United media officer and first team kitman Andy Hall (AH) spoke to BBC Radio Cumbria's James Phillips (JP) ahead of Carlisle's League One match away to Leyton Orient, Hall first talking about where the Blues trained yesterday afternoon on their way down to London :
JP
Everyone looks in good fettle, infact an interesting trip down yesterday?
AH
Yeah, we stopped off at Nottingham Forest again, a fantastic relationship with those lot, it is a fantastic facility as well for us to use and really useful for the lads to be able to stop off like that. Because, such a long trip, two days, doesn't sound much but in terms of preparation you need to have that quality training time. Forest have come up big for us so many times, they have done it again and that enabled Greg (Abbott) to get the lads out on the pitch and practice hopefully what they will do tonight.
JP
The emphasis on Saturday certainly seemed to be that Carlisle were just going to go for it, fancy trying to get the three points, especially having led reasonably late on. Everyone happy with the fact that they did that even if it didn't quite work out this time?
AH
Yeah, but I think the gloss is taken off it with the manner of the two goals that we conceded in the last ten minutes. It was an Achilles heel for a while wasn't it this season, we thought we had got rid of that, it came back to haunt us again on Saturday and it is worse because to lose with the last kick of the game having played so well, and I genuinely do feel that we played well, we deserved at least a point, probably deserved all three points with the way that the 80 minutes had gone. It didn't happen, that is something that we have got to get rid off because it costs you.
JP
Could you have done with this man (Dean Walling) sat alongside me playing at the back then?
AH
Absolutely, I can remember being at Gillingham on a freezing New Year's Eve or something like that and he popped up with a winner, all of a sudden it was warm again.
JP
In terms of Orient this evening, they are going to be going for the play-offs though they have had a pretty dodgy run of form, four defeats in their last six but still only six points off, they will fancy themselves at home against Carlisle, and it will be up to United to show them who is boss tonight?
AH
All the reports are saying they played well on Saturday, they were up against a very strong, very determined Southampton side, and Southampton the big hitters in this division as far as I am concerned. So, they won't feel too bad about that because having played well against them, I am sure Scott McGleish is telling them they can take that into the game tonight. They will expect at home, with them I think it is three points away from the play-offs that they can do something, But, we can take advantage of that because we are quietly confident, we have been playing well, we just need to turn it into three points.
JP
The last of a right old run of away matches, just one more complicated away match for Carlisle United to come after this one, the small matter of Dagenham & Redbridge in London on the weekend of the Royal Wedding?
AH
Fortunately we picked up on that as soon as it was announced, because the prices for the hotels are going through the roof on the back of that, so we sorted that one out. But, yeah, that will be a breeze compared to what we have just been through, four consecutive away games, I have never known anything like that but the lads have done well, they have performed well, but like I say, we just need to now turn that into results.