Gary Taylor-Fletcher

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Gary Taylor-Fletcher
Personal information
Full name	Gary Taylor-Fletcher
Date of birth	04/06/1981
Place of birth	Liverpool, England
Nickname	Fletch
Position	Forward
Club information
Current club	Huddersfield Town
Number	10
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
1999-2001 2001 2001-2003 2001-2002 2002 2002-2003 2003-2005 2005-	Northwich Victoria Hull City (Loan) Leyton Orient Grays Athletic (Loan) Dagenham & Redbridge (Loan) Dagenham & Redbridge (Loan) Lincoln City Huddersfield Town	43 (11) 5 (0) 21 (1) 4 (3) 3 (1) 5 (0) 80 (26) 59 (19)
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 02/12/2006.

Gary Taylor-Fletcher (formerly Gary Fletcher) is a professional footballer, currently playing for Huddersfield Town in Coca-Cola League One in England. He has been known as Gary Taylor-Fletcher, since his marriage, after he compromised with his wife who was the last Taylor in her family.

After being bought on a free transfer from Lincoln City in June 2005, Fletch (as manager Peter Jackson likes to call him) scored a hat-trick against Chesterfield in the Carling Cup to dispel any suggestions that because he was wearing the number 10 shirt, he would be a useless striker, as in the previous 2 seasons, the occupiers of the Number 10 shirt (Jon Newby and Junior Mendes), were not really successful at Town and had both moved on.

During October and November, Fletch was consistently fighting between Pawel Abbott and local legend Andy Booth for a starting place in the line-up, and most occasions he had to settle for a place on the bench. However, during late December, he came off the bench to score 2 last-minute equalisers against Rotherham United and Barnsley, but refuted claims that he was just a "super-sub".

Then in early January, he scored probably the goal of his career as he scored against Chelsea in the FA Cup 3rd Round match at Stamford Bridge, which for 7 minutes put Town on level terms with the Premiership champions.

During the end of the season, he scored some more crucial goals against Barnsley and Bournemouth, before scoring Town's only goal in the first leg of the Play-Offs against Barnsley at Oakwell.

Also, during parts of the season he was seen as a right-winger and occasionally played there so Peter Jackson could have all of his 3 main strikers on at the same time.

On 8 August 2006, Taylor-Fletcher scored the 500,000th goal in the Football League, with a fierce 25-yard drive that nestled into the top-left corner, to lead the Terriers to a 3-0 home victory over Rotherham United.[1]

[edit] External links

• Gary Taylor-Fletcher career stats at Soccerbase

Huddersfield Town F.C. - Current Squad
1 Rachubka | 2 Holdsworth | 3 Adams | 4 Hudson | 5 Mirfin | 6 N. Clarke | 7 Brandon | 8 Worthington | 9 Abbott | 10 Taylor-Fletcher | 11 Schofield | 12 Ahmed | 14 T. Clarke | 15 McAliskey | 16 McIntosh | 17 McCombe | 18 Beckett | 19 Collins | 21 Hardy | 22 Young | 23 Booth | 27 Glennon | 30 Hand | 31 Skarz | -- Eastwood | Manager: Jackson