Bradford City officials have sympathised with Andy Tod over the player's exclusion from the side for financial reasons.

Tod was left out of the 3-1 FA Cup defeat at West Brom because the game would have activated a further transfer payment of �25,000 to former club Dunfermline.

If Tod had played it would have taken him to the 25-appearance mark.

"It's not very nice for him having just come back from major injury (a double hernia operation) but we hope to sort something out with Dunfermline," said a club spokesman.