Eric Kinder spoke to us about the Youth FA Cup defeat at the hands of Stoke City on Tuesday night:

"When you get to that last five minutes you are just thinking 'get to extra-time' and the reason I am furious is because of the goal.

If you look back now we have conceded goals against Accrington from a corner, York from a corner, even Wetheriggs on Saturday from a corner and from exactly the same position.  

We worked on it this morning for half an hour, because it is a concern, and we talked about people taking responsibility. We have zonal marking in the youth team which has served us well, but what you have got to do if you are one of the three zonal markers is check the flight of the ball. When it comes anywhere near you, you don't have a player to mark, you don't have to track runners, you just have to go and head it.

Once again the three lads who do that are the three biggest, which is right, but also the three that never speak and never ever talk to one another. They are decent footballers but if you don't take responsibility and you are frightened of shouting and going for it, and of winning it, then they have got a problem. It's happened to us time and time again. Whatever the reason is for us not doing it properly, it has cost us a massive game and I am absolutely fuming with them.

You cannot miss the chances we missed in the second-half and then go and concede like that in the 90th minute, and come off and be satisfied.

They probably kept the ball better than us, but we had the chances and we didn't take them. What happens in youth football is that you play on a Saturday morning on Creighton, or you play away from home, and it is an easy game and it's about development. We come off and we have won 5-0 and the leading goalscorer (Ryan Bowman) has got four and we have won this and we have won that. But this is where it counts. This is where your contracts are earned. This is where you stand on the touch line and think - yes, he is going to do it. That doesn't happen on Saturday mornings.

It was a great tie for us was this one because it could have allowed us to get into the fourth round, play against an Academy, play against a Premier League club who are established as one of the big boys, and we have totally and utterly blown the chance.

I thought there was a period in the second-half where we created three great chances where, if you take one of them, I think they would have gone under. We gradually allowed them to get back into the game and we didn't keep the ball well enough.

My standards might be a lot higher than theirs, I don't know, but at times we just wanted to kick it. We have got some thinking to do now. I am speaking now ten minutes after and I am furious, and probably when I wake up in the morning I won't say the same things. The manner of the goal conceded when we spent time and time again dealing with it, can we handle this, yes we can. This is what I was told this morning, yes we can, this is the way we want to mark corners, but we have now let four goals in exactly the same areas.

I have always said that we go to Christmas and we have a look at the league table then. The Youth Cup has gone now, the Alliance Cup has gone, so we have a look at the league table and depending on how we deal with Burnley on Saturday I will sit down and have a look at it, because I have got to start planning for next year.

I have got to protect my second years, which I always have done, as my job is to try to get second years through to professional contracts. However, I won't lie for them. If I don't feel that they are going to make progress then I won't advise the manager to take them. I definitely now have to think about next season because, looking at the first years that I have his year, they have got some growing up to do to compete. Not at youth level, that doesn't worry me, but they have to compete to get a professional contract.

The last thing that I said to them before they went out of the dressing-room was just have no regrets when you come back in. Just go out there, play the best you can, give it everything you have got and come in with no regrets. Unfortunately they have got a million of them now."

United - Gillespie, Wood (Bonner 82), Cleary, Richards-Everton, Swinglehurst, McKenna, Law, Davison, Osmond, Richardson, Bowman. Subs - Ball, Cahill, Towler, Sloan.