York City suffer 2-0 home defeat to Bradford City in npower League Two

5:17pm Saturday 2nd March 2013 in Sport

YORK City's winless run stretched to 11 games as they lost 2-0 at home to Bradford City in npower League Two.

The sides were level at half-time and the Minstermen went close through Jason Walker and Matty Blair early in the second half at Bootham Crescent.

However, Bantams striker James Hanson, who was a threat throughout, netted with 13 minutes remaining, in front of 2,028 travelling fans.

As City pushed for an equaliser, Garry Thompson pounced on a slip by York defender Jack O'Connell to put the result beyond doubt on 86 minutes.

City are now 18th in the table, still four points above the drop zone with Plymouth and Wimbledon, who host Gary Mills' men next Saturday, in the bottom two spots.

Bristol Rovers moved above York with a 3-0 victory over Burton, while Aldershot are a point behind after a 1-1 draw with Gillingham.

Comments(17)

coin pratts brother says...
5:22pm Sat 2 Mar 13

Sounds as though Mills has gone !

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York Manor says...
5:26pm Sat 2 Mar 13

He needs to now for the sake of the club the players and the fans it was obvious today that we were not going to score and Bradford were after 10 mins thanks Gary but time to leave

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Garrowby Turnoff says...
5:31pm Sat 2 Mar 13

Stick with Mills, it's the lightweight players who need a boot up the Arris!!! Mills will turn things around if you lot don't boo him out.

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YCFC115 says...
5:35pm Sat 2 Mar 13

Garrowby Turnoff wrote:
Stick with Mills, it's the lightweight players who need a boot up the Arris!!! Mills will turn things around if you lot don't boo him out.
Who bought and selects the lightweight players?? The buck stops at Mills and its time he left before he kills this club of OURS not the McGills OURS!

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OLD - HEAD says...
5:41pm Sat 2 Mar 13

I predicted 0-0 because I have no confidence that we are going to create chances and score goals. There was not much between the two sides but you always felt that Bradford would be the most likely team to score. Rankines late effort proved to be our best effort. But yet another home defeat and its very difficult to see where our next win is going to come from. The plain truth is that we just dont look strong enough. Both Bradford goals came from City errors, by Ingham and OConnell. This unfortunately sums up another miserable afternoon at Bootham Crescent.

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openallhours says...
5:43pm Sat 2 Mar 13

Yet again a poor side comes to BC and takes all 3 points. Yet again Mills shows faith in the wrong players and plays a ridiculous system that a Sunday pub team could deal with. Poor Gary won't even be able to blame the fans as the support from the Longhurst was awesome today. Do us a favour Gary, **** off now before you well and truly shaft us.

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Mickey T says...
5:45pm Sat 2 Mar 13

I do hope Gary stays and at the end of the season blows out the players who he kept faith with, but let him and the supporters down.

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ian923 says...
5:47pm Sat 2 Mar 13

Stick with Mills-the players need to man up.Tom Platt scored again for Harrogate again today and it seems he knows where the net is as he,s found it quite a few times this season. Perhaps we ought to give him a chance. Shame for O,Connel but it didn't,t matter too much as we were 1-0 down and didn't,t look like equalising.we need goals badly to get points but I still think we will stay up. I could see why the ref. D,urso got relegated from the Premier as he was poor.

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fishboy says...
5:50pm Sat 2 Mar 13

Our top scorer finds the back off the net, 11 for the season? oh **** he plays for harrogate on loan, why do we not play Tom Platt, at least he knows where the goal is, anything is better than walker, he was crap again today, falling over like a fairy at every opportunity and playing too deep on the left hand side, not very affective at all, so when we did break he was not there? Not good enough Gary, at least you cant say it was a massive point today, bradford was there for the taking and we throw it away. At least a few more games left in the league??

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PhilR@Strike says...
5:51pm Sat 2 Mar 13

Haven't won in 11 games because Mills is so predictable! Always sets the team up for his "massive draws" and when we go 1-0 down there's no way back! Mills only has one tactic and other teams must love playing us! Mills won't or can't change and our strongest forward left warming the bench once again! Predictable!
Time for Mills to go I'm afraid! It's getting embarrassing now!

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Southern Exile says...
5:55pm Sat 2 Mar 13

If the bottom teams all pick up the same amount of points in the next 10 games as the last 10 we WILL be relegated along with Torquay. Will people now realise that something has to change, if the manager can not or will not he has to go...

If we keep setting up not to get beaten then we will AT BEST draw, we need to looking for 48pts + this season and that means winning a couple of games, we won't draw another 8, that means a change of approach, Gary... can you? will you?

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beckylaner says...
5:59pm Sat 2 Mar 13

"We were fantastic, played brilliant. Absolutely outclassed Bradford. A massive no pointer. The point that they scored more goals shouldn't matter! We was the best side"
I can hear GM saying things like that. Gary's problem is that he looks through the wrong end of the telescope. When he met the gipsy fortune-teller last summer, she told him "York won't be in League 2 in 2013/14!" That's when Gary predicted back-to-back promotions.
But there's more than one interpretation, Gary.
You should have bought a bit of her lucky heather.
And shoved it where the sun don't shine.

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PhilR@Strike says...
6:05pm Sat 2 Mar 13

ian923 wrote:
Stick with Mills-the players need to man up.Tom Platt scored again for Harrogate again today and it seems he knows where the net is as he,s found it quite a few times this season. Perhaps we ought to give him a chance. Shame for O,Connel but it didn't,t matter too much as we were 1-0 down and didn't,t look like equalising.we need goals badly to get points but I still think we will stay up. I could see why the ref. D,urso got relegated from the Premier as he was poor.
Yep lets bring Platt back, so he can warm the bench with our strongest forward Ranks! Mills is a one trick pony im afraid and can't see what we see with Walker's failings.

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Realistic ycfc says...
6:06pm Sat 2 Mar 13

For all you lot calling for the young untried Tom platt he is playing in a rubbish league, mills has lost the plot has no one mentioned 433 isn't working??! I still would keep him and sack all these useless players who have the privilege of wearing the red shirt, I have to say I'm city till I die but some of you need to chill, more important things to worry about than a 90 minute game of football

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strensall red says...
6:06pm Sat 2 Mar 13

mills as gone on official web site

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PositiveFootball says...
6:12pm Sat 2 Mar 13

If we keep playing the way we did today there won't be a problem as the goals will come. The majority of supporters clapped the team off today. The points will come as we pick off the teams below us. Excellent support from the Longhurst - keep the faith!

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lozkel says...
9:16am Sun 3 Mar 13

openallhours wrote:
Yet again a poor side comes to BC and takes all 3 points. Yet again Mills shows faith in the wrong players and plays a ridiculous system that a Sunday pub team could deal with. Poor Gary won't even be able to blame the fans as the support from the Longhurst was awesome today. Do us a favour Gary, **** off now before you well and truly shaft us.
poor side,your having a laugh,ave a look at the league table,it doesnt lie.if bfd win their games in hand play offs here we come.by the way i got my earlier prediction spot on,onwards and upwards for the mighty bantams

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