Lyle Taylor - August 2025 signed for Chelmsford City (p295)

swords_alive said:

Another dream recently. Me and Lyle were playing at Walsall but there were black bags of rubbish all over the pitch, some of them splitting open. Ref stopped play so the players could help clear them up so the game could go on. Lyle refused to help, so I had to do his share too. Then I woke up.

I thought players typically already had insurance to cover them in the case of their career being interrupted/ended through injury?

se9addick said:

swords_alive said:

Another dream recently. Me and Lyle were playing at Walsall but there were black bags of rubbish all over the pitch, some of them splitting open. Ref stopped play so the players could help clear them up so the game could go on. Lyle refused to help, so I had to do his share too. Then I woke up.

I thought players typically already had insurance to cover them in the case of their career being interrupted/ended through injury?

One would imagine that such cover is probably either a blanket Club policy with the stipulation that it is restricted to loss of earnings for the duration of that player's contract or taken out by an individual on a fixed term basis possibly with an age at point of entry restriction too i.e. not older than 26 and for 24 months only. That is, presumably, the reason Paul Elliot tried to sue Dean Saunders for career earnings. 

Fumbluff said:

swords_alive said:

Another dream recently. Me and Lyle were playing at Walsall but there were black bags of rubbish all over the pitch, some of them splitting open. Ref stopped play so the players could help clear them up so the game could go on. Lyle refused to help, so I had to do his share too. Then I woke up.

Strange, I had a dream recently where the whiny little prick was justifying not picking up your bin bags because Chris Solly didn’t either…

Sounds like Lyle had a point in your dream, especially since there was more jepordary at stake for him. It of course doesnt justify Lyle not helping with your bins but does beg the question why Chris gets a free ride. I mean we can ask why does Solly get a free ride but we all know Solly doesnt get the same heat and its because "he is one of our own"

fenaddick said:

Solly also hasn’t public ally spoken about it and isn’t bothered about a media career so it just comes up less often 

Loooool every time solly has an interview he mentions it and then says he will tell his story, more to thebstory etc but has yet to actually share anything

If you didn't know the story, you could watch that under the cash interview & actually feel sorry for him & see his point of view.....

But I think there's a lot of made up.stuff & truth bending there so fuck him!!!

Gravesend_Addick said:

If you didn't know the story, you could watch that under the cash interview & actually feel sorry for him & see his point of view.....

But I think there's a lot of made up.stuff & truth bending there so fuck him!!!

The host was hardly putting him under pressure either (I think at one point he says “I’m team Lyle”!).

He says in the clip 'are you going to pay it to me (the 10k insurance policy).

If we are honest with ourselves, there are some Charlton fans who would've raised the money 😅

For context: we are talking that a pre lockdown football Lyle Taylor was loved by the fans

se9addick said:

Gravesend_Addick said:

If you didn't know the story, you could watch that under the cash interview & actually feel sorry for him & see his point of view.....

But I think there's a lot of made up.stuff & truth bending there so fuck him!!!

The host was hardly putting him under pressure either (I think at one point he says “I’m team Lyle”!).

Parkin had the same attitude when Konch was talking about Spotty leaving on the same show. 

Radostanradical said:

Ollywozere said:

the solly comparison is ridiculous, he should of seen out the contract as much as i understand it, you have a signed contract and thats how it is, my club suffered tremendously as i believe had he played we would of stayed up by a few points. 

A reminder that Solly did offer to play the remaining games of his contract if needed, which is a key difference. 

I stand to be corrected but to the best of my knowledge that wasnt what was reported at the time and I have never seen Solly publicly state that regardless of the multiple opportunities offered to him. If he has will humbly remove my comments.

Best remove your comments then, as Olly 100% would know more about the situation than you. 

stoneroses19 said:

Radostanradical said:

Ollywozere said:

the solly comparison is ridiculous, he should of seen out the contract as much as i understand it, you have a signed contract and thats how it is, my club suffered tremendously as i believe had he played we would of stayed up by a few points. 

A reminder that Solly did offer to play the remaining games of his contract if needed, which is a key difference. 

I stand to be corrected but to the best of my knowledge that wasnt what was reported at the time and I have never seen Solly publicly state that regardless of the multiple opportunities offered to him. If he has will humbly remove my comments.

Best remove your comments then, as Olly 100% would know more about the situation than you. 

Ok as said if someone shows evidence of solly saying this or even saying he said it then ill remove it. Specifically because Bowyer literally said Solly refused to play through fear of injury. So is Bowyer or Solly lying then? Sycophant of the first degree.

Ollywozere said:

the solly comparison is ridiculous, he should of seen out the contract as much as i understand it, you have a signed contract and thats how it is, my club suffered tremendously as i believe had he played we would of stayed up by a few points. 

A reminder that Solly did offer to play the remaining games of his contract if needed, which is a key difference. 

It is a difference, I still find it so odd though what Silly did.  He was almost certainly not going to play again that season and even if he had and got injured it would have stopped him getting a low pay day at Ebbsfleet for a couple of years, hardly life changing. He was a legend in my eyes and will never get that adoration of the majority of the fans back to where it was.

Thinking about Taylor and his insurance policy, I am certain it would be illegal for Charlton to play players without insurance, so what he actually means is he asked us to insure his future wages that he would be getting at another club and that were outside our wage structure.  Can you imagine going into your place of work tomorrow and saying, I think I am leaving for a better paid job and I would like you to insure my future wage when not with you at a higher level than you would pay,so I carry on working for you during the notice period.  He should have paid it himself the greedy prick.

Disgusting, hideous liar of the first grade. 

His life is not worthy of investigation. 

se9addick said:

If Solly was willing to play if needed, why didn’t he return? Fear of injury in training? 

Can we put this to bed once and for all?

Solly was never going to be picked by LB. He hadn't been selected in the previous six months and was told he wasn't good enough to be offered a new contract even if we went down.  In the games that Solly refused to play post covid and when under contract, we did not concede a single goal. We beat both Hull and QPR 1-0 and drew with Cardiff 0-0. We didn't need him for those games. That season we won, in total, three of the 15 games Solly started. So how, exactly, was he going to improve the side?

Solly was thrown under the bus because it suited LB to do so, along with Davis, as he wanted to create a "them and us" siege mentality. Yet not one person ever calls Davis out, do they? Solly might have been Club captain but LB didn't think he was good enough as proven by us not offering him a new contract and the very next season he was playing in the Conference.

That is why he is back with us a coach. Because it suited the narrative at the time to make him a scapegoat. And yet, the one who really did hurt us, Taylor, was forgiven in a nanosecond by LB who then signed him when manager at another club.    

I find it really strange that fans struggle with all the facts before them when the Club, who know absolutely everything that went on, welcomed Solly back with open arms as a coach. I just don't get that. There are far more serious things in life going on than venting ones spleen on someone who wasn't wanted by us at the time, despite the message that LB wanted to convey at that time, anyway. 

Addick Addict said:

se9addick said:

If Solly was willing to play if needed, why didn’t he return? Fear of injury in training? 

Can we put this to bed once and for all?

Solly was never going to be picked by LB. He hadn't been selected in the previous six months and was told he wasn't good enough to be offered a new contract even if we went down.  In the games that Solly refused to play post covid and when under contract, we did not concede a single goal. We beat both Hull and QPR 1-0 and drew with Cardiff 0-0. We didn't need him for those games. That season we won, in total, three of the 15 games Solly started. So how, exactly, was he going to improve the side?

Solly was thrown under the bus because it suited LB to do so, along with Davis, as he wanted to create a "them and us" siege mentality. Yet not one person ever calls Davis out, do they? Solly might have been Club captain but LB didn't think he was good enough as proven by us not offering him a new contract and the very next season he was playing in the Conference.

That is why he is back with us a coach. Because it suited the narrative at the time to make him a scapegoat. And yet, the one who really did hurt us, Taylor, was forgiven in a nanosecond by LB who then signed him when manager at another club.    

I find it really strange that fans struggle with all the facts before them when the Club, who know absolutely everything that went on, welcomed Solly back with open arms as a coach. I just don't get that. There are far more serious things in life going on than venting ones spleen on someone who wasn't wanted by us at the time, despite the message that LB wanted to convey at that time, anyway. 

Right, but that’s not really answering my question. If he was never going to play why didn’t he return? Is it because he was worried that he would pick up an injury in training?