Carlisle’s assistant manager Gavin Skelton believes he’s fitted in well with new United boss Keith Millen.
It’s never a given that a new manager will gel with the existing assistant, and relationships have to be built both in a football and personal sense.
Skelton has been talking to the club’s official website when he said he was enjoying working with the new manager.
“You always adapt, and I feel I’m experienced enough to adapt, while he’s been very respectful to me, which I appreciate.
“It’s been good working with him these last few weeks,” he said.
Skelton is helping Millen prepare the squad for two important League games – away to Mansfield on Tuesday and at Stevenage on Saturday.
Mansfield have climbed up the table to 15th after looking to be in trouble early on but Stevenage are only two points better-off than Carlisle in 21st.
Skelton said: “It’s hard to train at this stage of the season, so we’re pleased to have the games.
“It’s an exciting week and we’ll obviously be looking to get some more points on the board. It doesn’t matter who we are playing at this stage.
“Mansfield have a good squad, they won in the Cup on Saturday, they’ve had a good run of results, they’ve got good players, so were conscious of that.
“But in the last couple of games we’ve shown we’ve got good players as well. We’re confident we can go there and compete. Saturday will take care of itself after Tuesday.
“It’s obviously a big week and an important week that has an edge to it. It doesn’t make or break the season at all, but we’ve won our last league game and we want to continue that.”
