MARK Trueman and Conor Sellars insist they are still the right men to lead City into next season.

The sinking Bantams signed off with a 2-0 defeat at Morecambe on Saturday – a sixth loss in their last seven games which saw them drop to 15th in the final League Two table.

Frustrated fans are starting to point the finger at the management duo after falling away from a position where they were challenging hard for the play-offs.

But Trueman stressed the two of them have not lost their belief in doing the job because of the shocking end to the campaign.

“You’re always in a position in football where you have a run of results and people will be wanting change,” he said.

“But I think we’ve shown that we can consistently get the right results and put in performances over a long spell.

“We’ve had a dip in form and there are probably a few factors why that has happened.

“But with regards to me and Connor, I think we’re confident in what we can do.

“If we can recruit the right people, we can be positive and looking to be a promotion team next season.”

Asked if he felt they still had the confidence of the board, Trueman added: “There’s no conversations I’ve had that have shown any different.

“We’ve obviously been talking about recruitment and next season.

“I think we all understand the position we are in now regards the last three or four games and having nothing to play for.

"You do see a switch in mentality in players and it’s tough to get it out of them.

“We obviously want to start the season as bright as we can and not be in that position where we need to win every game to be in the play-offs.

"We want to be up there with consistent performances every week.”

City have made up their minds over the 14 players whose contracts will be up next month as the focus switches to another busy rebuild over the summer.

Trueman said: “We’re clear in our minds of who we want to retain and who we don’t.

“We’ve obviously got a key strategy in place to bring more players to the building.

“The date will be kept in-house as regards to when we tell the players.

"But we’ve made our decisions and we’re looking to inform them over the next week or two."

It has been an eventful start in management for the former academy coaches, who have picked up 46 points from their 30 games in charge. But Trueman has no regrets in accepting the challenge from chief executive Ryan Sparks after Stuart McCall’s exit in December.

“That phone call was to steady the ship and then it changed to keeping us out of relegation.

“That was the remit from day one. It was never ‘this season get to the play-offs and promotion’.

“I’ve learned a lot. There are obviously a lot of ups and downs in first-team managements.

“The biggest thing is the man management of certain individuals and the importance of the psychological side of the game at first-team level when players aren’t reaching the performance levels we know they are capable of.

“We know there will be games you lose from moments of quality from individuals rather than errors. It’s games when there is a lack of effort etc that we can’t accept.”