My concern with Ralls is more to do with the number of matches he has missed in the last couple of years and it seems to have only been in the last two or three weeks that he has been trusted enough to play a full ninety minutes. If he is now able to play more games than he has been doing, then he is the one above any of the others I’d be offering a new contract to. Ralls is not the quickest and that’s never going to change, but you look at all of the other facets of a modern central midfielder’s game and I’d say he is six out of ten at least, by Championship standards, in all of them, even if there are not many, if any, I’d rate at eight or above. For me, Ralls a good, solid “all rounder”, he also never hides in games, and we should be doing our best to keep him.