Thoughts for the Blades line-up against QPR this weekend began to occupy Kevin Blackwell's mind immediately after the win in midweek:

"There were no fresh injuries from midweek so I am please with that, now I will look at what QPR have over the next 24 hours and decide on how we are going to go.

"Darius Henderson, David Cotterill and Matthew Spring all needed that game to help them sharpen up and all three improved as the game wore on. I think that one, or possibly two, of those will start on Saturday.

"One or two players not selected the previous week at Birmingham could count themselves unlucky, particularly Danny Webber but he was carrying a slight niggle and had missed training - but he had a good workout against Port Vale.

"That last performance was good in many ways and several players did well so it is a selection dilemma, but one that every manager wants. Our bench is looking very strong and illustrates our squad strength."