YORK City chief Terry Dolan will be holding talks with Peter Reid this week in a bid to extend match winner Michael Proctor's Bootham Crescent stay.

Sunderland striker Proctor grabbed his second goal of his month-long loan stint on Saturday with a superb injury time winner against his former club, Halifax Town.

The goal lifted City up to seventh place in the Division Three table and secured City's 2000th League point earned at Bootham Crescent.

Next Saturday's game at Hull City promises to be Proctor's last of the current agreement with the Black Cats, but Dolan is clearly hopeful Proctor will be around longer.

"He is enjoying his time here and he is the sort of player who will take that sort of chance," said Dolan of Proctor's winning goal, his second in successive home matches.

Dolan meanwhile was delighted with City's win and the way in which City finished the game, but admitted the Minstermen have played better this season.

"The pleasing thing is although we are not starting well we are certainly finishing games well and looking strong," said the City manager.

"That is something we have got to continue and when we are finishing strong that gives the players that bit more belief.

"Some people have said we wouldn't have won this game last season but because they believe in themselves more they have ended up winning the game."

Dolan revealed a small sided game staged during the warm-up of Saturday's match had been introduced to try and ensure City got off to a swift start.

"We talked about it during the week and wanted them fired up right from the start but again we started slowly," said the City chief.

"At half-time we had to have a chat with the players regarding being patient.

"The way Halifax set up their team today we knew they were going to play with three centre-backs and get as many players behind the ball as possible.

"In that situation you have got to be patient but in that situation we were too deliberate, we were sloppy and there was no life in us at all for some reason.

"Although we were trying to be patient in keeping the ball there was no aim behind it.

"We said at half-time let's move the ball quicker with more quality and to be fair the players took that on in the second-half.

"Halifax had to defend then and they defended well but games last 90-odd minutes these days.

Updated: 12:18 Monday, September 03, 2001