A fortnight to put it right

The Bantams were today licking their wounds on the back of a 4-0 thumping by Sunderland.

It was their biggest home loss since Sheffield United scored five without reply last November and means City have won only twice in 13 games in front of their own fans.

They have no game next week because of Coventry's international call-ups. But boss Nicky Law will make sure his squad use the spare time getting Saturday's hammering flushed out of their system.

He said: "A lot of people have got to look at themselves and their performances and make sure that doesn't happen again. I didn't see too many positives out there.

"They had it rammed home to them at half-time and again after the game and the players were disappointed, as we all are.

"When you're 3-0 down in half-an-hour that's the time to be strong. It's easy to go the other way but you've got to take it on the chin and go again.

"To a certain extent we stopped the rot in the second half but we were still under the cosh.

"But it's no good sitting there with heads down feeling dejected. We're aware of the deficiencies and where we fell down and only we can put it right. We've got to make sure we do that for when we play Preston in two weeks' time which will be another tough game."

Law, who may look to bring in a loan signing, is due to hold further contract talks with chairman Gordon Gibb in the next few days.

In his strongly-worded programme notes for Saturday's game, Gibb stressed the board had not "shut the door" on any transfer market activity.

But he felt the club were well covered in the goal-scoring department, an area Law wants to strengthen since losing Ashley Ward to Sheffield United.

Law said: "We've got two weeks to evaluate what we need and maybe there is a need to go into the loan market to try and make us better.

"After a bad run you naturally want to put a stop to it rather than let it fester, but I think that two weeks gives us a fair amount of time to put some work in."