This is very good news to hear.

Burns! Burns will tear you apart again!

Deserved!

After all the sadness of Kieran leaving, this is fantastic news.

There will be people that say "we need better for the premier league"

Those people can F off..... our Wes is staying <3

His leadership is essential and he has more to offer. Plus we need continuity and he brings the fans together!

Club legend, the best of the best

COYB

What a legend

Great news! We love Wes :-)

Great news. He needed a good shot at the PL to see if he's got it. Might be a squad player or impact sub, but he really deserves this. Go show 'em Wes.

Great news and deserved.

Im really not one for sentimentality, but of all the players who is an absolute talisman for the journey we have been on, Wes is the one.

ITFC 1994, I totally agree, I'm really not convinced how much football he will play as first choice, but losing McKenna probably tips this over the edge as a great move for us all.

Burns, Burns will tear you apart, again.

Fantastic news. A big game player, who can really change games, light up the crowd and lift the entire team.

Good call from O’Neill to keep on a player so embedded in the culture of the past five years and someone who will drive standards. Slightly surprised that Wes hasn’t gone with a longer deal that he could have undoubtedly got elsewhere but he obviously wants one more crack at the Premier League

What a boy !! Probs means either walle or macateer leaving if he stays

Happy Days

Burns made a difference when he got back to fitness. Sentimentally I’m delighted but I think it’s a good move from the club as well.

Love him to bits, he’s the epitome of all our success, the work rate sets the standard.

BUT he’s not even a top Championship player now; he’d be a play off hunting team at best (quality wise). That’s about two or more levels below what we need.

It’s a worrying sign. Our competition are signing world class talent, this takes up resources and squad space we could use better. There is a price to pay for using resources like this, this level doesn’t do sentiment, it’s ruthless, see Forest.

If we want to have any hope, we need to be brutally efficient with resources, this isn’t that.

This smacks of Mark Ashton managing the crowd, for a disappointing window. But but Wes stayed and we once played Morecombe.

Mark is really poor at recruitment (at this level) part one million.

Absolutely delighted he's stayed. He might find minutes hard to come by, but as an outlet, on the right and with pace, he could be influential. All the best Wes, do us proud!

Emotional - great news

Great news. Well deserved .

Deserves his chance, good news. Just need a few more signings now!

ITFC_1994 how do we need continuity, the opposite saw Sunderland and Forest qualify for Europe with similar resources to what we’ve wasted.

Continuity and this group won’t get 25 points, and don’t know anyone, including most of our own fans with any brain cells that thinks differently.

Wes has barely been good enough for too championship, and that’s not putting him down, wonderful what he’s done for us, really set the standards.

So should Sam, Mass, Cam, Chaplin all come back - get the band back together for continuity.

Sadly. They too would be as good as this group, Mats aside we haven’t evolved…, we have t progressed, due to really poor recruitment.

But keeping players we KNOW are miles off this level helps how?? How is that progress? Who are you shipping out on the right?

McAteer, Walle, Ogbenne and Burns - and I’d argue you might be right that Burns the £100k hero is as good as any of them, but that’s a seriously small, tall dwarf, that’s an awful set of options on the right, and everyone can see we need a big step forward in that position.

I’d assume Ogbenne and maybe Johnson and Walle all out on loan (nobody is touching their wages, which 100% tells the story about how poor our recruitment is).

That would be the only way it makes any sense.

Sadly. Just look at the comments. It looks like a populist move for what I suspect will be a poor window.

A popular move.., that takes resources away from the clubs goal.., and papers over some now pretty big cracks.

Burns wouldn’t get in any 25 at this level.., or quite a few at the top of the EFL now too.., not often fit.., not good enough .., it’s about 20 years since his energy and endeavour would have been good enough to survive at this level.

You need to decide what you want. Celebrate the legacy group - which is odd as all the others were ditched (too early in my opinion, but that ship has sailed) or be successful.

This is nether.

He’s the only one we’ve hung on to for too long .., and I suspect that’s instructive of the window to come.

Ashton being Ashton. Managing HIS career and managing down to distract from his failures.

If Burns plays, 22 points will look like a pipe dream.

Paul Cooper in goal? Could still do a job.

Ashton has his faults but I don’t think was a get the fans onside decision. The club have been discussing a new contract before McKenna left and those talks didn’t stop when he left. I think the club had decided if they could agree a deal he was staying. Ashton has however left himself open to criticism with his “we are well down the line with several deals” comment. Unless McKenna leaving has been the problem or O’neil rejecting those players the impatience of fans for signings has been ramped up by himself.

Great news! If he can stay fit, he will make a valuable contribution this season. One of the last of the blues band of brothers so I’m so glad he’s staying.

Brilliant news

Splendid news!!!!