Bradford City handed Gillingham road trip

9:00am Monday 18th June 2012 in Sport Photograph of the Author By Simon Parker, Bradford City Reporter

City will take the long road to kick off the new season after being handed an opening-day trip to Gillingham.

The first home game promises to be a tasty affair with the arrival of ambitious league new boys Fleetwood.

City make an early visit to Rotherham’s New York Stadium on September 1 before another popular trip to Accrington.

They will renew acquaintances with Yorkshire neighbours York at Valley Parade on October 13.

After December treks to Southend and Wycombe, Christmas week is kind on the Bantams with home games with Accrington and Rochdale and a New Year’s Day trip to Morecambe.

But the fixture machine has put a real sting in the tail with all three West Country visits crammed into a three-week spell.

Plymouth away is scheduled for a Tuesday night - just four days before City are back in Devon to face Exeter. And the Easter Monday trip to Torquay is no April Fool's joke.

Once again Cheltenham provide the final away opposition on the last day.

AUGUST

Sat 18 Gillingham A

Tue 21 FLEETWOOD H

Sat 25 WIMBLEDON H

SEPTEMBER

Sat 1 Rotherham A

Sat 8 Accrington A

Sat 15 BARNET H

Tue 18 MORECAMBE H

Sat 22 Oxford A

Sat 29 PORT VALE H

OCTOBER

Tue 2 Rochdale A

Sat 6 Dagenham A

Sat 13 YORK H

Sat 20 CHELTENHAM H

Tue 23 Northampton A

Sat 27 Burton A

NOVEMBER

Tue 6 CHESTERFIELD H

Sat 10 Aldershot A

Sat 17 EXETER H

Tue 20 PLYMOUTH H

Sat 24 Bristol Rovers A

DECEMBER

Sat 8 TORQUAY H

Sat 15 Southend A

Sat 22 Wycombe A

Wed 26 ACCRINGTON H

Sat 29 ROCHDALE H

JANUARY

Tue 1 Morecambe A

Sat 5 Barnet A

Sat 12 OXFORD H

Sat 19 Port Vale A

Sat 26 WYCOMBE H

FEBRUARY

Sat 2 Fleetwood A

Sat 9 GILLINGHAM H

Sat 16 Wimbledon A

Sat 23 ROTHERHAM H

Tue 26 DAGENHAM H

MARCH

Sat 2 York A

Sat 9 ALDERSHOT H

Tue 12 Plymouth A

Sat 16 Exeter A

Sat 23 BRISTOL ROVERS H

Sat 30 SOUTHEND H

APRIL

Mon 1 Torquay A

Sat 6 NORTHAMPTON H

Sat 13 Chesterfield A

Sat 20 BURTON H

Sat 27 Cheltenham A

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Comments(18)

Rambo says...
9:21am Mon 18 Jun 12

How the hell does it work out Plmouth, exeter and torquay as successive away games? Coincidence? And Plmouth away on a tuesday? Is there seriously not a southern based team they could have let them play against that night?

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bigang02 says...
9:22am Mon 18 Jun 12

plenty midweek games this season just hope i can get to them.come on city can not wait to get started now.

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Rambo says...
9:23am Mon 18 Jun 12

I didn't notice we have plymouth at VP on a tuesday as well...

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jrlufc says...
9:34am Mon 18 Jun 12

why does it matter Rambo? You have to play them all anyway, and why should the league have to accommodate 'nice' away trips around the longer journeys?

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ricky76 says...
9:49am Mon 18 Jun 12

Forget jj re-signing he has signed a new contract at wednesday

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spleen ventor says...
10:49am Mon 18 Jun 12

An early opportunity to re-acquaint ourselves with that fat tranny in charge of Rotherham I see

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Thee Voice of Reason says...
11:12am Mon 18 Jun 12

ricky76 wrote:
Forget jj re-signing he has signed a new contract at wednesday
Did anyone but an idiot actually think JJ was going to sign for City?

Like I said every former City player since 1996 appears to be linked with us at the moment.

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audal says...
11:48am Mon 18 Jun 12

Why has Flynn still got a column listed on my T & A Bantams page ?

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theoutsider says...
12:25pm Mon 18 Jun 12

So..thats nil points from the first two games PARKY OUT !

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citygent1978 says...
12:57pm Mon 18 Jun 12

Really Difficult April, but i think if we get the momentum you just never know

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claretstripe says...
4:13pm Mon 18 Jun 12

better buy some players then if we dont want to go there with 7 players.....all of them centre halves :-)

So now crawley have made an aproach about Riedy. hope he doesnt go, he would be hard to replace!

parky said we needed 6 or 7 players, if Rambo, Oliver and Reid all go like syers did, that means we'd need 10.

hope we can hang on to our better players.

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audal says...
5:00pm Mon 18 Jun 12

I wish to make a complaint(miss) this new fixture list I see in front of me shows that I cannot go to the hop picking in Kent because of a football game not being played a month later, also I have had to cancel my sunny seaside jaunts in. Southend(dec)Morecom
be(jan) Fleetwood(feb) and I will not have enough brass left to get to Torquay.cheers.

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Waynus1971 says...
11:33pm Mon 18 Jun 12

There hasn't been many close-seasons that I haven't waited eagerly for the fixture lists to come out. However, I can't say I am bothered about who we play and when. At the moment I'm more concerned about who we will end up filling our squad with.
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This has got to be the most unenthusiastic I have been pre-season. I hope these promised 'quality' signings materialise or we could be in serious trouble.

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tyker2 says...
9:08am Tue 19 Jun 12

Waynus1971 wrote:
There hasn't been many close-seasons that I haven't waited eagerly for the fixture lists to come out. However, I can't say I am bothered about who we play and when. At the moment I'm more concerned about who we will end up filling our squad with. . This has got to be the most unenthusiastic I have been pre-season. I hope these promised 'quality' signings materialise or we could be in serious trouble.
have to agree with you.

this has to be my lowest point since 1957 whenI started supporting the Bantams. The club is seriously on it's knees and players are unwilling to come here knowing that they could be out on their ar when a new manager is inevitably appointed. Well that is my theory and i am sticking to it!!!

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audal says...
9:40am Tue 19 Jun 12

Nice one Tyker, just think we must have ran into each other all those years ago when I used to go down just to watch the new grass grow pre-season and then came along the possibles v probables when our new "world beaters" showed off their talents.

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tyker2 says...
10:05am Tue 19 Jun 12

audal wrote:
Nice one Tyker, just think we must have ran into each other all those years ago when I used to go down just to watch the new grass grow pre-season and then came along the possibles v probables when our new "world beaters" showed off their talents.
NOT QUITE THAT DEVOTED:watching grass grow but certainly possibles and probabales.

Main stand behind the dug outs with dad, then into teenage years the bradford end and kop, changing ends at half time then back in t'paddock!!

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KnightMcCall says...
11:36am Tue 19 Jun 12

Waynus1971 wrote:
There hasn't been many close-seasons that I haven't waited eagerly for the fixture lists to come out. However, I can't say I am bothered about who we play and when. At the moment I'm more concerned about who we will end up filling our squad with. . This has got to be the most unenthusiastic I have been pre-season. I hope these promised 'quality' signings materialise or we could be in serious trouble.
Don't worry Waynus; it's mid June! Since when did clubs have their squads sorted by Mid-June.

I am pretty sure that the advent of 24 hour news and sport has led to an evaporation of your patience. This is NORMAL. We have already got the best signing that we could have hoped for in Davies and it is likely to be two weeks before most signings are done at most clubs. Summer used to mean absolutely no news for several weeks after a season and then some slow build up when the pre-season friendlies started.

We still have the inevitable disappointment of England failing at a major tournament to experience before we should be worrying about the next domestic season. Relax, enjoy the summer...

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tyker2 says...
12:51pm Tue 19 Jun 12

KnightMcCall wrote:
Waynus1971 wrote:
There hasn't been many close-seasons that I haven't waited eagerly for the fixture lists to come out. However, I can't say I am bothered about who we play and when. At the moment I'm more concerned about who we will end up filling our squad with. . This has got to be the most unenthusiastic I have been pre-season. I hope these promised 'quality' signings materialise or we could be in serious trouble.
Don't worry Waynus; it's mid June! Since when did clubs have their squads sorted by Mid-June.

I am pretty sure that the advent of 24 hour news and sport has led to an evaporation of your patience. This is NORMAL. We have already got the best signing that we could have hoped for in Davies and it is likely to be two weeks before most signings are done at most clubs. Summer used to mean absolutely no news for several weeks after a season and then some slow build up when the pre-season friendlies started.

We still have the inevitable disappointment of England failing at a major tournament to experience before we should be worrying about the next domestic season. Relax, enjoy the summer...
Quarter final is hardly a failure for a team ranked in the top echelons of European football:goodness knows how when you compare the skill factors of every team (other than Ireland) against our own.

Even those teams already out have better skill in their teams than England

Control and move a ball

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