Taylor Faces the Media

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supercoach

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Just watched the press conference on tiger tv. If Taylor gets sacked he could walk into Politics. He was relentless, just kept hammering the point of team cohesion. Thought the press would chew him up and spit him out, but he did not take a backward step, just kept to the script. It was like the six weeks we have just been through of jobs and growth by the libs

The funny thing he kept hammering the point that over the past seven weeks the cohesion has not been what he expected and especially when Farah was in the team, from a punters point of view we have looked good over the past seven weeks especially when Farah played.

Anyway after todays conference I nearly believe he is telling the truth,but than I give myself a uppercut
 
One thing I did notice he used the words me and we a lot. On one hand he was trying to convince the world that it was his call and in his option a call that had to be made. In other words taking ownership of the situation. Than he would say we have decided..blah blah blah. So was this an attempt to share the flak around a little.
 
Did anyone ask the one question that I can't work out any sensible answer for? What changed between Tuesday at 5pm, when Farah was in the best 17, and less than 24 hours later when he suddenly isn't?
 
@supercoach said:
Just watched the press conference on tiger tv. If Taylor gets sacked he could walk into Politics. He was relentless, just kept hammering the point of team cohesion. Thought the press would chew him up and spit him out, but he did not take a backward step, just kept to the script. It was like the six weeks we have just been through of jobs and growth by the libs

The funny thing he kept hammering the point that over the past seven weeks the cohesion has not been what he expected and especially when Farah was in the team, from a punters point of view we have looked good over the past seven weeks especially when Farah played.

Anyway after todays conference I nearly believe he is telling the truth,but than I give myself a uppercut
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:laughing: that's pretty much how i saw it too, before i gave myself an uppercut.
 
@2041 said:
Did anyone ask the one question that I can't work out any sensible answer for? What changed between Tuesday at 5pm, when Farah was in the best 17, and less than 24 hours later when he suddenly isn't?
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It was the sides day off on Tuesday and they didn't want to call Robbie back early from his break

He wanted to tell Robbie and then the team as a whole the decision

It was in the interview
 
JT must have has some media/public speaking training in the lead up to this announcement.

Handled it well and didn't look like a confused teenager in the headlights, like he did this time last year.
 
@Abraham said:
JT must have has some media/public speaking training in the lead up to this announcement.

Handled it well and didn't look like a confused teenager in the headlights, like he did this time last year.
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Your right, if you knew nothing at all about the saga, you would think this guys is one strong and determined guy who has a vision he will not back away from….........but being the cynic I am I just find it hard to believe anyone involved in this saga
 
@happy tiger said:
@2041 said:
Did anyone ask the one question that I can't work out any sensible answer for? What changed between Tuesday at 5pm, when Farah was in the best 17, and less than 24 hours later when he suddenly isn't?

It was the sides day off on Tuesday and they didn't want to call Robbie back early from his break

He wanted to tell Robbie and then the team as a whole the decision

It was in the interview
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Was my main question too -

"We gave Robbie and Woodsy five days off after Origin so they weren’t required into the building until yesterday. Tuesday was a day off for everybody and I didn’t want to firstly ask Robbie to come in on his last day off during his time away, Woodsy was still away up the coast and I wanted to communicate the decision to Robbie clearly and the decision to the whole team clearly before anybody was given the information. To do that on Tuesday when everybody was away was not good for us. I understand how it looked but it certainly wasn’t me hiding away from anything. If we were training on Tuesday we would have named the teams as if they were going to play but the team was not training, Robbie was on leave and I just thought it was unfair — just put too much pressure on everybody had we gone that way."
 
It sounds like Taylor handled this well from a media perspective. It doesn't change things from my perspective though. It just seems a dumb decision.
 
I think the teams cohesion in attack in recent weeks has less to do with Robbie not playing and more to do with Elijah Taylor joining our squad. You can also throw in the return of Tedesco from his injury layoff.

Still can't understand how he thinks Robbie has such a detrimental effect on the team, yet Naqiama's defence isn't an issue.
 
I just watched this. JT has improved in relation to handling the media considerably.

Still I think that this is all a powerplay and it has nothing to do with winning games.
 
@stevetiger said:
I just watched this. JT has improved in relation to handling the media considerably.

Still I think that this is all a powerplay and it has nothing to do with winning games.
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Orly?
Wow!
 
I wonder if any of this would be an issue, if wests tigers were sitting higher up on the ladder.
Dropped 4 points in losing golden point to the storm and bulldogs.
 
@westTAHger said:
I wonder if any of this would be an issue, if wests tigers were sitting higher up on the ladder.
Dropped 4 points in losing golden point to the storm and bulldogs.
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Not to mention the two ball fiasco against the knights
 
So we are making this decision based on attack cohesiveness but the player dropped is our best defensive player yet our defense is woeful across the park. So JT have you given up fixing defense and instead going for all out attack ala Tim Sheens? And by the way the only time Edwards played he missed tackles that put us on the back foot.
 
@sheer64 said:
So we are making this decision based on attack cohesiveness but the player dropped is our best defensive player yet our defense is woeful across the park. So JT have you given up fixing defense and instead going for all out attack ala Tim Sheens? And by the way the only time Edwards played he missed tackles that put us on the back foot.
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ET is our best defensive player.
 
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