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Taylor
Oct 19, 2014 11:27:04 GMT
Post by Gas Go Marching In on Oct 19, 2014 11:27:04 GMT
Taylor needs to be dropped out of the team for a few games now. He has played very well in quite a few games this season without scoring regular goals but that miss to me yesterday was a sign of this run of games without scoring regularly getting to him, I'm positive that was a 'mental miss' yesterday. A confident striker slots that away no problem. When he's through on goal, he's thinking about this bad run he's on, and being asked in his interview the day before about his previous miss against FGR costing us winning the game and the fact it was against his old club.
Listen, Taylor is a very good footballer and some of the abuse I have read since yesterday's game such as - he's useless, worst striker we've ever had etc is disgusting and miles off the truth IMO. However, it is obvious that his goalscoring record isn't good enough and I think it's got to the stage now where I would drop him for a few games and let him start afresh as it is clearly getting to him mentally.
I think Clarke's problem is for whatever reason he doesn't trust neither White or Harrison and hence why he has carried on playing Taylor, he also believes/believed in Taylor which I don't think you can blame him for as it is obvious Taylor has good potential and if Taylor had started banging them in then we would all be sitting here praising Taylor for backing his players and giving them confidence at a time when it would have been easy to drop him. Unfortunately, Taylor has let him down in that respect and hence why he is now being forced to look for another striker.
I still believe Taylor could come good but leave him out for a few games now, put the pressure on others and hopefully he will come back and be a key player in our push for promotion (yes promotion is still possible despite all the doom and gloom after our first defeat in 10).
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Taylor
Oct 19, 2014 12:02:01 GMT
Post by Mark Ash on Oct 19, 2014 12:02:01 GMT
Yup. Agree with all that. (Although you once said Taylor when you meant DC, I think.)
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Oct 19, 2014 12:04:26 GMT
Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2014 12:04:26 GMT
Taylor needs to be dropped out of the team for a few games now. He has played very well in quite a few games this season without scoring regular goals but that miss to me yesterday was a sign of this run of games without scoring regularly getting to him, I'm positive that was a 'mental miss' yesterday. A confident striker slots that away no problem. When he's through on goal, he's thinking about this bad run he's on, and being asked in his interview the day before about his previous miss against FGR costing us winning the game and the fact it was against his old club. Listen, Taylor is a very good footballer and some of the abuse I have read since yesterday's game such as - he's useless, worst striker we've ever had etc is disgusting and miles off the truth IMO. However, it is obvious that his goalscoring record isn't good enough and I think it's got to the stage now where I would drop him for a few games and let him start afresh as it is clearly getting to him mentally. I think Clarke's problem is for whatever reason he doesn't trust neither White or Harrison and hence why he has carried on playing Taylor, he also believes/believed in Taylor which I don't think you can blame him for as it is obvious Taylor has good potential and if Taylor had started banging them in then we would all be sitting here praising Taylor for backing his players and giving them confidence at a time when it would have been easy to drop him. Unfortunately, Taylor has let him down in that respect and hence why he is now being forced to look for another striker. I still believe Taylor could come good but leave him out for a few games now, put the pressure on others and hopefully he will come back and be a key player in our push for promotion (yes promotion is still possible despite all the doom and gloom after our first defeat in 10). Wholeheartedly agree. I can only assume last year's indiscretions are still fresh in DC's mind re: Harrison. I would start White at Dorchester, where he should hopefully be able to score a confidence boosting goal or two, then give him the guarantee of the next three league games to prove himself. It's a tricky situation for sure and we need another striker regardless.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2014 12:15:23 GMT
We cant keep a player in the team on the off chance that we may get a penalty.We have been there before. I will repeat what I said after the Grimsby match.No one at this club will score 15 goals this season.Unless of course we sign a proper striker,we cannot afford to keep the useless Taylor in any longer.Nothing personal against the bloke.He just isn't good enough.
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Taylor
Oct 19, 2014 12:16:27 GMT
Post by Mark Ash on Oct 19, 2014 12:16:27 GMT
If only Balanta would come in and dazzle us, banging in a couple.
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Taylor
Oct 19, 2014 12:40:03 GMT
Post by Gas Go Marching In on Oct 19, 2014 12:40:03 GMT
If only Balanta would come in and dazzle us, banging in a couple. Seen him at the game yesterday (at least I think it was him), looked trimmed down but then was in a suit.
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Taylor
Oct 19, 2014 13:09:09 GMT
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Post by baggins on Oct 19, 2014 13:09:09 GMT
If only Balanta would come in and dazzle us, banging in a couple. Seen him at the game yesterday (at least I think it was him), looked trimmed down but then was in a suit. You wore a suit to the Rovers?
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Taylor
Oct 19, 2014 13:11:47 GMT
Post by Gas Go Marching In on Oct 19, 2014 13:11:47 GMT
Seen him at the game yesterday (at least I think it was him), looked trimmed down but then was in a suit. You wore a suit to the Rovers? No, Balanta did.
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Taylor
Oct 19, 2014 13:14:13 GMT
Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2014 13:14:13 GMT
The thing is strikers are judged on goals scored,individualy or as a partnership and there failing in that department. Matty Taylors finishing or his positional sense is not that of a goal scorer imo,he just leathers it,either straight at the keeper or over the bar. Someone needs to coach him on finishing like Penrice did with Jason Roberts,practice one on ones after training and the like,because if he improves that part of his game we would have a very good player at this level,if he does'nt he will soon be gone,such is the nature of the beast in football.
Put him on the bench lets see what Ellis and White can do,but still think we need at least one winger,midfielder and striker if we want to challenge
Also i thought Sinclair looked a good player for them,shame we haven't got both brothers,but then again he was up against our midfield
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Post by Topper Gas on Oct 19, 2014 13:14:15 GMT
Problem is on recent performances neither Harrison nor White would ever get in the positions to miss the chances Taylor does.
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Taylor
Oct 19, 2014 13:17:50 GMT
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Post by baggins on Oct 19, 2014 13:17:50 GMT
You wore a suit to the Rovers? No, Balanta did. Whooosh.
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Taylor
Oct 19, 2014 13:26:29 GMT
Post by Gas Go Marching In on Oct 19, 2014 13:26:29 GMT
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Taylor
Oct 19, 2014 13:32:42 GMT
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Post by socrates on Oct 19, 2014 13:32:42 GMT
We cant keep a player in the team on the off chance that we may get a penalty.We have been there before. I will repeat what I said after the Grimsby match.No one at this club will score 15 goals this season.Unless of course we sign a proper striker,we cannot afford to keep the useless Taylor in any longer.Nothing personal against the bloke.He just isn't good enough. Got anyone in mind when you say " a proper striker " ?
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Post by Gas Go Marching In on Oct 19, 2014 13:37:02 GMT
We cant keep a player in the team on the off chance that we may get a penalty.We have been there before. I will repeat what I said after the Grimsby match.No one at this club will score 15 goals this season.Unless of course we sign a proper striker,we cannot afford to keep the useless Taylor in any longer.Nothing personal against the bloke.He just isn't good enough. Got anyone in mind when you say " a proper striker " ? Yeah, Aguero.
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Taylor
Oct 19, 2014 13:45:22 GMT
Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2014 13:45:22 GMT
the problem is that anyone who could potentially guarantee you 20+ goals in the conference will be on the radar of league 1 and league 2 clubs, which makes landing such a marksman difficult....
the reason why we have taylor, white, Harrison and cunnington (loan) is because they obviously weren't deemed good enough by sides in a higher division, hence why were in a situation where getting better is actually a massive gamble....
I believe we need to find this 20+ striker within our own ranks, potentially we have 3 of them, in practice we have none. our success this season depends on one (or more) of them stepping up, and proving them selves....
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Taylor
Oct 19, 2014 14:29:08 GMT
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Post by Gas Go Marching In on Oct 19, 2014 14:29:08 GMT
Having just watched Liverpool, at least Taylor does works hard and plays well sometimes even when he doesn't score. Yet again Balotelli was awful and missed an open goal. How Lambert isn't getting a look in I don't know.
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Post by Wembley_Gas on Oct 19, 2014 15:12:54 GMT
Having just watched Liverpool, at least Taylor does works hard and plays well sometimes even when he doesn't score. Yet again Balotelli was awful and missed an open goal. How Lambert isn't getting a look in I don't know. Got to agree with you there - I looked at that Balotelli miss and his awful all round display and thought I'd rather have Taylor any day and Balotelli is probably earning more than both sets of players and officials and six and a half thousand of the seven thousand crowd at yesterday's game put together!!!
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Taylor
Oct 19, 2014 16:33:19 GMT
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Post by vivalagas on Oct 19, 2014 16:33:19 GMT
He should be playing on the wing imo.
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Taylor
Oct 19, 2014 16:56:02 GMT
Post by I Voted For Kodos on Oct 19, 2014 16:56:02 GMT
He should be playing on the wing imo. I think he'd do quite a good job as a centre attacking midfielder. He's comfortable on the ball in the final third and his workrate is excellent. It wouldn't fit into our current formation but a 4-3-3, could work. There was a game at home this season (Woking?) when in the second half we tried it, and it looked quite effective. Mansell Clarke Sinclair Taylor Cunnington Martin I think was the set-up.
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Taylor
Oct 19, 2014 17:10:48 GMT
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Post by socrates on Oct 19, 2014 17:10:48 GMT
He should be playing on the wing imo. I think he'd do quite a good job as a centre attacking midfielder. He's comfortable on the ball in the final third and his workrate is excellent. It wouldn't fit into our current formation but a 4-3-3, could work. There was a game at home this season (Woking?) when in the second half we tried it, and it looked quite effective. Mansell Clarke Sinclair Taylor Cunnington Martin I think was the set-up. We've got no wingers other than Martin so this would suit the players we've got better than playing 4-4-2 with central mids out wide which is one of the things that was wrong last season.
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