Carlisle 1-3 Bristol City

[Grainger@CUFC]

Still one point off the play-offs, but we really need to win our last 2 games. Especially the one against Swansea! They've gone above us by a point so it really is a three-way battle between us, Swansea and Oldham for the last play-off spot.

We started brightly and got the opening on 5 minutes when Danny Graham took his time on a header from a bouncing ball from about 6 yards out. It looked good for us and we were definitely the better side in the first half. Bang on the stroke of half time, City got a goal after a spell of pressure. The cross came in and McCombe was there to head home unmarked.

The second half was totally different and Bristol were defintely the dominant side with Carlisle letting them play around, and to be honest not seeming interested to go and get a goal. Enoch Showumni scored on 65 minutes from a very tight angle where he shouldn't really have been allowed to score. City wrapped up the three points in the 84th minute, when the ball was given to right back Bradley Orr on the right hand side. He beat a couple of defenders, turned inside and curled a great shot into the top-left corner. Keiren Westwood was rightly furious with our defence after they let him run at them instead of challenging.

Well played to City though, they came here thinking this could be a potential slip up, but proved to be ultimately stronger and went away with the three points that has nearly guaranteed second place and an automatic promotion spot to The Championship.

Carlisle: Westwood, Raven (Holmes 81), Murphy, Livesey, Aranalde, Gall (Johann Smith 64), Thirlwell, Lumsdon, Jeff Smith, Graham (Hawley 70), Garner.
Subs Not Used: Howarth, Gray.
Booked: Thirlwell.
Goals: Graham 5.

Bristol City: Ruddy, Orr, McCombe, Carey, Fontaine, Betsy, Johnson, Russell (Keogh 89), Brian Wilson (McAllister 82), Noble (Skuse 67), Showunmi.
Subs Not Used: Jevons, Smith.
Booked: Johnson, Orr.
Goals: McCombe 45, Showunmi 65, Orr 84.

Att: 10,232. Even though it said 10,202 at the match :S.

[piddle2k6]

Gosh how do you remember the attendance to that detail Unlucky for you We only need 1 win to be safe

[Jamie!]

aye, fair play to their fans like.. 1,500 of them i think.

agree about the 1st half, we were on top and should have been a couple of goals to the good but it wasn't to be. the only good part of the 2nd half was the 2 pitch invaders. the 1st one was a bit like a lou&andy moment from little britain, he ran on from the disabled section and tackled bradley orr with his carer chasing him

ah well, bring on that fat scouse **** and his sheep ******** mates next week!

[piddle2k6]

Who you got tyranmere and swansea

[Jamie!]

nah, swansea next week and scunny the week after.

was refering to trundle when i said that thing.

[piddle2k6]

LOL We got an inflattable sheep and started singing we got trundles girlfriend we got trundles girlfriend nananana

[Jordie]

ooo unlucky, i heard you went 1-0 up early on, i see showumni ex luton player scoring agenst ya still only 1 point off the play offs tho!

[Grainger@CUFC]

Gosh how do you remember the attendance to that detail Unlucky for you We only need 1 win to be safe

You were well beaten by Forest yesterday . Aye, you should easily be up now though.

aye, fair play to their fans like.. 1,500 of them i think.

agree about the 1st half, we were on top and should have been a couple of goals to the good but it wasn't to be. the only good part of the 2nd half was the 2 pitch invaders. the 1st one was a bit like a lou&andy moment from little britain, he ran on from the disabled section and tackled bradley orr with his carer chasing him

ah well, bring on that fat scouse **** and his sheep ******** mates next week!

Aye, the second one was drunk out of his head and did a kind of Alex Ferguson celebration run accross the corner of the pitch. The first one just kind of appeared cause I can't see down there from the East Stand. To be honest we should consider signing him because he got the ball better than any of our players did .

[Nixt]

Go Bristol!

[Grainger@CUFC]

Go Bristol!

You're a red then. I find it sad that you have "The Fans" in your squad as Number 31 lol. You should be up now though, good luck in The Championship for next season (when you get there) .