Darrell Clarke questions his player's mentality after Walsall are undone by Carlisle

The Saddlers spurned several clear-cut chances in the first half and should have been comfortably ahead by the break.

But Carlisle struck first in the second half through Nathan Thomas.

Elijah Adebayo then equalised just minutes before captain James Clarke was given a straight red card for pulling back Harry McKirdy as the forward raced through on goal.

The Saddlers looked to have hung on for a point before McKirdy had the final say when his header looped over Liam Roberts in the final minute to earn his side the win.

And Clarke reacted angrily to his side’s failure to hang on after the match.

“I’m angry,” he said.

“I’m very angry to be honest with you.

“I need to calm down a little bit.

“But mentality there at the end for me, there’s too many weak-minded players on the pitch to see a game through.

“I’ll weed them out, we’ll weed them out.

“I don’t give a monkeys about two defeats in 11, I really couldn’t care less.

“I look at mentality and for some of them it’s weak.

“I hate weak players.

“They’ll be moved on and we’ll get one or two in, doing it the right way.

“People might think I’m being a bit harsh and critical of the team, but I don’t care.

“Should we have won the game again? Yes.

“In my opinion we’ve had plenty of chances to win the game, we should win the game.

“That’s the biggest disappointment for me, the last two minutes.

“The goal is shocking, an absolutely shocking goal.

“That comes down to mentality and backing off.

“Yeah we’re down to 10 men but we have to be brave and make good decisions.

“It’s a mentality thing with some of them.

“If you go out there you’ve got (Mat) Sadler, (Danny) Guthrie and (Josh) Gordon - three strong-minded players.

“But that’s it, the rest of them are in development really for me.

“There’s probably too many development players on there at the end.

“We’ll go again in three days, but we’re disappointed.”