Eric Kinder spoke to us about the 3-0 away victory over Blackpool:

"It was unbelievably windy down there. I don't think that I've ever been to Blackpool to play a game at anytime when it's been nice, but this was a particularly bad day.

Having said that, the pitch was magnificent. Squires Gate is now the home of Blackpool Academy, and the first team don't train there any more, so that helps them a lot.

We made a couple of changes and that gave us a chance to bring one of our schoolboys, Josh Todd, onto the bench. I've been impressed with him when I have seen him on Sunday mornings and it was an ideal time to bring him in.

We brought James Reid back in up front and we had Manny Richardson in midfield and, to be fair, he was the best player on the pitch. He never gave them a moments rest and he ended up picking up a yellow card because he made about 50 tackles in the game. He was behind every attacking move that we had.

We had the wind with us in the first half and we got ourselves into a two goal lead.

For our first, Matt Osmond got through with only the keeper to beat and he lobbed it but, unluckily for him, it bounced back off the bar. James Reid was following up and he bundled it over the line.

Ben McKenna got our second and that came from a great free kick by Matt Osmond. It was a good delivery and McKenna was there, at the back post, to finish it off and to score his second goal in the space of a week.

We had an unbelievable opportunity right on half time to get another when their keeper tried to play the ball out from the back. He sent it straight to James Reid but, incredibly, he missed from 6 yards. That was frustrating because it was game over if it had gone in.

Obviously the wind was in their favour for the second half and I thought we defended outstandingly well. The keeper and the back four were terrific. There was plenty of pressure from long balls and corners and it kept swirling around, but we coped.

James Bonner came in at right back for us and he played really well when he settled down. I was pleased for him because he hasn't had much of a chance this season. I managed to get young Josh Todd on for 20 minutes and came across as a very composed young man. That's one that we can look at further between now and the end of the season.

Our third goal was scored by Ryan Bowman, and it was a frustrating afternoon for him because things didn't go his way. It's a slight problem that we have with him because he is a really good footballer, but he gets himself too frustrated. He has no need to do it, and it's something that he could do with sorting out. I kept on his back all game and he scored a terrific goal on 88 minutes when he got the ball on the edge of the box. He slipped inside the centre half and rolled the ball into the corner, and it was a very, very good finish.

I thought he'd be over the moon with it but his reaction was a shrug of the shoulders and he dropped his head to walk back to the centre circle. You do ask yourself why, but we'll have to just work on it.

Overall it was a very hard working performance and another terrific result for us in really terrible conditions."

United - Gillespie, Bonner, Cleary, Richards-Everton, Swinglehurst, McKenna, Richardson, Law (Todd 70), Osmond (Towler 75), Reid (Sloan 70), Bowman. Subs - Ball, Cahill.