it.
" It was a horrible feeling, I can remember going back into the dressing room and Greg Abbott's message on that day was that we had played well and that there was absolutely nobody who could go away feeling too disheartened. We would look at the goals but what he wants, he has mentioned it today, play that way and let's see what happens. "