Paul Simpson insisted there was plenty of time for Carlisle to stave off the threat of relegation following the 1-1 draw at Fleetwood.
The Cumbrians led through Owen Moxon’s goal after 27 minutes but were pegged back eight minutes later by a Jayden Stockley strike.
And while the point did not prevent Simpson’s side from slipping to the bottom of the table, he will not be pushing the panic button.
“It’s not pleasant,” he said.
“We’re in a tough position at the moment and we’ve dropped to the bottom of the league today, which nobody wants to see.
“Thankfully we’ve got lots of games to try to turn it around, we’ve got the January transfer window to try to strengthen the group and hopefully we’ll be able to do that.
“We’ve got to improve the squad and we’ve got to improve our consistency when we’re making opportunities.
“We were massively improved from the last game, without a doubt.
“I think we probably deserved more than just one point out of the game today as well so that’s a bit of a disappointment, but I’m really satisfied with the way that the players have gone about it, particularly a young starting XI.
“They gave us energy, they had a real desire about them, it’s just a pity we didn’t manage to finish off those chances we had.
“It’s a huge improvement after the last game. I thought we passed the ball quite well on what was a tricky surface, but at least it was a nice calm day today.
“We worked and competed well, we did all of the things that we would want to do, we got ourselves in the lead and I’m disappointed with the goal we conceded, we could have worked harder to stop it coming in.”
Fleetwood also slipped a place to sit second from bottom and manager Lee Johnson also feels their fortunes should improve when they welcome back some of their walking wounded.
“The boys are working hard,” he said.
“The last game at Portsmouth was a sapping game in terms of the energy levels, I thought it was a low-quality game today, if I’m honest.
“We let them off the hook far too many times when we had set-play opportunities, when we got into wide areas we demanded more from our wide men and a little bit changed.
“We have to be honest and say we lacked quality at times but we’re asking the same set of lads to churn it out at the moment when we’ve got so many injured.
“We’re hobbling into January but it’s important that we quickly refresh again.
“We just need more players to turn up, we need more to get back to their top form, some are nursing little niggles but they will have to keep getting out there because it’s all we’ve got.
“It’s going to be a really big January for us, I have a points target in my head, I’ll keep that to myself but it’s achievable.
“It’s going to be tight. In the next few weeks we’re going to have to nurse players back to health. I feel like in five or six weeks we could be in a good spot.”
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