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Lyndon Dykes - included in Scotland World Cup squad (p17)

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  • MillwallFan
    MillwallFan Posts: 3,754
    Crispywood said:
    Came in did a job for us and in return got international football both helped each other and neither owed anything past that point. 

    Would ask if he would get a clap or booed but realistically hes going to be lucky to get more than 10 minutes at Millwall 
    I think be the time we play you lot he’ll be fourth choice and probably on the bench at best. 
  • YannTheMann
    YannTheMann Posts: 1,627
    Agent Dykes joins comrade Kyrell in operation take down Millwall from the inside, your sacrifices are appreciated 
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 30,933
    NabySarr said:
    MillwallFan said:
    Crispywood said:
    Came in did a job for us and in return got international football both helped each other and neither owed anything past that point. 

    Would ask if he would get a clap or booed but realistically hes going to be lucky to get more than 10 minutes at Millwall 
    I think be the time we play you lot he’ll be fourth choice and probably on the bench at best. 
    Charlton 1-2 Millwall 

    Godden (25) 
     
                          Dykes (90)
                          Dykes (90+4) 
    That’s not funny.
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 20,049
    Little disappointed tbh. He's one of few we had that could hold his own at this level. Had a bit of nous. 
    Not sure he's at the level of what I would presume is a promotion push though? 
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 33,122
    That’s a better move than I thought he would get to be fair. 
  • TD_Addick
    TD_Addick Posts: 141
    Thank you Dykes for helping us stay up, all the best. Average striker at this level and I believe his stand out performances were due to him pushing for the World Cup. 
  • Watameire
    Watameire Posts: 142
    A poor player, they can have him 
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 28,442
    Guaranteed to score against us 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 24,180
    The Red Robin said:
    Guaranteed to score against us 
    And clear one off the line. It'll be Purrington all over again 

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  • swords_alive
    swords_alive Posts: 4,966
    McNamara, now this. We are a step closer to South London United with this development.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 24,122
    NabySarr said:
    MillwallFan said:
    Crispywood said:
    Came in did a job for us and in return got international football both helped each other and neither owed anything past that point. 

    Would ask if he would get a clap or booed but realistically hes going to be lucky to get more than 10 minutes at Millwall 
    I think be the time we play you lot he’ll be fourth choice and probably on the bench at best. 
    Charlton 1-2 Millwall 

    Godden (25) 
     
                          McNamara own goal (90)
                          Dykes (90+4) 

  • AberystwythAddick
    AberystwythAddick Posts: 2,018
    NabySarr said:
    MillwallFan said:
    Crispywood said:
    Came in did a job for us and in return got international football both helped each other and neither owed anything past that point. 

    Would ask if he would get a clap or booed but realistically hes going to be lucky to get more than 10 minutes at Millwall 
    I think be the time we play you lot he’ll be fourth choice and probably on the bench at best. 
    Charlton 1-2 Millwall 

    Godden (25) 
     
                          Dykes (90)
                          Dykes (90+4) 
    What time is Ramsay’s a red card?
  • CAFCTrev
    CAFCTrev Posts: 6,462
    edited August 6
    AberystwythAddick said:
    NabySarr said:
    MillwallFan said:
    Crispywood said:
    Came in did a job for us and in return got international football both helped each other and neither owed anything past that point. 

    Would ask if he would get a clap or booed but realistically hes going to be lucky to get more than 10 minutes at Millwall 
    I think be the time we play you lot he’ll be fourth choice and probably on the bench at best. 

    What time is Ramsay’s a red card?
    Charlton 1-2 Millwall 

    Godden (25) 
     
                          Ramsay OG (90)
                          Ramsay OG (90+4)
                          Ramsay Red Card (90+5)
  • Kindoncasella
    Kindoncasella Posts: 282
    Remember watching one of Scotlands game against Brazil I think, Scotland on the attack and Dykes in a position to be passed too but it looked like whoever had the ball was like "nope, not passing to you"
  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 5,074
    CAFCTrev said:
    AberystwythAddick said:
    NabySarr said:
    MillwallFan said:
    Crispywood said:
    Came in did a job for us and in return got international football both helped each other and neither owed anything past that point. 

    Would ask if he would get a clap or booed but realistically hes going to be lucky to get more than 10 minutes at Millwall 
    I think be the time we play you lot he’ll be fourth choice and probably on the bench at best. 

    What time is Ramsay’s a red card?
    Charlton 1-2 Millwall 

    Godden (25) 
     
                          Ramsay OG (90)
                          Ramsay OG (90+4)
                          Ramsay Red Card (90+5)

    No it'll be:

    Charlton 1-2 Millwall 

    Godden (25) 
     
                          Ramsay OG (90)
                          Ramsay Red Card (90+3)
                            Dykes (90+4)
                          
  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 5,074
    Kindoncasella said:
    Remember watching one of Scotlands game against Brazil I think, Scotland on the attack and Dykes in a position to be passed too but it looked like whoever had the ball was like "nope, not passing to you"
    yep remember that clearly Dykes was in lots of space too and he clearly didn't want to pass to him,
  • Laddick01
    Laddick01 Posts: 8,477
    Kindoncasella said:
    Remember watching one of Scotlands game against Brazil I think, Scotland on the attack and Dykes in a position to be passed too but it looked like whoever had the ball was like "nope, not passing to you"
    McTominay was doing everything in his power to avoid Dykes getting the ball haha. Proper brutal watch. 
  • felix_31
    felix_31 Posts: 314
    edited August 7
    Really wanted us to re-sign Dykes - don’t quite understand some of the vitriol towards him.  

    He was immense in our relegation fight when we first signed him and scored 3 memorable goals against Leicester, Bristol City and West Brom, and got a vital headed assist against Sheffield U (he is good in the air - that’s a fact). 

    I do understand the argument about him downing tools after he got in the World Cup squad - there was definitely a drop off in performance towards the end of the season.  However, overall I think he’s someone you might want around the place when the going gets tough.  

    The fact that apparently Jones wanted to re-sign him too (long contract offered), yet couldn’t, is surely a little worrying? 
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 18,728
    felix_31 said:
    Really wanted us to re-sign Dykes - don’t quite understand some of the vitriol towards him.  

    He was immense in our relegation fight when we first signed him and from scored 3 memorable goals against Leicester, Bristol City and West Brom, and got a vital headed assist against Sheffield U (he is good in the air - that’s a fact). 

    I do understand the argument about him downing tools after he got in the World Cup squad - there was definitely a drop off in performance towards the end of the season. 

    However, overall I think he’s someone you might want around the place when the going gets tough.  

    The fact that apparently Jones wanted to re-sign him too (long contract offered), yet couldn’t, is surely a little worrying? 
    Totally agree. If he'd ended the season how he'd started, more people would have wanted to sign him. It's just recency bias. But at the end of the day it doesn't really matter because he's gone somewhere else. 

    I wouldn't disagree with people who say that he's "bang average" at this level, but that's better than most of our players. 

    I don't find it too worrying that he went to Millwall, they can surely afford higher wages than us. 

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  • Bod
    Bod Posts: 327
    edited August 6
    I have nothing against Dykes myself, I thought he did a decent job for us and would have had no problem in extending his stay. I guess both parties couldn't agree and that's that, the longer it dragged on it didn't look like he'd come back anyway. We really should have more irons in the fire than to be hanging on to one player's yay or nay anyway. (Hopefully we have but we are cutting it fine!)
  • gmantaxi
    gmantaxi Posts: 493
    NabySarr said:
    MillwallFan said:
    Crispywood said:
    Came in did a job for us and in return got international football both helped each other and neither owed anything past that point. 

    Would ask if he would get a clap or booed but realistically hes going to be lucky to get more than 10 minutes at Millwall 
    I think be the time we play you lot he’ll be fourth choice and probably on the bench at best. 
    Charlton 1-2 Millwall 

    Godden (25) 
     
                          Dykes (90)
                          Dykes (90+4) 
    You’ve missed out 
    Godden missed pen 89 
  • SantaClaus
    SantaClaus Posts: 7,998
    gmantaxi said:
    NabySarr said:
    MillwallFan said:
    Crispywood said:
    Came in did a job for us and in return got international football both helped each other and neither owed anything past that point. 

    Would ask if he would get a clap or booed but realistically hes going to be lucky to get more than 10 minutes at Millwall 
    I think be the time we play you lot he’ll be fourth choice and probably on the bench at best. 
    Charlton 1-2 Millwall 

    Godden (25) 
     
                          Dykes (90)
                          Dykes (90+4) 
    You’ve missed out 
    Godden missed pen 89 
    And Millwall playing most of the game with nine men.
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 33,122
    Chunes said:
    felix_31 said:
    Really wanted us to re-sign Dykes - don’t quite understand some of the vitriol towards him.  

    He was immense in our relegation fight when we first signed him and from scored 3 memorable goals against Leicester, Bristol City and West Brom, and got a vital headed assist against Sheffield U (he is good in the air - that’s a fact). 

    I do understand the argument about him downing tools after he got in the World Cup squad - there was definitely a drop off in performance towards the end of the season. 

    However, overall I think he’s someone you might want around the place when the going gets tough.  

    The fact that apparently Jones wanted to re-sign him too (long contract offered), yet couldn’t, is surely a little worrying? 
    Totally agree. If he'd ended the season how he'd started, more people would have wanted to sign him. It's just recency bias. But at the end of the day it doesn't really matter because he's gone somewhere else. 

    I wouldn't disagree with people who say that he's "bang average" at this level, but that's better than most of our players. 

    I don't find it too worrying that he went to Millwall, they can surely afford higher wages than us. 
    On the bench at Birmingham?!
  • RC_CAFC
    RC_CAFC Posts: 2,018
    felix_31 said:
    Really wanted us to re-sign Dykes - don’t quite understand some of the vitriol towards him.  

    He was immense in our relegation fight when we first signed him and scored 3 memorable goals against Leicester, Bristol City and West Brom, and got a vital headed assist against Sheffield U (he is good in the air - that’s a fact). 

    I do understand the argument about him downing tools after he got in the World Cup squad - there was definitely a drop off in performance towards the end of the season. 

    However, overall I think he’s someone you might want around the place when the going gets tough.  

    The fact that apparently Jones wanted to re-sign him too (long contract offered), yet couldn’t, is surely a little worrying? 
    I’m not that worried by this at all. We won’t have offered Dykes a particularly competitive contract especially compared to what Milwall have so it’s probably far more tempting for him to take 1 year better paid and then reassess next summer.

    As for the player, he did the job he was brought in to do. But he’s a limited footballer and I’m happy he’s not with us next season.
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,905
    No great loss, imo. Did alright for a bit and had some Championship nouse, but was also pretty limited. I reckon, if we'd signed him permanently, by November we'd have all been moaning about lack of goals and how we just hoof the ball at him. I prefer Godden if we can keep him fit, although that's far from a certainty.

    I am a bit concerned about our options at Centre Forward, but I didn't especially feel like Dykes was the long term solution.
  • O-Randy-Hunt
    O-Randy-Hunt Posts: 11,713
    I'd have liked to have kept him as he is about our level. A lower end championship player. He ain't done bad to get himself a year at a championship playoff club. Fair play.
  • redlanered
    redlanered Posts: 2,281
    edited August 7
    EugenesAxe said:
    CAFCTrev said:
    AberystwythAddick said:
    NabySarr said:
    MillwallFan said:
    Crispywood said:
    Came in did a job for us and in return got international football both helped each other and neither owed anything past that point. 

    Would ask if he would get a clap or booed but realistically hes going to be lucky to get more than 10 minutes at Millwall 
    I think be the time we play you lot he’ll be fourth choice and probably on the bench at best. 

    What time is Ramsay’s a red card?



                          
     
    Charlton 1-2 Millwall 

    Godden (25) 
     
                           Whoever Millwall have up front, it's always the same ...(90)
                          ....and their granny (90+4)
                          
    Really doesn't make any difference if Dykes scores against us..if he didn't someone else would scramble it in
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 48,428
    edited August 7
    I was underwhelmed when we signed him then largely positive about it overall at the end of the season. He did a job for us. I think Dykes looked better when you were at the game when you could see his overal contribution to the team. But he didn't score enough goals and hasn't throughout his career. I didn't want us to sign him for this season. I wanted us to sign better, but we haven't yet.

    What annoys me, is Leaburn has better attributes than Dykes but we just don't see it all come together. This is a make or break season for him but I would have him over Dykes as I think his ceiling is higher.
  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 8,943
    He turned out to be a very decent, although limited,  target man - better  than I thought when we signed him and definitely better than Leaburn in the air  - he’ll be cover for coburn and vice versa I’d say - he would have been a useful addition but our needs are greater elsewhere - I’m pleased they’ve signed him tbh - a sensible signing but not going to improve the way they play in the slightest - aimed at grinding out more wins in a 1 up top system 

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