Paul Evans is back at City on trial with a view to a permanent deal. I'd be happy with that. He'd be a good player at this level assuming he's over his injuries.

Agree with that.

I think having an experienced "spine" of the team and surrounding that with younger players is a good way of doing thigs at this level and with Wetherall-Evans and Peter Thorne we'd have that, all of whom should be of a good quality for the league we are in.

Just been up to get my season ticket, almost up to 7000 apparently which is good going, couldn't get any decent seats in either of the touchline stands.

What seats did you get? I'm hoping for a half decent seat in the Sunwin.

Good luck!

We've ended up about halfway up Block E in the Kop, there was nothing left in the Sunwin past the first 3 or 4 rows for two people sitting together, although there may be the odd seat here and there, The Midland Road is the same and there is also not much left in the lower tier of the Kop after the first seven or eight rows.

The one thing that will annoy me is that I bet there are quite a few people who have got a free under 11 season ticket for kids who don't always take them! I go with my grandad and we were going to get one for my cousin, but trying to find three seats together anywhere half decent was an absolute nightmare!

City have signed Paul Heckingbottom ( nice name) from dee dah on a season long loan.Not sure where he plays.

Left sided IIRC, can also play on the left of midfield.

Decent signing in the short term IMO, we're struggling for left sided players.

and he's already tried to scupper our promotion plans.Robbie Williams ( who town had agreed to sign from Barnsley) kicked the underside of his boot during training for Barnsley & fractured his shin.The town deal is now off as he's crocked for 2 months.Imagine turning up to sign for your new club on crutches ( which he did apparently).Just thought i'd cheery you City chaps up a bit with that.

Happy with that, he was our player of the year when he was here last time and is the type who won't let you down, without being spectacular.

Hope he won't be employed in the centre of midfield though like the Nicky Law masterstroke of the time!

The McCall era off to a winning start last night then, with a 1-0 victory at Harrogate Town in the first pre-season friendly.

Watch out in trivia quizzes for "which former Football League manager scored the first goal under his successor".

We've sold 10000 tickets! Fantastic acheivement, and all at the club must be congratulated on incorporating a great scheme. Next target is to outsell Leeds!



What's the answer?

David Wetherall - see two posts above.

Of course! I couldn't remember who scored the goal against Harrogate.. I thought it was Peter Thorne.

FFS, Valley Parade is being [url=http://www.bradfordcityfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/0,,10266~1079622,00.htmlre-branded again[/url.

I'm led to believe it is going to be sponsored by Morrisons, but my source isn't as good as he used to be!

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Couple more signings to round out the squad at Valley Parade - Guylain Ndumbu-Nsungu on loan from Gillingham and Alex Rhodes on a one-year deal.

They seem like good signings. Be interesting to see if we're able to extend some of the loan deals in January now. Looking forward to Saturday, should be a good one.

Living in the City and attending the odd game, I think Chester are a good each way bet at 40/1 and Lowndes will be the top goalscorer.

Butler
Partridge
Ellison
Grant
Murphy
Lowndes

are just a few of the great signings Williamson has made.

Rotherham away at Hereford on Saturday

Quietly confident!

Excellent squad [uon paper[/u.

Ricketts

Williams
Bower
Wetherall
Heckingbottom

Daley
Johnson
Evans
Rhodes

Thorne
Conlon

Ndumbu-Nsungu -- Nix -- Clarke -- Harban -- Joynes -- Bentham -- Penford -- Medley

Pretty good, therell be more I've forgot.

I can only think of Phelan and Colbeck who you haven't listed.

We're a little too over-reliant on loan players for my liking, and I think it might take a bit of time for the team to come together. I'll be happy if we are challenging for the play-offs and, by the sounds of it, we might be able to splash out a little in January if that is the case.

Not impressed with this [url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/sportbcfcheadlines/display.var.1603796.0.come_blow_your_horn.phpair-horn[/url suggestion though!

Just Phelan then! Colbeck doesn't really count..

You're right there.

The lad will be preparing for the new season with Thackley or Eccleshill United this time next year, if he's lucky.

Not a great result for us yesterday but there were promising signs in the performance. Alex Rhodes impressed, worked very hard but some of his crossing was a bit wayward. Conlon's hold up play was excellent. Ndumbu-Nsungu got the goal but other than that I thought his first touch was appalling. Hopefully when Thorne is fit we'll have someone to profit from Conlon's lay offs.

Bit worried about Evans, looked a bit pedestrian at times. I'd like to see a bit of Scott Phelan but it's a case of either/or, because a midfield of Phelan and Evans would lack a bit of height



Mistake number 1 in Stuart McCall's managerial career: Not taking Ricketts off when he could barely walk. That could have cost us the game.

Hmm, I've seen our reserve keeper play so I'm not going to agree! The thing that annoyed me was we kept passing it back to Ricketts who could barely kick it, but nevermind!

Agree with most of your comments really, thought we played some good stuff at times but lacked fluency, then again there were 6 debutants so that was bound to happen, I was amazed at some of Barry Conlon's skill, I just wish he'd attack the ball more in the box, he seems to just let the ball hit him. My biggest concern was a lack of bodies in the box, getting Thorne fit is a must but we could also do with someone from the midfield getting in good positions too.

Oh, and before I forget, it was never a penalty, it was actually a superb tackle - so Macclesfield can feel a little hard done by!