Manager Paul Jewell has reiterated that he wants to get the players whose contracts are up next summer committed to new deals sooner rather than later. The Blues boss is determined to avoid the situations which have occurred in the last two seasons with players’ deals allowed to get into their last six months.
Jewell said: "I think it’s important with the younger lads who have got a year to go on their contracts that, as Peterborough brutally said, ‘you either sign up, or we sell you’.
"This time next year I don’t want this again. I’ve had it for the last two years and it’s pretty boring. I was bored of you asking questions a long time ago!” he joked.
Jack Ainsley, Jimmy Bullard, Damien Delaney, Andy Drury, Nathan Ellington, Arran Lee-Barrett, Lee Martin, Jaime Peters, Ryan Stevenson, Joe Whight and Cormac Burke all have deals which are up at the end of June 2013, while skipper Carlos Edwards and Luke Hyam both recently signed new one-year contracts.