Greg Taylor

You play football too eh?

 

The goal wasn't his fault. If he'd gone for the ball and didn't get it you'd be blaming him for diving in. There was a lot still to happen after he didn't go for the ball. There are other defenders there other than him you know. Where were they? Why was the guy at the back post given a free header?

 

The ball is whipped in with pace behind both Scales and CCV. Surely we don’t have idiots actually suggesting the cross should have been cut out by either of them? Johnston is also watching the winger so he isn’t at fault whatsoever. The only blame you could pin on CCV is that he has lost Morata. Again though, if Taylor does his job in the first place, the cross doesn’t come in. A key part of being a full back, and something you are told from a young age.

 

If my auntie had baws, she would be my uncle. If he continues going for the ball once he starts to, he wins the ball, and this conversation isn’t happening.

 

Mad @murphy88 on a usual one the night, blabbering all sorts of * to try and disguise the fact he's jumped the gun and is now trebling down on it.

Late one for you the night bruv hope yer phone's charged up

 

Must be the majority of us that “jumped the gun” because the consensus amongst most is that Taylor is at fault. Which he is. I’ve watched it over and over and it’s 100% Taylor’s ball to go and win. It’s not his fault he isn’t good enough for CL level, most of us knew that in the summer, I will say that.

 

He crossed it from the corner of the box. It's hard to stop a cross from there. FBs are expected to stop a cross when a player runs down the wing. There was a player on the outside that if Taylor tried to tackle the guy with the ball he'd have passed it to.
The problem was nobody clearing the cross or marking the scorer.
And I've just had another look at it and there's no way Taylor was a cert to get the initial ball if he'd gone for it. It was a 50:50.

 

It wasn’t 50/50. He was clear favourite to win the ball, and he starts to go for it and then backs off. He would have stopped the cross had he went for it. Forget the winger. The main danger was the man in possession of the ball. Hence why a few seconds later it was in the back of our net.

Both Scales and CCV have a decent line, and the cross is whipped in behind them. They would have had to be really deep in order to cut out the cross.

 

I know mate, I don't understand it myself, the amount of folk slamminghim for it. He could have won the ball aye, but he had other scenarios to think about at the time. The majority are going way over the top here. It's a lazy, almost retarded stance to take saying he was solely to blame for that goal.

 

We could go on all night saying the same things and never agreeing so I think we should leave it there.

 

I wouldn’t say solely. I mean, you could probably pick up a 100 other things if you were scrutinising it from start to finish. If he goes for it after Bernardo gets a toe in though, he would definitely have won the ball. It’s poor decision making in a split second moment. It’s they split second mistakes you get punished for at CL level unfortunately.

 

If my auntie had baws etc.

People as so fixated on the idea that Peter Lawwell decided not to buy a left back in the summer so he could keep his driveway batteries charged in the lead up to winter, that wee GT takes dogs abuse if he's no brushed his hair right in the morning.

Embellishing my point obviously, but you get the picture. I think a lot of people have an agenda against him, and it clouds their judgement of him. He's not ideal against top European sides, but the criticism he gets is way out of proportion.

 

We knew this going into the summer transfer window though. We also knew Bernabei is hopeless. So surely the logical solution to that is to bring one in. That’s how the football industry usually works.

 

Tbf, to him.. he puts a great ball into Maeda for Palma's goal.

 

Aye that was a cracking ball. He is good on the ball to be fair to him. That’s not an issue.

 

So that means everyone at the club charged with bringing in players, failed to spot GT's weaknesses...or just decided not to bother their * doing anything about it?

You don't think it's possible we had options lined up but for whatever reason the deals didn't get done? Is it automatically self-sabotage by the club, for the purpose of saving a few grand and having to listen to blabbering idiots giving them grief as if they've a clue what they're talking about?

 

I think he's been much better recently after a very shaky start to the season. That pass for Maeda for Palma's goal was top drawer. Just watched on the unique angle video. Ooft.

 

You’d need to ask the people in charge of bringing players to the club. Not for the first time though, we didn’t invest well enough in first team players in my opinion, and the window didn’t match up to what Rodgers was saying when he first arrived. Whether bringing in a left back was part of his plans I don’t know. I hope it is, because we need to upgrade on Taylor for Europe, no doubt it.

 

I don't need to ask them anything mate, am not the one accusing them, with zero inside knowledge, of purposefully neglecting to strengthen the team. I'd suggest that yourself and plenty others would do well to ask them directly before passing judgement. It's not an easy thing to do clearly, or we'd be doing it every single window.