I was speaking from a personal point of view with regard to "no idea what winter work as yet " . Given that the company have offered unpaid leave it will depend on how many permenant crew take this up as to how many, if any new ents will get extended . Plus bear in mind that 2nd year re-ents will be 1st in line for extended/permenant contracts . To be honest as a new ent i would be looking at being asked back next year rather than hoping to be extended .. but at the end of the day it will be down to how many permenant crew take unpaid leave before the company know how many crew it will need at each base for the winter