Conlon out, Mullin in.

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City face eight-game mini-season
Conlon Out - Mullin In
Matt Clarke
Thanks a Million


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City face eight-game mini-season

Stuart McCall has underlined his determination to get it right and
lift City out of League Two.

But he also stressed that his threat to walk away if they missed the
play-offs is not an empty one.

McCall stunned fans, players and the club's joint-chairmen at
Bournemouth when he revealed he would quit if City did not finish in the
top seven.

His stance remains firm, although he is confident the scenario will not
arise.

McCall said: "My ambition and drive is to get this club promoted. We've
got eight games to go and I'm fully focused on amassing enough points to
give us a chance to do that.

"Whether it's a case of winning six out of eight to scrape into the top
three, or however many to get in the play-offs, come the final whistle
of the league campaign I want to make sure we are still involved in the
promotion scene.

"If we're not, then I won't have done my job well enough. If I can't get
a team in the top seven then it probably will be time for a change.

"What I said the other night wasn't something that I'd calculated. I got
asked the question about people being disappointed and I said 'put me on
the top of that list'.

"This is my job. I get paid to get this club out of this division and
that's what I intend to do.

"Face facts, we're in a results-based business. But that aside, we've
got eight 90 minutes of football now. It's effectively a brand new
season and what's gone is gone."

Only Shrewsbury and leaders Brentford have picked up more home points
than City and McCall is urging the fans to roar them on to another
success against Port Vale on Saturday to ease the jitters caused by
their away-day misery.

He said: "Don't think from what I've said that there's any lack of
desire, determination or drive from me.

"I'm speaking if we don't get in the play-offs but we fully intend to be
in that top seven – and we need the backing of the fans more than ever
to do that.

"Whether it's an 80-year-old granny or a young lad coming down, I can't
emphasise enough what part the supporters can play on Saturday.

"I just ask you bring your voices, your drums, everything you can to
help us be successful and get the points we need.

"The atmosphere at the Aldershot home game was fantastic and the noise
was going all round the ground. It would be great to recreate that again.

"The players have got to be doing it on the pitch to lift the crowd
sometimes and the fans can lift the team. It goes hand in hand because
we all want to achieve the same thing.

"I couldn't see us losing five away games on the trot but that's
happened and we can't change it – but we've got to influence what's in
front of us, starting with a win on Saturday."

City are not expected to risk Peter Thorne, even though he trained again
yesterday after the neck injury which kept him out at Bournemouth.

But they are trying to bring in a fresh face before the loan deadline
shuts on Thursday and McCall said: "You can never be certain but I'm
fairly hopeful that there will be one coming in."



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Conlon Out - Mullin In

Confirmed that Barry Conlon has signed for Grimsby for the rest of the season. City have brought in 35 year old Paul Mullin from Accrington Stanley for the same period.



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Paul Mullin

Stats
http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=35754

Offical News item
http://www.bradfordcityfc.co.uk/page/News/0,,10266~1596664,00.html

First joined Stanley in the summer of 1995 but after making his first team debut in September, he was surprisingly allowed to leave. He then played for Darwen, Trafford and Clitheroe before joining Radcliffe, where he was a huge success. After signing for Stanley in August 2000 he finished the season as leading scorer and Player of the Year, a feat he repeated a further five times. He has also won The Players Player of the Year Award four times in the last five seasons. Last season he was again the leading scorer and he also became the first Stanley player to top 400 appearances. Paul has missed only nine League games in his eight seasons at the club, a tremendous record.


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Matt Clarke

- is off on loan too, but my source doesn't know which club he is off to.



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Thanks a Million

http://www.bradfordcityfc.co.uk/page/News/0,,10266~1596571,00.html

Mark Lawn has put another million pounds into City on Monday in order to wipe out anticipated debts for this season.

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