CITY hope to have another loan keeper in place in time for their trip to Meadow Lane.

Phil Parkinson has been working on an unnamed target to fill the void left by Jordan Pickford’s recall to Sunderland.

But the new stopper would not be able to feature in the FA Cup squad at Reading on Monday because he was not registered before the first game.

So any injury to Ben Williams will leave the untried third-choice Matt Urwin as the only back-up for the Madejski.

Parkinson may therefore consider throwing any loan arrival straight in against Notts County tomorrow in a City side that is likely to show several changes from Tuesday.

But the Bantams boss, who yesterday let Jason Kennedy join Carlisle on a month’s loan, insists they will not have one eye on the approaching cup showdown.

He said: “We are focusing purely on this game and we’ll try and pick the best team we can to get a result.

“It’s so important that we keep the league points tally ticking over and we will be trying everything we can to do that.

“We got a point on Tuesday and we need to back that up now with another positive result at Notts County.”

City have gone into the last two FA Cup ties on the back of league wins and Parkinson is hoping for a similar morale-booster against a Notts side who have been dragged into a relegation dog-fight.

Parkinson added: “It’s important to take another good result into the Reading replay. It really helps going into the cup games on the back of good results in terms of the morale within the group and our momentum.”

Ahead of the first Reading game, Parkinson gambled on resting several regulars with seven changes for the win over Crawley.

“The Crawley game helped to boost the whole squad,” he added. “Look at the week we’ve got coming up and we’re going to be utilising different players.

“That’s what we’ve got to try and do. The lads who played against Crawley got some valuable match fitness. Hopefully if some of them get a game over these next seven or eight days that will help carry us through to the end of the season.

“With all the midweek matches, it’s been difficult to arrange reserve games and friendlies. We had one against Burnley a while back but otherwise these lads have kept their fitness up in training.

“People like Matty Dolan and Gary MacKenzie didn’t make the bench on Tuesday but we are going to need them.”

It will be another reunion with City “history makers” Gary Jones and Garry Thompson but County go into the game on a very different run to when they lost 1-0 at Valley Parade in December.

Parkinson said: “It’s a similar situation to Coventry the other night.

“We’re playing against a team that are just above the relegation zone and fighting for their lives. We’ve got to be aware of that.

“But we know there is very little in it between teams at this level.

“Two months ago Notts County were one of the teams everyone was talking about to be in the play-offs. Now they are scrapping it out at the other end of the division.

“It just shows how quickly things can change.”