TRANMERE Rovers' boss Micky Adams said his players must pick themselves up and move on after being beaten 2-0 by Carlisle United at Prenton Park on Saturday afternoon.

But he is already looking ahead to Tuesday night's away game at Newport County and targeting a positive result.

In an interview on the club's website, Adams said: "We're disappointed we've lost. Small margins decide games and I wouldn't say it's one of our worst performances this season at all. We just didn't get the breaks.

"The difference between the sides was the fact that they overhit things and turned our back four and we underhit things.

"It's a difficult pitch, really lively and they certainly didn't outpass us at any time.

"We talked at half time about their game plan being to turn us and that we need to make sure our starting positions are right and we didn't heed the warning.

"We'll look at the goals and analyse them but we've got to move on quickly because we've got a big game on Tuesday.

"We've been on a fantastic run, it has come to an end and we've got to pick ourselves up, move on and learn the lessons.

"We've shown we can win away and Newport will be wounded after their defeat today. We've got to go down there in a positive frame of mind thinking we can win the game."