Kevin Doyle

**yapster** · 05/01/2010, 1:45 AM

Doyle lacks pace and sadly I don't think he is going to improve as a player. If Wolves go down this season it is the end of Doyle's career. He should have gone to Chelsea a couple of years ago,he may or may not have got a lot of games but he would have got expert coaching and experience.He hasn't improved his game in the last few years and he looks like just another typical honest grafting Championship striker,and also like McGeady & McCarthy he was hyped up by Irish supporters too much

**jbyrne** · 05/01/2010, 7:47 AM

Originally Posted by yapster

Doyle lacks pace and sadly I don't think he is going to improve as a player. If Wolves go down this season it is the end of Doyle's career. He should have gone to Chelsea a couple of years ago,he may or may not have got a lot of games but he would have got expert coaching and experience.He hasn't improved his game in the last few years and he looks like just another typical honest grafting Championship striker,and also like McGeady & McCarthy he was hyped up by Irish supporters too much

32 posts and already you have written off keane, mc geady, mc carthy and doyle. unreal

Originally Posted by yapster

Just telling you how it is son... I do sincerly hope Garvan makes it as a player and the other young hopefuls but it doessn't look good tbh. Most Irish players now are only Championship material at best.

it gets better!

**tiktok** · 05/01/2010, 8:49 AM

Originally Posted by yapster

He hasn't improved his game in the last few years and he looks like just another typical honest grafting Championship striker,and also like McGeady & McCarthy he was hyped up by Irish supporters too much

Kevin Doyle has improved each year that he's been playing football.
He's clearly premiership standard, which for the record doesn't mean I think he's Torres, Rooney or Drogba, but he easily holds his own at that level and in my opinion is one of the brighter young prospects there.

I'd agree that Wolves was probably the wrong move for him, he should have plumped for Fulham instead.

**yapster** · 05/01/2010, 1:38 PM

Originally Posted by jbyrne

32 posts and already you have written off keane, mc geady, mc carthy and doyle. unreal

it gets better!

Listen you may be a Leprachaun wearing ole oler pollyanna and thats ok too I suppose but I tend to see things as they are. Listen son Ireland are not going to be in SA due to the failure of our players not taking easy chances and also schoolboy errors which cost us automatic qualification. If Ireland didn;t have Trap at the helm and also Bulgaria were crap this Irish side would have got nowhere near the play-offs.

**yapster** · 05/01/2010, 1:43 PM

Originally Posted by tiktok

Kevin Doyle has improved each year that he's been playing football.
He's clearly premiership standard, which for the record doesn't mean I think he's Torres, Rooney or Drogba, but he easily holds his own at that level and in my opinion is one of the brighter young prospects there.

I'd agree that Wolves was probably the wrong move for him, he should have plumped for Fulham instead.

His decision to go to Wolves was surprising, Doyle is 28 now I think so he is hardly a young prospect anymore. I hope he has a good second half of the season so hopefully a bigger club will come in for him.

**jbyrne** · 05/01/2010, 1:50 PM

Originally Posted by yapster

Listen you may be a Leprachaun wearing ole oler pollyanna and thats ok too I suppose but I tend to see things as they are. Listen son Ireland are not going to be in SA due to the failure of our players not taking easy chances and also schoolboy errors which cost us automatic qualification. If Ireland didn;t have Trap at the helm and also Bulgaria were crap this Irish side would have got nowhere near the play-offs.

you are obviously from the glass being half empty brigade of misery and
i'm not your "son" thanks

**Park_Lane** · 05/01/2010, 1:51 PM

Originally Posted by yapster

His decision to go to Wolves was surprising, Doyle is 28 now I think so he is hardly a young prospect anymore. I hope he has a good second half of the season so hopefully a bigger club will come in for him.

He's actually 26. Born September 1983.

**tiktok** · 05/01/2010, 1:52 PM

Originally Posted by yapster

His decision to go to Wolves was surprising, Doyle is 28 now I think so he is hardly a young prospect anymore.

He's only turned 26 a few months back, which is still young enough.
He's playing with a team who don't create many chances [agree that Wolves was a strange choice] has had an injury spell, yet he's still scored on average about 1 in 3 this season.

He'll score double figures with a poor side this year, many higher rated players won't.

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**yapster** · 05/01/2010, 2:19 PM

Originally Posted by jbyrne

you are obviously from the glass being half empty brigade of misery and
i'm not your "son" thanks

Relax ffs

Well thats good that Doyle is only 26, I hope he does have a good season. I was hoping Everton or Villa might have come in for him last season as those two would be ideal for him at this stage of his career. He has potential but his pace is a worry at this level.

**carloz** · 05/01/2010, 2:34 PM

Originally Posted by yapster

Relax ffs

Well thats good that Doyle is only 26, I hope he does have a good season. I was hoping Everton or Villa might have come in for him last season as those two would be ideal for him at this stage of his career. He has potential but his pace is a worry at this level.

Pace is not the be all and end all of a striker. I have seen grannies that could run fasterthan Teddy Sheringham, and look what he acheived in his career. Alan Shearar was never the quickest. I smart footballing brain is a hell of a lot more important than speed. And on top of that Doyle is far from slow. He is good in the air and holding up the ball, and trust me, you will find very few who can do that and also be very quick.

**yapster** · 05/01/2010, 2:43 PM

Originally Posted by carloz

Pace is not the be all and end all of a striker. I have seen grannies that could run fasterthan Teddy Sheringham, and look what he acheived in his career. Alan Shearar was never the quickest. I smart footballing brain is a hell of a lot more important than speed. And on top of that Doyle is far from slow. He is good in the air and holding up the ball, and trust me, you will find very few who can do that and also be very quick.

True, but Sheringham & Shearer had great football brains. I would not put Doyle in their class.

**Ozymandias** · 05/01/2010, 2:56 PM

Stephen Hawking a great brain but not quick over ten yards.limited footballer

**carloz** · 05/01/2010, 3:41 PM

Originally Posted by Ozymandias

Stephen Hawking a great brain but not quick over ten yards.limited footballer

Well thats quite unfair. I think he has much talent on the pitch

**yapster** · 05/01/2010, 3:43 PM

Originally Posted by Ozymandias

Stephen Hawking a great brain but not quick over ten yards.limited footballer

Quicker than Doyle & Leon Best

**tiktok** · 05/01/2010, 3:43 PM

Originally Posted by Ozymandias

Stephen Hawking a great brain but not quick over ten yards.limited footballer

He's also a terrible tennis player.
I played him last year and won in straight sets 7-6, 6-4, 6-4.

**tiktok** · 05/01/2010, 3:45 PM

Originally Posted by yapster

Quicker than Doyle & Leon Best

Tonight on TV3 we answer the age old question:
Wheelchair -v- Three-legged race, who's faster?

**Stuttgart88** · 05/01/2010, 3:52 PM

Originally Posted by yapster

Relax ffs

I think you should relax and tone down your approach to respected and reasoned posters on this site. It may be ok for you to just come on and get shirty on the other sites you go onto but it's not the way we do it around here. Just because someone isn't full of dreary negativity it doesn't make him a leprechaun hat wearing ole ole-er.