CALUM Kavanagh admits it’s going to be hard watching the play-offs after City fell short.

Crawley host MK Dons and Crewe face form team Doncaster in the semi-finals which kick off on Monday.

The Bantams finished one point behind seventh-placed Crawley after winning their last five games – and Kavanagh will be a reluctant viewer as the drama unfolds on TV.

“I will probably watch them but it’s going to be frustrating,” he said.

“You’ll look at the games and think, ‘we could have beaten them’ or ‘we could have done well’.

“But play-offs are all about winning, not performing. We know that ourselves.

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“You’ll probably see the games and teams might not perform well. It’s easy to sit there and say, ‘we would have won that’.

“But we’re not there so we’ve got to look at ourselves and build on what we’ve done at the end of the season.”

Kavanagh has hit the ground running with five goals from 11 league starts since signing from Middlesbrough for an undisclosed fee on deadline day. City have won each time he has scored.

The striker is backing himself to carry that form into his first full season at Valley Parade.

“I want to build on my profile here and do a lot more. See what that brings next season and hopefully we’ll be in a good place as a team.

“I set myself a lot of goals this season. When I signed here, I told myself that I wanted to score five and I’ve done that.

“Obviously I want more for next season. I’ll be setting new goals and hopefully can accomplish them.

“It’s part of being a Bradford City player. We know there’s expectation and pressure but you’ve got to try and block all that out and play your game.

“If you do that, you’ve got a good chance of doing well because you’re at Bradford for a reason.”

City finished ninth – their highest position of the season – but paid the price for losing four in a row in March, including three at home.

They recovered to win six of the final seven games to take the play-off chase to the final day.

Kavanagh added: “League Two is a tough division because a lot of the teams are similar and it’s always tight for the automatics and play-offs.

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“We’ve done all we can over the last six or seven games and got positive results. But we know that ultimately that little spell probably cost us.

“You look back at games and think if only we’d got a point there or a win. But that’s football.”

Kavanagh missed two of those defeats because he was away on international duty with Republic of Ireland under-21s.

“We were obviously disappointed with what happened. But we’ve shown since what a team we can be and we’ve had a good end of the season.

“It’s been really positive from numerous players and hopefully it’s something we can build on.

“We can all enjoy our break now, knowing there is a platform for us.

“It doesn’t necessarily mean we’re going to start well next season. There’s work to be done and I’m sure we’ll be doing it over the summer.”