MATT Kilgallon has set an ambitious aim of six wins to sneak into the play-offs – but admits City fans will say he’s mad for thinking it.

The veteran defender has been the one consistent performer in a campaign that has lurched off the scale since the turn of the year.

Thursday’s timid 2-0 loss at Blackburn was their tenth in 13 games in a nightmare run that has sent the Bantams crashing out of the top six.

Kilgallon refuses to completely write off their play-off chances, although he accepts supporters will find it difficult to take his view seriously.

He said: “Fans will probably say I’m mad and it’s a massive ask. But I don’t want this season to just fizzle out.

“The worst thing ever is playing out the season when there’s nothing on it. I’m just trying to keep the lads going.”

City need favours from other results today before they face Walsall at Valley Parade on Monday – one of five home games in the run-in.

Kilgallon added: “We’ve got to win if we want to keep that dream alive of the play-offs.

It’s still there for us – which I think is unbelievable considering we haven’t been good enough recently.

“But we have to tell people that it’s still there. Depending on how the other results go, pick three points up, we’re on 56 and could be up right there again.

“We need a favour, a bit of luck here but we have to keep going.

“It’s going to be a big ask but I’ve been in the play-offs before with different teams and they are the best thing ever. I’ll be telling the players ‘Let’s go for it.’

“There are eight games left and you’ve got to look at winning six of them to get in there.”

Simon Grayson accused City of lacking urgency at Ewood Park and shirking responsibility on the ball. Their only three efforts at goal came in the last ten minutes and were all off target.

Kilgallon admitted the Bantams were “on the back foot” throughout against a Rovers side pushing hard for automatic promotion.

He said: “They probably will go up – they’re definitely the best team. The league table is right from the teams I’ve seen and they’ve got players to come back like (Charlie) Mulgrew and (Danny) Graham.

“They are a good team with a lot of quality and work very hard off the ball. They won too many second balls and it cost us.

“We had to do a lot of defending. It was a hard game because they’ve got great movement.

“You look at the squad they’ve got. We’re short of a few but we didn’t work as hard as them.”

City held out until midway through the second half before Blackburn’s constant pressure eventually paid off.

“I did feel comfortable at the back,” added Kilgallon. “We had to do some last-ditch tackles but that’s what we are paid for.

“But we’d had a few warnings when they slipped balls in, one pass and they were through us. We were always on the back-foot.

“You can’t keep giving them chances and they were winning everything all the time.”

Grayson will check on his squad over the weekend but believes Tyrell Robinson has a “chance” of being involved on Monday. Paul Taylor missed the Blackburn game through “personal reasons.”