Banks and Mills Sign

Rudge and Pulis will decide whether to extend the deals past this season as the campaign continues and it is likely to be partly to do with how the potters fayre in their relegation battle.

Banks has been the first team keeper since arriving from Bolton where he has been released from his contract and Mills has proved a strong precense up front since arriving from Coventry and has helped out strikers Chris Iwelumo and Chris Greenacre.

The huge amount of revenue from the Stoke vs Chelsea 5th round game has helped out in the signing of these players.