Eric Kinder spoke to us about the home defeat against Burnley:
"I just think it was a bit of a factor that we were feeling sorry for ourselves after what happened in the FA Youth Cup. We were so much in that game against Stoke, and then to lose it like we did in those last few seconds, it would affect anybody.
I am not sure whether we really wanted to play the game but, in my experience, we needed to get back quickly. It is like falling off a bike in that you get back onto it as soon as you can.
Steven Swinglehurst should have had a penalty early on, there is no question about it. If it happened anywhere else on the pitch the referee gives a free-kick. They make strange decisions in the penalty box don't they, and we just have to live with that, but it was a penalty.
Ryan Bowman hit the post as well in the first minute from an absolute incredible angle, you don't really expect it to go in, but he swivelled and hit it from there. So, if we had got the penalty and Ryan gets a bit of luck with the one that hit the post, then you are 2-0 up in the first five minutes and who knows what happens then. But overall I thought we were second best to a very, very good side.
What happened at the start of the season is that Burnley couldn't win a game, and we went down there and we absolutely hammered them. I think a club of Burnley's size, I think they must have sat down and looked closely at it.
They haven't lost a game since then, but they are such a big club now with getting into the Premier League that they obviously got out and found themselves four or five players. If you look at the midfield player they have brought in from Scotland (Joe McKee) at a ridiculous amount of money for a youth team player (£100,000), but the lad looks class. The goal he scored against us - he looks a decent player, so they are capable as a club of going out and putting things right that seem wrong. They were a completely different side this morning to the one that we tore to pieces at Gawthorpe only a couple of months ago.
It was the right decision to play the game on the frosty pitch. I wanted us to play again soon after the disappointment of Tuesday and I thought it was the right thing.
Going into the Christmas break I think we are actually doing better than I thought we would. I knew we were going to be a very young side this year. I knew when I had such heavy recruitment to do in the summer, with ten or eleven coming in, that I didn't expect to challenge anything this year. I must admit that I expected a little bit more from my second years, I am getting it from some and I am not getting maximum from others. They have got to realise that is such an important time for them.
We will have a look at it. We will play a couple more league games after Christmas, see where we stand and then that is it then. I will start preparing for next season, because again we should have an older side next year. We will have ten second years next year and I want to make sure the six first years who come in get plenty of youth football this season to prepare them, because we will have another real good bash at it next year."
United - Gillespie, Wood, Cleary, Richards-Everton (Cahill 75), Swinglehurst, McKenna, Law, Davison, Osmond (Sloan 75), Richardson, Bowman. Subs (not used) - Ball, Bonner, Towler.
