Hartlepool manager Mick Wadsworth spoke to BBC Tees and his club's official website after his side's 2-1 League One over Carlisle at Brunton Park, Wadsworth saying his players dealt well with the periods they were under the cosh :
"We knew we were going to have periods under the cosh and we dealt with that and we kept most play in front of us. Most of their threats came from crosses, they didn't breach the back line very often. They do cross the ball very well, they have got some tasty players on delivery but we dealt with that. But for the penalty it should have been a more comfortable victory, but once the penalty goes in then we knew that we had to really dig in, and they did, fantastic, I get a lot of pleasure out of that victory.
"They were good goals we scored, good teamwork again, the first goal was great movement by (Antony) Sweeney, that clever run he makes into the box, goes short and got it, how he got the cross in I don't know. Nobby (Solano) has one thrash at it but he got it back into the goal area and good on Lidds (Gary Liddle) for following in. Then the second goal was just a wonderful individual effort really from Adam Boyd.
"It would nice to have a 20 plus goal striker and I have to say that I think the Boyd-Colin Nish combination is working very well, and I think Nishy takes so much pressure off Boydy in terms of backing up against the centre-halves and he gives them a real tough time. I thought in the first half particularly he was outstanding in that department. But, it is a great victory and it is one that the players thoroughly deserve.
"One or two people said that they think that Liddle's volley went over the line there, I couldn't see from here but it was just a wonderful shot. But, they hit the woodwork as well in the first half and we had some narrow shaves, but things have gone with us. Victories like that are hard earned and we know that, it is a mark of the team."
"A very difficult decision for me to sacrifice somebody (Ritchie Humphreys) at half-time but we felt we needed to because I thought we were getting aerial bombardment, which we did, and we needed Sam (Collins) on the pitch. So, we discussed it and Ritchie was sacrificed in that sense, not through poor play just a tactical substitution, being the guy that he is he fully understood, he said that we want to win the game gaffer don't we. Stephen Wright was very good at left-back though, he can play anywhere across the back and he did very, very well.
"Paul (Murray) will be disappointed with the penalty because just before it he got lucky and he had the ball in our penalty box and he should have wellied it for seventy metres down the pitch and he wellied it about twenty metres and it came straight back in. Then he tried to get to it and make the tackle and it was a poor judgement, and from that point on we knew it was going to be tough. But, you know, we still had a one goal lead and a team that can defend that is a team that has got a lot of resilience and a lot of strength and a lot of toughness, and that is what I like about the team at the moment.
"Scott Flinders gives us such security at times, he just did the bar of soap one in the last minute there where he has caught it once and then caught it twice, just gave me a little bit of a flutter. But, other than that he has kept goal fantastically well and you know that when shots go in that if he has got a chance of getting to them he handles it so cleanly, so he did very, very well.
"Setting a new Club record (seven games unbeaten at the start of the season) is great for the fans and for the players and that is testament to what they have done, they have worked very hard. Our fans were incredible today as well, they were noisier than their 4,000, fantastic. The away support while I have been at the Club has been terrific but it's getting better and better."
Meanwhile 'Pools half-time substitute Sam Collins told the Hartlepool Mail :
“I loved that second half, I have to say. It’s not often I’ve come on as a sub at half-time. I’ve not really trained much either, only on Thursday and Friday this week, and I wasn’t that sure how my hamstring would react. I went out to warm up at half-time and Micky Barron told me I was on so I had to get in shape quickly. The amount of crosses they put into the box was frightening. The manager decided to change it and I’m one of the bigger lads and that’s the manager’s decision, that’s why he is doing so well.”