Eric Kinder spoke to us about the impressive 2-0 away victory at high-flying Bury shortly after full time:

"The penny has dropped with this group of players.

I'm starting to find that my life is much easier than it was a few weeks ago, because they are working really hard and playing the game the way that we want them to play it.

It's another clean sheet, but this time against a team who were well clear at the top of the league. We dominated the game from start to finish, and we thoroughly deserved to come away with the result.

I've been talking about missed chances a heck of a lot recently, but we seem to have learned the lessons of that from what happened today. When you play against teams like this, who are a big, strong side, and who are enjoying a real run of form, then you have to make sure that you score, or you get nothing. We've done that this morning, and I'm delighted about it.

Their keeper has pulled off about three absolutely top drawer saves. I won't even put it down to us missing them, because the lads have done everything right. They've simply come up against a keeper who is on top of his game.

We went in 0-0 at half time, and we had never looked like conceding at all. Towards the end of the second half, in the 80th minute, we got a slice of luck when Ged Dalton cut inside and tried to lift the ball towards the back post. It spun off his boot, wrong-footed the keeper and smashed in to the top corner. He was definitely trying to cross it, but we aren't going to argue because sometimes you accept that you make your own luck. To be honest, we did that with the way we played, so we deserved the goal, whichever way it came.

We made it 2-0 in the 85th minute when Connor Tinnion swung a corner in, and Andy Cook made it his own, nodding it past the keeper. We also hit the bar through Gary Madine, and he had two tremendous efforts saved, otherwise we would have been really comfortable. Steven Hindmarch thought he'd scored, only to see the keeper get to it, so it was all good stuff.

If I'm being honest, I've had nothing much at all to do this morning. I've been able to stand and watch. They've gone out there and done the job, and they were absolutely fantastic. I haven't had to rant or rave, and I've sat back and watched them put the work from the training ground in to action on the pitch.

I just have to hope that they can continue to play like this because, if they do, then we are going to find ourselves with a really good team on our hands. I have told them in the dressing room that they have to keep their feet on the ground. They aren't Real Madrid, and they need to remember that, but there are a lot of happy faces in there.

I keep telling them that they can't win the league this season, but they insist that they can. I've made a deal with them that if they get good results from their games between now and Christmas, then we'll have a right good bash at it in the New Year. If they really think that they can do it, and they keep telling me that they can, they have to be adult enough to understand what it means to take a challenge like that on. They are a good team, but it's the work rate that's required to stay at that level that they now have to get to grips with, so we'll see how they respond.

Having some of the lads play in the Reserves is both a good thing and a bad thing. The education they get from playing at that next level up, and from playing with senior professionals, is second to none. The only slight down side is that they lose out on training time. However, if you were to give me the choice then I'd have them playing Reserve football every time. Like I say, you can't beat it for developing them as footballers and as individuals.

Today we had Steven Hindmarch, Matt Brown, Ged Dalton and Dan Wordsworth as second years in the team, the other seven are all first years. That's very, very encouraging for us but, we have to keep reminding them, only if they continue to play in this way.

We defended really well, which is a huge bonus for us. Alex Mitchell had just one thing to do, and that was when he came running out to block a shot, and he was well protected by the defence for the rest of the game. You don't have to go too far back to see that we were conceding 2, 3 or 4 goals in every game, and we have really got on top of that now. We've let one get past in the last five games, so we've got things right there. The three first years have settled really well, and they look a good unit.

Steve Hindmarch had a spell in central midfield today and he was really good. He's an excellent footballer when he wants to be, and he would be unstoppable if he found himself a level of real consistency.

It was nice for us at full time because their coaching staff came over and told us that the better team had won. They looked at our two strikers and admitted that they were a handful. Their manager admitted that he wouldn't like to play against them himself.

Andy Cook has got himself another goal, and that's four games in a row that he's managed to do that. He is a big, awkward, scruffy footballer, but he isn't half effective. Our own manager spoke very highly of the strike pairing during the week, which is good for both of them. You want the lads to step up and play when the first team manager is watching, and you want him to go away saying good things about you.

Both of them are really hard to handle. Andy Cook is so big and strong, and if he has decided to do something, or go for a ball, then he's very hard to stop. He works himself in to the ground in every game, and it's superb to see from a 16-year-old. His goal today summed him up, because he made his move and left his marker standing. Then, to finish it off like he did, he has to take full credit. It was a real old-fashioned forward's goal.

It's the nice side of the job for me now, because I need to keep them level headed and in focus. I'm not having to pick them up or tell them off, so it becomes very, very enjoyable. They are all fully aware, though, of just how quickly things can turn, and they know that only they can do the work that's required.

I didn't use any substitutions today, because everything was flowing along nicely. Matt Wood didn't even get changed, I just sat him on the bench and let him rest. He felt his ankle twinge during the warm-up, and he complained that it just didn't feel right, so I would rather rest him for another week and make sure that he is fully fit. Dolly will have another look at him, and we'll take it from there."

United - Mitchell, Brown, Wordsworth, Aldred, Duffy, Dalton, Hindmarch, Blake, Tinnion, Madine, Cook. Subs - Carson, Seaton, Dowson, Wood, Lakeland.