Quote Hutchie="Hutchie"Considering he has been first choice right centre almost since 2004 (sometimes there has been no other option to free him up to play elsewhere), its a bit hard for him to have claimed the 13 shirt. Apart from getting injure 07/08 which let G Horne in. Although in 05 played quite a few at 13 www.slstats.org/p485/Richard%20Whiting.html'" That link's a tad unfair labelling him as 'somewhat injury prone'. Two broken bones account for the majority of the time he's spent injured.

Quote Hutchie="Hutchie"Considering he has been first choice right centre almost since 2004 (sometimes there has been no other option to free him up to play elsewhere), its a bit hard for him to have claimed the 13 shirt. Apart from getting injure 07/08 which let G Horne in. Although in 05 played quite a few at 13 www.slstats.org/p485/Richard%20Whiting.html'" That link's a tad unfair labelling him as 'somewhat injury prone'. Two broken bones account for the majority of the time he's spent injured.

Yes, you're right. We've had a really good time with injuries the last 4 years. Hardly any, in fact.



I don't think they will. I think he has bags of ability and would love to see him as first choice 13. I can see the argument for Washbrook being there above him, but he's so valuable to the squad that I reckon he'll stay around without cementing a regular place. I would be more than happy for him to play anywhere other than prop or wing in the event of injury and do pretty good job. There aren't too many players you can say that about.

I was thinking more 2004-2007.


But if he enters into negotiations with Hull and asks for a bit more money to do what he's doing now then i don't think he's good enough value, if he's happy to pick up a "utility" wage then i'm more than happy to see him stay, he will always give 100% but he's solid not spectacular, which is the point.

As a matter of interest, how much is he earning now? And how much extra would push him into the 'not good value' bracket? Come to that, how much is a 'utility' wage?

TIA

I think this 'solid, not spectacular' tag is a little unfair to Whiting. He does some very clever things in attack and defends very well. He doesn't go the length of the pitch, granted, but then, who does? He'll never be a Berrigan, a Long, or a Fitzgibbon, but he's among the better half of SL players, in my opinion.

You mean the three seasons where he was covering right centre most games as our first choice(s) was(were) constantly missing through injury?

And also, why should a 'utility' wage be lower than someone playing only one position?

No 2004-2007 is 4 seasons. So by that he's mainly a centre then surely?

His new contract is for 32000 per year with 7% image rights! How the hell should i know, but i would be disappointed to learn that he earned anymore than Graham Horne did.

I didn't say they should.

and why should a player with a utility tag be viewed as less talented than a single position player??

this fixation some have with what players earn is tedious to say the very least as its got nothing to do with us and very few if any outside the club know anyway!

It was strongly implied.



He's a much better player than Horne and, as such, ought to earn more.