David Junior Hoilett has today agreed a two-and-a-half year contract with Blackburn Rovers which will keep him at Ewood Park until the summer of 2012.

Having been on the Rovers books since the age of 13, 'Junior' has spent the last two seasons on loan in Germany, firstly at SC Paderborn and then last term at Hamburg-based club St. Pauli.

After a successful work permit appeal in the summer of 2009, the Canadian born forward could finally call himself a fully-fledged Blackburn Rovers footballer.

Made his debut for the club as a substitute on the opening day of the 2009-10 Barclays Premier League season and scored on his first senior start in the Carling Cup win over Gillingham in August 2009.

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