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Lyle Taylor - August 2025 signed for Chelmsford City (p295)
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Why are our some of our fans being able to find a players address? Why follow him home?
Who has the time for that?
Its embaressing. He is just a Charlton player. I hope it was just fans below the age of 15 and they just wanted to meet one of our players.
If not, grow up! Quickly!
A conflict has now occured.
I think he comes across as opinionated and broadly honest on twitter but he has a right to.
That kind of style is not my cup of tea and I don't think it helps much but he can do what he wants in that sense.
Roland's probably jotted this down in preperation for a January Taylor departure talksport rant.2 -
Not hard to find out where a player lives. Back in the day my parents lived in Wilmington & often saw Dean Kiely coming & going into his house along the Birchwoood Rd. I expect Taylors neighbours know who he is......one might work with a Charlton fan & tells him.
As for the other stuff. Some fans are idiots & some are star struck. I couldn't imagine hanging around outside the West Stand until 6 15 just to get an autograph....but each to their own. What is unacceptable is verbally abusing a player when they are taking their time to interact with the fans. Might be a good idea that he takes a rest from SM but I doubt it will be for long. He is doing his pink hair month in October so I'm sure he'll be promoting that nearer the time.4 -
He has acted like a massive twat on twitter for too long. No excuse for anyone going to his house but let’s be honest, even the stuff with Sam quirk was embarrassing.
Score as many goals as you can lyle for us between now and January but to me
it seems like he ain’t gonna be here. His performances will live long in the memory and what a part he played in getting us back to the championship, but a legend, he is not. We will replace him when he inevitably gets the move he wants.
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The Tart comment was grouped into one tweet with the home incident I believe.
Seems we have some proper wronguns in our supporter base.
Fortunately it's about 2%
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I think it's unacceptable to hang around outside a blokes house that you don't know personally....but you are looking to get their attention and draw them out.
It's worse then what it sounds and I consider it to be a inconsiderate invasion of privacy.
There is nothing wrong with getting an autograph and doing meet and greets but of course it has a more of a specific time and place, like outside the valley, for example.
"Tart" is a stupid but also strange dig towards a 29 year old male professional footballer.
It's so stupid and random that I'd assume it would be easier to just ignore.
I wasn't there though so I don't know if it had an unnecessary aggressive provoking tone to it.1 -
Just get off the fellas case. People dismissing his reaction as pathetic with no knowledge of what happened , calling him attention seeking etc. He’s an effing top notch player who is playing out of his skin every week and worked his nuts off again for us today. He’s behaving like a model pro even if he does want to leave. He posts a lot on social media but most of it is positive stuff, and we’ve seen very clearly people getting stuck into him on it close to the deadline.
People need to get a grip. Enjoy his positive posts about the games and thanking for support etc and just leave it at that. If he stops performing or working hard and behaving professionally on the pitch, criticise him, otherwise just let the bloke get on with it25 -
∆ That post there, what that says.0
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Why did his shirt in the second half not have a number or name?0
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Kept thinking ref would pick that up. Knowing our luck, disallowing it when he scored - but we'd have needed to get the ball into their penalty area to do that!!newyorkaddick said:Why did his shirt in the second half not have a number or name?1 -
I do agree with a lot of this post tbf. Just a few beers deep and can’t be bothered with our players, especially our good ones, trying to make big statements by deleting social media’s because of two supposed fans. When in reality 99.9% of us are just trying to enjoy s Saturday night where Charlton have won again and are 2nd in championship, whether lyle is to blame for being a bit of an attention seeker or the two idiot fans, it’s just a bit of a tiresome situation. Bare in mind my above post was probs a bit of a knee jerk reaction to the situation !paulsturgess said:Just get off the fellas case. People dismissing his reaction as pathetic with no knowledge of what happened , calling him attention seeking etc. He’s an effing top notch player who is playing out of his skin every week and worked his nuts off again for us today. He’s behaving like a model pro even if he does want to leave. He posts a lot on social media but most of it is positive stuff, and we’ve seen very clearly people getting stuck into him on it close to the deadline.
People need to get a grip. Enjoy his positive posts about the games and thanking for support etc and just leave it at that. If he stops performing or working hard and behaving professionally on the pitch, criticise him, otherwise just let the bloke get on with it
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I agree @NomadicAddick. Also a few beers and lovely espresso martini in!2
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The bloke scores 25 goals in a season and gets us promoted , then scores 4 goals in his first 5 games to get us off to an almost perfect start - and people are saying he can’t be a club legend because of how he behaves on twitter? Weird12
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Happens all the time, if a shirt has blood on it or gets ripped and a replacement is needed it normally doesnt have a name or numberWeegie Addick said:
Kept thinking ref would pick that up. Knowing our luck, disallowing it when he scored - but we'd have needed to get the ball into their penalty area to do that!!newyorkaddick said:Why did his shirt in the second half not have a number or name?1 -
This is where the twat of an owner really grates. We should be signing Taylor on a 2 year high wage/bonus contract to keep him focused on banging them in for Charlton.
He'll be running rings round players in the coming months who will be on far more (double in some cases?) what he is on and anyone performing above standard in their job would expect to be rewarded.
Any owner with football ambition or care for the success of the club on the pitch would have nailed down a contract asap.
I'll be gutted if he goes in January. He is the on pitch epitome of Bowyer's reign and pivotal to our progression as a football club.7 -
As much as we all love Lyle as a player, I think people forget sometimes that footballers are actual people too. He just wants to be respected and sometimes he just wants to be treated like normal. Can't fault him for deleting Twitter, think he just wants to take a step back from all the love the fans give him. While it's great to see, I think he just wants some time to himself7
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Who says he's trying to make a big statement though? Maybe he just wants a bit of peace from all the notifications, and to save himself from the temptation to argue the toss with people when he and they have had a few beers. Better to disable his account(s) for a bit, than going off on one and getting a disrepute charge.NomadicAddick said:
I do agree with a lot of this post tbf. Just a few beers deep and can’t be bothered with our players, especially our good ones, trying to make big statements by deleting social media’s because of two supposed fans. When in reality 99.9% of us are just trying to enjoy s Saturday night where Charlton have won again and are 2nd in championship, whether lyle is to blame for being a bit of an attention seeker or the two idiot fans, it’s just a bit of a tiresome situation. Bare in mind my above post was probs a bit of a knee jerk reaction to the situation !paulsturgess said:Just get off the fellas case. People dismissing his reaction as pathetic with no knowledge of what happened , calling him attention seeking etc. He’s an effing top notch player who is playing out of his skin every week and worked his nuts off again for us today. He’s behaving like a model pro even if he does want to leave. He posts a lot on social media but most of it is positive stuff, and we’ve seen very clearly people getting stuck into him on it close to the deadline.
People need to get a grip. Enjoy his positive posts about the games and thanking for support etc and just leave it at that. If he stops performing or working hard and behaving professionally on the pitch, criticise him, otherwise just let the bloke get on with it
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I would argue especially relevant to Lyle.Rossman92 said:As much as we all love Lyle as a player, I think people forget sometimes that footballers are actual people too. He just wants to be respected and sometimes he just wants to be treated like normal. Can't fault him for deleting Twitter, think he just wants to take a step back from all the love the fans give him. While it's great to see, I think he just wants some time to himself
He's been on record many times saying he views football as a career and nothing more.
I expect outside of "work hours" he doesn't want to be bothered.3 -
Twitter is a wasteland. Honestly think the world would be a better place without it.
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A massive fuss about nothing. It's his page, he can say what he likes, delete it when he likes, who really cares?
Those calling him attention seeking are also a bit weird. He's deleted his page, he can't get attention from that. Deleting it suggests the exact opposite and that he doesn't want the messages/abuse/attention etc.
If anyone is seriously bothered by a player they don't personally know deleting his twitter page then it's time to re-evaluate your life.7 -
Noticed their manager went over to speak to Lyle after the game.Callumcafc said:Brentford have signed Nikos Karelis. Maybe no need for them to come in for Lyle in January now?1 - Sponsored links:
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A world without Twitter / Facebook / Instagram would be a lot better - Social Media is one of mans worst inventions in the last 20 yearsNapaAddick said:Twitter is a wasteland. Honestly think the world would be a better place without it.18 -
I disagree to some extent because it has it's advantages in terms of getting information and things like that.ForeverAddickted said:
A world without Twitter / Facebook / Instagram would be a lot better - Social Media is one of mans worst inventions in the last 20 yearsNapaAddick said:Twitter is a wasteland. Honestly think the world would be a better place without it.
However it needs to be much better regulated. Any random person can create multiple accounts just to abuse people and that is not on. Stuff like the recent racist abuse to Pogba and Rashford just because they missed a penalty is crazy. Last week Harry Maguire said they should look at introducing measures where you'd have to show some kind of ID in order to register an account, which would mean accounts could be monitored and multiple accounts a lot harder to create. That would be a step in the right direction.1 -
Going to the guy's house is a massive step too far but it does seem that Taylor's ego is a bit fragile. This is the 2nd time he has gone "off" social media recently as he had reactions he hasn't liked (albeit unfairly on him on both occasions). I'd imagine tosspot keyboard warriors are giving abuse and probably worse to players all the time, that's part of the sad reality of social media. It wont always be love and kisses and surely Lyle is old enough and intelligent to realise that.1
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It is a shame for Lyle that he has taken so long into his career to build the reputation he now has as a top striker. I watched the long interview video that was posted on here a while back which confirmed him as a very intelligent, model pro and, to me, a really likeable guy. He touched on having something of a reputation of being a negative influence at previous clubs which, he felt, was misjudged. However, I was left reflecting on that as being the reason why he has taken thing long to ‘knuckle down’. Someone said to me recently that he has a 2 year old child which, if true, might explain his change in attitude. We have all seen how strong minded and opinionated he is; something probably a typical characteristic of a modern footballer - and probably more so of good looking, 29 year old strikers.
For me, he is the single most influential player we have had at our club in the past decade. I am sure that I can’t be alone in thinking that his name missing from the teamsheet leaves me less optimistic about the likely outcome of the game. He is a special and important player to CAFC. I believe that he deserves ‘special treatment to keep him with a new contract offering top money.9 -
Going to his house is not acceptable, creepy and down right stalkerish3
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“I’ve ordered you an uber for 1st January”Halix said:
Noticed their manager went over to speak to Lyle after the game.Callumcafc said:Brentford have signed Nikos Karelis. Maybe no need for them to come in for Lyle in January now?0 -
"Imagine how many you'd have scored today on the end of those crosses."DA9 said:
“I’ve ordered you an uber for 1st January”Halix said:
Noticed their manager went over to speak to Lyle after the game.Callumcafc said:Brentford have signed Nikos Karelis. Maybe no need for them to come in for Lyle in January now?0 -
100% agreedRodneyCharltonTrotta said:This is where the twat of an owner really grates. We should be signing Taylor on a 2 year high wage/bonus contract to keep him focused on banging them in for Charlton.
He'll be running rings round players in the coming months who will be on far more (double in some cases?) what he is on and anyone performing above standard in their job would expect to be rewarded.
Any owner with football ambition or care for the success of the club on the pitch would have nailed down a contract asap.
I'll be gutted if he goes in January. He is the on pitch epitome of Bowyer's reign and pivotal to our progression as a football club.0 -
orchestrating his exit imo , all the noises we hear from Lyle will be similar , hopefully he will keep focus keep scoring and more than likely move in jan0
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Firmly believe he will go in Jan and that will not be to Brentford, doubt they will be pushing for a play off spot by then, he will go to a lower placed prem club or a club pushing for that dream premiership promotion.
Should the structure of our club change or Roland wakes up to the importance of players/leaders like Taylor and we ourselves have a chance to make the play-offs then he might stay.
However based on probability of the above paragraphs he will be off.0
