Kiwomya

[selby]

   I hope this lad at last has a change of luck, and can show us what he is capable of, hopefully here with us.
  He has been very unlucky with his health problems, must have shown something as a young player to be at Chelsea, and as he looked to be picking up at Chesterfield again became unfit.
   After a slow start at Chesterfield he started to score a couple of goals, and
 started them on a better run of form, looks to have bulked up a bit in the team photo's and at least deserves a chance to come good.
  Let's hope he is recovered, gets fit and flourishes, and is not added to the list of players this great club of ours has had that have had a promising  career blighted by illness or injury

[since-1969]

He’s on the transfer list ?

[Dare to dream!]

I agree and think he deserves another chance to impress the new manager.

[DonnyOsmond]

He’s on the transfer list ?

Doesn't mean he can't play and also him and Longbottom have been given the opportunity to prove themselves under the new manager.

[dickos1]

He’s on the transfer list ?

Put on there by a manager who isn’t here anymore so not really relevant

[Donny Exile in York]

Never impressed, too lightweight.. like a ballerina on the pitch..

[since-1969]

He’s on the transfer list ?

Put on there by a manager who isn’t here anymore so not really relevant

He was put on there by an astute man who realised that he wasn’t good enough ... and it would free money up for someone who could be .

[phil old leake]

I personally believe that longbottom could achieve something in football and a good spell out on loan could make him an asset

[DonnyOsmond]

I personally believe that longbottom could achieve something in football and a good spell out on loan could make him an asset

Injury prone.

[selby]

  A very astute manager, he got rid of him and a couple of others and signed Taylor as a joker.

[Move DRFC]

Kiwomya was exactly the type of player McCann likes. Hence why he was involved right at the start of last season. Fast, quick on the counter etc. And he still didn't rate him, I doubt he'll come good - I think we can do better.

[IDM]

Players do improve over the close season.

The classic example, although years ago, was Brian Deane..

[since-1969]

Players do improve over the close season.

The classic example, although years ago, was Brian Deane..

He was very young and not fully mature when he played for Rovers but was soon sold in when he showed any  form. There was a few like him   Mike Elwiss Paul Raven Ian Snodin and lots more that weren’t kept on to help build the club .

[IDM]

I use Deane as an example as in his first season he played like bambi on ice.  At the start of the next season he was stronger, fitter, faster and scored a good amount of goals before being sold..

Someone said Kiwomya has beefed up a bit.? That should help him - let’s see what the new manager decides.?

[NickDRFC]

Few like you’re comparing apples and oranges there. Deane was 20 when he left Rovers whereas Kiwomya is now 23 - not saying it doesn’t happen but the capacity to improve diminishes with every year. I’m all for giving a clean slate and an opportunity to impress, just can’t see him becoming a key part of the first team.

[IDM]

Not saying he will either, just that the new manager will decide if he is worth keeping on..

[DRNaith]

Happy to be corrected, but I think most of the team that Saunders built was made of players who had potential, but weren't performing near their peak. A lot of those upped their game.

[DonnyOsmond]

A lot of people forgot the illness he had. His time at Chesterfield was his first proper chance of first team football since that.

[drfchound]

I’m not sure that people did forget his illness to be fair.
Lots of us had great sympathy for him.
He just seemed frightened to get stuck in when there was a fifty fifty ball to compete for.

Don’t forget that Alfie May scored more goals last season than AK did.

[selby]

  The question is, has any of us seen him play when he has been fully fit? I don't think any of us have.
  He had an half decent game at Rotherham, setting up Marquis for his goal, looked Ok in the first match of the season at Southend, I think coming on as a substitute, has scored a couple when he has played, but has always been starting a season or coming back from injury, or unfortunately starting being ill, hardly the game time or the fitness to judge his true worth.

[Chris Black come back]

Thought he really didn’t do himself any favours at Southend. He is literally the anti-McCann in that pressing hard from front clearly not his game. Presumably why after that effort McCann shipped him out quick sharp.

[Retdon1]

He will have needed to have had an attitude readjustment over the summer if he is to have a career as a professional footballer

[Dare to dream!]

Where’s this attitude problem come from? I’ve seen nothing to suggest he has an attitude. Looks on the shy side if anything.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

From what we've seen of him Pre and post illness, there's doubts he's up to the job but, I'm sure the new man will give him a chance to impress in preseason at least.

[scawsby steve]

  The question is, has any of us seen him play when he has been fully fit? I don't think any of us have.
  He had an half decent game at Rotherham, setting up Marquis for his goal, looked Ok in the first match of the season at Southend, I think coming on as a substitute, has scored a couple when he has played, but has always been starting a season or coming back from injury, or unfortunately starting being ill, hardly the game time or the fitness to judge his true worth.

Come on Brian, get the memory cells working. He played us off the park at Crewe 3 seasons ago. That was probably why Fergie signed him.

[Colemans Left Hook]

for what its worth in that season early on he scored about 4 goals in say 9 games (then went "cold" )some from long distance  and i thought he might be a danger to Rovers main striker then Andy Williams who we all thought would end up top goalscorer.

[Draytonian III]

A good mate of mine is a Chesterfield season ticket holder and he watched him for a good part of last season ,and he came up opinion as me “ he’s nesh” . I think he likes being a professional footballer but doesn’t like playing football

[Retdon1]

Where’s this attitude problem come from? I’ve seen nothing to suggest he has an attitude. Looks on the shy side if anything.

He puts very little effort in, neshes out of most tackles and plays like he’s got little interests. U then see him on social media and it’s obvious he likes all the perks of being a professional footballer, unfortunately that will all end soon unless he pulls his finger out on the pitch

[Alan Southstand]

Reminds me of Watson (remember him?) - heart as big as a pea!

First few weeks of the season should sort him out, either way. He can be as fit as he wants, but he's got to improve massively in the mental strength department.

[roversdude]

Reminds me of Watson (remember him?) - heart as big as a pea!

First few weeks of the season should sort him out, either way. He can be as fit as he wants, but he's got to improve massively in the mental strength department.

Hard to forget him - wasn’t he touted as a million pound player, just before he disappeared without a trace. Agents pah