On the Twitter account - Lewington has left the club and Dillon Barnes has come in on loan from Colchester. Not good news, apparently Coyle will confirm details this evening of what has happened.
Funny enough, after the team photo my son and I had a chat with him.
I said my son enjoys goalkeeping and what would be the one piece of advice you could offer him.
His response was "when you lose interest in the game, stop playing".
Funny enough, he also went on to say, never allow a player to lob you.
Is that how Truro got their third?
Good luck to Chris, makes me think I will never vote in player of the season ever again now the curse has struck once more.
Only Sean Francis, Pierre Joseph-Dubois and Archie Johnson are left from last season now (although Christian Nanetti has returned) so nearly everyone who voted can claim the curse!!
Bloody sad news this. Really puzzled as to why he's gone. A very good all round keeper. Particularly good shot stopper. Good luck Chris. Thanks for keeping us in this division last season.
The more I think about this the more I believe we should complain to the FA and demand a fee. It can not be right that a contracted player can retire in order to move to another club without a fee. If Dover and Lewington get away with this then others could try it. It potentially makes contracts worthless.
Hopefully MG will use this to send a message out to other clubs that WUFC will not be pushed around.
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Revised my opinion about this. Cannot blame Dover for signing him IF we did not retain his registration. If we did, then surely some sort of fee would have been triggered? Gutted about the whole situation. But we have Dillon who is a promising keeper, and we move on.
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The more I think about this the more I believe we should complain to the FA and demand a fee. It can not be right that a contracted player can retire in order to move to another club without a fee. If Dover and Lewington get away with this then others could try it. It potentially makes contracts worthless.
Hopefully MG will use this to send a message out to other clubs that WUFC will not be pushed around.
Erm....we just have been pushed around haven't we?!
If we don't hold his registration then I don't think anyone has (technically) done anything wrong here.
So have his issues now been resolved? If so he could just stuck with us and done that.
Clearly wasnt the travelling and having a young family because he's got even more to do now.
For once Chris is right, needs to be looked at because it's just set a precedent for every other player under contract.
If the background tittle tattle is to be believed, the "personal reasons" was a smokescreen for an inability to get along with the coaching staff. It came as no suprise to me that he ended up elsewhere and I leave it to others to look at the terms on which he left to see if any contractual issues have been broken. I cannot see that he was "poached", however, I would hazard a guess that Dover would not have signed him unless he was a free agent.
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At least he didn't do the dirty with another club in the National South. All the same it's a tiny bit ****e of him. But why are we surprised. He's retired. His contract was torn up. He's made a come back to suit himself. Footballers have no moral code.
Who said that Welling didn't hold on to the registration and Dover have paid something for the release? Who said that he fell out with anyone? We're all guessing.
Thought Lewington had retired funny that. Perhaps he really did fall out with Parky! Lost a good goalkeeper there. Re. Parky not at all sure we have the old player back yet!!
Hes either fell out with the goalkeeping coach, fell out with Parky, fell out with Coyle, lined up dover before "retiring", changed his mind and asked to come back and was told no.
Nobody knows. It doesn't look great though if you retire due to personal issues officially, then sign for a club two weeks later.
