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Chris Wilder reacts as Sheffield United tumble out of FA Cup
The Star, Sheffield
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10/01/2025
Chris Wilder's reaction after Sheffield United tumbled out of the FA Cup at the first hurdle with defeat to Cardiff City. Speaking to BBC Radio Sheffield
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Their fringe players were better than our fringe players. Their younger players were
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better than our younger players. It's as simple as that. I'm massively frustrated because
00:10
of course I'd have loved to have put a stronger team out, but it would have been suicidal
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and I have to take that responsibility and if people behind me want to shout and bawl
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at me, I get it. But come the Norwich game, if any of those boys were out injured and
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we don't get players over the line because it's a difficult window to get players in
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and to get players in early and some of the boys that we're expected to get back don't
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get back, then we're going into the last 20th game of the season with a team that's really
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struggling. So it would have been suicidal of me. So I have to take that responsibility.
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Disappointed with some of the boys. They should have been better and there was an opportunity
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for them that have not played a lot of football to really impress. Always an opportunity to
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impress. A couple of young boys I didn't think did as well as they should be and it is really
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where we are at the moment. It's not me apologising because I've given plenty of information what
01:07
this was going to look like tonight. I would have liked it to have looked a lot better
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in terms of the performance from the players that gave the opportunity. Gave the ball away
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cheaply in poor areas, but you're chucking a team together and you're expecting it to
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float. Yeah, they're chucking a team together and they just float a little bit better than
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us. They're into the next round of the FA Cup, we're out, but I think everybody recognises
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and realises. I can't chuck a season away by losing Gus Emel, by losing Callum O'Hare,
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by losing three or four of the players, by losing Anel and then having one centre-half.
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So if I had put Anel on tonight and something had happened to him, I would have had one
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centre-half. So that's just a small example. So yeah, these are things that I have to make
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and people have to trust me in terms of decision. It's not a great situation. We're in nine
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or ten out, but there won't be nine or ten out for the Norwich game and that has to be
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the main event and the last 20 games of our season have to be the main event. Disappointing
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to lose, of course, and don't like it, of course, but bigger picture for me.
02:07
Were you tempted to put Gus or Callum on?
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Of course I was! Of course I was! Of course I was tempted. I love losing at home at Bramall Lane,
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of course I do. Of course I was and people have to hold me back because I want to chuck
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the goalkeeper on up front and see what we can do. But yeah, we don't get into this situation,
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we don't have the season that we're having by having a losing mentality. We don't have
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the seasons that we've had over numerous years. Like I said to the players before,
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you know, we came in here, we were an easy, soft touch right the way through. I want us
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to be stronger. I want us to go well in every competition, win pre-season games, win end
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of season games, win under-21s, win under-18s, win under-15s, of course, that's what we're
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all trying to do. And yeah, I would have loved to have tried to get something from the game,
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but I have to be realistic, we've talked about it long enough, we were light at the start
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of the season and now we lose nine players. It's not like one or two, it's nine players.
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You have 50% of them tonight and then you give yourself a lot more of an opportunity
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and a chance of winning games in football. So, like I said, I'm not going on the back foot
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or defensive, it's just what it is. We all want to have a really positive, strong last 20 games
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of the season. You bring two or three players in, what we're desperately trying to do and trying
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to work on and we're seeing progression on that, then this picture looks different. And if we'd
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have got through, then it would have looked a lot different in the fourth round and then
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we'd have had a stronger squad. I want to win games, but we really have to be selective tonight
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and it is disappointing because, as I said, I thought some of the boys there that I was
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expecting better performances from didn't produce the performances I was expecting.
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And I thought a couple of the young kids, two or three of them, I thought Billy Blacker was
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excellent in the middle of the park, I thought he can be delighted with his performance. I thought
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Baptiste at centre-half was positive in his approach. I think a couple of the others,
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Opportunity, I'll keep saying it, my favourite one, when they put their head on the pillar tonight,
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they'll feel that there's a missed opportunity for them to really impress me and really impress
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our supporters tonight.
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