GRAHAM Alexander will sit down with the City football department today to rubber stamp who they want to keep or let go.

The focus has now turned to preparing for next season after missing out on the play-offs.

City made it five wins on the bounce to complete an unbeaten April as they ended the campaign with a bang.

But having finished a point short of the top seven, Alexander can switch his full attention to building towards next time.

Alexander and assistant Chris Lucketti have a meeting scheduled with chief executive Ryan Sparks, head of football operations David Sharpe and recruitment chief Stephen Gent to discuss the out-of-contract players.

City have options in their favour for all of them except Matty Platt and Harry Chapman.

There will also be others currently with deals who are likely to be made available as the Bantams chief puts his proper stamp on the squad.

Alexander revealed recently that he had "pretty much" decided on the players he wanted to retain. But the dramatic change of fortunes in the closing weeks had made it a more "fluid" situation.

Alexander said: “We’re just clarifying what we want to do with the squad.

“Then we’ll sit down tomorrow and Wednesday with all the players over the two days.

“We’ll discuss our plans individually with them and hopefully come to some conclusions by the end of the week on what the squad will look like when we come back.”

City bounced back strongly from last month’s four-game losing run that left their season in tatters.

Saturday’s 4-1 Valley Parade victory against Newport ensured the ninth-placed Bantams finished by collecting 19 points from a possible 21 after their last loss at Harrogate.

Alexander has told his squad not to dwell on the “if onlys”.

Instead, he wants them to focus on the late charge that has revived spirits on and off the field.

“I said to the players, you’ll look at the league table and bang your head thinking about this or that game and if only we’d done that.

“But it’s too late. It’s gone.

“The season’s done and we have to learn from it. Look back to that period last month and think, ‘what could we have done better?’

“I talk about myself as well. What could I have done better in that four-game spell where we got beaten?

“But then think about what we did really well in the last six or seven games and make sure we take all the knowledge we can from that period as well to make us better next season.

“I won’t be looking back on results and thinking, ‘if only it wasn’t for those five minutes or that goal there’. That’s basically a waste of time.

“We just have to focus on what we did well, certainly in the last month, and make sure we extend it for 50 games next season.”

Work is also due to start this afternoon on digging up the heavily-criticised pitch to give the new surface as long as possible to be ready for the resumption.