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Agree with your thoughts Paul but I think your being kind to Whitts. His demise started during our promotion season, from memory he was dropped for a large part in favour of Kimbo and Mutch. He then struggled big time with the pace of the premiership and the decline has continued season on season since. Not helped by the poor mangers we've had in recent years and the role he has been asked to play.
Dave Jones got the best out of him but he never repeated that exceptional goalscoring season he had.
Well he better leave then, hecant have it both ways ,a lot of people have talent and don't have the luxury of holding out for better wages as the age , he's a lovely lad ,however has unperformed for a long time in my eyes .
Footballers even at this level are grossly overpaid , he has waited to see if he can get another pay day and that Is fine , as a club we have to move on .
Hope this helps "" to die for" phrase ( extremely good or desirable ).
I just love the rewriting of history on the promotion season.
He wasn't left out for large parts, he was dropped / rested for the last couple of months where we won just 3 of our last 13 games.
We averaged far more points with Whitts in the team than when he wasn't that season.
He was far more influential to winning the Championship than either Kim or Mutch.
Whilst I agree with large parts of your post that's not the topic of the thread.
Someone has suggested one of the reasons why he's leaving is he doesn't get on with Warnock and I agree with this view.
Even Stevie Wonder can see he's not a Warnock player, or in his plans, so there was no point in offering him whatever token contract they offered him.
He should have been thanked for his service and allowed a proper goodbye.
Odd thread, that's exactly what he said; '... he was dropped/rested for the last couple of months where we won just 3 of our last 13 games.'
Just to clear it up, he was actually dropped for the last 8 games of that season, having started in 37 out of the 38 league games before then (he missed the 1-0 win at Birmingham on New Years Day). Of those last 8 games we won 2 and drew 6, having lost 3 of the 6 before then. I've no particular memories of him that season after his bright start, he'd scored 6 goals by the end of September but only managed 2 more after that, both penalties.
It'll be interesting to see how Blackburn use him if he goes there, he got moved around the midfield here without really convincing anywhere in the past few seasons. Trollope thought he'd cracked it by having him play in front of a back 5 but that turned out to be the least successful of all the options. I've no idea where I'd play him, I assume Mowbray's got a plan. We'll see.
Lawnmower said in another thread that he didn't want to see a John Terry type goodbye arranged for Whitts and I completely agree with that. We've just had a testimonial for Kevin McNaughton who, from memory, was with us for nine and a half years - I was all for that, but, if I'm right about how long he was with us, then it's just short of the amount of time traditionally required to be granted a testimonial.
By contrast, Whitts has ten and a half years service put in for City and, surely, the way to recognise someone who, unlike so many given the title, does deserve to be called a Cardiff City legend is to arrange a testimonial for him at some time - I would be disappointed if that didn't happen.