WHITNEY OUT!
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What are your favourite memories from JW’s time in charge?
Five years ago yesterday Ken Dodd died. Mentioning the one event always leads me to thinking about the other.
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Beating Sheffield United 4-1. Chris wilder was meant to be a tactical genius and Whitney totally out foxed him. Think Whitney’s man management was his his failing. Don’t think the players were prepared to work as hard as Whitney wanted the team to play.
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Winning 5-0 at Fail.
All went downhill from there.
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In the end, his dismissal 
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It’s hardly gone well since he left though chunk
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Although he wasn’t technically manager at the time, Shrewsbury away after Smith left felt like a special night.
Chesterfield away was a good one.
Port Vale away, probably the most depressing 5-0 win ever. Beating Vale 5-0 and coming out the ground feeling deflated was a strange one.
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Great physio, terrible manager.
Sums it up.
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I know mate, and i have said it many times, i am in agreement with @funk_hits_the_fan , what has been ever present over the last 5 years? what is the common denominator? you can’t tell me that ALL the managers that we have had in that time have been useless
We don’t need to keep changing the captain, we need to change the ship 
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With Joe Edwards as left wing back, terrorising them? The following week we beat The Gas, 3-1 iirc, and I was thinking that could be the start of something good, but we soon went back to being terrible again.
I suppose as far as individual moments were concerned, Oztumer supplied many/most of the better ones, plus McCarthy was excellent for a season.
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Wouldnt have have gone down if he’d stayed IMO.
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Point I was hinting at on the old players thread. Should’ve stuck it out and not got Keats in, wouldn’t have been pretty but I think we’d have scraped in.
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He had to go - lost the fans and the players. We were only going in one direction, and it wasn’t up.
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Can’t quite remember what it was that upset you about him. Was it: “He looked at the crowd in a funny way” or something about the tense/pronouns he was using?
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He never really had the fans.
I’m not sure many managers would have come in and succeeded after Smith’s team was dismantled. It was a tough ask, and he took some of the blame for our best players leaving but it was always going to be the case if we didn’t go up.
I don’t agree with the way some of our fans treated him, I can only think of Barnwell that comes close to the amount of abuse Whitney got. Oztumer dug him out of a lot of holes though. Still miss Oztumer, always a chance of something special happening when he was on the pitch.
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I think it was the terrible football and alienation of fans and players that did the trick.
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Should never have been manager
Should have been our head physio for a long long time
Master of keeping players fit and a great loyal servant to the club
Can never dislike the bloke and would have him back in his proper role on a heartbeat
How much fitter and how fewer injuries would we have had if he’d have stayed?
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Every pre match, wondering why our actual manager was out warming the players up 
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Simple Dan, cut backs …
Doubt very much whether he would of trusted anyone else to of done it better than him anyway.
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