What's happened to Whitts

Had another poor game today. His free kicks were woeful whilst his tackling and marking were non existent.

Had another poor game today. His free kicks were woeful whilst his tackling and marking were non existent.

Saving himself for the play offs

His assist for the goal was class but had a poor game apart from that, still got that bit of quality though!

Top draw pass for the goal. Not at his best again but all players will have a sticky patch.

Surely he has played more mins on the pitch than any player in the divisions this season?
If Southampton win or draw I'd certainly let witts have a rest against palace.

Top draw pass for the goal. Not at his best again but all players will have a sticky patch.

Surely he has played more mins on the pitch than any player in the divisions this season?
If Southampton win or draw I'd certainly let witts have a rest against palace.

Totally agree with you about resting whitts if we can next week. I'd also rest Gunnarsson, Miller and i'd give blake a chance at right back and if he plays well let him keep it.

Had another poor game today. His free kicks were woeful whilst his tackling and marking were non existent.

Why are you constantly having a dig at Whitts? Great pass for our only goal, and whilst I agree that his free-kicks weren't up to standard, why are you getting so worked up about his tackling?!

A shadow of the player he was in the first half of the season.

His free kicks and corners are nowhere near his best, he's forgotten how to tackle or close down his man and he's made more missed passes in the last few games than in the entire first half of the season.

However, the pass for Mason's goal was superb, he's played every minute of every league game ( I think!) and recently he's been playing out wide more often than earlier in the season.

Still a class player - just going through a dip in form and confidence.

Had another poor game today. His free kicks were woeful whilst his tackling and marking were non existent.

Why are you constantly having a dig at Whitts? Great pass for our only goal, and whilst I agree that his free-kicks weren't up to standard, why are you getting so worked up about his tackling?!

Duh, its hardly a dig but perhaps its because he has yet to do a decent tackle this year. He has not played well for several games now and surely fully deserves the critisism he is getting. He offers nothing in defence so when his only ability (attacking) is lacking then what does he offer?. I agree he does sometimes show a glimpse of brilliance like the one good pass today but his recent form does not justify his place in the team.

I would say that pass for our only goal justified his place.

I would say that pass for our only goal justified his place.

Yes it did justify his place but in the reserve team.

I would say that pass for our only goal justified his place.

Yes it did justify his place but in the reserve team.

I'm pretty sure that doesn't make sense
Who would you have played instead? Kiss? Ralls? Do you think they had the ability to make that pass for the goal?

I would say that pass for our only goal justified his place.

Yes it did justify his place but in the reserve team.

I'm pretty sure that doesn't make sense
Who would you have played instead? Kiss? Ralls? Do you think they had the ability to make that pass for the goal?

Maybe not but at least Kiss and Ralls can tackle.If you think that Whitts justifies his place in the team based on one good pass then your clearly deluded.

I would say that pass for our only goal justified his place.

Yes it did justify his place but in the reserve team.

I'm pretty sure that doesn't make sense
Who would you have played instead? Kiss? Ralls? Do you think they had the ability to make that pass for the goal?

Maybe not but at least Kiss and Ralls can tackle.If you think that Whitts justifies his place in the team based on one good pass then your clearly deluded.

Yeah because if he hadn't played, and we'd had no real creative midfielder, that pass hadn't been made and Leeds got that goal and we'd lost at least we didn't waste a position on a player that can win games.

Hopefully boro draw so whitts/gunnar/kev/miller and co a rest

Why do you care so much about his tackling?! He's never been into that

Hopefully boro draw so whitts/gunnar/kev/miller and co a rest

boro winning so we don't have that luxury

Why do you care so much about his tackling?! He's never been into that

Every player must tackle and this is why we struggle to hold onto a lead. In all fairness to Malky, he identified this weakness in Whitts game and worked with him to improve. He did improve for a few matches last year but has since gone back into his shell. Now that Whitts attacking play is suffering then he is being carried by the rest of the team and does not deserve his place. The problem we have is that we don't have the luxury of a decent replacement and Malky has built the team around Whitts.I think its a case unfortunately of putting all your eggs in one basket. I have no doubt that if we did have a decent replacement then he would have been substituted a few times this year due to poor performances.