 He recovered towards the end of the season and began to find his goalscoring form once again, though this was not enough to save Lee Sinnott's "Valiants" from relegation out of League One.At the end of the season the club were forced to accept a £100,000 bid from Cheltenham Town due a release clause in his contract, though chairman Bill Bratt rated him as a £300,000 player.Turning down the chance of a move, he instead signed a one-year contract extension to keep him at Vale Park until the summer of 2010.