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Taylor brings with him a raft of experience having over 500 appearances under his belt along with 12 international caps for Wales, the last coming in August 2004 in a 2-0 win in Latvia. The 36-year old having mainly featured on the bench for Doncaster this season though, the Weston-super-Mare born striker starting eleven games and being a substitute seven times but scoring no goals for Rovers in the current campaign.
Beginning his career with Bristol Rovers, after initially being released by Southampton, Taylor then moved on to Crystal Palace for £750,000, rising to £1.25 million, in 1995. His list of clubs doesn't stop there though with subsequent stays at Sheffield United, Manchester City for £400,000, Port Vale (loan), QPR (loan), Burnley (loan then permanent), Nottingham Forest for £500,000, Crewe (loan), Tranmere and then finally Doncaster from the end of January 2008 onwards.
The veteran frontman joins United at a time when the side are finding goals extremely hard to come by, with the ever expanding injury list not helping matters either. Taylor, at 6'2, hopefully adding a bit of beef to a Carlisle frontline which all too often struggles aerially to make anything of some good delivery into the opposition penalty area, his first chance to do that coming in tomorrow night's massive relegation six-pointer on the road at Crewe.
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