Carlisle United: latest additions to Blues' backroom staff

Bryan Rosary and Glenn Boden have joined the Blues in recent weeks.

Rosary has started as one of United's kitmen, stepping into the role after the departure of the long-serving Colin Nixon.

And Boden recently arrived as the Cumbrians' new first-team analyst.

Rosary, manager Paul Simpson recently said, had been coming into the club for several weeks ahead of Nixon's departure.

New Carlisle United kitman Bryan Rosary (Image: Richard Parkes)

As kit assistant, he will be involved in the day-to-day and matchday side of United's kit management, which also involves Emma MacLagan and Dean Scholey.

“It's going to be a team of three who are going to look after it all," Simpson recently explained. "Bryan's role will be during the week to make sure all of the kit and equipment is sorted with Emma, and then on match day Deano and Bryan will lead it."

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Nixon's departure was confirmed after last weekend's home defeat to Reading.

Boden, meanwhile, recently joined Carlisle from Scunthorpe United.

He has been appointed as a second senior analyst at Brunton Park alongside Jacob Blain, who will now focus more heavily on recruitment analysis.

Glenn Boden, right, pictured with another recent staff arrival, Billy Barr (Image: Richard Parkes)

Simpson recently said he had been impressed with Boden's work in a short space of time.

"I’m really pleased with what I've seen of him so far," said the manager.

“He's really enjoying his work.

Boden joined Carlisle from National League North club Scunthorpe, where he had been since 2018, initially as head of academy analysis, before stepping up to head of football analysis four years later.

United's backroom staff has grown this season with the arrivals also of head of performance Jake Simpson and strength and conditioning coach Adam Kwiecien, the latter's appointment offsetting the departure of Jamie Roper.

Billy Barr recently bolstered Simpson's staff as first-team coach, while the Cumbrians are also set to appoint a new physio to join the department led by head physio Chris Brunskill.