It was genuine... Zak Brunt limps off as the potential match-winner once again.

Josh Landers replaces him with 10 minutes remaining of extra time.

Break in play, which will aid Wood, as Zak Brunt goes down with cramp.

Not that 13,000 people in the stands think it's genuine, of course.. but after the week he's had, you could understand it.

Rochdale skipper Ethan Ebanks-Landell has spoken about the turnaround in Dale's fortunes in the three years since they dropped out of the EFL.

The 33-year-old former Wolves and Sheffield United defender was part of the Dale squad who were relegated out of the Football League in 2022-23.

He credited the job boss Jimmy McNulty and the club's owners, the Ogden family - who took over in May 2024 - have done in turning things around for the Greater Manchester side.

They finished 11th in their first season in the National League before coming fourth last time, losing a dramatic eliminator at home to Southend, and then came within moments of the title on a dramatic final day at York last Saturday.

"When we did get relegated it was a tough, tough pill to swallow," Ebanks-Landell told BBC Radio 5 Live.

"I think the club was in a bad place and it was tough when we came into this league.

"Over the last two years we've grown and grown and it's been a project managed by the gaffer and the new owners coming in."

Paul Huntington
Former Carlisle captain on BBC Radio Cumbria

It has been coming. We have gotten away with three or four chances already. We need to change our plan immediately.

Final instructions passed on from Mark Hughes and Luke Garrard.

The final 15 minutes of football for one side this season, but who?

Adam Lanigan
BBC Sport reporter at Brunton Park

Quite simply, how are Boreham Wood not winning this match?

Totally dominant in the 10 or so minutes with a man extra, they have probably created FIVE chances to score and taken not a single one.

Surely they must bag one if this carries on?

Sorry to break it to you, Dale fans, but since the play-off system and its second promotion spot were introduced to the National League at the end of the 2002-03 season, the team finishing second has been promoted only six times out of 23.

During that time, there have been a fair few horror stories involving high-flying runners-up who missed out on the title by small margins then losing in the play-offs to sides who finished way below them.

In 2003-04, Hereford finished second with 17 more points than third-placed Shrewsbury, who were promoted via the play-offs instead. Hereford then finished second and missed out in the play-offs again the following year, before finally being promoted from second place, at the third time of asking, in 2005-06.

Now in the Championship, only missing out on a play-off place on a dramatic final day yesterday, Wrexham endured a torrid time after finishing second on 98 points in 2011-12. They were immediately knocked out of the play-off semi-finals, and were mired in mid-table mediocrity in the National League for more than a decade before finally being promoted as champions in 2022-23.

York finally got themselves over the line last weekend but they were also terrific last season, earning 96 points but finishing five behind Barnet, before being knocked out of the play-offs in the semi-finals by Oldham, who had finished 26 points behind them in fifth.

Dale finished 24 points clear of fifth-placed Scunthorpe this season, but could lightning strike again?

No goals, but a red card in the opening 15 minutes of extra-time.

Junior Luamba's lunge on Zak Brunt earned him a straight red card and his side have been chasing shadows ever since.

Can Wood capitalise in the next 15 minutes or are we destined for penalties?

James Phillips
BBC Radio Cumbria Sport commentator

Boreham Wood's finishing has been abysmal.

They have had four or five chances since the red card and have not been able to take any.

They are playing through Carlisle so easily at the minute.

United are all over the shop at the back and desperately need half-time for a reset.

Charlie O'Connell is the latest to miss the target for Wood as the blue shirts camp on the edge of their own box.

Callum Reynolds pops up on the edge of the Carlisle box as the ball is cut back but he applies a centre-back's finish and sends the ball sailing high over Gabe Breeze's bar.

Ephraim Yeboah is on for Stephen Wearne for the final stages for the hosts.

We'll have THREE added minutes at the end of this first period of extra time.

James Phillips
BBC Radio Cumbria Sport commentator

What a massive chance and a massive miss that was from Matt Rush.

How on earth has he been allowed so much space there for the visitors.

How? He's scored 33 times this season but that should really be 34.

Chris Bush threads a pass into the feet of Matt Rush who takes a touch on the edge of the box and when whips a left-footed effort across goal and a yard wide of the post.

He had time to take a touch, or two even.

Is that THE chance of avoiding penalties spurned?

Rochdale finished 24 points clear of Scunthorpe over the course of the season, but given the manner of last weekend's dramatic second-placed finish, moments after believing they had snatched the title from York, will Dale suffer a hangover today?

One person who knows a bit about it is former Notts County keeper Sam Slocombe, who helped the Magpies to 107 points in 2022-23, only for Wrexham to take the title and leave County to negotiate the play-offs, eventually pipping Chesterfield on penalties in the play-off final.

"The psychological side of bringing yourself back up to compete in massive games after not quite reaching your goal is very challenging," Slocombe told BBC Sport.

"You have to verbalise it and say to each other 'we wanted to get promoted and we're still in an unbelievable position to do that'. That burning desire needs to stay there.

"National League play-offs are one-legged, pure tournament football - what you did week in, week out doesn't matter any more.

"If you finish second, you also have a gap where the teams lower down play the first play-off match. I found that very challenging because they get to keep their intensity while you're waiting around - maybe your level is dropping.

"The lower play-off teams will go there with zero pressure - it's a freebie for them."

Adam Lanigan
BBC Sport reporter at Brunton Park

The fans around me at Brunton Park have gone very quiet since the sending off of Junior Luamba.

It feels like they are fearing the worst and no surprise, given that Boreham Wood have already gone close three times with a man extra.

Carlisle will do well to get it to penalties at this rate.

Zak Brunt has really grown into this game, just as Regan Linney has faded for the hosts.

Brunt collects a pass on the edge of the box and drives into the area before shuffling to make room for an angled shot which Gabe Breeze gets down to block at his near post.