 Marcus it seems like only yesterday that we were sitting here interviewing you after you'd arrived at the club a year ago. Has that year flown by for you? Yeah, definitely. It's been an amazing season and I thought it could have gone any better on a personal and on the team level in the sense of the season, so I'm delighted for what's happened so far. It's certainly been a successful first year for you, your reward being a new contract. You said it was an easy decision to make. Yeah, 100% I knew, even if this didn't come around that my plans and ambitions were to do well at this club and luckily enough so far they have done with a company. I feel like we're defeating all the people who told us that we weren't going to do so well. You clearly feel the club is ambitious and it's going places as well? Yeah, definitely, especially when the new owner took over, he took us in the room and spoke to us about his plans and he stuck through to them and it looks like it's going to be a promising future. And the new owner Bill Foley said the team would not be relegated last season and he was correct. He's also said he wants the team to push towards European football. That must excite you as a player. Yeah, definitely that's all you want as a player to play at the highest levels and the first step was to stay up last season and we've done that now it's time to build on it this season and push for higher places in the league. Personally for you it was a season of ups and downs, tell us about the ups first of all. Yeah, it was obviously great. I got my dream to play in this league and that's what I came here to do to play against the best players in the world and to challenge myself and this club gave me that platform and I'm forever thankful for that and I just want to continue to build on that and help take this club higher up. And the downs obviously being the injury situation? Yeah, obviously that comes with the game. It's happened probably a bit too much for my like and I feel like if I was a bit fair who knows what could have happened but it's something I've got to work on for next season to stay as fair as possible for as long as possible. You won the goal of the season and the junior cherries player of the season. Did the season go better than you anticipated it would? I didn't know what to expect too much because obviously it's like I told everyone it's something new for me. I was moving away from what I like to call home and coming to the toughest league in the world so it was probably an easy place to settle down and be able to be myself on and off the pitch so I think that's had a big factor in terms of how I've played. I know you've been working hard during the off season rehabbing. Just tell us how things are with the hamstring now? Yeah everything's going well. Can't thank the medical team enough for that. I mean I've been in over the off season. I know all that the plan is to get fit and stay fit and if that's what they need me to do I'm here to do it and everything's going really well so far. It's quite a short turnaround this year as well. Have you had a chance to recharge your batteries as well? Yeah I've had a little chance to recharge my batteries and I'm looking to go away and spend some more time with my family. Now the championship playoffs didn't quite go the way you were hoping for Middlesbrough so just tell us what do you make of the three teams that are coming up for Burnley, Sheffield and Luton? They're all good teams and to get in this league you don't do it by luck. You play your way to get in this league and a lot of people will say things about all over teams but you've got to just focus on ourselves because a lot of teams doubted us and a lot of people doubted us out there and we proved them wrong so in a sense you don't want to give teams that fire to prove everyone else wrong. Are there any fixtures out this week? Were there any that stand out for you maybe a stadium you might have missed out on playing in last season or any team even? Yeah definitely to miss out on the Emirates that's probably the main one but I feel like even though the fixtures list came out we can't look too into detail on it because last season we started off really tough and we had a lot of ups and downs during the season but we learned very quickly that you just take it a game at a time. I'd just like to ask you about Junior Stanislaus. I know someone that you struck up a really firm friendship. Just tell us how much of an inspiration he's been for you since you've been here. Yeah he's been great. He's really helped me a lot through my times where I've been injured. He won't like it but he's been my driver recently when I haven't had my car. I've been having some one-to-one chats with him which he spoke a lot of confidence in me. I remember when I was struggling to start off with in the team and he had chats with me knowing that if I have the ability he'll come to me on the pitch and I just can't thank him enough for what he's done and he's been a great person for this club. What are your hopes personally for next season? Firstly I just want to stay fit and not get injured as much if not at all but I really want to help the team in putting the ball in the back there or assisting players and having a positive impact going forward on the game. Ames for the team do you think? I feel like we just have to take a game at a time. I know I keep saying it but we did that last season and we proved a lot of people wrong and now it's time to make sure that we continue on this momentum what we built up towards the end of the season and who knows where it can take us.