Season ticket renewal

It's that time of year again ... season ticket renewal. Despite having a 25-year season ticket at Bradford and already paying for this a number of years ago, we are still required to pay a contribution each season.

I don't really mind paying it as the club has been through unbelievable financial difficulties in the last few years. The extra contribution also ensures access to the Chairman's Suite prior to the matches; we only gained access to this for the last few games of last season but it was a welcome change to being sat out in the open watching our terrible pre-match warm up. The bar is reasonably well stocked although the Carlsberg does tend to come out looking like Lyon's best treacle.

With the return of Stuart McCall, there seems to be a new found optimism within the club. The last few years have been particularly desperate with the likes of Colin Todd and Bryan Robson at the helm. Good to see Robson back in a job (laughs)... I'm sure the Sheffield Utd Chairman will be delighted when he receives his first bar bill. Rumours at BCFC suggested that Robson had to be chauffeured round everywhere because he had lost his license due to drink-driving and also had terrible alcohol problems. Seems to be that Sheff Utd have made a cock up; they would've been better investing in McCall rather than Rab C. Nesbitt's less handsome cousin.

Who am I to complain, Stuart will no doubt bring a sense of pride and determination back to the team - I say team, it's more like a few kids and the remnants of the Jamaican bobsleigh team at the moment. There has been a massive delay in Stuart being 'officially' announced as Manager. Julian Rhodes has missed a trick here; surely they should have been an open top bus parade and official holiday to commemorate Stuart's appointment. Julian would've sold more season tickets and merchandise if he'd made more of a song and dance about the appointment.

Anyway, friendlies at Harrogate and Farsley towards the end of July should set the pulses racing!