Very, very difficult to remain positive at the moment but i think we have to, especially on Saturday against Darlo. Any negative feeling will quickly transmit itself to the pitch and make a decent performance even more unlikely. We are still in the driving seat as far as Shrewsbury are concerned and nothing less than a victory is needed. Chin up people .......
Keep Singing the Blues!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Andy Hall
Are we going down?
Probably. I said before Saturday that we were more likely to go down than Chester. I think they can now be eliminated from the relegation question. I suspect Shrewsbury might need just one point to survive and they will stay up.
One consolation is that they have to play Brighton who have some of the best players in the division - Aspinall & Hairy Boy Freeman and a manager who knows something about tactics. They took Chester apart a couple of months ago with a 7-1 away win. They are also on an 11 match unbeaten run, although they have nothing to play for.
Brighton also owe us one after that shambles a few years ago when they played York after their end-of-season party and relegated us. The gay community in Brighton will also be delighted by how many of us stuck up for (ooo er) Leo Fortune-West a while back. I have it on good authority that Shrewsbury fans barracked him with : "He's big, he's black, he takes it up the crack, Fortune-West"
Right now I'd settle for going into the last match 1 point ahead of Shrewsbury with us having inferior goal difference
Do we deserve to?
Carlisle have better players than most clubs in this mediocre division. we're not outstandingly bad but we're certainly under-achieving
Will it do us any good?
Not really. If Wilko is going regardless, we'd be better off staying up. There are probably 6 or 7 players worth keeping (Weaver, Halliday, Prokas, Dobie, Pitts, Soley, Reid would be my list but you'll have your own). If we go down we'll lose most of those.
Strangely, I think the most important thing is not whether we stay up or whether Knighton stays but who is the next manager.
Andrew Ashbridge
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