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Reply | Former U's
at 14:27 11 Aug 2025
I see on loan Frankie Terry scored for the Iron on Saturday.
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Reply | Lyle Taylor gone.
at 21:15 9 Aug 2025
I didn’t say which October. Oh shite, OK you’re on.
That’s me Werther’s free for a few weeks. You’d better start thinking of your charity.
EDIT: I should just say that I hope you win!!! [Post edited 9 Aug 21:27]
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Reply | Lyle Taylor gone.
at 20:43 9 Aug 2025
Young man!! I’ll have you know £20 is a lot of money to a pensioner, it wont even keep me in Worther’s Originals and the Daily Mail for a fortnight.
I’m not confident at all, I’m just being a Drama Queen as usual.  |
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Reply | Lyle Taylor gone.
at 13:49 9 Aug 2025
Grade A Shister springing a 60% pay cut after all he’d done. Why am I not surprised.
£20 on DC/NC walking before October. |
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Reply | Lyle Taylor gone.
at 10:42 8 Aug 2025
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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Reply | Lyle Taylor gone.
at 08:08 8 Aug 2025
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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Reply | Lyle Taylor gone.
at 19:39 7 Aug 2025
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. |
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Reply | Lyle Taylor gone.
at 17:33 7 Aug 2025
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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Reply | Lyle Taylor gone.
at 14:21 7 Aug 2025
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. |
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Reply | Lyle Taylor gone.
at 11:36 7 Aug 2025
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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Reply | Lyle Taylor gone.
at 10:51 7 Aug 2025
“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. |
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Reply | Summer 2025 - Ins, Outs & Maybes
at 10:42 7 Aug 2025
From the press over the summer, DC has repeatedly made it clear that he wanted LT at the club, so it's going to be a massive disappointment for him, but if there's not enough money to pay LT a modest salary, then that's it.
On a separate note, from the numerous players we've sold over the last two seasons, bringing a small fortune into the club, was it a third of those sums that goes to the academy?
Talking of the academy, how many that started on Saturday came through our prized asset?
I hope Lyle finds a club that's worthy of him. |
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Reply | Summer 2025 - Ins, Outs & Maybes
at 10:08 7 Aug 2025
More likely that Samsons transfer has fallen through and the club won't take a lower sum, therefore DC doesn't have the funds to pay Lyle a decent wage. i.e. it's all out of everyone's control (except obviously the person holding the purse strings). I don't think there's any talk of Lyle retiring? So the injury can't be that bad. Wasn't it just a bad calf strain? I know that can be serious, but it's not like a shot knee or ankle.
I note that Lyle appears to thank practically everyone connected to the club, apart from one man.
DC, understandably, seemed very keen on keeping LT, so I hope this doesn't start to create tensions within the club.
It is certainly a massive loss to the club, not necessarily on the pitch, but LT is the sort of person that you need around the place to continue to shake off the losing mentallity that years of mediocre has created. [Post edited 7 Aug 10:21]
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Reply | Tovide?
at 11:06 6 Aug 2025
If he has failed a medical, I hope he goes on to emulate Asa Hartford, who was rejected in the 1970’s by high flying Dirty Leeds because their doctor said he had a hole in the heart.
A condition so bad that he only managed a total of just over 800 professional games, including 50 for the Jocks and winning the League Cup with Man City. As far as I’m aware he’s still doing fine in his seventies. (The highpoint of his career was a runners-up medal in the 1971 Watneys Cup).
Just goes to show, there’s no harm in a second opinion! |
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Reply | Tovide?
at 08:55 6 Aug 2025
I heard the medical didn’t go well. He threw himself to the floor and rolled about in agony when the doctor got within two feet of him. |
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Reply | On this day 4/08/ 2008;
at 09:56 4 Aug 2025
It wasn't very friendly!!!! Bilbao were a dirty bunch.
Full of excitement and optimism, little did we know that the next game against Huddersfield? would see the arrival of the stewarding Stasi giving it large to our own fans. The dawn of 'it's my club, not yours'.
Hopefully with a change of owner, we can have a reset and life at United Way can finally fulfil its promise. |
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