Dean Windass has pleaded for help with scoring the goals to hit City's play-off target.

Windass insists Colin Todd is right to be turning up the pressure next term by demanding a top-six finish.

But the veteran sharp-shooter admits he cannot do it all on his own up front.

Windass reached the 20-goal mark for the second straight year when he netted against Nottingham Forest on the final day of the season. But once again his team-mates were left trailing in his wake.

His nearest rivals, David Wetherall and Marc Bridge-Wilkinson, were 14 behind.

For City to be considered genuine challengers next time, Windass admits more support is required in the scoring stakes.

"Every promotion team needs two strikers who get 15 goals and an extra ten from somebody in midfield," he said. "The manager knows that I will get goals every season but I need help.

"We need somebody else to get 15 or 20, another centre half to score six like Wethers you've got to have goals right through the team.

"If you're getting 48 goals in two seasons, then it's a great return as a striker. Now Colin is looking for me to do it again and I'm always confident of scoring goals.

"The better players I work with, the more goals I score and I was disappointed we couldn't bring in big-wage players last season.

"It would be great if there was somebody else who could come in and produce their fair share."

Todd, who is close to wrapping up his first signing, aims to bring in at least one new striker, though his plans for a clutch of new faces will have to wait until the Julian Rhodes and Peter Etherington deal is signed and sealed.

But after successive 11th-placed finishes, the Bantams boss is already raising the bar for the third season in League One and Windass agrees.

He added: "If we can get in the players that Colin wants then we should have a very realistic chance of going up.

"As we've seen, everybody can beat everyone else on their day in this division.

"Like the manager said, we want to get in the play-offs or even win automatic promotion. We should have been in the top six for the last two seasons because I think the team was good enough.

"We were pretty close in the first season and I thought we would do it last time but it didn't happen.

"We just need to find that consistency level especially at home because our away form is not a problem.

"Valley Parade has to become a fortress with people frightened of coming here. Towards the end of the season we started to do that and winning our home games, which makes you think what might have happened if only we could have done that a bit earlier."