Mark Lawn is urging fans to make one last push to break the 12,000 season-ticket barrier for City’s return to League One.

The tally currently hovers around 11,300, including 2,300 flexi cards, with the deadline for the reduced prices next Wednesday at 5pm.

Lawn is confident that the final figure will be close to the 12,200 which greeted Stuart McCall’s first season at the Valley Parade hot-seat in 2007.

The City joint-chairman said: “That’s the most we’ve ever had and it would be nice if we can match it. I certainly think it is possible.

“We’ve just had a fantastic season and I can assure the fans that we will be trying our best to give them another good one.

“We are the cheapest season-tickets in the division and I’d ask them to get on board and take advantage of that.”

City play Championship new boys Doncaster on Saturday in their final friendly – the only one at Valley Parade.

Lawn added: “I’d like to think there will be 2,000 plus here. It’s the last one before the league starts and it’s a good tester for us against a team from the next division up.

“I know Phil (Parkinson) will be taking it seriously and it’s worthwhile for people to come along. The team will probably be close to the one that starts the following week.

“You can feel the excitement for the new season is building. I don’t think it’s just what we achieved last year. Fans have also seen that we’ve kept all the players we wanted to as well as adding a couple that will improve the squad.”

Lawn has been impressed by summer signings Jason Kennedy and Mark Yeates, who scored his second pre-season goal at Grimsby with a superb free-kick.

“You can see that he isn’t quite there yet and is still a bit rusty but that free-kick the other night was special – no way was Nahki (Wells) going to get to take it!

“I also think the corners from Kennedy have been good so it gives us good options. We were a bit reliant on Gary Jones from set-pieces last year but now we’ve got two or three who can take them.”

Meanwhile, City have sold well over 2,000 of their initial 3,000 allocation for the Capital One Cup derby at Huddersfield.

But they are still waiting for their allocation from first-day opponents Bristol City to arrive.

The game at Ashton Gate a week on Saturday is not all ticket but it is likely to be cheaper to buy in advance.