HARRY Lewis has already labelled it as a “massive game” - and Paul Simpson won’t disagree.

In fact, the Carlisle boss has pinpointed all of their remaining 21 matches as huge in the League Two promotion race.

The Cumbrians arrive at Valley Parade two points and three places above City in fourth, four behind Northampton in the last automatic spot with a game in hand.

Simpson, who has masterminded his hometown’s rise up the table with a bottom-third budget, is thinking big.

“We’re looking up,” he told our sister paper, the Carlisle News & Star.

“We’ve got to try and grab hold of the shirt-tails of Northampton and see if we can drag them back and drag ourselves up.

“It does feel really positive. It’s a great position to be in.

“That’s the challenge for us, and we know that it can all very easily fall away.

“The table is still really tight so we have to keep doing our jobs as well as we can.

“We’ve just got to keep battering away, stay professional, continue to work hard, and hope that the results keep coming.

“We have 21 huge games to go and if we can go and do it properly, and as well as we’ve done the first 25, who knows what can happen?”

Carlisle have bolstered their attacking options with yesterday’s arrival of Joe Garner from Fleetwood on an 18-month deal.

It is the forward’s fourth spell with the club - after a 10-year absence. He played for them on loan in 2006/2007, on a permanent deal the following season and then another loan in 2012/2013

Simpson said: “He brings a bit of nastiness, and a way of really causing problems, and along with all of that he’s also a really good striker.”