Phil Parkinson insists there is a lot more to come from City after notching their first win of the season.

The Bantams boss was delighted after James Hanson’s second-half header saw off Fleetwood at Valley Parade last night.

And he is convinced that the new-look line-up can improve the longer they spend together.

“We’ve got some strong players but we know we’ve got a lot of work to do because we’ve got so many new ones,” said Parkinson.

“It’s going to take a lot of time on the training ground to keep improving what we’ve got.

“After losing our first game, it’s so important to get that first three points. It gets the season off and running and settles all the new players down.

“They’ve seen what this crowd are all about. There was a passage of play when we won a few tackles and the crowd were off their seats cheering.

“The fans will respond to that and they saw a really good performance.”

Parkinson admitted it was a gamble to start with Zavon Hines, Nathan Doyle and Andrew Davies, who had all seen little game time up to yesterday.

He said: “By rights they probably needed more football. There was always that concern but those three players were tremendous.

“With Doyley, if there’d been a reserve game today we’d have played him 60 minutes because we played him 45 last week. That’s his progression.

“But we thought we might as well throw him in the first team and get his match fitness there because he’s a key player.

“He played really well and we brought him off because he was tightening up all over and there’s no way we wanted to risk injury.

“It was a really tough game. Fleetwood are very good side and have got probably the best striker in the league in big Jon Parkin. He was a massive threat to us but I thought we handled him well.

“It looked to me at times like a game above League Two standard with some of the quality of the football from both teams.”

Hanson, who also scored the Capital One Cup winner at Notts County, netted from a Gary Jones corner – an area that was much improved on Saturday.

Parkinson felt the striker had earned his goal for his efforts at sweltering Gillingham.

“Hans was immense down there and his performance probably didn’t get the credit it deserved because we got beaten,” he said.

“He ran himself into the ground for the team in very difficult conditions. It was always going to be a big ask for him to do it again but he led the line great.

“It was also a very good delivery from Gaz. Every set-piece he took was on the money.”

Meanwhile, the Valley Parade ticket office will be open from 7am tomorrow.