Eight Carlisle United fans will stand for four board positions at the forthcoming AGM of supporters' trust CUOSC.

Four vacancies on the trust board are open with two directors stepping down and two more needing to seek re-election after the end of their latest three-year terms.

The trust has published the list of candidates ahead of the annual general meeting on Sunday, December 3.

Nigel Davidson, a current CUOSC board member and the trust's representative on Carlisle United's 1921 operational board, is standing for re-election.

So is Carol Wilson, another long serving trust board member.

Also in the running this year is Claire Winder, who was a supporters' representative at the club from 2015-16.

Mike Denovellis, a former CUOSC board member, is standing, as is Gerard Gornell, who has previously stood for election to the trust board and been involved with CUOSC.

Ross Parkinson, who was part of the Unita Fortior movement which set out to revitalise the trust last year, is among the candidates, with Richard Mullen and Martin Robson the other supporters seeking election.

Four positions are available after Frank Beattie stepped down and with Malcolm Nugent also set to step down from the trust board.

CUOSC say voting details will be made available "in due course".

The trust are hoping to play a key role in the new era at Carlisle under the prospective new owners, the Piatak family.

That is despite recently voting to reduce their voting share in CUFC Holdings from 25.4 per cent to ten per cent under the proposed deal.

CUOSC this week said its membership numbers had risen again to 1,144.

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