Quirke Waits On New Contract

Last updated : 04 May 2011 By Covsupport News Service/RD

Quirke is also waiting to hear if he will be offered an extension to his one year professional contract or if he will have to leave his hometown club in the summer.

The former Covsupport News Service City U18's Player Of The Year winner kept a clean sheet against Reading last Saturday, when he was selected to play after Westwood ruled himself out of contention and then made a few excellent saves which can have done nothing to harm his chances of being offered a new contract.

He has now made three first team appearances and has gone some way to prove that he is capable of playing at Championship level.

Quirke told the CT: "I haven't heard anything yet. A couple of the other younger lads have been offered something but it is not affecting me at the minute because there is another game yet, and, if I play, hopefully I can play well in that and if a contract is offered to me at the end of the season then it will be great.



"If not, I feel I have played well enough against Doncaster, Reading and Watford and hopefully other clubs will have been watching. But my main priority is to get a contract with Cov who are my childhood club who I have supported ever since I was little, so I will do my best to get a contract here."

Quirke is the third choice goal keeper behind Westwood and Danny Ireland, but Ireland has a long term injury, ironically sustained when he played in place of an injured Westwood, but Quirke revealed that he very nearly injured himself in training last Friday which would have meant that Coventry City would only be left with the 18 year old Academy player Lee Burge.

Burge has been offered a one year professional contract with the club, just like Quirke was this time last year, but Quirke is still waiting to hear if his contract will be renewed.