ANOTHER long road trip, another defeat for City as they crashed 2-1 at Newport County.

The Bantams took the lead through Clayton Donaldson, but the South Wales side, managed by former City ace Michael Flynn, scored twice in five minutes shortly afterwards to take the points.

The defeat sees City in ninth, four points off the play-offs and the result prompted and provoked the City faithful to call for summer clear-outs already, while others called for calm and to keep the faith.

What wasn’t in doubt was the commitment of the Bantams Army, who turned up in good numbers, who even took time out from the match to praise Newport’s Wetherspoons pub.

Have Bradford City Won Today?: “Don’t direct your criticism to McCall, what do you expect him to do with the set of players he has inherited? Sooner summer comes and the clean out begins the better.”

Clucking Bantams: “Hats off to anyone who still puts time and money into following #bcafc on the road.”

BCBCFBCFCOK: “I find it astonishing that with 33 points to play for (and being four outside the POs) people are writing the season off when we have a club legend at the helm who inherited a team that was out of the play-offs for one week. The irony.”

Bantams Heritage: “The clock went back last year on Saturday, October 26. They go forward on March 28. City have three away games left before then – if they don’t win one, they’ll have gone the entire winter without an away win. Our last came on October 12 at Morecambe.”

Darren Bell: “A proper Spoons in Newport, a toilet downstairs #awaydays.”

John Dewhirst: “Just not good enough City. Nothing more to say.”

But some things are much more important than football, as this tweet involving City’s Harry Pritchard says:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A huge thank you to <a href="https://twitter.com/Harry_Pritchard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Harry_Pritchard</a> for these match worn and signed boots Jack is auctioning off for the <a href="https://twitter.com/as9foundation?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@as9foundation</a>. Please DM <a href="https://twitter.com/Jackvickery_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Jackvickery_</a> with a bid. Auction ends Friday 8PM. All RT’s appreciated👍🏻 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/bcafc?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#bcafc</a> Nice one Jack👏👏 <a href="https://t.co/5GmJFrOPJ1">https://t.co/5GmJFrOPJ1</a></p>— Adam Stansfield foundation (@as9foundation) <a href="https://twitter.com/as9foundation/status/1231641999444451328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>