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Karl
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forward |
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24th February 1968
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Gloucester
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| City Career |
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| Transfer Details:
Headed
home for the third time in November 2001 having decided to quit SL
Western opponents Clevedon Town. |
| City Debut:
v
Burton Albion (a) SLPD. 28th March '92, Lost 3-4. |
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| City Stats |
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1991/2:
6 Apps, 3 Goals,
1992/3: 49 Apps, 25 Goals
1993/4: 44(2) Apps, 21 Goals
1994/5: 22(9) Apps, 7 Goals
1999/0: 11 Apps, 4 Goals
2000/1: 43(5) Apps, 19
Goals
2001/2: 15
Apps, 7 Goals
2002/3: 32(12) Apps, 4 Goals
2003/4: 13(10) Apps, 1 Goal
2004/5: 8(4) Apps, 1 Goal
Totals: 243(42) Apps, 92 Goals
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| Career Club History: Cheltenham
Town, Forest Green Rovers, Sharpness, Salisbury City, Malvern Town,
Tamworth, Stroud, Gloucester City,
Cirencester Town (loan 94/5), Weston-super-Mare (loan
94/5), Forest Green Rovers, Newport County, Gloucester
City, Clevedon Town, Gloucester
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| Honours: Gloucestershire
Senior Cup 92/3, SL Southern Div. Championship
96/7, SL Midland Div. R-up 98/9, Newport AFC PoY 98/9, SL
Western R-up 03/4 |
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| Baylo
is a long serving legend at City who's regular goalscoring exploits
and combative leading of the line has earned the respect of fans and
players alike. A string of ankle, knee and hamstring problems had
led him to announce his retirement in May 2003 but Burns has persuade
him he still has a part to play at City. Bayliss now helps with the
coaching at the club and manages the Tigers' reserve side, but still
makes occasional playing appearances, often as a sub. When fit Baylo
can still be a wiley menace to any defence, and shows the odd deft
touch and canny flick to remind fans what he can still do. Has lost
his pace but his talent still makes him a vital asset, as he showed
at former club Clevedon where he celebrated a rare starting role with
the crucial goal. |
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Has shown plenty of commitment to
City in the past and never sounded as comfortable when playing away
from Meadow Park, especially with his move to Clevedon Town that
followed the resignation of Tommy Callinan in June 2001. His return
in November 2001 gave City fans a real lift at a time when it was
much needed, and his presence that season proved crucial in lifting
us from a then perilous league
position. His campaign that season was disrupted by a string of
injuries which marked the beginning of the end for Bayliss in his
full playing glory.
During his first spell at Meadow Park Bayliss was more than the
local boy come good, he was also a superb striker as likely to unleash
a thirty yard volley as to hold off defenders to get to a loose
ball in the six yard box. Hit two hatricks at the back end of 1992
when he was probably in the best form of his career, almost
single handedly turning an average side in to one that was capable
of special moments. Made his place in the fan's history of the club
secure when he grabbed an unlikely winner at Whaddon Road against
Cheltenham in April 1994, a result that robbed City's greatest rivals
of promotion for another season. At that point he was in such form
that he was able to reject a move to Preston North End.
However all was to go spectacularly wrong as he was taken seriously
ill with a mystery viral infection that put him in hospital during
the summer of 1994. On his return he was not quite the same player,
struggling for fitness and strength. Despite retaining the unswerving
loyal support of the fans he was shipped off to Forest Green, with
City registering a £5,000 profit on a player they had taken from
The Lawn seasons earlier on a free. Remained a competitive and consistent
goalscorer for promotion winning teams at Forest Green and then
Newport, before his first homecoming in April 1999 on loan from
Newport County for the final weeks of the 99/2000 relegation season.
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