Whing wants to stay but....

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Anyone else see this?

Coventry Telegraph - Coventry City FC - The Gossip - Andrew Whing unsure of Brighton future

 

[strings]

Wow - I read the littlehampton gazette online, and now I have found the other person that reads it too!

Whings column in full:

ON behalf of myself and all the other players, we wish Jim McNulty the speediest of recoveries after he had a kidney removed late last week.
It was one of the worst injuries I have ever seen in football. A few of the lads went down to see him a couple of weeks ago in hospital and, although he was in a lot of pain, he was in good sprits.

It's such a massive blow for both him and us. To come in and start so well and now be sidelined for so long is disastrous.

I, touch wood, have never had a really serious injury, although I have broken my nose about eight times. I first did it in the Coventry youth team and ever since it's been really fragile – the slightest knock and it goes.


* I think that some of the loan players will have a slightly different mentality at the moment, regarding our situation.

They are all giving 100 per cent and, although it will still hurt them if we do get relegated, it won't affect them as badly as it will the contracted players. At the end of the season, many of the loan players will go back to their clubs no matter what happens here.


o My contract runs out at the end of the season and, to be honest, it's right at the back of my mind at the moment.

In an ideal world, every player would like to know what the future holds a lot earlier. But with recent circumstances, with the new manager and where we are at the moment, it hasn't happened.

It's not nice not knowing what the future holds, and a little frustrating, but I love it here in Brighton.

We have a great group of lads and the fans are fantastic.

We'll have to see what the future holds but I'm not concerned about it at the moment. We are just concentrating on the games, which is the most important thing.

 

[Taybha]

bugga

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Reads exactly like a quote from every other worker who quite likes their job but is worried about their future

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Sounds a bit like we're holding off on contracts and if we go down we will 'cut our cloth' to suit our new situation... i.e. let our best players go.

Dear oh dear.

 

[mr sheen]

Or that we'll let next season's manager choose who gets renewed

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Sounds a bit like we're holding off on contracts and if we go down we will 'cut our cloth' to suit our new situation... i.e. let our best players go.

That's exactly the case. There was even an Argus article about that very thing earlier this week.

Oh, and here it is...

Contracts talks on hold for Albion players From The Argus)

 

[Icy Gull]

Last season in the Championship scenario all over again where the players were left in the dark about contracts, once we're relegated watch the players stop trying a la the Stoke debacle which was all McGhee's fault in the eyes on the blind....who will get to face the fans ire this time around?

 

[RM-Taylor]

The club should be talking with Whing and Sullivan now. We need to keep them, doesn't matter what division we are in.

 

[Silent Bob]

Sounds a bit like we're holding off on contracts and if we go down we will 'cut our cloth' to suit our new situation... i.e. let our best players go.

Dear oh dear.

er, no. We always wait, and our best players are all under contract.

This is by far the most interesting and revealing comment:
"I think that some of the loan players will have a slightly different mentality at the moment, regarding our situation.

They are all giving 100 per cent and, although it will still hurt them if we do get relegated, it won't affect them as badly as it will the contracted players. At the end of the season, many of the loan players will go back to their clubs no matter what happens here."

 

[bright1064]

Someone offer the man a contract, NOW!!!!

 

[Mendoza]

He will probably get released by Slade, then resigned by Dean White 10 days later when he takes charge of our League Two campaign

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Is it too late to get Reidy back? Wilkins should have been let go for that crap decision alone

 

[Joe Gatting's Dad]

The club do not know which division we will be in which will be relevant to new contracts and what the players will be worth in League 1 or 2. All the players are under contract until the beginning of June and cannot go anywhere until then.

The club cannot say what the season/seat ticket prices will be until they know which division we are in.

We do n ot even knwo who will be the manager next year either.

Need to win the next six games which make it much clearer!

 

[Napper]

Be good to keep him but is replaceable

 

[brightonmad999]

i like andy whing hes a good player and i dont want him to go

 

[pork pie]

Reads exactly like a quote from every other worker who quite likes their job but is worried about their future

No, how can you say that?

Most people have a job that is protected to a certain extent by their Contracts of Employment and Employment Legislation. Sure, they can be worried, but have no reason to think it is actually about to end (in most cases).

However, Andrew Whing's Contract will END this summer, and unless he is offered a new one, he WILL be out of work. That is very different.

 

[Marshy]

get talking DK