Carlisle look like being without three injured players on Saturday after mid-week substitutions.
In a remarkable first-half at Salford on Tuesday United had to make three first half changes because of injuries.
It’s beginning to look doubtful whether any of the three – Rod McDonald, Joel Senior and Callum Guy – will be able to return at Rochdale on Saturday.
Manager Keith Millen said: “None of them look great.
“We don’t know what Joel’s injury is yet. Callum is a hamstring, which isn’t good, and Rod looks like a calf injury which happened as he landed.
“They’re not knocks, they’re more contacts or twists, and we’ll just have to wait and see how bad they all are.
“The worry is that they aren’t the type of situations where you think it’s a bang and they might be ready for Saturday. It’ll test us, but that’s why luckily we’ve got a bigger squad and we can cope with it.
“The players who come in have a job to do and if they play with belief they can help us to turn it around again, no problem.
“It’s football, because yesterday we were thinking what a big squad we had, but all of a sudden we need the numbers.
“Hopefully they’ll bring a fresh mindset because they aren’t scarred by the season we’ve had here. I need to integrate them quickly and get us going again.
“The pleasing thing is that we have a togetherness, and that’ll keep us going, but we need to now add quality to what we do so that we can rebuild our confidence.”
