David Taylor

[I bleed Maroon]

Hindsight is 20/20 it seems. I couldn't disagree with myself more now after watching Taylor's stint in SL and also with promising young guns like TPJ and Sua coming through. Taylor has had more chances than any other player in his position has ever gotten. He's played Origins, Tests, finals yet for all his raw talent as a footy player, you can't make up for pure stupidity and laziness.

Your free lunch is long over Dave, and you look like you could afford to put the fork down for awhile as well. You have been involved in some of the best plays I've seen from a front rower, notably the intercept against the Tigers where you were chased down by Bryce Gibbs but the play led to a try regardless. Ever since then, it's been a slippery dip of mediocrity and wasted potential.

 

[Old Mate]

Not eligible for an early plea after already serving a one match ban?

I quite like that system. Why can't we have it here?

I was thinking it'd work great for us

 

[LittleDavey]

I remember someone on this forum back 3 years ago saying that the reason why Taylor is such a flop is because he had so much ability and talent that he never had to work for anything as a junior. He just skated through on his own ability and it caught up to him.

His own fault that he pissed his career into the wind. Could've been the best second rower off all time but he never tried or had a go.

I won't claim it as it probably wasn't me, but I've often said the same thing about him. I've seen it happen many times with gifted people. Academically bright people who kill it at school all of a sudden can't step up to university because they have to work at it and they never learnt how to study properly. Sportspeople like DT who have all the raw natural talent to take them to first grade, but who fail when they get there because all of a sudden they have to work and never learnt how.

It's a terrible shame. All the talent in the world won't take you to the top without the work ethic to match. Goes for anything.

 

[Alec]

He should have been played as a front rower, it might have toughened him up, and then he'd have been invaluable there.

 

[Foordy]

He should have been played as a front rower, it might have toughened him up, and then he'd have been invaluable there.

We tried that.

He wasn't prepared to m as ke the hard yards up the middle. He only wanted to run at the smaller men on the edges.

 

[Fozz]

Pea heart, peanut brain.

 

[Porthoz]

Pea heart, peanut brain.

Exactly... sums it up pretty nicely!

 

[MaroubraBroncos]

Such a shame. He could of been anything. So much talent

 

[austin71]

The last game he played for us at Suncorp i made a sign that said "Don't go Dave" ..They told me to pull it down before the game. Maybe with good reason lol

 

[MDA]

I won't claim it as it probably wasn't me, but I've often said the same thing about him. I've seen it happen many times with gifted people. Academically bright people who kill it at school all of a sudden can't step up to university because they have to work at it and they never learnt how to study properly. Sportspeople like DT who have all the raw natural talent to take them to first grade, but who fail when they get there because all of a sudden they have to work and never learnt how.

It's a terrible shame. All the talent in the world won't take you to the top without the work ethic to match. Goes for anything.

This so much. I don't doubt he tried hard at times (he did have some patches of good form), but I think ultimately old habits slowly crept back and he would end up just as uncommitted as what he was to begin with. Going back to academics here, I've seen people pull their finger out and start putting the required effort in once they've had a significant failure. I suspect that in Taylor's case he struggled to adapt some work ethic once a couple of clubs didn't want him, or perhaps more simply, he was too lazy to.

 

[Sproj]

The last game he played for us at Suncorp i made a sign that said "Don't go Dave" ..They told me to pull it down before the game. Maybe with good reason lol

Hindsight is a wonderful thing I guess but he looked amazing for us towards the end there. He really looked like the sky was his limit and I certainly didn't want him to go, I was gutted the Broncs let him walk. I was absolutely filthy about it. I really thought we had a let a future superstar walk. Fast forward basically a decade later and it is undoubted that the Broncs made the right decision there. I still reckon going to Souths killed him though. These young blokes who show amazing signs and then get snapped up by struggling clubs on inflated prices does more harm to them in good in most cases I think.

 

[Rabbir]

Odd thread to bump from someone who hasn't worn the jersey in 5 years?