Archive for July, 2008

New signing: McCall delighted.

According to mitchiefc.org, you and Korey were working on the skills training nights at Mitchelton Football Club in Brisbane, Queensland. Are we looking at a future coach in Kyle Nix?
Korey Nix, formerly with Derby County, has been training with City and played against Bradford Park Avenue and Guiseley in the two recent friendlies. Nix has also [...]

Manny Dominguez is currently promoting a stand-up-sit-down campaign for safe standing areas and The Lib Dems are debating safe standing at their Bournemouth conference in September. The petition is here: Safe Standing. There’s more on safe standing here on a BCST PDF and around page 8 of this FSF PDF. Here is the campaign website [...]

Nix? Daley? Brandon or Colbeck? Who can play left midfield other than these four? One of Daley, Brandon and Colbeck will surely be playing on the right hand side, which leaves one for competition and one to cover the left-wing position as an alternative to Kyle Nix (actually, Daley or Brandon may well be preferred [...]

The T&A Website is showing quite a few City stories at the moment. The reason we pulled out of the race to sign Shaw from Halifax was the £60k price-tag, City are planning their own academy in Mexico and… we are going to be on TV on Monday October 20th - away to Darlington (which bags us a [...]

The first pre-season friendly will now be against Farsley Celtic, away, on July 16th. This replaces the fixture against Harrogate Town.

City have a young right back named Shaun Densmore, recently released by Everton, joining in with pre-seaon training. The Official BCFC site carries a copy of the T&A story. He’s 19, he was Academy Player-of-the-year in 2006-7 season and he has just completed a one-year senior contract at Everton, where he was unable to break into the [...]

Well, we need some more signings so it’s a bit hard to predict what the line-up will be – who knows which players are yet to arrive? For a start, we need a ‘keeper. We probably need a back-up right back and another striker to compete with Topp, Thorne and Conlon for a place in [...]

Following yesterday’s tip-off about Graeme Lee, there is more transfer news. As I wrote in yesterday’s post, “football contracts tend to run until 30th June so it may be that we will get some news this week when City are able to make their moves on out-of-contract players” and here we go:
The T&A reports that [...]