Carlisle United's 'chaos' training for Leyton Orient trip

But it is all part of the Blues boss’s plan to get his team back to form.

Simpson said he has shaken things up on the training ground and has seen a good response from his players.

United’s manager says he has noticed a “fire in their bellies” to get back to winning ways at Leyton Orient this weekend.

He said: “We’ve tried to bring a little bit of variation on the themes in training and we’ve tried to make it a bit of chaos for them, so they’re having to think about what they’re doing.

“Between now and the end of the season, let’s be honest, it’s going to be chaos, we can guarantee that.

“There are going to be games which are going to be mad, when everybody is scrapping for different things, and we’ve got to be able to deal with that.

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“We want to make sure we’re the team that deals with chaos best.

“There’s a fire in the belly and we have fresh faces in there with Hunts [Paul Huntington] back training, and Fin Back is here.

Paul Huntington, second right, is back in the mix this weekend (Image: Richard Parkes)

“We’re starting to get a little bit of a change in feeling and let’s hope the results reflect that.”

United are targeting a first goal and win in four games as they prepare to go to the League Two leaders.

They will do so in the wake of a 1-0 defeat at Gillingham which Simpson said was United’s worst display of the season.

He has since assessed statistics which back up his post-match view.

“When I got all the GPS stats through it confirmed what I felt when I was watching it,” he said.

“We were flat, we had no real energy or spark, and if I take all of the physical data into account it was our worst physical performance of the season in terms of total distance and high intensity running.

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“We’ve played 44 games so far this season, and in terms of total distance it was ranked at 44 out of 44.

“In terms of high intensity running – so anything round about 5.5 metres per second – it was 43 out of 44. In terms of sprinting it was 41 out of 44. And in terms of the total high intensity and sprinting it was 44 out of 44.

“Now I don’t for one minute think those players went out not to run. They went out to work. I just think it was one game too many in that little run that had a negative effect.

“I have to look at myself because I maybe shouldn’t have picked that team, so I have to take that on the chin as well.

“It’s one of those where we’ve had a week now, we’ve had our recovery, we’ve done some good training, so we’ll now travel properly, get down there and let’s hope we see a performance that’s real high energy with some good football to go with it.”