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 Dagenham, Hall first talking about the game being the last road trip of the 2010-11 campaign for the Cumbrians :
JP
The final away trip of the season, it has been a long, long season for Carlisle United?
AH
Yeah, particularlly after Christmas where it seems like we have been on the road, well not just on the road but into London or the south every single week. So, it has been a bit of a test but it has been a good season overall, I think we have all enjoyed it, it is a nice sunny day, a nice way to end it off. Maybe not so for Dagenham because I think you can feel the tension around the place, just talking to the staff, talking to the players in the tunnel earlier, they know what they need to do today, buoyed a little bit by the Plymouth result earlier on so maybe that will give them a lift, so we will have to be ready to deal with that.
JP
If Walsall win and Carlisle United beat Dagenham, they return to League Two at the first hurdle, you just can't really imagine what that must be like for the poor fans, they are who you to have think of?
AH
Well, we can because we have been through it ourselves in the past and it hurts, there is no two ways about it. You get tears and all sorts in the dressing room, horrible to see, horrible to be part of it, so you can feel for them but then again we have got a job to do. We have got fans behind the goal building up now, they will expect us to come here and play as well as we can do as well as we can, take the game to Dagenham and obviously we will be shaking hands and everything whatever the result at full-time. But, we can't think about the implications, we have got our own job to do.
JP
A few stats on Dagenham's season, it has been a torrid season in League One in fairness for them, their first month in League One, they picked up just one point, their only 100% month where they weren't beaten and they won every game was in December, and they only played one game - of course that win at Brunton Park beating Carlisle United.
AH
Thank you.
JP
How about this for a stat as well? Only in two months, calendar months of the entire season, have they won more than one game in the month, that is an amazing stat?
AH
It is sort of typical of League One as well you know, because obviously we have had them watched and quite extensively, both games that we have played against them and they are not playing badly, they have got some half-decent players who can use the ball, they have also got some strong lads who will mix it if they need to. But, it is League One, and you tend to get punished if you make mistakes, we have seen that ourselvses. They have been making more than a few mistakes and they have been hurt by it, so you never know what you are going to get with Dagenham. It could be one of those days where they will be fired up and they will be ready for it, or if the pressure is on them we will be able to exploit it, we are just going to have wait and see.
JP
We have focused on their failings, Carlisle United of course need to exploit them, in the build-up to today's show talking with Paul Newton about this game and saying that Greg Abbott will want that top ten finish so that he can show prospective signings next year, look at the progress we have made year on year?
AH
That is the key as well, and it has been progress year on year so far for Greg Abbott. He wants that to continue as much as possible, he has got the lads playing a decent brand of football, it hasn't always come off for us, we have had to work hard, we have had to battle hard on occasions, but when we do get on top and start to play the football it has been impressive. Particularly on the road, and the away fans will testify to that, so let's hope for another one of those today.
JP
Once more unchanged the line-up, six matches on the trot now, even an unchanged squad for the last four, one thing that has been creeping in in just the last few games is one or two sloppy goals, you could probably do with the man we have got sat in between us here at Victoria Road, Dean Walling, in the centre of defence for you today?
AH
Yeah, that has been the criticism hasn't it, particularly when we have been on top in a game and we haven't managed to get the goal, we have tended to have been caught on a sucker punch on a quick break or something. We saw that at Brunton Park didn't we just a few days ago, so that is something that we need to sort out because if we are going to really progress, if we are going to finish in the top six, which is what we want to do, do you know what? It is always a what if but if you look where we are now, look at some of the games that we have chucked away this season it could have been so different right now.
JP
Life is full of if only's.
AH
Oh, isn't it.