JORDY Hiwula repaid the faith of his manager by preserving high-flying City's unbeaten start – after taking one for the team.

Stuart McCall stuck with the on-loan Huddersfield man at Gillingham after resisting the temptation to throw in new boys Haris Vuckic and Marc McNulty.

Hiwula duly got his reward with a second headed goal of the season as the Bantams claimed another point.

McCall was pleased to see the young striker's response to playing in a more attacking position after wide roles in recent outings.

"Jordy played two away games at MK Dons and Millwall in an area of the park that isn't his strongest – but he's done it for the team," said the City boss.

"At Millwall last week, he might not have had his greatest game on the ball but he was up against their right back who's their strongest threat going forward and did well.

"He's a tireless worker for the team. We played him again up front with Billy (Clarke) and I'm so pleased he got his goal.

"We debated a few positions but I just felt the way we've been going, everyone deserved to stay in."

James Hanson was also back in the squad after a month out but McCall made only one change to bring back Josh Cullen for Danny Devine.

"I like to think we're an honest staff but we're going to have to make unfair decisions in the coming weeks," said McCall.

"The first one was leaving Danny out because he's been terrific for us. He's done nothing wrong.

"But we've got Josh coming back and Timothee Dieng was probably the best player in pre-season and has got over his injury now and is looking good.

"There are so many good options. We put big Hans on in the last 15 minutes with McNulty because we'd stopped dominating the football as much and it was a more even game.

"It nearly work when we got the ball wide to Fil (Morais) and their keeper just took the ball off Hanson's head.

"Then McNulty was through and the lad brought him down. You could sense we were a threat."

Nathan Clarke will resume full training today after recovering from his injured calf and that will give McCall a clean bill of health in the dressing room.

Yet the Bantams boss felt a bit short-changed with a third successive draw at the weekend.

"For us it was just about the final pass because I thought there was a lot of good stuff again," he said.

"We were breaking at will before half-time and I felt we would go for the jugular second half and it didn't materialise.

"Their staff were very complimentary afterwards about how we moved it and cut through them.

"That's four tough away games we've had and not lost – but it's a good sign that everyone's disappointed because we wanted to go back with three points.

"We've done a lot of miles and now we're looking forward to going back to Valley Parade (against Bristol Rovers). Hopefully we can put in a strong performance."