"I WAS THERE"

One step forward and two steps back sums up Carlisle's week following an inept performance at Plainmoor.
The midweek point against Cardiff had raised hopes, only to be dashed as appalling defending allowed Torquay to leapfrog the Cumbrians and dump them second from bottom of Division Three.
You have to feel sorry for manager Ian Atkins as all the hard work on the training pitch seems to desert the players on match days as schoolboy errors cost the team again and again.
Atkins said: " We do work in training and cover set pieces for and against but if people go out there and don't do it then there's not a great deal you can do and that frustrates me. We keep getting punished week in week out for something we do an awful lot of and people do not take it on board. I can't keep protecting people who don't do their jobs. At some stage the players have got to take responsibility and look at themselves and at the moment some are not doing that. Every Torquay goal that went in today I can look at an individual and say you haven't done your job."
He Cumbrians bright start evaporated in a moment of madness from Scott Dobie. The forward tracked back to cover a run from Tony Bedeau and bundled him over just inside the box with plenty of defenders covering. Tony Ford clinically tucked away the resulting sixth minute penalty.
The Cumbrians found themselves back in the game on 14 minutes when Carl Heggs smashed home a penalty after being brought down by the Gulls' Alex Watson.
Five minutes later the home side were back in front, courtesy of Paul Holmes free kick. Lee Maddison was booked for encroaching on the initial free kick and Holmes took advantage of moving ten yards nearer goal by slotting just inside Luke Weaver's left hand post.
Four minutes into the second half the Cumbrians got back on terms when Dobie flicked on a Maddison corner for Richard Tracey to head home.
On 57 minutes more inept defending allowed the home side to edge back in front, when Winstanley's clearance fell to Steve Tully. No-one closed the defender down on the edge of the box and he had time to check and thunder a shot past Weaver into the top corner.
The home sides Ryan Northmore made good saves from Lee and Halliday before the points were wrapped up on 81 minutes when mark Birch failed to cut out Ryan Ashington's cross leaving Kevin Hill unmarked to slot passed Weaver.