Brunton Park Diary - December 2009
31/12/09 22:04
Dec 8th (Tue)
Well over 2,000 tickets for Everton are sold on their first day (the last ticket goes by the 12th). The Exeter league game postponed to make way for the cup game is rearranged for Tuesday, 26th January.
A waterlogged pitch puts paid to the reserve team’s game on the 9th away at Wrexham.
CARLISLE UTD 0 STOKE CITY 1 - FA YOUTH CUP ROUND 3
It’s heartbreak for the Carlisle youngsters as the Academy side squeeze past them thanks to a soft goal in the final minute of the game. Up until then, Carlisle had given them a few frights in an entertaining game, matching Stoke all over the park especially in the second half. Swinglehurst had a goal disallowed on the 2nd minute. For Stoke, Louis Moult was a constant threat up front including one that hit the bar and a number of others that tested Gillespie’s skills.
Team: Mark Gillespie, James Wood (James Bonner 82), Steven Swinglehurst, Sean Law, Ben Richards-Everton, Jamie Cleary, Ben McKenna, Liam Davison ©, Ryan Bowman, Manny Richardson, Matt Osmond.
Dec 9th (Wed)
The official site carries an article (see link) on the London Branch and its additional support of the Youth Team by contributing their pooled Teamcard points towards cold weather training gear.
http://www.carlisleunited.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10361~1899224,00.html
Dec 11th
Both BMW and Anyinsah edge nearer to full-fitness while Thirlwell “steps up his rehab”. Remember kids, just ..say.. no. Offiong’s scan reveals a tear in his lateral ligament that will keep him out until about late January.
Mark Beck, a 15 year-old forward, becomes the first YTS signing for 2010/11. The Sunderland-born lad is a regular in the Durham County set-up and at 6’4”, the Peter Crouch comparisons have already begun.
Dec 12th (Sat)
CARLISLE UTD YOUTH 0 BURNLEY YTH 2
It’s a bad couple of weeks for the Youth team who seem to have hit the buffers. This time the old enemy take the points to leave Carlisle’s aspirations for a top three finish in tatters.
CARLISLE UTD 1 WYCOMBE W 0
The Ian Harte/ Pericard combination does the trick again to break Wycombe’s resistance at the end of the first half after a bright start from the Cumbrians. It’s another exercise in rapidly disappearing fingernails as the visitors’ pace up front creates a number of spurned opportunities for the visitors. Taiwo missed the game through a bout of tonsillitis.
** Player Ratings: Collin 7, Keogh 7, Livesey 8 (star man), Harte 6, Horwood 7, Hurst 6, Murphy 6, Kavanagh 7, Clayton 6, Robson 7, Pericard 7. Subs: Dobie and Aldred.
Dec 15th (Tue)
CARLISLE UNITED 3 BRADFORD CITY 0 - JPT NORTHERN SEMI FINALS
It’s almost time to start humming that annoying ‘Starship’ song over and over in your head with now only one equally loved team from Yorkshire standing between Carlisle and their 3rd visit to Wembley. Good chances come and go for both teams in the first half before Ramsden’s constant fouling of Robson tests the referee’s patience beyond its limit and sees him sent off on 39 for a second yellow. Within five minutes, Keogh had smashed in the saved rebound from Robson’s shot following good work from Pericard. Sloppy play from United almost gift City back into the match for the first half of the second period but Dobie’s introduction makes a difference as he finishes Hurst’s chipped pass on 68 and then Robson’s superb, mazy run wraps up the perfect Xmas present on 74.
** Player Ratings: Pidgeley 5, Keogh 8 (star man), Livesey 7 (Aldred 89), Harte 7, Horwood 7, Hurst 7, Murphy 7, Taiwo 6 (Dobie 64, 7), Clayton 7 Robson 7, Pericard 7 (Bridge-Wilkinson 80).
United are drawn to play Leeds at Elland Road, in the first leg, in week commencing 18 January 2010. The second leg, at Brunton Park, will be played in the week commencing 15 February 2010.
Dec 16th (Wed)
ACCRINGTON STANLEY RES 0 CARLISLE UTD RESERVES 3
The Reserves keep their position at the top with a convincing 3-0 win against Accrington and making it 6 wins from 7 in the process. A goal from Jonny Blake in the first half was followed up with strikes from Tom Aldred and Tony Kane late in the second period. It could have been 7.
Team: Gillespie, Kane, Lakeland, Bridge-Wilkinson, Aldred, Cleary (Wood 66), Richardson (Davison 49), Blake, Bowman (McKenna 35), Burns, Tinnion.
Carlisle is named as one of 14 finalists hoping to be named the UK’s first city of culture in 2013.
The others include Barnsley, Birmingham, Chichester, Hull, Ipswich and the Haven Gateway, Norwich, Portsmouth and Southampton, Sheffield, the county of Cornwall (huh?), Derry, Southend, Durham and Swansea. The winner will be named next summer.
Barrow sell 5,000 tickets out of an allocation of 7,100 on just the first day of sale for their FA Cup 3rd round match at Sunderland.
Dec 18th (Fri)
Following seven firm inches of innuendo-inspiring white stuff falling over Essex, the players and staff perform a U-turn on their way to Colchester with the game being called off.
Dec 26th (Sat)
The home Boxing Day clash against Huddersfield is also a victim of the big freeze due in part to surrounding conditions and health and safety concerns.
Dec 28th (Mon)
HE COULDN’T HIT A ‘S REAR WITH A FAT
TRANMERE ROVERS 0 CARLISLE UTD 0
Both teams largely cancelled each other out although there was a remarkable miss by Tranmere’s Thomas-Moore on 64. Former Carlisle-loanee John Welsh’s pass deflected into the box, Curran then getting to the ball before Collin only to see his toe-poked effort ping away off the underside of the crossbar but fall to T-M. With a gaping empty goal, he then smacked the rebound into the side-netting. Clayton, Dobie and Anyinsah had the best of the other chances in the game.
** Player Ratings: Collin 7, Keogh 8 (star man), Livesey 7, Harte 6, Horwood 7, Hurst 6, Murphy 6, Kavanagh 6, Clayton 7, Robson 6, Pericard 6. Subs: Dobie 6, Anyinsah.
Dec 30th (Wed)
Charlton and Southampton are rumoured to be amongst the clubs chasing the signature of Pericard once his deal comes to an end on January 12th. There’s still no further news on the futures of Clayton and Taiwo.
Well over 2,000 tickets for Everton are sold on their first day (the last ticket goes by the 12th). The Exeter league game postponed to make way for the cup game is rearranged for Tuesday, 26th January.
A waterlogged pitch puts paid to the reserve team’s game on the 9th away at Wrexham.
CARLISLE UTD 0 STOKE CITY 1 - FA YOUTH CUP ROUND 3
It’s heartbreak for the Carlisle youngsters as the Academy side squeeze past them thanks to a soft goal in the final minute of the game. Up until then, Carlisle had given them a few frights in an entertaining game, matching Stoke all over the park especially in the second half. Swinglehurst had a goal disallowed on the 2nd minute. For Stoke, Louis Moult was a constant threat up front including one that hit the bar and a number of others that tested Gillespie’s skills.
Team: Mark Gillespie, James Wood (James Bonner 82), Steven Swinglehurst, Sean Law, Ben Richards-Everton, Jamie Cleary, Ben McKenna, Liam Davison ©, Ryan Bowman, Manny Richardson, Matt Osmond.
Dec 9th (Wed)
The official site carries an article (see link) on the London Branch and its additional support of the Youth Team by contributing their pooled Teamcard points towards cold weather training gear.
http://www.carlisleunited.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10361~1899224,00.html
Dec 11th
Both BMW and Anyinsah edge nearer to full-fitness while Thirlwell “steps up his rehab”. Remember kids, just ..say.. no. Offiong’s scan reveals a tear in his lateral ligament that will keep him out until about late January.
Mark Beck, a 15 year-old forward, becomes the first YTS signing for 2010/11. The Sunderland-born lad is a regular in the Durham County set-up and at 6’4”, the Peter Crouch comparisons have already begun.
Dec 12th (Sat)
CARLISLE UTD YOUTH 0 BURNLEY YTH 2
It’s a bad couple of weeks for the Youth team who seem to have hit the buffers. This time the old enemy take the points to leave Carlisle’s aspirations for a top three finish in tatters.
CARLISLE UTD 1 WYCOMBE W 0
The Ian Harte/ Pericard combination does the trick again to break Wycombe’s resistance at the end of the first half after a bright start from the Cumbrians. It’s another exercise in rapidly disappearing fingernails as the visitors’ pace up front creates a number of spurned opportunities for the visitors. Taiwo missed the game through a bout of tonsillitis.
** Player Ratings: Collin 7, Keogh 7, Livesey 8 (star man), Harte 6, Horwood 7, Hurst 6, Murphy 6, Kavanagh 7, Clayton 6, Robson 7, Pericard 7. Subs: Dobie and Aldred.
Dec 15th (Tue)
CARLISLE UNITED 3 BRADFORD CITY 0 - JPT NORTHERN SEMI FINALS
It’s almost time to start humming that annoying ‘Starship’ song over and over in your head with now only one equally loved team from Yorkshire standing between Carlisle and their 3rd visit to Wembley. Good chances come and go for both teams in the first half before Ramsden’s constant fouling of Robson tests the referee’s patience beyond its limit and sees him sent off on 39 for a second yellow. Within five minutes, Keogh had smashed in the saved rebound from Robson’s shot following good work from Pericard. Sloppy play from United almost gift City back into the match for the first half of the second period but Dobie’s introduction makes a difference as he finishes Hurst’s chipped pass on 68 and then Robson’s superb, mazy run wraps up the perfect Xmas present on 74.
** Player Ratings: Pidgeley 5, Keogh 8 (star man), Livesey 7 (Aldred 89), Harte 7, Horwood 7, Hurst 7, Murphy 7, Taiwo 6 (Dobie 64, 7), Clayton 7 Robson 7, Pericard 7 (Bridge-Wilkinson 80).
United are drawn to play Leeds at Elland Road, in the first leg, in week commencing 18 January 2010. The second leg, at Brunton Park, will be played in the week commencing 15 February 2010.
Dec 16th (Wed)
ACCRINGTON STANLEY RES 0 CARLISLE UTD RESERVES 3
The Reserves keep their position at the top with a convincing 3-0 win against Accrington and making it 6 wins from 7 in the process. A goal from Jonny Blake in the first half was followed up with strikes from Tom Aldred and Tony Kane late in the second period. It could have been 7.
Team: Gillespie, Kane, Lakeland, Bridge-Wilkinson, Aldred, Cleary (Wood 66), Richardson (Davison 49), Blake, Bowman (McKenna 35), Burns, Tinnion.
Carlisle is named as one of 14 finalists hoping to be named the UK’s first city of culture in 2013.
The others include Barnsley, Birmingham, Chichester, Hull, Ipswich and the Haven Gateway, Norwich, Portsmouth and Southampton, Sheffield, the county of Cornwall (huh?), Derry, Southend, Durham and Swansea. The winner will be named next summer.
Barrow sell 5,000 tickets out of an allocation of 7,100 on just the first day of sale for their FA Cup 3rd round match at Sunderland.
Dec 18th (Fri)
Following seven firm inches of innuendo-inspiring white stuff falling over Essex, the players and staff perform a U-turn on their way to Colchester with the game being called off.
Dec 26th (Sat)
The home Boxing Day clash against Huddersfield is also a victim of the big freeze due in part to surrounding conditions and health and safety concerns.
Dec 28th (Mon)
HE COULDN’T HIT A ‘S REAR WITH A FAT
TRANMERE ROVERS 0 CARLISLE UTD 0
Both teams largely cancelled each other out although there was a remarkable miss by Tranmere’s Thomas-Moore on 64. Former Carlisle-loanee John Welsh’s pass deflected into the box, Curran then getting to the ball before Collin only to see his toe-poked effort ping away off the underside of the crossbar but fall to T-M. With a gaping empty goal, he then smacked the rebound into the side-netting. Clayton, Dobie and Anyinsah had the best of the other chances in the game.
** Player Ratings: Collin 7, Keogh 8 (star man), Livesey 7, Harte 6, Horwood 7, Hurst 6, Murphy 6, Kavanagh 6, Clayton 7, Robson 6, Pericard 6. Subs: Dobie 6, Anyinsah.
Dec 30th (Wed)
Charlton and Southampton are rumoured to be amongst the clubs chasing the signature of Pericard once his deal comes to an end on January 12th. There’s still no further news on the futures of Clayton and Taiwo.