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Carlisle Report: "Surrendered yet another lead"	Posted by David Snowball at Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Report By: Rhys Turrell The seagulls yet again failed to clear their lines and were punished for poor concentration and slow reactions. This was particularly true for the penalty Albion conceded. The Cambrians launched a ball into the area and after no defenders decided to clear it sufficiently Kerry Mayo bought down an opposition player for a stonewall penalty. Equally disappointing was the reaction of the players after Wayne Henderson made an excellent save from the resulting spot tick. As the ball came back into play no defenders reacted quickly enough and Neal McDermott - son of Terry - was there to tap into the goal. Henderson had every right to lambaste his team-mates and he did so. All of this came after yet more sloppy defending from Brighton which resulted in an equaliser for Carlisle. A throw-in was sent into the area and the ball was only cleared back to the thrower who sent in another cross and after a scramble the ball crashed off the crossbar and the quickest to react was a visiting player. The Albion started the game reasonably brightly and Joe Gatting nodded in the opening goal and took his tally to three for the season with a cute header into the bottom left hand corner. Gatting exhibited some decent hold-up play in the game and was generally quite decent. Some of the Brighton players however were below par and looked jaded particularly youngsters like Cox and Fraser. While playing many of our successful youth team has proved successful for the most part of the season, we defiantly need to add some experience to our side to replace some of the youngsters who are need of a rest. We could also do with adding some steel to our line-up and no-one would be more effective at this than Charlie Oatway but he seems to have disappeared of the radar with no news on his ankle injury. It may sound severe but if the Albion continue to play like they are at the moment they face the prospect of another relegation scrap. They seem to be making the same errors week-in week-out and unless they begin learn from their mistakes then we could be in serious trouble come the season. Labels: Carlisle, League One, Rhys Turrell