YORK City need just two more points to be safe from relegation after sharing six goals and the spoils with promoted Cardiff City at Bootham Crescent.

The 3-3 draw saw City slip two places to 18th place in Division Three and means City are still sweating on their Football League status.

However, with Torquay and Barnet to play each other on the last day of the season, City now need just two points from their last three games to be mathematically certain of staying up.

Those points could be garnered at Gay Meadow tomorrow night when City travel to take on Shrewsbury Town.

And manager Terry Dolan, delighted with the hard-fought point picked up against the Bluebirds who sealed their promotion back to division Two, admits City will be going all out to finally lay the haunting spectre of relegation to rest.

"We want to go to Shrewsbury and win if we can," said Dolan, who described Saturday's draw as a "very, very good point" for City.

"We have got to continue playing that way and I want to go the rest of the season unbeaten and if that is the case we won't get relegated."

Despite conceding three goals as Leo Fortune West grabbed a hat-trick for Cardiff, Dolan praised his team's battling qualities.

"I have said to the players to take all the positives from that because we have played against a team who have got promotion.

"As we have proved over the last five or six weeks we feel we are as good as the teams around us and I think we are an improving team now.

"Our team are resilient now and I don't think anyone could now think half-way through a game we aren't going to get something out of it.

"Unfortunately, we couldn't handle Leo Fortune West. He was a bit of a handful.

"But I am delighted for the rest of our performance. They were never going to play through us and apart from the balls for Fortune West I thought we handled them well."

Updated: 09:54 Monday, April 23, 2001