David Wetherall may have been unaware of his midweek milestone but he insists City will not let this season pass off just as quietly.

The Bantams are now ninth after Tuesday's draw with Barnet - their highest position in League Two since September 22.

Wetherall knows the campaign will not pan out in the promotion push he had targeted but the skipper believes the second-half recovery is putting down a marker to have a real go next term.

He said: "It's nice to look on the first page of teletext and see us up there. I know our aims at the start of the season were higher than that but I think we've applied ourselves well as a squad since the Mansfield game.

"We said we wanted to finish the season positively and it's nice to get on a run of results and performances.

"The chairman's right when he said we can really look forward to next season. We're not a million miles off now and I'm sure the gaffer will be looking to strengthen over the summer.

"So if we're not all that far off now and we're going to get stronger next year, then I'm quite excited about what we can do."

Wetherall, who takes up his new role as first-team coach in the summer, marked his 300th league game for the club with a typically solid display - but he did not have a clue that it was an anniversary occasion.

He admitted: "It's a new one on me but it's another milestone that I just managed to get to.

"It was a really open game because of the way we lined up and Barnet had a lot of joy on the break in the first half. I thought we played some decent stuff for the first 20 minutes without particularly threatening and then they began to control it.

"It was important we came out in the second half and put them on the back foot, which we did. In the end we fully deserved a point on our second-half performance and kept our little run going.

"Sometimes it can be difficult when you're in that mid-table area at the end of the season but I don't think anyone who's watched us in the last few weeks would say that we are a team in the middle with nothing to play for."

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