Does not make as good a story if he basically has 18 months left.

I'm not going to put too much faith in an article by the geordie bootboys especially one that fails to mention we have an option on the contract. Tho if we could get an auction going for him and sell for £25m upwards I'd see that as hard to turn down.

No they are not the facts he's 6ft1 not small and his club are doing their best to keep him. Like Brereton not having a contract clause YOU are making stuff up and then claiming the stuff you make up is fact.

He is 6ft1 according to that if he was your mate that would be a fine size.

Tbf he has played the majority of the games this season.

Dolans booking tbf was a joke the keeper had two kick outs at him and we get two players booked for being kicked at and pushed

Did we not just pass the cut off point for a bookings ban? I maybe wrong but sure we did

I disagree about dolan he's showed from moment one that he will graft his heart out for the badge and he deserves immense credit for that. Both on and off the pitch that young man sums up arte et labore.

To me it seems its not just that you constantly point out his assists ( another one today btw) and how he should be doing more whilst discounting goal involvements and things like that. Todays goals a perfect example of how flawed that argument it is today's goes down as his assist when in truth it was decent closing down and luck. Yet if he wins the ball high up which he often does plays in say dolan who squares it to a striker to score its not an assist but an involvement but he did more than the man getting the assist. If seen him do this on more than one occasion this season.

Tbf you have painted yourself into a corner re Buckley if you can't see a good footballer when it's staring you in the face that's your thing not everyone elses

You say decent ball but let's be fair he looks twice to see where Pickering is and picks out a pinpoint cross/pass to where he will be arriving its a fantastic assist.

So it did I remembered that totally wrong I was under the impression that it came at championship level my bad.

Thats fair enough not seen a lot of him tbh a plus for me with maja is he has scored goals at this level in a very poor Sunderland side.

I'd still like maja to be brought in in Jan.

Ha yeah wed was a very low point first time I've turned a Rovers game off and watched another game. Today after the first minute we were first to everything. Credit to davenport today as well he helped win the midfield battle.

He made changes he put that team out credit to him

Fantastic player always looks for forward passes first and often releases players on the break. Finally starting to see the player who we were told about stamp his mark on games.

If you can't give credit for that performance today where every player gave their all for the shirt then what can you give credit for.

Brereton is such a weird one seems to bundle his way through things but still know where the ball is like a lower version of suarez

Tbf he deserves credit for today

A great battling performance from the lads today could have been 5 or 6

Had such a good game in the attacking midfield role his passing is first class

By the way can we put to bed any of the doubts over Buckley the lads very good

Hopefully he will sign the new deal we have on the table or we even up the deal it would be stupid not to try and do everything to protect the investment. Tho that makes sense fir the club so probably not. Also if I was his agent I'd be saying don't sign anything.

If Brereton does go at the end of the season it will be for around the same as arma given we have an option on his contract.