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CUMBRIAN DROUGHT CONTINUES

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The LeaguePaper Team
26 March 2017

COOKING UP A TREAT: Crewe’s Callum Cooke gets his team going
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By Ross Jackson
ADESPERATE run of six defeats in seven has seen a blip turn into a crisis of confidence for Carlisle. At November’s end, they were top and looked unstoppable. Charlie Wyke had scored a hat-trick as Mansfield were dispatched 5-2.
Now, following defeat to Crewe, they are out of the play-off places. Eighteen-goal Wyke has gone, and so too has the attacking verve that made Brunton Park a daunting place to visit, as the Cumbrians have scored only seven goals since his departure
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