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Danny Hylton Signs As Player Coach

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  • YTS1978 said:
    Danny Hylton is very well versed in the darker arts of being a striker and will be able to pass that on to all of our strikers, particularly the young ones including Miles. UEFA B license and working towards A so has the knowledge. Jones knows him well and vice versa. A short term deal to I suppose see how it works out. Really can’t see why there are negative comments. Won’t be near first team squad unless we’re decimated. Jones has fought hard against resistance from Scott to get this done so I’m happy it’s resolved. Blocking what Jones sees best doesn’t seem like a good idea to me.
    Might of missed this, but did Scott try and block the move?
    Allegedly
  • Is this Jones just helping a mate out? Hylton needs to be attached to club and coaching to complete his A license. Rather than some cunning master plan it could be just someone doing a mate a favour, with a minimal benefit to Charlton. Perhaps explains the low key/late announcement. The delay could’ve been Jones having to persuade the rest of the SMT.
    Quite an allegation.
  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 11,804
    Paul Hart retired. NJ sees him as the replacement? By all accounts it sounds like Hart was respected at Charlton so I can imagine him retiring was a bit of a blow for NJ. Bringing in someone he knows and respects? Just speculation on my part though. 
  • CAFCsayer
    CAFCsayer Posts: 10,228
    Is this Jones just helping a mate out? Hylton needs to be attached to club and coaching to complete his A license. Rather than some cunning master plan it could be just someone doing a mate a favour, with a minimal benefit to Charlton. Perhaps explains the low key/late announcement. The delay could’ve been Jones having to persuade the rest of the SMT.
    Quite an allegation.

    Obviously gets on very well with Jones. If Jones thinks he will be a valuable addition to the club as a coach, and being at the club helps him get his UEFA Pro license, I guess it is a win-win
  • This transfer would probably be gathering more noise had we started the season poorly, luckily, that's not the case.

    Not really bothered that he's signed, definitely just feels like Jones helping an old colleague out, as I imagine there's plenty of people willing to coach out of work. 

    Wouldn't like to see him come on at all in a first team game, he'd just hold us back from what I've seen and heard. Those opportunities belong to the youth and players on the fringe of the starting line up like Kanu.
  • Valley11
    Valley11 Posts: 12,001
    Worked out pretty well when we did something similar with Andrew Hughes in 2011
  • mendonca
    mendonca Posts: 9,405
    edited September 2024
    If we notice a positive change in Ahadme, TC, Leaburn, then I'm happy. Hylton has been known to win a lot of free kicks by positioning his body wisely between ball and defender. Sometimes, our players are that little bit too honest and can lead to decisions being missed, ignored or leave the player putting themselves in a position to be knocked/injured. 
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,469
    edited September 2024
    Is this Jones just helping a mate out? Hylton needs to be attached to club and coaching to complete his A license. Rather than some cunning master plan it could be just someone doing a mate a favour, with a minimal benefit to Charlton. Perhaps explains the low key/late announcement. The delay could’ve been Jones having to persuade the rest of the SMT.
    Quite an allegation.
    If it's true that Scott tried to block it, perhaps it's not just this poster that thinks it. 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,331
    He's not in the playing squad today. I don't think we'll be seeing much of him. As was said above, let's see how the young forwards play under his tutelage
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,589
    Think we signed him to get access to cheap hotel deals for away games.

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  • crookester
    crookester Posts: 1,329
    I'd look at it as, who better to coach our strikers in what NJ expects of the position 
  • Valley11 said:
    Worked out pretty well when we did something similar with Andrew Hughes in 2011

    Hughes was a much better player at that point than Hylton is now. He had been in the Championship.
  • arny23394 said:
    arny23394 said:
    Let’s hope he’s a decent coach because he has absolutely nothing to offer on the pitch.
    That's the spirit!
    He is 35, closing in on 36. He has scored 12 goals in the last 6 years. None in the last 2 & a half years. 


    Sounds like our sort of striker..
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,735
    Let's hope he does more to drive up standards than Allan Campbell did today. 
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,785
    edited October 2024
    Think it says a lot about the “player” aspect of his player coach role that Mbick got on the bench ahead of him yesterday.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,331
    Think it says a lot about the “player” aspect of his player coach role that Mbick got on the bench ahead of him yesterday.
    Well I mean he's only called a 'player' so he can muck in during training games, that always seemed clear 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,331
    Leuth said:
    Think it says a lot about the “player” aspect of his player coach role that Mbick got on the bench ahead of him yesterday.
    Well I mean he's only called a 'player' so he can muck in during training games, that always seemed clear 
    Feel like he should get a bench showing vs Southend though
  • Surprised he hasn't been involved in any U21 games either - He'd be perfect as that senior figure in matches, which we've seen bigger clubs use
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,234
    NJ spoke post match about having a number of strikers injured; Kanu, Gass and Chuks we know but maybe Hylton too. Casey also not playing for U21s
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,282
    NJ spoke post match about having a number of strikers injured; Kanu, Gass and Chuks we know but maybe Hylton too. Casey also not playing for U21s
    The number he used was 4

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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,234
    sam3110 said:
    NJ spoke post match about having a number of strikers injured; Kanu, Gass and Chuks we know but maybe Hylton too. Casey also not playing for U21s
    The number he used was 4
    So Hylton, Aneke Kanu and Ahadme, I assume.
  • Methven said at the Bromley thing we had 27 players and it was too much. I counted them all and it came to 28... Assumed it was Hylton and he really is simply a coach.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,234
    Methven said at the Bromley thing we had 27 players and it was too much. I counted them all and it came to 28... Assumed it was Hylton and he really is simply a coach.
    Which NJ referenced in his post-match comments saying people said we had too many players but now we have injuries you can see why we need a squad
  • Wonder if DH would make the bench tonite?
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,384
    Hopefully not, I wouldn’t want to leave out someone like Dixon for him.
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 11,177
    Yeah if he was going to make the bench any time it would have been Saturday
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 11,177
    Given he's not going to play you'd hope he'd be able to coach our strikers to have a bit more composure in the box
  • Sage
    Sage Posts: 7,278
    Hylton is injured. 
  • Brownie12
    Brownie12 Posts: 1,528
    edited October 2024
    Sage said:
    Hylton is injured. 
    Only we could sign a player /coach who can’t play or coach. 
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,384
    Sage said:
    Hylton is injured. 
    Any idea what the injury is and how long he’ll be out for?