Brown told him, "Last year, after we held Hereford to a draw at our place, they really felt that pressure back on their home patch," claimed Brown.
"If somebody came to me now and told me that we would get a 0-0 draw at home against Carlisle, then I'd be very happy.
“Going back up there, with 12,000 fans on their players' backs is just what we need and they will be expected to win. We will be canny about how we play. To be honest, I don't think there are many clubs in non-league football that have the experience of playing over a two-leg tie. In Europe you get it all the time but it's obviously not the same lower down the leagues. We learnt a lot from our semi-final against Hednesford Town in the FA Trophy last season. At our place we were very ambitious but we ended up losing 2-0. That's why anything more than a 0-0 draw against Carlisle would be a bonus."
Brown has a point. At Edgar Street last May, Hereford were not the same force that played with such vigour just days before during an enthralling 1-1 draw at the Recreation Ground. Going forward, the Shots created the better chances and could have put the game out of sight had Ray Warburton's heading radar been working to its full potential. So the game plan would seem to be the same.
"The Carlisle fans are murder," Brown joked. "They booed their players off the pitch at half-time up there when we played them and in some cases you can see why. They are a massive club and they shouldn't be struggling in the Football League — let alone not winning the Conference — when you consider the gates that they get week in, week out. There will be a lot of pressure on them up there again."
The boss — switching his focus to the players that have produced the goods in recent weeks, was obviously full of praise.
"We are a very solid side with the most solid midfield in the league — nobody can match the likes of Steve Watson and David Lee.
"Watto has been tremendous for us. He is just so big and strong but more importantly he is an athlete who is frightening — even in training, he scares the life out of players. When you are going to places like Carlisle, you want to see people like Watson out on the pitch for you and David Lee has been superb for us as well.
"This season we have strength in different areas. When you look at my side, all my youngsters have improved as players. Really, the only guy that hasn't improved is Ray Warburton, and I mean that in the sense that this is Ray's last season and due to injuries, he perhaps isn't the force that he was last year.
"But looking at the boys, Chris Giles has improved and has done a great job for me at right-back. He gives me a fantastic problem because defensively he has been better than Tarkan Mustafa in that position while Tarkan, when fully fit, is the best right-back in the country, especially going forward. Elsewhere, Gary Holloway is improving with every game we play, Lee is unsung and Dwain Clarke gives me an option at home when we play just the one striker up front."
But the last word on players surely has to be reserved for the magnificent Tim Sills, whose powerhouse run of form has been key to the Shots' surging run after losing to Stevenage Borough last month.
Brown added: "The boy Sills, well what can you say?
"At the end of last season, he was a spent force. He needed an operation on his groin and he just ran out of steam.
"This season we are seeing a different beast and he is the best target man in non league football. He can lead the line like nobody else can, winning every header.
"Obviously we never wanted to lose strikers of the calibre of Jonny Dixon and Jake Robinson, because they are very good players. But I believe that since they have left, we have become a more solid side. Jonny and Jake should look back on their time at this club and be proud that they played alongside a striker of Tim's pedigree."