 So James we should start by congratulating you. 300 appearances just through the week now 301 and 302 on this coming Saturday. Did you ever think you'd get there as a professional footbaler? No not at all, obviously it was just a dream to play for Bradford at the time and I keep clocking up these appearances and obviously I credit it to myself and the management as well I think I've played a big factor in that from keeping faith in me to playing Rydyn ni'n gweithio'r amser o'r clwb a'r amser o'r llach o'r bobbyn Cambill. John MacArthur was my personal favourite when I was a youngster and we've just come through with the car pack at the club there. And there's about 20 or 30 junior bansons running around wanting your signature. You're the hero? Yeah, well some people's hero, some people's obviously. Not everyone's cup of tea but... You can't be liked by everyone games. Ah yeah but you know as overall I really love it here and I just give my all every week you know I tend to score a few goals along the way. Are you a stats person? Some strikers will say I don't even know how many games I've played and how many goals I've scored. Are you aware of your place in the sort of Bradford City folklore and history? Well to be honest my dad keeps me aware of it. When it gets to being in the old time, top goal scorer, top 10 I started to let me know then and obviously Saturday I wasn't aware of making that many appearances until the gaffer told me. So it was nice to get the double on Saturday to you know as a celebration. Can let's start at the very beginning. So you're playing non-league football for Geisle and everyone knows you're working in the co-op. Take us back you know when you were dreaming of being a professional footballer what was the plan then? Just enjoying my football again I think you know I was at Huddersfield as a young lad. You know when I got picked up there I was playing striker, playing Sunday league and then I went to Huddersfield and you know straight away I was put left back. I was small at the time but I didn't even get a chance to play football where I wanted to play so you know I sort of got released there. I didn't really do great there but you know I wasn't in my preferred position and my dad just said just to go and enjoy football again so I started playing with my mates and worked my way up through at Ecclesle United because they had like the Sunday team and obviously the Saturday side so you know I got picked down when I was 16s and just worked my way up there and fortunately I played Geisle in the West Riding County Cup game and that's where Terry Dullan and Mark Ellis spotted me there. Okay two former Bantams of course and you scored a lot of goals at Geisle didn't you? Yeah I played up front like as a three up front and first season I think I scored 25 and 21 the following season. We just missed that on the playoffs but obviously thankfully for Bradford Ducut in the budget a little bit so it allowed me to get a foot through the door. Yeah arguably one of our probably greatest ever signings in terms of the career that you've had and you've scored some very important goals along the way. What was the change like from probably training a couple of times a week at Geisle and then stacking shells probably during the week to taking that step up to being a professional footballer? Yeah it was physically tough at the start. I remember being really dead skinny and scrawny coming in here and just even training every day and I was beefing up a bit and putting weight on and obviously it was hard at first but we didn't really have a fitness regime back then like we've got Nick Allenby now so I think since he's come to the club he's played a massive factor in me getting fitter and leaner. Ok so let's start with your first couple of goals. Do you remember any of your first goals? Do you remember your first goal? I've got some stats in case you don't go on then talk us through your first goal. I remember the start of the season. I think we went five or six games without scoring and the student we called at the time decided to play me up front because I'd started on the left wing a few times and it was a crazy game. I think it was free all by half time or something silly like that so we've gone from not scoring at all for five games to scoring free in 45 minutes and we won five or I think at Cheltenham. I suppose similarities with the way we are at the moment. It's funny they do come along like buses as they say don't they but yeah you're right first goal for Bradford City against Cheltenham Town on the 22nd of August 2009 in a five four victory at Wadden Road. It should say five four thrilling victory here where we wrote these notes but excellent memory there James. So first goal you've scored 83 more since then and you've scored some important ones. The Bradford City that you joined compared to the Bradford City now bear in mind. We've gone through two administrations. We've had a promotion. You've been to Wembley twice. We've beaten Chelsea Arsenal, Aston Villa along the way. You really can't have imagined this would happen when you signed. No, I don't think no one could. It's been a rollercoaster but a lot of things have been positive like you say when you go through stuff like that. You know they don't happen to many people in the career ones. One of them things so to be fortunate to experience four or five of them big occasions is a brilliant feeling. Shall we talk about some of the really big ones? Nox County away August 2012 capital cut first round. Late winner started that infamous run. Yeah, I remember that very well. That's probably one of my sweetest strikes for Bradford. I just curled it into the top corner and I think they missed an open net. So we got a little bit of luck going on the way but we never thought we'd have had that journey that we had. Yeah, so you scored on with your head. You scored some beautiful strikes as well. My favourite ever goal, Aston Villa away. Villa Park. I'm there with God knows how many other Bradford City fans would all gone down and was it a Tuesday or a Wednesday night? I can't remember now. Certainly remember it snowing. We were in the villa end because we couldn't get any tickets. It looked like they were getting back into the tie. They looked like a Premier League side at that point and then you crop up and wall up that header in. Goodness me, I've still got the picture actually somewhere on my wall at home. I mean, what on earth were you thinking when that hit the back of the net? I've not a lot to be honest. First half we did get battered and Dukie made some great saves that night and the gaffer just pulled us in at half time and got us all calmed down and said look, we're still ahead in the tie. Let's just go out and give us all second half and we worked a bit of momentum going and sustained a bit of attack. I remember Zav won a great corner for us from nowhere really and Gaz has been putting good deliveries in all season and I managed to get my head on it. Phil Park into the manager has an ability doesn't he? An uncanny ability of, I imagine giving these Churchillian speeches at half time before these big important games. What's he like as a manager? Sometimes when the chips are down or when the chips are up and you've got to hold on to a lead like an aggregate lead we did then? It's just so calm where it comes about. Obviously we've played in some big games and you wouldn't think it when you're in the dressing room with the gaffer because it's so calm and the way it gets your stuff across is brilliant to the lads and it allows us to put on performances especially at home like they have done. In the last few weeks I suppose the whole club has come under pressure. Phil's come under pressure, you've come under pressure, fans are entitled to their say. How does he cajole and motivate players when the chips are down in that respect? He's very good at it. He just pulls you to one side and I remember at Peterborough, not so long back he was talking to me and just getting me going again and saying that you've built up such a big part of this club. You need to keep your performances going and step up what I know how you can play. Obviously to play the 300 game and manage to score two goals I just want to kick on now. As a professional footballer is it difficult if people doubt you even though you've given such long service and clearly you're one of these players that is all about effort. You could never say that James Hansen doesn't put effort in but naturally when we're going great guns everyone's behind us when perhaps things aren't going so well, you know, strikers, defenders, goalkeepers, managers, I get knocked by people but is that just part of the job? I think it's just part of the job. I think the second season I struggled a little bit by that. I've been done so well in the first season and second season didn't quite go to plan how I'd wanted to go but I learnt a lot from that season and to be even more fixed skin now and obviously some all strikers go through patches and not scoring but I felt as a whole I've been getting the chances so it was just a matter of time to start putting them in and I'm on a run again now so it's nice to end season well and score some more goals. And you need people supporting you don't you need people patting you in the back and saying keep going James it'll turn as it has done. Which is what the gaffer has done to be honest there and obviously it could have easily left me out of the side but he's kept me in there and he's shown faith so you know I just wanted to repay him. Good man. And everybody else as well right then so Burton Albion in the playoffs 2013-20 secured cities place in the end of season playoffs and then of course Burton Albion away in the playoffs semi-final. Playoff final against Northampton at Wembley what's it like to score at Wembley? Again unbelievable feeling you know that game couldn't have gone as better as we planned it and you know we did have the experience of playing Swansea a couple of months earlier. Do you think that helped like a lot of people have said that we went to Wembley the second time almost relaxed we've been here before? Yeah definitely helped you know we did when we went to again Swansea we did all that you know having us getting us family's tickets sorted and just the old occasion you know we went in suits and you know I'd made it all as day and obviously on the day we didn't turn up but this time it round it was just more relaxed you know we went in as track suits we got us tickets sorted for his family's early which allowed us to concentrate on the game and whereas probably Northampton did what we did against Swansea and you know turned up in suits you know they were still looking round the ground and we just had you know the focus of beating them and showing them the first half. It was a truly memorable day. In more recent times you go against Leeds United probably is going to be a lot of Bradford City's favourites that header in front of the cup in the Capital One Cup which was an amazing evening last August. Wow so we were 1-0 down and we went 2-1 and the whole of Bradford went absolutely crazy that night. Is that one of your more sweeter girls perhaps? I think it's definitely one of my more sweeter ones you know I've got a lot of friends and family that have you know Bradford and Leeds support so I know all about their rivalry and you know the gaffers are a big factor and he loves his history and he was saying before the game that you know it was so many years before we'd beaten Leeds so it meant a lot and probably want the cleanest head out. I did go all woods but you know it went straight through your legs so it was a nice feeling. It was a very very sweet feeling for the Bradford City fans I had a saw head for many a days after that. James this is your 7th season playing for Bradford City and you're still relatively speaking a young man as footballers go. What are your aspirations going forward for you individually and for us I suppose as a club and a team? I think progression every year as a club you know we just missed out on the play-offs last year and you know the gaffers strengthened again and you know we've had up and down form but you know I feel like we're coming really strong now into the last part of the season and you know we've got a lot of home games to play which you know not many people would have thought I think we've got 9 or 10 left you know out of the 16 games we've got so you know we feel we're in a strong position to push on and hopefully you know I feel the squad's good enough to go up if we can. I think we can get in the playoff.