Welcome to the Coral Windows Stadium for this afternoon's Yorkshire derby. We welcome the players, officials and supporters from Rotherham who have made the trip from South Yorkshire for today's match.

I thought today I would make a few comments on the incident surrounding Bobby Zamora's reaction to scoring his goal in Fulham's victory over Sunderland last weekend. As you may have read in the papers, Zamora's celebration involved him shouting at some of his own supporters, apparently in response to criticism he had been receiving from fans on internet messaging boards. This was a good example of the consequences of the actions of a minority of supporters who use these boards to castigate their own team's players, something which is not uncommon in the game.

This incident has prompted me to think that Bradford City should seek to take the lead in combating this problem within the sport, in a similar way to that which saw us encourage other clubs to adopt cheaper ticket prices as a result of our season ticket offer. I believe that it may be time to look at ending the anonymity of message boards so that those supporters who are intent on using them as a means to abuse players or generally use foul and abusive language can no longer hide behind their 'computer names'. If this anonymity is ended then it will make these people responsible for what they are saying and, in extreme cases, could even lead to them being taken to court for libel for the things that they have written.

Here at Bradford City we have been looking in to what options are available to us as we look to ensure that our official club website message board is used responsibly. One option is to only allow fans to post messages once they have registered their full name and address with us. It would be interesting to see how such a change would be reflected in the types of comments that are left on the website.

I anticipate that any such change will provoke a reaction from those who use the message boards regularly and I would stress that I am happy to speak to any fans, either on the phone or face to face, regarding the best way forward. If fans believe there are other ways to tackle this problem - or indeed if they think there isn't a problem - then perhaps we should leave things as they are, but I do think it is something that we should explore. I believe, however, that as things stand there is a danger that comments made on our official message boards could ultimately have a detrimental effect on the pitch and we can't afford to ignore that.

Back to the football, and it was nice to put our 3-0 home defeat to Rochdale behind us with a victory at Darlington last weekend. Some people have said that they expected us to go there and win more comfortably but we know there are no easy games in this division and I hope that the victory and the clean sheet will help to breed confidence.

Today we face a tough test against a Rotherham side who are challenging towards the top of the league. We have some tricky fixtures this month against teams who are expected to be among the promotion contenders so I think that, by the end of December, we will have a better idea of where we stand. Even then, we will still only be entering the new year, so if we are within touching distance of the play offs then we are placed for the rest of the campaign.

These are my last notes before the festive period, so I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our staff, supporters and not forgetting our sponsors - because without them we wouldn't have a football club - a very happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

Enjoy the game,

Mark Lawn

Joint chairman