Chris Wilder reacts to Sheffield United defeat at Burnley

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Chris Wilder reacts to Sheffield United defeat at Burnley which ended their automatic promotion hopes for this season, speaking to BBC Radio Sheffield

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00:00Chris, it's the playoffs, some of your emotions right now?

00:03Yeah, do you know what? I've just thought about that in terms of speaking to the players.

00:07I want us to get into 90 points, the 90 points total.

00:10For two teams, congratulations to Daniel and Scott and their two teams.

00:15For those two teams to hit 100 points, who have the ability to get 100 points,

00:19just shows you what the division's like.

00:20And we've finished up the third best team in the division.

00:23The game, the season went to the 44th game of the season.

00:27I thought we were having a right go tonight.

00:31We've created some good chances.

00:33The goals have killed us. We've conceded two poor goals.

00:36We have to do better on the clearance and obviously the penalty hands the initiative back into them.

00:40But we always looked like we could score.

00:42Just needed to make better decisions in and around the box and show a little bit more quality.

00:48But this team got put together. I was just talking to them there.

00:52Team got put together in the summer.

00:55Everybody knows what happened last year.

01:00I remember going to Huddersfield a week before the start of the season.

01:05And basically it was an under-21 team with a few players added in.

01:08So we've had to learn on the job.

01:11The season didn't end here.

01:13As I said, it ended when we didn't put the current form, Oxford, to bed.

01:18You can lose a game in the Championship and you can't go and get beat at Plymouth,

01:21even though Coventry had got beat and Middlesbrough should have drawn last week.

01:25But those were the games that really have cost us.

01:29We would have still have had to get, as you know, we would have still have had to get, what, 90, 95, 96, 97 points to go up.

01:36It's an insane season.

01:38And our younger players will learn from it.

01:40There's players playing at the top end of the Championship that will learn from it for the first time.

01:44The Arisons and Coopers and Femmes and City Peake, Jazzies and all those.

01:52We've fallen a little bit short.

01:54We've been the third best team in the division.

01:56We've been the third best team in the division.

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