How to replace Doyle?

It been something like a week since Kevin Doyle’s departed and the confusion hasn’t yet disappeared.

Why Wolves? I simply don’t get it. Someone of his talents deserves better - well at least Fulham I suppose.

Nevertheless, he has walked away from Berkshire for a season trying to save his new club from a relegation battle as we attempt to get back to the topflight.

Kudos to Doyle, thank you for the memories and there are plenty. And to be fair I will miss him dearly, he has constantly been one of my favourite players in our recent era.

The way he plays and the effort he puts in every time is a delight and unfortunately for us loyal royals, Wolves will get to experience all that first hand, as we ponder who will fill his boots.

Now whoever comes in will have huge task wearing that Number 9 shirt and I presume the new management team are looking intently for a suitable and adequate replacement.

We still have some quality left at the club with Noel Hunt good for a goal and I, unlike many, believe Shane Long will come prolific sooner rather than later. We have another Irish youngster waiting in the wings - Dave Mooney – he performed well for Norwich City at the latter end of last season and he could be good for a goal or two.

However, we do need a fourth striker – we have always had four at the club and we’ll be foolish not to splash out on a decent young striker. Similar to what we did with Leroy Lita when we signed him from Bristol City.

Promotion season we had Dave Kitson, Leroy, Doyle and Long and three of them were untested at Championship level at the time, they took the league by surprise and that is something we need to do.

Look to the lower leagues and see who has been scoring. We could have had Simon Cox but we practically gave him away to local rivals Swind*n Town and his goal scoring record was stunning in a team that was close to relegation.

At least we made a reported £6million from Doyle and that money will be put to good use hopefully.