Speaking after the final whistle at Brunton Park, Mark Stimson admitted his disappointment at his side's latest away defeat, but felt his team paid the price for allowing experienced set-piece specialist Ian Harte the chance to go for goal.

"We started the game nice and positively and had a couple of opportunities, but you've got to take them. We didn't and we got done by the best player on the pitch, by an absolute mile, Ian Harte. He showed how to take set pieces.

"We knew his distribution is second to none and asked the boys not to give any free-kicks away around the box. We did give too many away and sooner or later you're going to get punished.He put a great one in the top bin and then in the second half we gave away a sloppy penalty and he was never going to miss from 12-yards.

"If he hasn't played for Carlisle it's probably a 0-0 draw but that's why he's here and he's great at it. I'm sure he practices and practices over and over again."

Stimson opted to attack Carlisle with a 4-3-3 formation, so in light of the defeat, will the Gills Manager continue with that approach?, "It's worked over the last three games but today it didn't work.

"We'll have a look at it next week and see who is available then decide what, at home, will be good enough to beat Huddersfield."

Skipper Barry Fuller missed the trip with a broken arm and Stimson knows he will be a major loss to the team, "Chris Palmer did ok but it's not until someone is out of the team that you realise how much they will be missed.

"With Barry Fuller that penalty wouldn't have happened in the second half, I'm 100% sure of that. He wouldn't have got past Fuller that easily. It was always going to be difficult for Chris as he hasn't played for a while but he did his best.

"It's going to be possibly six weeks for Barry, so that's not good news. He's got to see the specialist again in four weeks and may get a light cast on it, but that depends how it's healing. It will be a minimum of four but possibly six. Hopefully he'll be back before the end of the season."

Despite the 700 mile round trip, Gillingham's fans turned out in impressive numbers and Stimson paid tribute to the dedicated Gills faithful. "We appreciate the amount of numbers that turned up and the vocals that they tried to give the boys.

I think they probably thought, like ourselves, that we were in the game. From the first minute we looked like the team that was on the front foot. We even had a couple of chances in the second-half we're we missed the target or they made a good block.

We'll hopefully do it sooner rather than later because it's been too long and it's driving us all mad. But we've got to make it happen, no one is going to give it to us.

The Gills now face a tough test against promotion chasing Huddersfield next weekend and Stimson has not ruled out making changes to his side, "I don't like to change it because we want to get the players playing and getting to know each other.

"Next week, at home against a Huddersfield side who play with two dangerous wingers, we've got to try and stop the supply to them. That might mean we need to stick two wingers in and help the full-backs not to get isolated, like they can sometimes when you play with a narrow three."