Cheltenham Town boss on his side's win at Carlisle United

And the visiting manager felt his side could have racked up half a dozen goals in their best spells against Mike Williamson’s strugglers.

An Ethon Archer goal, which spun into the net after Harry Lewis’ attempted save, proved enough for the Robins to win.

The visitors moved up to 16th while 23rd-placed United’s misery deepened.

Flynn was delighted with his team’s showing against a Carlisle side he said is in a point of transition.

“They’ve got some really good players. They’ve brought in a new management team…the crowd was really quiet for the first hour, it’s probably the quietest I’ve seen the Carlisle fans,” said Flynn.

“They’re probably as frustrated as some of the Cheltenham fans were with us at the start [of the season].

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“It takes time. It’s a lot of change. Change takes time.”

Archer’s goal in the 17th minute put the visitors in front and they missed further good chances to increase their lead, before Harrison Biggins missed Carlisle’s best second-half opportunity.

Cheltenham missed chances to increase their lead, such as this opportunity for Sam Stubbs (Image: Ben Holmes)

“Today, we could have been four, five, maybe six up,” added Flynn.

“In the first half we were menacing, we went man-for-man, we caused them no end of problems.

“I think the one where they went across the front of our goal when he [Harrison Biggins] put it over was a little let-off.

“But we had opportunities again in the second half to kill the game off, and that’s the only disappointing thing for me.

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“I thought the lads were absolutely superb.”

Cheltenham, after a struggling start to the campaign, have taken seven points from their last three games to move away from immediate danger.

They are now nine points above second-bottom Carlisle.

Cheltenham's Ryan Bowman came off the bench against his home-city club late on (Image: Ben Holmes)

Flynn highlighted some individual and collective aspects of the game.

“In the first half the best player on the pitch was Liam Kinsella – he broke up so many of their possession positions and then we were able to create a goalscoring opportunity,” added Flynn, who brought Carlisle-born former Blues striker Ryan Bowman off the bench late on.

“[The defenders] were superb…it was everyone, they put in a good shift.

“We’ve been a lot harder to play against in the last few weeks and it’s credit to the continuity and consistency that we’ve been able to put on the pitch.

“I’m really pleased, it’s a long journey home and I can’t wait to get on the coach.”