Hoop Blahbrendywendy because he was consistently not delivering as much as our other strikerslast week Hoop Blah Doyle had scored 1 goal in two and a half months
Kitson 4 in 2 months (including the brace in the 6-4 against Spurs)
Lita hadn't scored since August and was clearly on his way out
Long hadn't scored since October
Cox had consistently scored goals whilst out on loan and in the reserves. He still didn't get a sniff of getting in the first team squad.
I know it's passed now, and I agree he might not've developed as well if he'd stayed (part of the reason he decided to leave of course) but I do think he deserved more of a crack whilst he was here.
if you take the main comparison point, which would be the next worse striker-long
and compared their records for the reserves, id wager long outscored him by a fair bit
which was why he was 5th choice, and behind long