Manager Paul Simpson spoke to us after the 2-0 defeat at Wigan Athletic.
"It would have been easy to have gone under at half-time, the way we were," he said.
"You can't come to places like Wigan with the forward players they've got and give them a start like they did.
"I thought the first 25 minutes we made some really poor decisions in terms of we're in the final third and we could be getting shots off and we're not, it's a rash challenge from Josh and he doesn't need to bring him down.
"The second half we've had a bit of a go and we've had chances. It's the story of our season and you don't need to be a coach to know that we've not got enough in the final third, it's as simple as that.
"We've had opportunities today and maybe we needed a bit of luck when that deflection just goes over the bar, but we have to be finishing some of those chances.
"We've had some deliveries gone in from set plays, some good crosses, like we did at Fleetwood - some real good balls going into the box, but we've got to be finishing them. That's why we desperately need strikers."
Expanding further on the goal conceded by his side, Simpson added: "It's a penalty. There's a question whether it's a foul on Sean Maguire leading up to it, but i'd be clutching at straws if I was saying that's what has cost us the game.
"We've given them a head start with the penalty and then it's little individual jobs from the corner. Their lad has come off the near post and within two yards he's made two yards on our defender, he gets the flick and we don't do the job at the far post.
"It's little fine margins but when you're up against good players you have to turn them around and we haven't done that tonight. That's where the massive disappointment is from the first half."
The second half saw the Blues look a greater threat in the final third and, will encouraged by aspects of the showing after the break, Simpson knows that those improvements need to translate into further chances.
"We had to change the shape to try and do something different," he explained.
"I thought we pressed them quite well, we won the ball, we nicked it a few times - Alfie and Mox nicked it, Robbo did - but you've got to threaten and test the goal.
"If you look at the whole balance of the game, there's no way I'm saying Wigan didn't play well because they're a good side, but you think of what Gabe Breeze has had to do tonight. He's had a penalty to face, he's had one save which is a comfortable one into his hands, a goal from a set play - he hasn't had any other saves to make.
"They haven't absolutely peppered our goals, but they've kept the ball well and had good movement. They're good players, a level above players - Aasgaard, Shaw, Charlie Wyke and Callum McManaman coming off the bench.
"I don't think Charlie Wyke gave the ball away when he came onto the pitch. That's the level that we're trying to compete with and get to and we're falling short at the moment, that's blatantly obvious.
"The positive tonight is the way we stuck at it and kept going. I thought we had a bit of belief second half but lacked the quality."
And Simpson also reserved praise for the 4,128 vocal travelling fans who backed the Cumbrians throughout.
"I think the massive positive is that crowd of fans behind the goal who, credit to them, stuck with us when it would have ben very easy for them to have gone under and probably gone home.
"They stuck with us and I can only thank them for that.
"It was horrible conditions as well but they sang, they made a noise, and as I keep saying we're just not doing enough at the moment.
"I don't think it's through a lack of effort, it's a lack of sensible decisions in the first half and a lack of quality when we're in good areas. Second half, it's just that little bit of quality that's let us down."
