Kitson signs for Stoke for £5.5 million

[Platypuss]

I didn't realise I had to spell things out in short sentences and words of one syllable.

When your argument is that incoherent it might well be a good idea.

[Big Ern]

He would have played regularly here. He'll play regularly there. SO he goes for the more money and a higher level.

So exactly what I said then

[Muskrat]

Just listened to Kitson's radio interview on which the BBC article is based (uploaded onto the same page). Strewth, I've never heard someone sound so underwhelmed about signing for a PL Club...

[kwik-silva]

Just listened to Kitson's radio interview on which the BBC article is based (uploaded onto the same page). Strewth, I've never heard someone sound so underwhelmed about signing for a PL Club...

well he'll only be there for a season. (then stoke'll go down and he'll sign for us again, when we go back up )

[Ian Royal]

I didn't realise I had to spell things out in short sentences and words of one syllable.

When your argument is that incoherent it might well be a good idea.

nothing incoherant about my arguement.

It's perfectly coherant and rational. YOu might not like it or agree with it. That is something else entirely.

Kitson, IMO wouldn't have gone to a mid -top Prem team, regardless of wages, because he wants to be playing regularly.

However he went to Stoke, because he would, in this order: a) play regularly, b) play regularly at a higher level, c) earn more money, d) give himself a better chance of playing regularly at an even higher level on even better wages.

Please explain what's incoherant about that so I can be as wonderful as you one day Mr Pus?

If that is not different to what you were saying Ern, then I seem to have misunderstood.

[floyd__streete]

Please explain what's incoherant about that so I can be as wonderful as you one day Mr Pus?

You're not even coherent enough to spell incoherent properly.

[Ian Royal]

Please explain what's incoherant about that so I can be as wonderful as you one day Mr Pus?

You're not even coherent enough to spell incoherent properly.

Oh well, if mis-spelling a word is the worst I've managed I must be rabidly incoherent.

[Man Friday]

We''ll going to miss his defending - both from attacking positions and from defending corners. Who's going to head the corners away now? He was always getting his head on to opposing corners (and winning headers every time from USA's punts upfield). The more I think about it the more I think we're going to miss Kits. I think he'll miss us to, though. Arrrrr, sad isn't it?

[papereyes]

Please explain what's incoherant about that so I can be as wonderful as you one day Mr Pus?

You're not even coherent enough to spell incoherent properly.

Incoherant is quite a good 'new word' for these boards, to be fair.

[KC Royal]

Maybe Dirk has the inside track on things that have happened behind the scenes to come to the conclusion that we lost Kitson in January, but Coppell seemed to be pretty happy with him for the last 4 months of the season so I don't know how much weight there is to that.

There was a discussion about Kitson on the speculation thread and Dirk alluded to the fact that he knew about stuff thats happened behind the scenes when he told willz royal he'd sent him a private pm about Kitson not to be posted on a public forum. But i take your point, apart from a few games in the latter part of the season Kitson was rarely out of the side from January onwards.

Im not really expecting us to spend the money on a striker. Right wing is the priority imo, and anyway wasn't Coppell trying to reduce the size of the squad?

Last season was the first season in three years when we actually had 4 strikers available. We'd coped fine with 3 strikers before then so I don't see why things should be any different this time round. We've also got Church as extra cover, and if things got really desperate we could get someone in on loan, or if Hunt stays he could play up front.

Your own argument suggests we always have one striker injured, so by having just 3 that will leave us with just 2 when one gets injured.

Such a pity we sold Simon Cox for a pittance.

Completely agree with the point about Cox, this could have been his breakthrough season. In the long-term a new striker is a must as i can't see Lita still being around this time next year.

[The whole year inn]

I wonder how Kitson will get on with Charisteas.

[Man Friday]

is that coherent Charisteas?

[Uke]

Kitson starts on the pitch

Charisteas starts at home

[Mr Optimist]

Just now while looking for something at home I found an old newspaper cutting from the Bedfordshire on Sunday newspaper from pre-season 2006 which an old work colleague who lives in Bedford gave me.

It is a full pager about Dave and how his career started etc and also how he became a striker. Reading it again this morning helped me put Dave's move, and how he would have viewed it in to some perspective.

As well as the financial benefits to joining a Prem League club, even Joke City will be a Prem League club for at least a season, there are two other glaring things that may have crossed his mind.

It is a short career - and even shorter for Dave as he was a later starter professionally. Fell out of the game completely in his late teens before joining Arlesey Town at 20. He may well feel that he has lost 3 or 4 years of his professional career and some pressure to not give it a season to see if RFC go straight back...

How he came to play up front in the first place - following a freak injury to Arlesey striker Greg Pike in a pre-season friendly at Stevenage Borough; he was at the time a defender and a sub in that game brought on as an emergency striker, and the rest as they say is history....!! Dave described it in this article as "I was an unused sub on the bench when right in front of us our striker Greg Pike broke his leg in an horrific challenge that I still remember to this day. I don't think he ever played again."

This being added to his own personal "Chris Riggott" experience and you can understand how, as much as he genuinely likes our club and could have seen himself here until the end of his career, goes some way to how the fragile nature of a footballer's career is bound to have had a bearing for him.

In the article he is also quoted as saying "Alfred Hitchcock once said, you build a film around three things - a beginning, a middle, and an end, and my life's the same. That (coming on as a sub up front at Stevenage) was definitely the beginning.

He will remain one of my all time favourite players to wear the hoops and wish him all the best and hope the end part of his footballing life may be back with us in some capacity in the future. Best of luck Dave!

[The whole year inn]

He'll be back

[Row Z Royal]

Kitson starts on the pitch

Charisteas starts at home

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!