Last Updated: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:47
Kevin Blackwell said Nyron Nosworthy did not train with the Blades before the loss to Watford as he looked to explain his poor display.
The Blades went down to a comprehensive 3-0 defeat against the Hornets and Blackwell offered very few excuses afterwards for the defeat, although he attempted to explain Nosworthy's poor showing was down to the fact he had not been able to prepare with his new team-mates prior to the game.
He said: "I was a bit surprised myself by that performance but we had mitigating circumstances. We had a back four lined up of Kyle Walker, Nyron Nosworthy, Chris Morgan and Toni Kallio which looked as good as anything out there and I've ended up with nothing like that on the pitch at the end of the game."
Blackwell added: "I've got players coming back from injury who are being asked to do a job and they are not ready. That was evident from that performance.
"Nyron has done no work with us and the back four was disjointed from the start. Watford have not had to work for their goals, they were all gimmes and that is unfortunate."