Dave Kitson.......Regrets, I've had a few.....

[Negative_Jeff]

Wrong thread this but we need a change and Kitson can help bring this about. Ipswich and Donny are must win games;

Hahnemann

Bikey Pearce Armstrong


Little Gunnarsson Matejovsky S Hunt


Kitson

Doyle Long

I hope neither Ipswich or Donny have any left sided attackers. We'd be destroyed ! The risk of essentially playing 3-2-5 seems massive and it's hard to see how such a system could be introduced at this stage of the season.

Not hard if you use your loaf. If we are defending and Gunnarsson gets called he drops into a back four and Bikey or Armstrong move outside. Doyle also drops and Kitson resumes his old role defending the near post at set pieces.
So its not 3-2-5 but it`s fluid and I reckon it will mess up the Ipswich 4-5-1. I know the Ipswich scout and I predict (not hard to do) that is the way they will play.

[Ian Royal]

He's burnt no bridges with anyone. Of course he rates himself highly.

[sheshnu]

Not hard if you use your loaf. If we are defending and Gunnarsson gets called he drops into a back four and Bikey or Armstrong move outside. Doyle also drops and Kitson resumes his old role defending the near post at set pieces.
So its not 3-2-5 but it`s fluid and I reckon it will mess up the Ipswich 4-5-1. I know the Ipswich scout and I predict (not hard to do) that is the way they will play.

Too much Football Manager I think. You can bang on about your clever formations as much as you want, we all know Coppell likes his 4-4-2 so that is what we're likely to see tomorrow. Hopefully Good Ol' Kits can have some sort of impact in this game, like he has so many times in Reading's recent glorious past.

[Barry the bird boggler]

Hope he can regain the form the OS has him down for, apparently Kits once got 54 goals in 11 games - a ratio of almost 5 goals a game!

[loyalroyal4life]

Hope he can regain the form the OS has him down for, apparently Kits once got 54 goals in 11 games - a ratio of almost 5 goals a game!

Really? If he did that over the course of the rest of the games, promotion beckons!!

[Sun Tzu]

Not hard if you use your loaf. If we are defending and Gunnarsson gets called he drops into a back four and Bikey or Armstrong move outside. Doyle also drops and Kitson resumes his old role defending the near post at set pieces.
So its not 3-2-5 but it`s fluid and I reckon it will mess up the Ipswich 4-5-1. I know the Ipswich scout and I predict (not hard to do) that is the way they will play.

I'm utterly unconvinced that trying to implement a totally new system which involves multiple changes in responsibilities during the course of a game, with all the opportunity for miscommunication, mistakes and mistiming that presents, is a good idea. Throw into the mix 2 new players and I just see this as a chance to get ripped to shreds if the opposition use a formation they are familiar with. Why not keep it simpel and play a standard 4-4-2 as we are used to but detail either Doyle or Kitson to drop back into a more withdrawn role when we aren't in possession and pick up the spare man in midfield ?

[RoyalBlue]

His PR man must be max clifford.

He could do with shutting his gob and showing the club that signed him for so much money a bit of respect.

Just do the talking on the pitch, Dave.

If his PR Man was Max Clifford, I very much doubt his interview would have been quite as frank. I also think he would have expressed a bit more concern and guilt that Stoke spent 5.5M on him and it didn't work out.

[JIM]

OK. Dave stays .How much will it cost us to buy him at the end of season.
example. Royals promoted. Dave scores a ton.

[Gordons Cumming]

Dave scores a ton.

How much?

[cmonurz]

100 goals. Kitson is going to score 100 goals.

[rhroyal]

Glad to have Kitson back. One worry though. Kitson drops deep and helps out midfield. Doyle works the flanks. Who's in the box? It was a constant issue last season.

[Bill Oddie's Beard]

One worry though. Kitson drops deep and helps out midfield. Doyle works the flanks. Who's in the box?

[Smoking Kills Dancing Doe]

Surprised to hear people talking about him being suited to 451 and being a target man.

He plays 2nd striker, I actually think if he played further up he would be a better player.

[Rawlie19]

Looks like he's already doing his part to help us out by making sure Bikey gets picked instead of Doobs!

[West Stand Man]

Surprised to hear people talking about him being suited to 451 and being a target man.

He plays 2nd striker, I actually think if he played further up he would be a better player.

Absolutely right. One thing he is not is a target man, that was he mistake Stoke seemed to make when they bought him. He is a talented footballer who is fairly tall and plays up front, but a target man he isn't. If he was he would not cover half the amount of grass that he does in a game.

[SteveRoyal]

Looks like he's already doing his part to help us out by making sure Bikey gets picked instead of Doobs!

Welcome back, Dave.

[AthleticoSpizz]

Yep

put the horse hair shirt away Dave


All appologies/explainations accepted!

Welcome back, and thanks for what's to come!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[The whole year inn]

Looks like he's already doing his part to help us out by making sure Bikey gets picked instead of Doobs!

Why is Eric the eel training with RFC?

[Snowball]

Hope he can regain the form the OS has him down for, apparently Kits once got 54 goals in 11 games - a ratio of almost 5 goals a game!

Really? If he did that over the course of the rest of the games, promotion beckons!!

Bad news, all 54 goals were in the 11th game,

[Ian Royal]

He's a Sheringhamesque player, which should only help Marek bring more attacking threat through our centre. And he's tall so our wingers have something to aim for. The return of the three pronged threat is nigh!