MatthewWallis
Well-Known Member
IT WAS just a few months ago that first-year pro Nathan Cameron wasn’t allowed to get changed in the same room as his first team peers.
The rule, under Aidy Boothroyd’s regime, was that all Academy graduates had to qualify for a place in the dressing room by making ten senior starts for the Sky Blues.
Now, after racking up 19, he has earned his stripes and with them the reward of a new three-year contract that should keep him at the Ricoh Arena until 2014.
“I have been offered a new contract and it is a great reward for me,” said the 19-year-old centre-back, who has agreed terms and set to put pen to paper.
“I think I have worked hard this season and obviously played nearly half the games and at the start of the season I would never have thought that could have happened.
“I am just happy to be offered a new deal.”
He added: “I only signed a one-year professional deal at the start of the season so I had to look for a new contract towards the end of the season and luckily I have been offered one.
“There is a three-year deal on the table at the minute so hopefully I will be here at Coventry for a few more years.
“It’s a feather in my cap and a bit of security that gives me the chance to work hard and hopefully stay away from injuries over the next couple of years and really get my head down and not have to worry about coming to the end of a contract or anything until I am 22 and hopefully I can be a really good player for Coventry City.
“It is pretty much just a case of me signing on the dotted line. I want to keep working as hard as I can and keep doing the right things in training and keep learning.”
Taken out of the starting line-up against Burnley on Tuesday night, the centre-back admitted: “I know I have made a couple of mistakes in the last few weeks but I always knew it was going to be a learning curve for me, being my first season and I am not going to get everything right.
“But I want to keep learning from the coaches and have a good end to the season and even better start to next season.”
Having played his quota of games to be accepted into the inner sanctum at Ryton, he said: “I feel I am part of the dressing room now.
"I enjoy good banter with the lads and everyone is close and together, and it is important we stay like that to the end of the season when we can hopefully get some good results that will hopefully keep us up.”
There is a maturity about Cameron’s game as well as the way he comes across off the pitch, which is perhaps a handy quality to have in the current turbulent circumstances at City.
“We have got to stay upbeat and positive,” he said.
“We can’t beat ourselves up about the results in the last few weeks. We have got games coming up in the last month and a half of the season, and as long as we put the performances in we should get the results.
“That’s what we did at Doncaster and Burnley where we got good points and now we have to go to Preston and put up a good fight and if we do that then I think we will have a good chance of getting all three.”
oh joy
The rule, under Aidy Boothroyd’s regime, was that all Academy graduates had to qualify for a place in the dressing room by making ten senior starts for the Sky Blues.
Now, after racking up 19, he has earned his stripes and with them the reward of a new three-year contract that should keep him at the Ricoh Arena until 2014.
“I have been offered a new contract and it is a great reward for me,” said the 19-year-old centre-back, who has agreed terms and set to put pen to paper.
“I think I have worked hard this season and obviously played nearly half the games and at the start of the season I would never have thought that could have happened.
“I am just happy to be offered a new deal.”
He added: “I only signed a one-year professional deal at the start of the season so I had to look for a new contract towards the end of the season and luckily I have been offered one.
“There is a three-year deal on the table at the minute so hopefully I will be here at Coventry for a few more years.
“It’s a feather in my cap and a bit of security that gives me the chance to work hard and hopefully stay away from injuries over the next couple of years and really get my head down and not have to worry about coming to the end of a contract or anything until I am 22 and hopefully I can be a really good player for Coventry City.
“It is pretty much just a case of me signing on the dotted line. I want to keep working as hard as I can and keep doing the right things in training and keep learning.”
Taken out of the starting line-up against Burnley on Tuesday night, the centre-back admitted: “I know I have made a couple of mistakes in the last few weeks but I always knew it was going to be a learning curve for me, being my first season and I am not going to get everything right.
“But I want to keep learning from the coaches and have a good end to the season and even better start to next season.”
Having played his quota of games to be accepted into the inner sanctum at Ryton, he said: “I feel I am part of the dressing room now.
"I enjoy good banter with the lads and everyone is close and together, and it is important we stay like that to the end of the season when we can hopefully get some good results that will hopefully keep us up.”
There is a maturity about Cameron’s game as well as the way he comes across off the pitch, which is perhaps a handy quality to have in the current turbulent circumstances at City.
“We have got to stay upbeat and positive,” he said.
“We can’t beat ourselves up about the results in the last few weeks. We have got games coming up in the last month and a half of the season, and as long as we put the performances in we should get the results.
“That’s what we did at Doncaster and Burnley where we got good points and now we have to go to Preston and put up a good fight and if we do that then I think we will have a good chance of getting all three.”
oh joy