After last week’s freeze
Carlisle on Merseyside
Posh Formby, if you please
Finding nowhere to hide

Home team began in a flash
One up in no time
Cullen scored with a lash
Left alone! Scene of crime.

Carlisle down to earth with a bump
Started to look for a reply
Then put Formby under the pump
Did well! Then things went awry

Two further goals conceded in a hurry
Carlisle carrying a heavy weight
They were being made to scurry
To catch foes keen to seal their fate

Worse was soon to follow
Formby scored a fourth and then one more
Half time.0-5.Hard to swallow
Had to regroup. Faith to restore

Carlisle had been done up like a kipper
Now needed to add some extra bite
With heads up and remaining chipper
Entered the new half clearly up for the fight

Bex took the instruction to heart
With a Take-out and seeing green
Soon after we saw her depart
Formby scored again. Whoops! Deeper in a ravine.

Carlisle had certainly been burned
And knew their game they had to raise
They began to show that they had learned
Rejuvenating their play in the final phase

Creating counters towards the back end
Stretching Formby trying to narrow the score
But their opponents would not bend
Carlisle left beached on the shore

Carlisle took some comfort from their second half showing
Eventually getting to grips with a rampant side
Pushing back a tide that was fast flowing
Although on the slide, tried ,had not died and regained pride