Looks like the wheels have come totally off....

We only had 2 wheels to start with, and one of them has fallen off. A bit late, but I have to comment on the Stockport game, one of the most toothless performances I have seen from a Bradford side, and I've seen quite a few. Why on earth have we got Peter Thorne on his own up front?? We were overrun for a full 90 minutes and to top it off, it rained for a full 90 minutes, in an open end



I have no real inclination to watch the rest of the games this season, but I probably will. Let's hope tonight is better but I fear a hammering is on the way. A lot to do in pre-season (Paul Evans out would be a good start)....

I was actually talking about my team (Rotherham United)

Sorry, I know you were, it's difficult to pick up the tone of my first sentence when you're reading it

Honestly, i dont think we will even be in the football league next year, dont think our financial situation will improve and we will go under



Save the Millers!

Bardford will win tonight folks, talk in the city is that Chester players haven't been getting paid at times.

Chester are in freefall. Will be suprised if they get anything out of the game against Bradford.

Do it every year, recruit well, perform well until xmas then they don't get paid "alledgedly".

They started off really well. They were in the playoffs untill Christmas like you said.

Sounds like they havent go tthe right people on board upstairs

Whatever the score ends up, the fact that Barry Conlon has scored says all you need to know about Chester!

In almost 23 years of going to watch City I've seen a lot of dire displays but todays, in particular the first half, has to be right up there as one of the very worst.

Utterly, utterly dreadful, May can't come soon enough.

That was a disgrace.

Gulp...

We're sneaking up on 7th aren't we!





Goal machine! Sign him up for life I say

Morcombe 5-1 Rotherham, down to 13th now!

I've had to listen to this all night in the pub, god knows what it will be like if we win at Rochdale on Tuesday.

Everyone is going on about us being 9 points behind with 2 games in hand, but forgetting Dale are only a point behind 7th with 3 extra to play!

Getting into the top half is dizzying enough for me!

I thought I was the only one that had noticed that

. But that's why Rochdale is must win. It's still really unlikely but I suppose you never know. Actually I do, I know we'll beat Rochdale on Tuesday and lose at home to Morecambe and Barnet....

You're probably right.

71 points has made 7th in the last couple of years so, going by that, 'Dale need just 9 points from 8 games, while we need to win 6 from 7. Strangely enough 6 of the 7 remaining games are against teams currently above us, so it wouldn't be that much of a surprise!

Realistically, I just hope we can keep this decent run of form up until the end of the season, say 4 or 5 wins, so we can feel like we have progressed and have some hope for next season.

Shrewsbury are (and I hate to say it) a joke of a team at the moment.

Dont go watch Bradford City much, I tend to go to one or two away games a year Im tempted to go watch them tomorrow night against Rochdale. However Im unsure If my mates will let me, haven't seen City win away in ages. The best I have seen is a 3-3 draw at Doncaster in recent years, but as others are saying on here I just can't see City making the playoffs.

[url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/display.var.2159463.0..phpThorne signs up[/url for another year.

Good news that, as long as he's fit and gets some service he'll bag 15-20 goals no problem, apparently he's taken a pay-cut too, so good news all round.

Thats great news for the club,Thorne is a goal machine and as you said he will score atleast 15-20 goals next season if all goes well.
As for the Rochdale game tonight i think we we have every chance of winning again, Rochdale dont have a great record at home so hopefully we can beat them and move up the table.
I think too many people are getting over exited about us being promoted this season because even with a win tonight its still a long shot,if were to mount a serious challenge for promotion then id say we would need to win every game from now til the end of the season which simply wont happen,im exited because we are finally a club with ambition and we have a good squad of players that are playing with passion and belief,if we can finish the season in the top 10 then that would set us up great for a promotion challenge for next season.

There has to be a building on this though for City, rather than just looking at what has been achieved in the second half of the season and expecting the same bunch of players to carry on in the same vein next year. Depending on the financial situation McCall should be given a bit of cash to splash in the summer, as you can't expect to challenge with a squad full of frees and loans.

Well now Donovan Ricketts cant come back to the UK his contract is terminated so that should free up some money for transfers.

Finally the playoff talk can end (and I can go to Headingley instead of VP on Saturday

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We hope! Must have been close to 1500 City fans there tonight, obviously we had a few people believing!

Actually really enjoyed it, despite the defeat, we played reasonably well and could have nicked a point, but 'dale were the better team, in fact I'd say they were the best team I've seen us play this season (more based on the game at VP than tonight) and are a good bet to win the play-offs.

Thinking about it we must have dropped at least 12 points in the last few minutes of games this season, what might have been eh? However, if we play like this til the end of the season, and use the money freed from high earners getting off the books to get some good League 2 players in for next term I'll be feeling optimistic for next year, and it's not often I say that.