Chris Wilder previews Sheffield United v Stoke City after defeats at Leeds United and Middlesbrough

The Star, Sheffield

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00:00And on to the game, another quick turnaround from Wednesday night, three games in a quick succession.

00:05So how are the lads physically and mentally coming into this game?

00:08Yes, they're a little bit down because they lost a couple of games of football,

00:11but they shouldn't be too down about it.

00:13I want them to feel, I want it to hurt.

00:18We all feel that when we lose games.

00:23I think expectation levels have gone up,

00:26so I don't want to squash that because we want to win games of football.

00:34I've said it before, we don't plan a season by drawing the first two or three

00:41and losing one and winning a couple and then all of a sudden gradually go through.

00:46If we've got a chance to win a game of football, like we have done in the first nine games of the season,

00:52like we have done in the last two, we'll try and win a game of football.

00:55And with that, it gives you three points.

00:56With that, it gives you another three points or a point and another three points.

01:00And then it becomes six, it becomes three.

01:03Then expectation levels grow, which you want them to be,

01:06because you don't want to turn down results.

01:08You don't want to turn down wins.

01:11And yeah, but I think it's up and down the country.

01:16I think we just talked about it.

01:18West Brom lose two and then they go from a really good group to a really poor group.

01:25Middlesbrough get beat against Watford and get beat at home against Bristol City.

01:29Supporters boo them off and then they're rubbish.

01:33Michael's rubbish, everything's rubbish.

01:36And then they beat us in a big game and then everything's back.

01:39So there's no in-between, is there?

01:41There's no level thought process, there's no thinking about it really.

01:46It is as it was.

01:49We get applauded, we get serenaded, we get sung about and then we get abused.

01:57So I suppose we just have to come to accept it, accept what social media is about,

02:03accept that people have a platform to voice their opinions.

02:07What I do know now through this period, I think sometimes it gets a little bit lost,

02:11is we all need that support.

02:14We all need that support because it's been an incredibly tough two weeks for everybody.

02:19With what we've talked about and the quality and the standard of the opposition

02:24we've played over the last two games and the results that we've not got.

02:29Not through the want of trying, not through the want of getting smashed,

02:32not through the want of getting the white flag out.

02:35You know, we've talked about it.

02:39At Leeds, fine margins, better side.

02:42Lost to a better side, fine margins though.

02:45Definitely fine margins on Wednesday night.

02:47Had some great opportunities, two cleared off the line.

02:50Kids made an incredible goal line clearance in the final minutes.

02:57Could quite easily have come away with a result and everything's OK.

03:01It's a great result.

03:02Everything's not OK now because we've got beat.

03:05So this is what we deal with in football in the modern age and we have to get over that.

03:10And what we have to do, simplistically and basically,

03:13is have a good performance on Saturday and get a win and then everything's all right.

03:18But as I've said before, through experience, don't get incredibly too high.

03:22When we win games in football, don't get incredibly too desperate and low.

03:30And we'll change everything when we lose.

03:33We've got to keep a nice balance in between.

03:37Deal with the praise when we get it and have to accept the stuff when we don't get it.

03:47And just keep nice and tight as a group.

03:50Keep believing in what we're doing.

03:52As you all know, I've said it loads of times, it's a new group.

03:57It's a young group, youngish group.

04:00And we have to stick together internally, which we'll do.

04:03There's a great feel about the group, good personality,

04:07and we're really tight and we're really together.

04:09We're really together.

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