BURY FC chairman Terry Robinson watched Nick Daws put pen to paper on a lucrative new contract and declared: "He's a credit to the club."

Daws, who has taken over the club captaincy following the £1 million transfer of Chris Lucketti to Huddersfield, has made himself the best paid player at Gigg Lane but as far as the Shakers supremo is concerned no-one could deserve it more.

"This is great news for the club and is a reward for the loyalty Nick has shown to us over the years," said Mr Robinson.

"He's never been a player who has wanted to move away from Gigg and he fully deserves his new deal and the captaincy.

"Nick's appointment gives us continuity on the field and I'm sure with his will to win he'll be a great influence on the players around him."

As for the man himself he's delighted to have brought the "will-he-won't-he sign" saga to an end and admitted that there was really no great obstacle.

"I just wanted to make sure that after our relegation that the club was still ambitious to get back into Division One," he said. "And with the quality of players that have arrived at the club this summer it's clear that they are.

"I'm still ambitious and want to play at the highest level possible and that means everyone at the club will be doing their best to get off to a great start once the season gets underway."

And boss Neil Warnock added: "Nick has a large part to play as skipper for the forthcoming season and from what I can see he's already enjoying it."

The manager declared himself well pleased with the first full week's training focusing on fitness and stamina work.

He intends to run the rule over seven or eight trialists over the next few weeks - mostly released from Premiership clubs - and will give them run outs in the pre-season games that start with the trip to Radcliffe Boro next Friday (July 16).

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