Aug 8: Football club director Josh Easby, a member of the old board led by Douglas Craig, quits.

Aug 10: City draw their opening game of the season 1-1 at Macclesfield. Batchelor stands with the fans on the terraces.

Aug 12: Ahead of the team's first home game of the season, chairman John Batchelor makes an appeal for fans to turn out in force with a number of new initiatives. A new-look programme and half-time competitions to improve the match-day atmosphere are introduced.

Aug 13: City beat Shrewsbury 2-1 in front of 3,463 fans.

Aug 17: Batchelor reveals tentative plans for the football club to have its own match-day radio station. He also says he hopes to submit a detailed planning application for a new stadium within the next six weeks.

Aug 29: A statement in developers Persimmon's planning application to build 93 homes on Bootham Crescent implies City may have to leave the ground by the end of the season.

Batchelor claims City will not be kicked out but confirms he wants to buy the ground from Bootham Crescent Holdings to give the club control over its own destiny.

Aug 30: Batchelor announces he intends to sue the Football League over their handling of the ITV Digital fiasco and also reveals ideas that would abolish offsides, increase relegation and promotion places and the end of drawn games.