YORK City chief Terry Dolan is adamant his Minstermen can build on their FA Cup heroics to kick-start a climb away from the foot of Division Three.

Despite the 2-0 defeat at the hands of Premiership Fulham the City boss was proud of his team for the way they performed, and www.thisisyork.co.uk marks Saturday's heroic effort with this picture special.

As he turned his attention to the visit of his former club Hull City to Bootham Crescent tomorrow Dolan wanted more of the same. "We can build on this," he said.

"The players have got to take confidence from the way that they have played against Fulham and in the last four or five games.

"We haven't got the results that we would have liked but the performances have been steadily increasing and if we continue that I am sure the points will start to come."

Dolan maintained City had got their tactics spot-on, getting bodies behind the ball in the first-half before cranking up the tempo in the second.

He said: "If we had gone out to attack themright from the start of the game we would have been torn apart. I thought tactically we got it right.

"The way the players performed you cannot have any complaints. We gave it a good go.

"We knew with the calibre of the players they have got, we had to be very organised and not go gung-ho into it. For 20 minutes or so we held our own.

"In the second-half I thought we got at them a little bit and we had them rocking for a spell, but we just didn't quite get the right break."

* City fans are being reminded that they have until 5pm to purchase tickets for tomorrow night's clash with Hull City at Bootham Crescent.

The match is all-ticket, with NO tickets on sale tomorrow.

Updated: 10:43 Monday, January 28, 2002