L2 Macclesfield (a) April 5th W1-0

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[ L2 Torquay (h) April 9th Ko 3pm  L0-3 ]
L2 Southend (a) Friday April 15th Ko 7.45pm
L2 Burton (h) Tue April 19th Ko 7.45pm


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Tuesday evening match report

Happy birthday for Jackson as Hanson goal earns welcome victory
8:30am Wednesday 6th April 2011
By Simon Parker

Peter Jackson will today toast his 50th birthday after a win he ranks as one of the best of his managerial life.

City's interim boss got the present he really wanted with three points at Macclesfield last night.

The 1-0 win hoisted the Bantams five places up the League Two table – and revived his own hopes of securing the hot-seat full time after successive defeats against Shrewsbury and Stevenage.

Jackson roared: "I'm delighted for everybody connected with the club because this was a massive win for us. It makes it a wonderful birthday.

"If you rank the five top games in my career as a manager, this is up there as one of them.

"Macclesfield in front of just over 1,000 people will be up there for me personally with the top five victories I've had."

James Hanson headed the only goal but had to limp off later with a slight hamstring injury. He will be struggling to face Torquay at Valley Parade on Saturday.

"That was the one disappointment because I thought Hanson was sharp and back to his old self," said Jackson.

"Everybody was a bit low after Saturday but I knew this team was well capable of getting a result. We had key players back in their positions.

"We thoroughly deserved the victory and could have won by four or five. People will look at the score and think it was a close game but it wasn't.

"We defended well, broke well, got in the right areas and really caused them problems. I can't remember Jonny (McLaughlin) making a save."

The win – City's third during Jackson's seven games in charge – has eased them nine points away from the drop zone.

He said: "We had to beat the teams in and around us after taking two very good teams close without getting anything. We've done that and moved up five places.

"We've gone up to 15th on Peter Jackson's 50th birthday. It's marvellous!

"I'm having a little drink with the staff today and then I'm going out with Mrs Jackson and my beautiful family for a meal. I can enjoy it even more now and I'm so proud of my players."


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CASH-STRAPPED CITY WANT RENT TALKS WITH LANDLORDS
By Simon Parker (T&A)

City want to renegotiate the rent with their Valley Parade landlords after
falling late on their last payment.

The club currently pay around £370,000 a year to former chairman Gordon
Gibb's pension fund for the stadium and the same to investment company
Prupim, who own the office block.

The latest quarterly bill was settled a week late because of a cash flow
problem when it was due.

City admit the overheads are hitting finances hard while they remain stuck
in League Two. Joint-chairman Mark Lawn's £2m loan and their £1m chunk from
Fabian Delph's move from Leeds to Aston Villa have been swallowed up by the
team's wage bill.

Director of operations David Baldwin confirmed that they are paying the
price for a failure to win promotion.

He said: "We're trying to be prudent and constantly reviewing outgoings to
see if we can reduce them accordingly.

"Over the last four years we've had (playing) budgets of £1.3m, £1.9m, £1.3m
and £1.5m.

"In reality, the break-even budgets are probably below £1.3m. There are some
big pushes in there, so Mark's extra investment and the Fabian Delph money
have been put in to those because we need to get out of this division.

"When you do that, you can get much greater amounts of money in terms of
advertising and TV rights.

"But four years down the line, we're not out of this division and we've got
to budget according to our measure."

City signed a 25-year lease for the stadium after their second
administration in 2004. But the rent for the ground – and surrounding
offices – is having more and more impact the longer they remain in the
bottom division.

Gibb has been reluctant to hold talks in the past but City are hoping that
he will reconsider their position.

Baldwin added: "We're keen to have discussions with both landlords to see
how we can restructure those rents in order to be sustainable as a feasible
trading service that's not running on deficits.

"We're not running up masses of debt. We've spent the money available to us
and want to make sure going forward that we stay within a break-even budget.

"Other clubs run their stadium for a fraction of the cost of ours. We may
have large crowds but large crowds on a reduced ticket price – and those
numbers have gone down each year.

"We had 12,200 (season-ticket holders) the first time we did the promotion
but are now down to 9,600 last year. That's a lot of income not coming in
over three years and the costs are still creeping up.

"The bottom line is that we're not being alarmist. We're not in debt.

"We're just making sure that we don't get into debt by having expenditure
that we can't sustain."

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