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Greg Taylor

Discussion in 'Celtic Chat' started by Notorious, Sep 2, 2019.

Discuss Greg Taylor in the Celtic Chat area at TalkCeltic.net.

  1. Liam Scales

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    Three biggest domestic games this season - yesterday, the 3-0 and the League Cup final. He was tremendous in all of them.
     
  2. stew37

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    Great performance from the boy. First class attitude.
     
  3. Big els

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    No sure but I’m certain it wasn’t pleasantries. Good. We need folk in our team with that wind up nasty streak.

    For the amount of stick he gets from many of us and I do still agree we need better but credit where it’s due. Terrific game yesterday.
    Well done wee man.


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  4. Luis1967 Gold Member Gold Member

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    56th min when he laughs at Jack and shouts something at him.

    McGregor had to calm him down at HT when he was having a word with him. Can’t think of anything that happened between them first half though.
     
  5. PaulM1888 Moderator Moderator

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    Thought he was excellent; tackling, composure, passing, positioning all there.

    Ange clearly likes the guy for a reason and it’s good to see him changing peoples minds, mine included.

    You’ll always get the ‘aye we could do better but’ and we could but he’s someone that’s been brought in to fulfil a specific role and more often than not he’s done it - gives everything every game as well which is a good attribute to fall back on when it’s not going great.
     
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  6. Notorious Gold Member Gold Member

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    Think we're caught with our * in our hands a lot of the time at left and right back, moreso the left. The amount of times against the unwashed one of their players had free reign down one of our wings was borderline silly.

    In Europe, that sort of positional mismanagement is far more impactful. If we were against a good team this weekend, Taylor being out of position and Kyogo blowing lungs out to cover for him would've cost us our lead at a minimum.
     
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    Much like Ralston, he can be a really effective backup/rotational player for us. But if we’re serious about doing well in Europe again we need someone a bit more athletic and skilful.
     
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    Considering the magnitude of the game, Sunday was by far his best performance for us I think. Sunday is the type of game where it suits him far more in my opinion. Especially second half when it was all about defending for us. He did have the good run first half and it ended up with Rogic having a chance, but apart from that, both he and Juranovic didn’t really get forward. Ralston got to the byline a couple of times when he come on, but it was more about the defensive effort for our full backs, and Taylor done very well in that regard.
     
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    He's been performing white nicely under Ange think people just like a whipping Bhoy,

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    I'll give him his due, he has been playing well, but he gets caught of out position far too often and if we're to be competitive in Europe we can't have that. Bodo took the absolute * with it, imagine what a Bayern would do.
     
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    I like his attitude and I like him as a person, I think his overall contribution to the squad is a definite benefit to us and I like having him around, he's earned his place as an integral team member. As a player he's steady and decent enough domestically most of the time but in an ideal world he's still a back up, he's limited and there's no getting away from that, as much as I like him.
     
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    I think it's more to do with the way they're told to play. He plays inside and forward a lot of the time. When FBs are forward and a team breaks fast they're always going to get caught up the field at times - I wouldn't say out of position because the manager wants them inside and up the field.
     
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    Even when he's in a defensive position, he's caught out by runs in behind a lot. I appreciate his effort and I think he'll be a great squad player, but an upgrade is needed for Europe in my opinion.
     
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    I think he deserves the praise he is currently getting for playing well, but if we are looking at positions we can strengthen then left back is a must.

    I still only see him as back up, and it’s still a position we should be looking at come the summer.
     
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    Was really good the other day. But it’s a fickle game and a couple of bad games we will all be back on his back. Need to try and get a LB in the summer but Taylor is good back up. When you see the rotation at RB then Taylor will still play plenty games.
     
  17. Notorious Gold Member Gold Member

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    Aye. Exactly this.
     
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    I think he'll be the Tom Boyd of this generation of Celtic players, dependable and integral part of the dressing room. He has shown that he can do it in the league and will become better with time the more he plays.
     
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    Like Ralston, this season they shown they are capable of form we'd thought impossible from them.

    Seem like absolute top lads with good work ethic and determination to prove doubters wrong, but they are arguably players we should be using as squad fillers and not regular 11, if they were to maintain a level of performance similar to what we've seen this season, they deserve everything and anything given to them in terms of better contracts and more years at Celtic.

    I'd still look to improve on them though...especially Taylor, it just seems like of we could find the right technically gifted player akin to Juranovic on the left, Ange's system would reach new levels.