Pick 'em up - knock 'em down. Why the f!@% are people knocking on his door? He 's a footballer, see him at the stadium. Do these people think that by following him on twitter they are mates? Jesus wept.
Taylor put in a good shift on a hot day. As Francis Albert Sinatra said, "The only thing I owe the public is a good performance".
Just a reminder for any regular readers of this thread; When he isn't doing all the other things in his life Lyle Taylor has scored 4 goals for Charlton in 5 league matches. Granted that's his job, but he is doing it quite well at the moment. Had Taylor not scored those goals Charlton's league position would look like this; Played 5 ... Won 2 ... Drawn 1 ... Lost 2 ... Points 7 ... Goal difference 0 League position: 12th or 13th (possibly lower, as teams we have played so far would have 4 more point between them than they actually do have). No other single Charlton player has contributed as many points this season so far by the goals they have scored; 4 ... Taylor ... (draw to win x 1) ... (defeat to draw x 2) 3 ... Gallagher ... (draw to win x 1) ... (defeat to draw x 1) 2 ... Purrington ... (draw to win x 1) So (in a nutshell) can't we give the guy a break?
In goals per game he must be right up there will our all time great goalscores… Hales, Bent, Mendonca, Jackson & Taylor..
Most of which is another way to say irreplaceable. As his contract is running down, he's an absolute bargain for anyone needing goals (ahem, Brentford). The saving in a transfer fee can go to give him a good wage, and everyone is happy bar us, who end up with the sort of money to spend that Will bring us the likes of magennis or Makeniok. I said on ITTV I can see the logic behind a wage structure, otherwise when you triple one guy's wages, everyone else jumps aboard and in a yeat the entire wage system has tripled for a mid table squad. But a striker who bangs in 30 goals in 51 appearances, including raising the level into the Championship…. You don't get many of those to the pound. Without knocking the likes of Lockyer, Purrington, et al. Taylor is simply a bonus element. And we need to look at a way to keep him if possible.
Catch 22 for us. We need to keep playing Taylor because he's irreplaceable, but that means that whoever replaces him in January is lacking experience.
An in-form L1 striker already in double figures could probably do a job for us, but if Taylor goes for a bargain price will we be able to afford one? I'm glad January is still a long way off.
I'd say there was a category 5 hurricane of rumours blowing through the Charlton fans' forums yesterday, including some laughably bad photoshop fakes. Basically, nobody knows whether Taylor is injured or not. Last I heard was that he did not play yesterday. But that could mean anything; a minor knock, illness... We are in the dark until there is a reliable source of information. (I would not include Taylor's twitter account as a reliable source).
Some little scraps of information are beginning to emerge (nothing official). Still don't know exactly what the injury is, but it could keep Taylor out for between 6 and 12 weeks. He supposedly flew back to the UK on Monday. Once again - at this point nothing official & nothing confirmed as far as I know.
