| Lyle Taylor gone. 10:31 - Aug 7 with 1731 views | Addy |
Sad but true, another blow for the Cowley's.
Details from the Gazette below.
LYLE Taylor has announced that his time at Colchester United is over.
The 35-year-old striker has confirmed he will not be returning to the U’s, following the expiry of his previous contract earlier this summer.
Taylor, who was Colchester’s top scorer last season, had been offered a new deal at the end of last season.
But the former Nottingham Forest and Charlton Athletic striker, who is still recovering from a calf injury at the end of last season, has said today that he has played his last game for the U’s.
Writing on his Instagram account, Taylor said: “The time has come for me to leave Colchester.
“Due to circumstances beyond mine and the management’s control, the option to stay at the club has been taken away.
“It’s sad to leave a place that took me in and treated me so well, a fanbase who did nothing but support and love me.
“A management staff and team who suffered my s**t jokes and loudness, with the occasional goal and sometimes even some good football from the old boy.
“To Danny Cowley, Nicky Cowley, every single member of back room staff, my teammates, the training ground staff and the stadium staff, thank you.
“I’ll miss you, love you all and wish you nothing but success in the future.
“To the fans, you’re brilliant. Home, away, in the shops, in the community, respectful, caring and simply wanting the best for your football club, thank you.
“And to one man who has left an indelible mark on me, Matt Calmus, you are the man! I appreciate you bud!
“Go well in the future U’s LT33.”
Taylor's announcement comes as a blow to U's coaches Danny and Nicky Cowley, who were eager to keep the experienced striker at the club for this season.
He was a huge hit in his first season for Colchester last year, finishing as their top goalscorer with 13 goals in 40 league and cup appearances. |  | | |  |
| Lyle Taylor gone. on 10:51 - Aug 7 with 1150 views | TheOldOakTree |
“Due to circumstances beyond mine and the management’s control, the option to stay at the club has been taken away."
You don't have to be 'Brain of Britain' to read between those lines. | | | |
| Lyle Taylor gone. on 11:15 - Aug 7 with 1120 views | MarkyMark47 |
| Lyle Taylor gone. on 10:51 - Aug 7 by TheOldOakTree |
“Due to circumstances beyond mine and the management’s control, the option to stay at the club has been taken away."
You don't have to be 'Brain of Britain' to read between those lines. |
It hints at a division between DC/NC and the owner. I don't think he should have done that. Everything else he said is spot on, so why spoil it with some carping about the owner? |  | | |
| Lyle Taylor gone. on 11:36 - Aug 7 with 1104 views | TheOldOakTree |
| Lyle Taylor gone. on 11:15 - Aug 7 by MarkyMark47 |
It hints at a division between DC/NC and the owner. I don't think he should have done that. Everything else he said is spot on, so why spoil it with some carping about the owner? |
Maybe so, but it's not as if people can't see what's wrong with the club and if he and DC/NC go way back, it's understandable. I'm not saying it's right, but he's clearly unhappy about the outcome.
I hope DC/NC can bounce back for Saturday and if Samson's available, then a hattrick would be good karma.
Oldham got a royal spanking at Stanley on Tuesday (3-0 down after 34 mins), so they could go either way. [Post edited 7 Aug 11:39]
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| Lyle Taylor gone. on 11:56 - Aug 7 with 1073 views | BLACKCAT |
| Lyle Taylor gone. on 11:36 - Aug 7 by TheOldOakTree |
Maybe so, but it's not as if people can't see what's wrong with the club and if he and DC/NC go way back, it's understandable. I'm not saying it's right, but he's clearly unhappy about the outcome.
I hope DC/NC can bounce back for Saturday and if Samson's available, then a hattrick would be good karma.
Oldham got a royal spanking at Stanley on Tuesday (3-0 down after 34 mins), so they could go either way. [Post edited 7 Aug 11:39]
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It is very disappointing but possibly connected to the Tovide transfer not getting over the line. I was very impressed about everything (well maybe not his hair) about Lyle Taylor last season. He seems exactly the sort of man you'd want in the squad and good luck to him in the future.
As for The Latics, I fear this is a very bad time to be playing them. | | | |
| Lyle Taylor gone. on 13:51 - Aug 7 with 1013 views | MarkyMark47 |
| Lyle Taylor gone. on 11:56 - Aug 7 by BLACKCAT |
It is very disappointing but possibly connected to the Tovide transfer not getting over the line. I was very impressed about everything (well maybe not his hair) about Lyle Taylor last season. He seems exactly the sort of man you'd want in the squad and good luck to him in the future.
As for The Latics, I fear this is a very bad time to be playing them. |
5th in the National League, over 20 points behind the top two, not especially impressive in the play off final. Surely this is a team we should be looking to comprehensively turn over? | | | |
| Lyle Taylor gone. on 14:10 - Aug 7 with 1006 views | BLACKCAT |
| Lyle Taylor gone. on 13:51 - Aug 7 by MarkyMark47 |
5th in the National League, over 20 points behind the top two, not especially impressive in the play off final. Surely this is a team we should be looking to comprehensively turn over? |
I never think it is a good time to play a newly promoted team very early in the season. I was surprised Barnet lost at home to Fleetwood Town in their opening fixture, as were the bookmakers. Oldham picked up a very good point at hot favourites MK Dons last week. Let's hope the occasion of their first home match overwhelms them. | | | |
| Lyle Taylor gone. on 14:21 - Aug 7 with 989 views | TheOldOakTree |
| Lyle Taylor gone. on 14:10 - Aug 7 by BLACKCAT |
I never think it is a good time to play a newly promoted team very early in the season. I was surprised Barnet lost at home to Fleetwood Town in their opening fixture, as were the bookmakers. Oldham picked up a very good point at hot favourites MK Dons last week. Let's hope the occasion of their first home match overwhelms them. |
They have a big following of 'old school' noisy fans and away fans stuck up high in the back of the stand, so they will be one of the teams with a big home advantage this season.
I like the old ground and its atmosphere, although I've only been in the home end and never seen the U's there.
I don't know if it's the same this year, but anyone driving, you used to be able to pay through the club about £6 and park in the nearby NHS car park. Loads of room and easy to get to and away from. | | | |
| Lyle Taylor gone. on 14:22 - Aug 7 with 987 views | bluewaves |
Pro footballers pension kicks in at 35. He may have just retired. | | | |
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| Lyle Taylor gone. on 14:29 - Aug 7 with 977 views | CrashBandicoot |
That is a shame as we really need an experienced striker up front. Hopefully we will find a quality replacement soon thats as good as he was. |  |
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| Lyle Taylor gone. on 16:59 - Aug 7 with 893 views | Addy |
Latest rumour doing the rounds is Lyle has signed for Chelmsford! | | | |
| Lyle Taylor gone. on 17:08 - Aug 7 with 887 views | Addy |
Now confirmed by Chelmsford City. | | | |
| Lyle Taylor gone. on 17:33 - Aug 7 with 866 views | TheOldOakTree |
| Lyle Taylor gone. on 17:08 - Aug 7 by Addy |
Now confirmed by Chelmsford City. |
With all due respect to Essex’s second City, he’s better than that. He doesn’t deserve to have wannabes kicking lumps out of him in National League South.
It’s a waste, but good luck to him, I hope he scores goals for fun.
How things have changed, there was a time when the big man could throw his money around on a pointless signing of a 41 year old striker, but now we can’t afford to keep our top scoring, relative spring chicken.
Death by a thousand cuts continues. [Post edited 7 Aug 17:41]
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| Lyle Taylor gone. on 18:08 - Aug 7 with 808 views | noah4x4 |
It suggests to me that nobody will meet the valuation for Tovide, who consequently stays.
Cowling won’t pay wages for both Tovide and Taylor (and why should he?).
I’m surprised Taylor has signed for Chelmsford, but maybe he too has few options. A move to the USA MFL might have been more appealing. Footballing is a short career. That’s why HMRC permits a pension retirement age of 35, when it is 55 minimum for most of us. If sensible, he’s stashed away enough cash into his pension fund when playing for bigger clubs. |  | | |
| Lyle Taylor gone. on 18:30 - Aug 7 with 781 views | durham_exile |
LT to Chelmsford.
We now wait out on Tovide.
It's up to him to buckle down play for the team and get fit.
My view on LT is that he did a great job for Colchester but he is not the future of the club.
We move on.
And this is the perfect time to play the Latics.
Three points at Boundary Park will be ideal.
Up the U's |  |
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| Lyle Taylor gone. on 18:34 - Aug 7 with 778 views | bwildered |
Probably like a retirement through injury, take a pay off but then cannot play EFL . |  |
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| Lyle Taylor gone. on 18:43 - Aug 7 with 773 views | wessex_exile |
| Lyle Taylor gone. on 18:08 - Aug 7 by noah4x4 |
It suggests to me that nobody will meet the valuation for Tovide, who consequently stays.
Cowling won’t pay wages for both Tovide and Taylor (and why should he?).
I’m surprised Taylor has signed for Chelmsford, but maybe he too has few options. A move to the USA MFL might have been more appealing. Footballing is a short career. That’s why HMRC permits a pension retirement age of 35, when it is 55 minimum for most of us. If sensible, he’s stashed away enough cash into his pension fund when playing for bigger clubs. |
Totally agree, and this really isn't a stick to beat RC with. Assuming Lyle wanted to stay in the area, Chelmsford or Braintree would have been the only viable alternative options for him. Chelmsford may have decided to take a punt on an as yet not fully fit player, but there's no way we could afford to do that, much as we all love him and would have dearly liked him to stay.
Lyle would have been one of the top wage earners, even with the reduced budget following the collapse of the takeover. Head over heart here, we can't tie that up on an uncertainty, we need that budget now - particularly given Samson isn't being sold. |  |
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| Lyle Taylor gone. on 19:39 - Aug 7 with 720 views | TheOldOakTree |
| Lyle Taylor gone. on 18:43 - Aug 7 by wessex_exile |
Totally agree, and this really isn't a stick to beat RC with. Assuming Lyle wanted to stay in the area, Chelmsford or Braintree would have been the only viable alternative options for him. Chelmsford may have decided to take a punt on an as yet not fully fit player, but there's no way we could afford to do that, much as we all love him and would have dearly liked him to stay.
Lyle would have been one of the top wage earners, even with the reduced budget following the collapse of the takeover. Head over heart here, we can't tie that up on an uncertainty, we need that budget now - particularly given Samson isn't being sold. |
As usual, it’s all about opinions. There’s still another three and a half weeks before the window closes, so Samson and possibly others could still be sold. I’m guessing that it’s just us trying to be clever yet again, holding out for a better deal until the last moment. The deal broken down because the finer points couldn’t be agreed FFS. I hope I’m wrong, but Samson’s not likely to want to be here and I don’t blame him if it’s because someone is trying to be Arthur Daly. Most of us would sulk, it’s human nature. LT wasn’t going to sit and wait until 1st September, while others tried to be clever.
Look what happen last year, all the last minute wrangling, we sold Bradley at the eleventh hour and panicked into signing a total crock. Trying to be clever cost us dear. If we’d done our dealings earlier, we could have been a settled side and not wasted a quarter of the season. If we’d started as we finished, we would have been promoted. There’s a chance we’ll make the same mistakes again this year. The dressing room cannot be settled if they were hoping LT would be here and other are hoping they’ll be away. Get it sorted and get on with the football.
As for LT, people with his infectious personality are very few and far between. People like what he’s got to say, he can lift a room, lift the dressing room, lift the fans, he’s another DC. Compare him to the long, long list of boring drones, TH, SB, WB, RH, KK, JM etc. etc. that have dragged the soul of club down for years. In an entertainment business such as football, someone like LT is a major asset, off the pitch he could have played a big part in rejuvenating the U’s and increasing the fan base. I would have found him a job, made him part of our future. Chelmsford cannot be paying much for him. | | | |
| Lyle Taylor gone. on 00:40 - Aug 8 with 623 views | wessex_exile |
Hahaha - so you would have paid a year’s contract for an injured 35 year old just to be the dressing room motivational speaker? Like I said, this isn’t the stick to beat RC with, it’s a sad but totally correct decision. | |
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| Lyle Taylor gone. on 08:08 - Aug 8 with 527 views | TheOldOakTree |
| Lyle Taylor gone. on 00:40 - Aug 8 by wessex_exile |
Hahaha - so you would have paid a year’s contract for an injured 35 year old just to be the dressing room motivational speaker? Like I said, this isn’t the stick to beat RC with, it’s a sad but totally correct decision. |
No, you’ve lost me now?
We mustn’t resign our top scorer and talisman because, what was it, he’s on the NHS waiting list for a hip replacement? Oh no, he’s strained his calf. Hardly life threatening and clearly DC thought he was good to go. I can’t image we would have broken the bank to beat an offer from a Nat South team.
……….. but your happy we’ve signed a bloke whose time at Sickfields was plagued by injury, hasn’t started a game since last November and was let go on a free. Admittedly, if we get more than 20 games out of him it’s a brilliant signing, but he sounds a bigger risk than LT and he’s just a defender, he’s not likely to bang in 10+ goals.
…..and with LT, I wasn’t talking about a bit of dressing room motivation, I was thinking club ambassador, club PR man, part time presenter for the media department, etc. etc. long after he’s hung his boots up. OK Lyle isn’t a Hollywood star, but look at Wrexham, razzamatazz puts bums on seats and LT was very much part of the DC cult.
I think we’re going to need ACAS to sort this one!
PS When we signed LT last season, he was 34, had been out injured and had hardly played. When I questioned the wisdom of the signing I got my head bitten off, most people thought he was a great signing!!!!!!!!!!
Members of the jury..........
We were told he was brought in to help bring on Bradley and Samson, so was DC wrong? are we not allowed to sign players partly because of their effect on the dressing room?
.....I rest my case. [Post edited 8 Aug 8:33]
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| Lyle Taylor gone. on 09:05 - Aug 8 with 468 views | RSCOSWORTH |
| Lyle Taylor gone. on 00:40 - Aug 8 by wessex_exile |
Hahaha - so you would have paid a year’s contract for an injured 35 year old just to be the dressing room motivational speaker? Like I said, this isn’t the stick to beat RC with, it’s a sad but totally correct decision. |
Yes, I think I would have actually although I strongly believe he would've offered a lot more than just that. Just seemed like a great person to have around the club and, at this level, relationships and togetherness probably count more than ability. Plus, and I don't think anyone can argue with this, he's still a real quality player even at 34/35. I understand the decision but I am still disappointed with it.
Also didn't he start more games? Play more minutes? And score more goals than Tovide last season? Despite suffering two injuries, illness and being 14 years older. |  |
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| Lyle Taylor gone. on 09:13 - Aug 8 with 463 views | RSCOSWORTH |
Might be unrelated but the last game we won was Taylor's final appearance for us. We've lost two and drawn three since then and scored two goals.
Payne was also missing for three of those five and probably not fit for the two he appeared in and was arguably the bigger miss. | |
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| Lyle Taylor gone. on 09:16 - Aug 8 with 462 views | RSCOSWORTH |
Full season - 1.46 points per game (67/46)
Lyle Taylor appearance - 1.57 points per game (58/37)
Lyle Taylor start - 1.52 points per game (41/27)
No Lyle Taylor - 1.00 points per game (9/9) | |
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| Lyle Taylor gone. on 10:02 - Aug 8 with 433 views | wessex_exile |
No debate from me, Lyle Taylor was a quality player and clearly a massively influential person of the pitch, and I’m going to miss him just as much as everyone else, albeit questionable about his influence on the Newport game given he went off injured after 12 minutes and we won in a final crazy 4 minutes at the end. However, with the reduced budget this season, having Lyle in some sort of part player part ambassador type role was a luxury I doubt we could afford. Probably not compete with either, as he’s already got a decent resume as a TV pundit, and will no doubt be doing more of that to come.
My point is simple, we had to make a call and time was running out. Lyle hadn’t accepted the contract offered, we still wanted it to happen, but he was still injured, never mind even close to match fitness. The sale of Tovide fell through, so we had to make a decision on how to spend whatever was left of the playing budget. No doubt it was a tough call, but we went for an experienced centre half who has played most of his career at a higher level and Lyle took presumably the only other available offer. | |
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| Lyle Taylor gone. on 10:42 - Aug 8 with 415 views | TheOldOakTree |
| Lyle Taylor gone. on 10:02 - Aug 8 by wessex_exile |
No debate from me, Lyle Taylor was a quality player and clearly a massively influential person of the pitch, and I’m going to miss him just as much as everyone else, albeit questionable about his influence on the Newport game given he went off injured after 12 minutes and we won in a final crazy 4 minutes at the end. However, with the reduced budget this season, having Lyle in some sort of part player part ambassador type role was a luxury I doubt we could afford. Probably not compete with either, as he’s already got a decent resume as a TV pundit, and will no doubt be doing more of that to come.
My point is simple, we had to make a call and time was running out. Lyle hadn’t accepted the contract offered, we still wanted it to happen, but he was still injured, never mind even close to match fitness. The sale of Tovide fell through, so we had to make a decision on how to spend whatever was left of the playing budget. No doubt it was a tough call, but we went for an experienced centre half who has played most of his career at a higher level and Lyle took presumably the only other available offer. |
Oh dear, oh dear! You’re letting facts and common-sense cloud your judgement again.
The real crux of the matter for me is that, based on my experiences as a U’s supporter under Chairman C, if he got us back to the Championship, picked me up from the airport and chauffeured me to the games, whilst I quaffed complimentary champagne and listened to how he’d given a home to a one eyed incontinent puppy, I still wouldn’t have a good word to say about him. So, I’m hardly going to miss out on this one!
He can pee £35M up the wall on god knows what, but can’t afford to keep one of the best things that’s happened to Col U for years.
PS: Whereas, by contrast, if his one eyed incontinent puppy pissed on your cornflakes, I suspect you would tickle its tummy.
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| Lyle Taylor gone. on 10:55 - Aug 8 with 411 views | wessex_exile |
| Lyle Taylor gone. on 10:42 - Aug 8 by TheOldOakTree |
Oh dear, oh dear! You’re letting facts and common-sense cloud your judgement again.
The real crux of the matter for me is that, based on my experiences as a U’s supporter under Chairman C, if he got us back to the Championship, picked me up from the airport and chauffeured me to the games, whilst I quaffed complimentary champagne and listened to how he’d given a home to a one eyed incontinent puppy, I still wouldn’t have a good word to say about him. So, I’m hardly going to miss out on this one!
He can pee £35M up the wall on god knows what, but can’t afford to keep one of the best things that’s happened to Col U for years.
PS: Whereas, by contrast, if his one eyed incontinent puppy pissed on your cornflakes, I suspect you would tickle its tummy.
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Lol - yep, and then feed him the cornflakes and continue to enjoy my chauffeured ride and complimentary champagne. | |
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