Carlisle United manager Paul Simpson is looking for his squad to regroup and come back stronger after Saturday’s dramatic FA Cup defeat.
The Blues conceded goals in the 88th and 93rd minutes to lose 2-1 after leading Walsall at half-time.
He said: “It’s maybe a really good learning experience for us, that we’ve got to learn to regroup when you make mistakes like we did, come together and be stronger. We weren’t, we allowed them to get a second goal, which made it all feel even worse.
“The thing we’ve done well this season is we’ve moved on. Once a game’s gone, whether it be a defeat, draw or win, we’ve moved on to deal with the next one.
“The next one is a really good game at home. I am really disappointed that we’re out of the FA Cup, I wanted to be in it, to keep going.
“We’re not because of our own doing and we’ve got to make sure we dust ourselves down and we’re ready to go again next weekend.”
“We’re all hurting so it will certainly hurt the players. In football the test is always can you bounce back when you’re feeling this way. That’s where our next challenge comes.
“We have to show a resilience, which we have shown over the whole of the season, to make sure we do bounce back.
“As usual we will make sure we review the game just gone. I don’t think it’s going to take a massive review to work out where we cost ourselves. We know what’s happened.
“Unfortunately we haven’t finished the game well. We’re shouting on at them to get themselves together. I don’t like the reaction from the first goal when people have got head in hands and not watching the game.
“There’s no point showing the whole world you’ve made a mistake, we all know it’s happened, the only thing you can do is dust yourself down and get ready for the next one.
“Now between games we have to do that again. We’ve got to lift each other, get each other going, and make sure this cup game isn’t the be all and end all of our season.
“It would have been nice in terms of the finances we could have got, and that’s where I’m frustrated that we’ve thrown that away. Up until 88 we’d finished them and should have been more clinical to finish it off, then a mistake could have been covered up.”
