Dave Kitson Tribute Thread

[Huntley & Palmer]

We can open this up if it actually happens

Slightly over-officious moderation IMO - wanted to say so at the time but couldn't as the thread had been locked!

Afterall, what is wrong with having a tribute thread to a player who is still with us but might be transferred!

Shouldn't you be out moaning about RFC somewhere?

[SteveRoyal]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 516186.stm

"If I get the service then I can score goals," Kitson told BBC Radio Stoke.

"If the manager can get the players he is talking about bringing in then it will be fantastic. We have to use being an unknown quantity to our advantage."

That's Kitson's little dig at our failure to supply forwards last season.
And I agree with him. Our service last year was horrific.
Mostly because Little was injured, Oster was an arse and Hunt was blinded by his tramp hair. No disrespect, though.

[sawyers left arm]

How can you pay tribute to another greedy footballer?
This was the man who slagged Sidwell off for leaving for the money.
The man who said that the abuse he suffered at STOKE two seasons ago was bordering on racism.

Very odd that he has now joined them. They will swap places with us next season and where will Mr Greedy be then?

[Rawlie19]

How can you pay tribute to another greedy footballer?
This was the man who slagged Sidwell off for leaving for the money.
The man who said that the abuse he suffered at STOKE two seasons ago was bordering on racism.

Very odd that he has now joined them. They will swap places with us next season and where will Mr Greedy be then?

Still at Villa.

[RoyalBlue]

We can open this up if it actually happens

Slightly over-officious moderation IMO - wanted to say so at the time but couldn't as the thread had been locked!

Afterall, what is wrong with having a tribute thread to a player who is still with us but might be transferred!

Shouldn't you be out moaning about RFC somewhere?

IMO an example of the new breed of moderator struggling to distance their personal views and opinions from the role.

[Gordons Cumming]

Dave Kitson said:-

“I think, if you say you want to play Premier League football, and then go to a team and sit on their bench, that is hugely disrespectful. I want to play 38 games and I can do that here at Stoke.”

Sidwell?

[Top Flight]

Kitson won't get 38 games at Stoke because he is very prone to injury and will certainly pull his hamstring or tear his knee ligaments and miss half the season.

[LoyalRoyal22]

Fair play to Kitson, we got a good price for him, and hes been a really good player for us. Good luck to him

[Man Friday]

This was the man who slagged Sidwell off for leaving for the money.

Sidwell's situation is entirely different as he left to sit on the bench - his own bench in his back garden. Kitson will play for his salary. And good luck to him. Who wouldn't want to play for a PL team rather than a Chumpionship team? Who wouldn't want to be paid more, rather than less, money? Get real.

[Tommy Youlden's Ears]

I'm not sure whether the Kitson interview in this month's 442 mag has been mentioned anywhere, but I think it's a very good summary of what he's about. Given the "Park Legend Award" he is articulate and interesting as ever. He knows where he came from, knows what he is, and has a pretty level head (at least in football terms). His point on the comparative quality of various leagues is illuminating. Talking of when he first came to Cambridge he says it quickly became clear to him that the step up from non-league wasn't a biggy;

"The difference in quality between the players in League One, League Two, the Conference and maybe a league or two below is paper thin. It wasn't until the opening day of last season that I realised how good a footballer can actually be. We were playing Manchester United at Old Trafford and Paul Scholes was pinging the ball about as if it were an extension of his own body. Until that point, no player or side had fazed or amazed me".

Why wouldn't he want to stay in an environment where he is up against that type of player. I loved watching Kitson play. Seems to me he understood what we wanted to see. That he has a pretty pure love of the game. Not the bull and the hype and the rewards, but the game. I can see why he wants a bit more of that.

Lots of people here have banged on about Kitson's dodgy injury record, and I guess he knows it too. If he waited for RFC to get back to the Prem, it may be years, it may never happen, and it certainly may be too long for his knees.

I don't begrudge him the move. Yes he can talk some utter nonsense, but his nonsense was always more interesting than the Shearer-style drivel we hear so often. I'll just miss the touches of class, and the knowledge that my club had an interesting bloke who (drink driving apart) we could be proud of off the pitch too. He always felt like Our Dave.

In 442 again, talking about the English;

"...we drink beer, we get pi$$ed, we get aggressive, and that manifests itself on the terraces. We want to shout 'Kitson you ginger C*** on a Saturday'"

442 says Park Legend. I say Reading Legend.

[H-Town Royal]

so long.

[kwik-silva]

Kitson won't get 38 games at Stoke because he is very prone to injury and will certainly pull his hamstring or tear his knee ligaments and miss half the season.

Yes, but I think he would play if he was fit. Which is all you can ask for as a player

Fair play to Kitson, we got a good price for him, and hes been a really good player for us. Good luck to him

Yep We got a profit of (potentially) £5.25m, which I think isn't bad right? Especially for a (relatively) small championship club

[Sarah Star]

I'm not sure whether the Kitson interview in this month's 442 mag has been mentioned anywhere, but I think it's a very good summary of what he's about. Given the "Park Legend Award" he is articulate and interesting as ever. He knows where he came from, knows what he is, and has a pretty level head (at least in football terms). His point on the comparative quality of various leagues is illuminating. Talking of when he first came to Cambridge he says it quickly became clear to him that the step up from non-league wasn't a biggy;

"The difference in quality between the players in League One, League Two, the Conference and maybe a league or two below is paper thin. It wasn't until the opening day of last season that I realised how good a footballer can actually be. We were playing Manchester United at Old Trafford and Paul Scholes was pinging the ball about as if it were an extension of his own body. Until that point, no player or side had fazed or amazed me".

Why wouldn't he want to stay in an environment where he is up against that type of player. I loved watching Kitson play. Seems to me he understood what we wanted to see. That he has a pretty pure love of the game. Not the bull and the hype and the rewards, but the game. I can see why he wants a bit more of that.

Lots of people here have banged on about Kitson's dodgy injury record, and I guess he knows it too. If he waited for RFC to get back to the Prem, it may be years, it may never happen, and it certainly may be too long for his knees.

I don't begrudge him the move. Yes he can talk some utter nonsense, but his nonsense was always more interesting than the Shearer-style drivel we hear so often. I'll just miss the touches of class, and the knowledge that my club had an interesting bloke who (drink driving apart) we could be proud of off the pitch too. He always felt like Our Dave.

In 442 again, talking about the English;

"...we drink beer, we get pi$$ed, we get aggressive, and that manifests itself on the terraces. We want to shout 'Kitson you ginger C*** on a Saturday'"

442 says Park Legend. I say Reading Legend.

Hear, hear! Very eloquently put.

[floyd__streete]

"...we drink beer, we get pi$$ed, we get aggressive, and that manifests itself on the terraces. We want to shout 'Kitson you ginger C*** on a Saturday'"[/i]

Drinking beer, getting pissed, getting aggressive and shouting Kitson you ginger c**** >>>>> breaking the law of the land by refusing to give a sample of breath when required to do so.

Goodbye Dave; I will miss your sanctimonious clap-trap just as much as I will miss your constant injury break-downs.

[Royalee]

"...we drink beer, we get pi$$ed, we get aggressive, and that manifests itself on the terraces. We want to shout 'Kitson you ginger C*** on a Saturday'"[/i]

Drinking beer, getting pissed, getting aggressive and shouting Kitson you ginger c**** >>>>> breaking the law of the land by refusing to give a sample of breath when required to do so.

Goodbye Dave; I will miss your sanctimonious clap-trap just as much as I will miss your constant injury break-downs.

I would be inclined to agree with you if I didn't know our policing system to be an absolute liability and to prefer to cost me 30 minutes' travelling to away games through trying to rob me on the motorway as opposed to tackling real criminals.

The police have a tendancy to probe and look for convenient arrests which can make their statistics look good, such as winding up people so that they react as opposed to actually putting themselves out and catching real criminals. This may well be a reason for the decline in our society and the increase in knife crime where the numbers arrested for seemingly petty offences (please note I don't see drink driving as one of these, but Kitson refused to give a sample as opposed to being caught red-handed so to speak) are rapidly rising.

[Ian Royal]

Good bye and good luck to the best striker we have ever had.

Show em all what you're made of Kits.

Even if he only plays half a season I'd expect close to 10 goals from him if not more. Top, top player, and bar the utter stupidity of the drink driving, always seemed a really really top bloke.

[Arch]

Even if he only plays half a season I'd expect close to 10 goals from him if not more.

So, all of Stoke's goals for that half a season then?

[yuomi]

despite the crap that came out of his mouth, some of what came from his feet was dazzling. farewell my flame-haired friend. may your away kit be kinder to you folical colouration than your home kit is. may no journalist approach you with further inquests regarding the importance of the fa cup in the modern game. and may all your drives home be sober.

[Sharpy]

yet again loyalty goes astray...money grabbing bastard

[Sharpy]

£5,500,000 big ones....use it wisely now john...what car havent you got?