David Taylor

[sydney_bronco09]

Oh boy what have the Broncos done!

 

[Bucking Beads]

oh Bruno where are you??

 

[Scumbag]

Perhaps he's set out to show the South Sydney management what he can do before the season's end to get favourable selection opportunities next year.

He could have easily played like this in all the years he's been here despite what others have said about him not getting enough chances and being treated too harshly for perceived poor form etc.

Alternatively, he might have woken up on the right side of the bed this morning and had a pearler, just like he did last week.

I can't blame the Brisbane management for showing him the door though based on past form and performance during his stay with the club.

Who knows?

The dotted line has been autographed and there's nothing anyone here can do.

 

[Foordy]

^^^ i don't think the Brisbane management show Taylor the Door, they just weren't prepared at the time to match the Souths massive offer

 

[Scumbag]

Yes that's true. I do remember.

 

[ddd]

The fact is guys, you can't have a guy on the books chewing up heaps of the salary cap who takes 20 weeks to get into form. I know that he is a young prop and they take a while, but consideration needs to be had to the fact he came back from the off season 20kgs overweight - which is a heap, as he has shown, its taken him 20 weeks to get into form. Obviously the boy needed someone to look after, take him under their wing (seemed as though Bennett wasn't prepared to and Ivan had his own problems) - perhaps Gordie will have the time and ability to get Taylor into form.

I'm not denying his form at the moment - he is unbelievable at the moment, but it will be interesting to see how he starts off next year - and I suppose we can let Souths do the hard work and hope he comes back in a few years time, if he actually develops, as he and his gf both have family in Bris

 

[dominik]

^^^ i don't think the Brisbane management show Taylor the Door, they just weren't prepared at the time to match the Souths massive offer

I have a feeling he would have stayed for a reasonable offer -- not the ridiculous money Souths paid -- if they gave him a starting spot.

The guy would have been a moron to pass up the deal he was offered to spend another year either on the Broncos bench or playing for the Comets every other week.

Ivan and Bruno screwed this one up.

How many forwards are going around at 21 who are a solid 115kg (not a pile of flab or a 6'5" beanpole), who can skillfully pass and offload, who aren't always breaking down, and are capable of bulldozing through packs and breaking a game open like he can? Sure he makes a few defensive errors and gives away the odd penalty but to put things in perspective: how good were Webcke and Petero at the same age?

We had something unique in Taylor and we've lost him.

 

[Scorchie]

You don't sign someone on the chance they may come good. They'd given him enough time, and up until recently, he wasn't delivering.

Good luck to him, though!

 

[rnabokov]

You don't sign someone on the chance they may come good. They'd given him enough time, and up until recently, he wasn't delivering.

Good luck to him, though!

The only problem though that the limited time Taylor was given was the wrong time - as a bash and barge battering ram prop.

As a number of us observed previously, Taylor's real forte is as a wide runner. We're now seeing what he can deliver.

Pity.

 

[ningnangnong]

Taylor is going to Souths, get over it people.

Just appreciate how he's playing at the moment.

 

[dominik]

You don't sign someone on the chance they may come good. They'd given him enough time, and up until recently, he wasn't delivering.

Good luck to him, though!

That's a fair call, but the guy was 20 years old. He already showed what he could do in attack, scoring and setting up tries. Needs to improve in defense as a forward but then forwards take time to develop. My point still stands: who else has Taylor's size and ability at 21?

What he needed was to be thrown in the deep end and forced to come good, which he finally has. Not play him for a week then drop him to the Comets.

They could never really decide what to do with him. He is never going to be a tackling machine or a workhorse. He's an attacking forward. As a battering ram he's good for 25-30 minutes a half. Nothing wrong with that. It brings people to the football.

Anyway, Henjak's tactic playing him out wide obviously paid off tonight. Scored and set up our only two tries against the best team in the competition and played the full 80 minutes. Can't ask for much more than that.

 

[joshobro]

Can't we get him to do a Luke Lewis and back out and we can give them Clinton? haha

 

[broncosil]

Have to agree with Rock. Taylor had 3 years to play like this (on and off) and he hasn't delivered. For the great form he is in now, he certainly as areas of his game that needs major improving. He was offered 220k, which is more than generous, especially for his age.

However, him going to Souths may be his biggest downfall, especially if they just let him do whatever he wants. He needs someone on his back, because honestly, the only way he came into this form is because someone had the guts to drop him.

 

[Chumbason]

I think WB, Bruno and Ivan all got it wrong whenthey focussed all our $$$ on a back line, but left us with a pack that has to off it's brain just to match other teams. Our biggest drama in the backs for years has been no other option other than Locky, but we fixed that by getting wallace, so why go after a five star outside back in falou? we should have gone after a five star forward and/or maybe kept hannett & taylor instead. With a good pack, a good playmaker and good finisher can't do a thing... this year has proven that.

 

[Je$ter]

The fact is guys, you can't have a guy on the books chewing up heaps of the salary cap who takes 20 weeks to get into form. I know that he is a young prop and they take a while, but consideration needs to be had to the fact he came back from the off season 20kgs overweight - which is a heap, as he has shown, its taken him 20 weeks to get into form. Obviously the boy needed someone to look after, take him under their wing (seemed as though Bennett wasn't prepared to and Ivan had his own problems) - perhaps Gordie will have the time and ability to get Taylor into form.

I'm not denying his form at the moment - he is unbelievable at the moment, but it will be interesting to see how he starts off next year - and I suppose we can let Souths do the hard work and hope he comes back in a few years time, if he actually develops, as he and his gf both have family in Bris

20kg? Try 3.

DT is in a rich vein of form right now, I don't think it's taken him 20weeks to find this form it was always there, just having confidence in himself makes a huge difference and there is no pressure on him to play well sicne he's got a contract for next year.

like NNN said, just be happy he's playing this well coming into the finals series.

 

[dominik]

Nah, Broncos made the right call on this one.

Taylor was in shit form, was lazy at training, always rocking up over-weight, has had more bad games than good games in the games he had played....Souths offered him 300k and it was an offer he couldn't resist. There's really nothing we can do about it. Even if we offered him 200k (which would be ridiculous) I doubt he would have stayed.

He wasn't working hard enough, but you've got to take his age into consideration. How many great props are going around at 19-21? They take time to develop and it's no surprise the best ones are in their late 20's-early 30's. No way should Brisbane have paid anywhere near Souths' offer because it was ridiculous, but I think playing him more as Henjak has done the past few weeks is what he wanted more than the money.

I remember standing next to him in 2008 and he was a lot smaller than he was in previous years and compared to how he is now. That experiment didn't work. He plays best around 115kg and this year he's shown that. He's not a butterball like Weyman or running around with skinny legs like Mason either. Anyway, it doesn't matter now, we've only got him for a few more games. I just miss the days where Brisbane had great forwards and I think he would have developed into a great one for us.

 

[andirect]

whoever is responsible for letting dave taylor leave the club should be fired immediately. while he didn't show this form at the start of the year, he simply wasn't given a chance to show what he's got (this year and in years past), thus became disillusioned with the broncos lack of interest in him.

it's an absolute disgrace and there's no way this guy should be in another jumper to brisbane.

i don't care what people say, this guy has been mismanaged from coaching staff to management. i know there could have been issues behind the scenes (laziness?), but anyone with two eyes could see from day 1 this guy was going to be awesome. i cannot believe he's leaving. gordon tallis and the rest of souths would be rubbing their hands together. no way he should be playing for anyone but the broncos. it's the biggest blunder since petro, and potentionally bigger.

 

[Foordy]

whoever is responsible for letting dave taylor leave the club should be fired immediately. while he didn't show this form at the start of the year, he simply wasn't given a chance to show what he's got (this year and in years past), thus became disillusioned with the broncos lack of interest in him.

it's an absolute disgrace and there's no way this guy should be in another jumper to brisbane.

i don't care what people say, this guy has been mismanaged from coaching staff to management. i know there could have been issues behind the scenes (laziness?), but anyone with two eyes could see from day 1 this guy was going to be awesome. i cannot believe he's leaving. gordon tallis and the rest of souths would be rubbing their hands together. no way he should be playing for anyone but the broncos. it's the biggest blunder since petro, and potentionally bigger.

so your saying that we should pay a guy that is lazy on the training park and not playing well in games (in NRL) 300k a season just because he has potential. that would have been a big big mistake. if your paying a guy that sort of money he needs to be performing consistantly, not take 3/4 of the season to hit form