Former-Fulham full back Tyrone Cameron has built on his showing in the pre-season friendly at Chester earlier this week by continuing to impress United manager John Ward with his attitude and work rate.

The Carlisle boss told us this morning: "I felt that Tyrone did well the other night at Chester. He played for an hour, and showed some good awareness and some good touches. He's probably a little bit behind in terms of overall fitness, because he caught us at a time when we were already two weeks back in to our own pre-season programme, but in football terms he is a young man who did really well. We threw him in at the deep end in many ways, but he settled himself down and got on with it, which is good to see."

"We'll be talking to him about what his plans are over the course of today and tomorrow," he added, "and we'll try to find out what the next move is for him. We're certainly prepared to have a longer look at him if he does want to come back up here. That's something for me to discuss with him, and we can take it from there."

Looking ahead to the game against Preston on Saturday, he said: "I think the final run of pre-season games that we have are really good for us. We would naturally expect a tough test when playing a Premiership side, as we do on Tuesday, and the match on Saturday will be an interesting one. It's a good test to see where we stand against a team at Championship level, particularly when we were so close to getting in to that Division ourselves. It will show us how far away we are, or how close we are and, as I say, we can see how we fare against the next level up on Tuesday night. They have a squad full of international players or players who are extremely good, and that will be really attractive to watch. The fans will enjoy seeing that, but the attraction for the team is to get out there and compete against people who ply their trade in the top flight. They should look forward to a challenge like that, and I'm sure they are. I'm also sure that both Preston and Middlesbrough are looking at us as a tough fixture, because they'll know about the players that we have, so I don't think they'll be taking it lightly at all. They've agreed to come here because they know that they'll get a good but difficult football match, and that's a recognition of Carlisle United and the way that we try to do things."