Never thought I would bracket him in the Parker/Defoe/Grant camp. Thought he was a better person than that. Don't have any sympathy either with him not being able to sleep. Ah, diddums.
What makes it even galling is he refers to his knee injury that he picked up whilst playing for Monserat. A injury that meant he missed half the season & one of the reasons why we are now in the bottom 3.
Any decent person would take this into account & say......"do you know what, the club let me go & play in a meaningless fixture & paid me all through the time I couldn't give them my services. Now its time for me to repay them that & to play to the end of my contracted period"
Taylor is a good League 1 player & a half decent Championship player. But look around at the top Championship / bottom Premier League strikers and he is not in that bracket.
don't think you can bracket Grant with Parker/Defoe/Taylor. I certainly can't remember Karlan refusing to play for us.
O-Randy-Hunt said:I see people also saying if it was a normal season being played out, would he stop playing with a few games to go because he is scared to get injured and tbh yes I think he would come out with the same excuse.
Did he down tools at AFC Wimbledon before his move to Charlton or anywhere else in his career ?
Yes he did, refused to play the last three games of the season for them.
As far as I'm aware he played the last three games of the season at Wimbledon.
Indeed, in his final game for them he was stretchered off in the 32nd minute and replaced by Joe Pigott!
O-Randy-Hunt said:I see people also saying if it was a normal season being played out, would he stop playing with a few games to go because he is scared to get injured and tbh yes I think he would come out with the same excuse.
Did he down tools at AFC Wimbledon before his move to Charlton or anywhere else in his career ?
Yes he did, refused to play the last three games of the season for them.
That is patently NOT true. He played in all the last three games for Wimbledon that season. Why post something like that that is so easy to check and disprove?
He can strongly do one for that interview. 'I don't expect any sympathy' and then goes on to to outline exactly why he deserves sympathy and how difficult a decision it's been to refuse to do his job for a couple of weeks before getting millions of quid, knowing full well he could see out a couple of games with us and still get his cash. That's his choice, I get it, but don't pop up now trying to give your side of it saying you've been up to 5am worrying. Be a dick, take the commentary that goes with it and piss off. I'd actually respect him a lot more if he shrugged his shoulders and pointed at the bag of money he's getting. If his long term knee injury was so devastating as to make him concerned that one more knock could end his career, maybe it's so bad he won't pass a medical. That would be interesting.
Could you imagine how funny it would be if he failed his medical!
I would potentially never stop laughing. Though the irony is that would make him right about how risky playing on his knee is
Did it no good with us. I imagine there's value in him getting his woe is me side out to the wider public seeing as this has had such broad coverage. Just another two fingers up to us really
No wonder him and Southall clashed, both so arrogant as to think all their actions are justified, but instead just self centred, greedy businessmen essentially. I can see the text from Southall now to Lyle "welcome to my world mate, lol", which will be an even bigger kick in the teeth for him. To become the person you despise, ouch.
Hopefully they're now pissed off enough to prove a point - Dont think the 50% cut is a bad thing to be honest, although how had a 50% increase when we got promoted?
If there arent many then actually getting us in the Championship has hurt the players more financially as a result as they'll be on less in League One than what they were on last time
Grant played against Peterborough the weekend before moving. If I remember rightly he missed training on the Friday to agree terms but Bowyer asked him to play as Taylor was suspended
Grant played against Peterborough the weekend before moving. If I remember rightly he missed training on the Friday to agree terms but Bowyer asked him to play as Taylor was suspended
Were they practicing penalties at the Friday training session by any chance?
Never thought I would bracket him in the Parker/Defoe/Grant camp. Thought he was a better person than that. Don't have any sympathy either with him not being able to sleep. Ah, diddums.
What makes it even galling is he refers to his knee injury that he picked up whilst playing for Monserat. A injury that meant he missed half the season & one of the reasons why we are now in the bottom 3.
Any decent person would take this into account & say......"do you know what, the club let me go & play in a meaningless fixture & paid me all through the time I couldn't give them my services. Now its time for me to repay them that & to play to the end of my contracted period"
Taylor is a good League 1 player & a half decent Championship player. But look around at the top Championship / bottom Premier League strikers and he is not in that bracket.
don't think you can bracket Grant with Parker/Defoe/Taylor. I certainly can't remember Karlan refusing to play for us.
Do you not remember the penalty in his last game for us, could he be bothered to score?
Out of interest all you proper Charlton Fans with integrity, what do you think the hard done by Lyle Taylor gets paid every week at the Valley ??
I would say in the region of 7K.
Yes I would agree £6000 to £7000 👍👍👍 and he going to get £25K really?
Yet still people do not accept why Taylor has taken the stance he has.
After what Taylor has now said about the reason he will not honour his contract with us and show character and integrity etc etc, if I was the manger or chairman of any intetested Club I would think again ......as this man could have an injury phobia or just be potential trouble !
Selfish cnut and a coward. You leave a club in the position its in that no other club can touch with the crap were dealing with and you just walk away! Money grabbing, no integrity, no respect and no honour... How dare you kiss our badge and say all the right things and then do this... You're no better than Southall. Forgive?? Never... Forget?? Never.
Is it fair to say that he's off your Christmas card list?
The first time I met Taylor I thought he was a nice bloke. but the first time I saw Southall and heard his first interview I thought he was a dishonest rat conman!!
Selfish cnut and a coward. You leave a club in the position its in that no other club can touch with the crap were dealing with and you just walk away! Money grabbing, no integrity, no respect and no honour... How dare you kiss our badge and say all the right things and then do this... You're no better than Southall. Forgive?? Never... Forget?? Never.
Is it fair to say that he's off your Christmas card list?
The first time I met Taylor I thought he was a nice bloke. but the first time I saw Southall and heard his first interview I thought he was a dishonest rat conman!!
I don’t know how many Charlton fans are serious business people and I dont how many Charlton fans are seriously street wise. but as always there seems to be a lot of knee Jerk negativity on this forum to quickly ?
i think we should give ESI and HE a chance to show their true hand or worth, till at least the end of this month. Lee Bowyer must have his new contract in place by then, or there will be serious concern.
Has Roland Rat actually been paid any money at all as yet for anything?
Selfish cnut and a coward. You leave a club in the position its in that no other club can touch with the crap were dealing with and you just walk away! Money grabbing, no integrity, no respect and no honour... How dare you kiss our badge and say all the right things and then do this... You're no better than Southall. Forgive?? Never... Forget?? Never.
Is it fair to say that he's off your Christmas card list?
The first time I met Taylor I thought he was a nice bloke. but the first time I saw Southall and heard his first interview I thought he was a dishonest rat conman!!
Sure you did.
It amazes me how many people apparently knew Southall was dishonest from the start lol.
I mean even this 1968cafc says he knew he was a dishonest rat conman from his first interview, yet 1st February he said he was doing a good job
Can we not just be honest and admit we fell for the bullshit MS fed us
If we were mid table with nothing to play for it wouldn't have been so bad. But seeing as we are in a relegation battle he really is an arsehole. Just a thought if we were already safe could we be accused of not playing our best side?
If we were mid table with nothing to play for it wouldn't have been so bad. But seeing as we are in a relegation battle he really is an arsehole. Just a thought if we were already safe could we be accused of not playing our best side?
If we was safe in table...and we had youth players who might be up for some experience.
All the best players would rugby tackle bowyer to the floor shouting in his face...
"Don't play us for the rest of this season! I don't care about the fact that we get paid...we might get an injured!"
Obviously. It's the norm and it's only fair.
Actually, wait. They still might do that even if we was in the relegation zone. I'm confused..
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That is patently NOT true. He played in all the last three games for Wimbledon that season. Why post something like that that is so easy to check and disprove?
And then he goes and does possibly the most unprofessional thing a footballer can do....
If there arent many then actually getting us in the Championship has hurt the players more financially as a result as they'll be on less in League One than what they were on last time
will not honour his contract with us and show character and integrity etc etc, if I was the manger or chairman of any intetested Club I would think again ......as this man could have an injury phobia
or just be potential trouble !
but the first time I saw Southall and heard his first interview I thought he was a dishonest rat conman!!
I mean even this 1968cafc says he knew he was a dishonest rat conman from his first interview, yet 1st February he said he was doing a good job
Can we not just be honest and admit we fell for the bullshit MS fed us
I don't understand like Paulie says why we cannot just admit when we've been wrong?
If we was safe in table...and we had youth players who might be up for some experience.
All the best players would rugby tackle bowyer to the floor shouting in his face...
"Don't play us for the rest of this season! I don't care about the fact that we get paid...we might get an injured!"
Obviously. It's the norm and it's only fair.
Actually, wait. They still might do that even if we was in the relegation zone. I'm confused..
Unless its Varney taking over then I'll still have a lot of doubt about whoever comes in