Wests Tigers coach Jason Taylor sticks to his guns as make or break season approaches

[innsaneink]

Its called A.D.D.

 

[Byron_Bay_Fan]

The coach alone can't, but he has a big say. Had JT wanted RF to stay the club wouldn't have let him go. But that's water under the bridge.

I agree our game changed without him and we looked good at times. No one can say what would have happened if he was there.

JT has it all ahead of him, he goes well he may get a new contract.

No guessing what happens if we don't.

I think we should have kept him just because he was solid in that position - granting he may have been sometimes starving the halves of the ball. At least we had position covered solidly and a strong captain. As GCT has often stated, we had a lot of players that deserved to go before him. The way the halves were bumbling the attack and defence half the time Farah's hogging was a plus and minus. The Canberra game proved that.

I once lived at Randwick so on my last day there I finally went to the races - could see ruddy nothing from the stands and swore never to return. The local footie derby is good from the hill but we are right on the boundary. Went to Gold Coast stadium near Robina (whatever it is called) and could see nothing much again and swore never to return.

You started off okay BBF and lost it as the first paragraph continued, but where did the second one come from?

Struth that bong last night really done me. Actually I responded to the previous post of sideline eye but quoted the wrong post. The second para was responding to Sideline eye:
I don't know whether the stats showed what I'm saying or not but I was at every home game plus some away games and the difference in attack was easy to see.

I respect SE because he did go to the games with support but was pointing out how sometimes you can't see much. At Robina the big screen was impossible to see from my angle so seen virtually nothing from way back behind goal posts.

 

[innsaneink]

So…youre assuming he couldnt see the games and as such his opinion is wrong or its based on something other than witnessing the games first hand?

 

[Russell]

It is nice to have 13 players on the field doing what they are asked and following the coaches game plan.

Not so good if you only have 12 - in that case it would be better to have a brown dog take the 13th position, at least he wouldn't sabotage the plan.

 

[stryker]

It is nice to have 13 players on the field doing what they are asked and following the coaches game plan.

Not so good if you only have 12 - in that case it would be better to have a brown dog take the 13th position, at least he wouldn't sabotage the plan.

Talking about Simona?

 

[matchball]

I dont understand why people wanted Robbie to stay at the club.
He liked being the big fish in a little pond. The best player in the team status.
He hadn't done anything since 2005 except bomb another premiership and hold grip on his status of best tiger player and origin jersey.
That's all he wanted. Winning wasn't as important to him and that's why he had to go.

 

[innsaneink]

I dont understand why people wanted Robbie to stay at the club.
He liked being the big fish in a little pond. The best player in the team status.
He hadn't done anything since 2005 except bomb another premiership and hold grip on his status of best tiger player and origin jersey.
That's all he wanted. Winning wasn't as important to him and that's why he had to go.


 

[Eddie]

Winning wasn't as important to him and that's why he had to go.

I think you would find this in the "fiction" area of the Library.

 

[matchball]

Winning wasn't as important to him and that's why he had to go.

I think you would find this in the "fiction" area of the Library.

He didn't want to improve the team. He resisted change. He was happy in mediocrity so long as he called the shots and played origin. As soon as the captaincy was stripped he unravelled.
He cared more about the blue jersey. I believe that.

 

[Harvey]

Putting a trip to the US ahead of pre-season training set a terrible example for young players at the club. From that point you could never question whether he was truly committed to the club, the answer was obvious. Would do everything to play an origin game with an injury, but would skip club games because an injury could get worse costing him a blue jersey.
I will be interested to see whether he is selected to play for NSW this year. If I was a selector, I would move on and look for a new hooker, though with Peats injured, the cupboard is fairly bare.

 

[matchball]

Putting a trip to the US ahead of pre-season training set a terrible example for young players at the club. From that point you could never question whether he was truly committed to the club, the answer was obvious. Would do everything to play an origin game with an injury, but would skip club games because an injury could get worse costing him a blue jersey.
I will be interested to see whether he is selected to play for NSW this year. If I was a selector, I would move on and look for a new hooker, though with Peats injured, the cupboard is fairly bare.

Exactly. He would get injured in a club game a few weeks out from origin and he would even say in the media he would be out but alright for origin.
The coveted spot was his prime focus. We never got value out of him when he focused a few months of a season on origin.

We were being dudded for a long time. Club was handicapped with him around.

 

[sheer64]

Based on what may or may not of happened last year you have got to think JT is in a stronger position to be retained then he ever has.

 

[Byron_Bay_Fan]

Winning wasn't as important to him and that's why he had to go.

I think you would find this in the "fiction" area of the Library.

He didn't want to improve the team. He resisted change. He was happy in mediocrity so long as he called the shots and played origin. As soon as the captaincy was stripped he unravelled.
He cared more about the blue jersey. I believe that.

The captaincy was not stripped from him, not officially anyway - it was his way of compromise to help the whole situation. That denotes caring for the Club Even when he lost the opening DH spot he enthusiastically came on after 20 mins and played excellently. I could well understand him hogging the ball early in the season and unfortunately we did not have him hogging the ball and attacking opposition players against the Raiders later on in season.

 

[Pawsandclaws]

Best part of the article is the club has not started talks with JT, a good move by the club as JT will not be in demand. Secondly the bit about all his decisions are best for the club, I call BS, and his team selections alone are a joke.

First sentence was good. Makes perfect sense and even if he was to stay, his price wouldnt be huge. But couldnt resist a dig in the second. Im not sure why any coach, even this guy who you hate, would make deliberate bad decisions (supported by the board mind you) in an attempt to sabotage his own career. Its just doesnt make sense.

To be honest i dont think he deliberately makes bad decisions but when he does he sticks with it irrespective of the consequences e.g Lovett letting in 4 tries in the centers.That to me suggests someone who is slow to react to changing situations not a good trait in a coach

Does anyone remember that game against the Panthers at Leichhardt? 😱pen_mouth:

 

[Harvey]

Winning wasn't as important to him and that's why he had to go.

I think you would find this in the "fiction" area of the Library.

He didn't want to improve the team. He resisted change. He was happy in mediocrity so long as he called the shots and played origin. As soon as the captaincy was stripped he unravelled.
He cared more about the blue jersey. I believe that.

The captaincy was not stripped from him, not officially anyway - it was his way of compromise to help the whole situation. That denotes caring for the Club Even when he lost the opening DH spot he enthusiastically came on after 20 mins and played excellently. I could well understand him hogging the ball early in the season and unfortunately we did not have him hogging the ball and attacking opposition players against the Raiders later on in season.

You are obviously talking about the last round game,because he was front & centre when we were beaten 60-6 in round 8.

 

[Nelson]

Winning wasn't as important to him and that's why he had to go.

I think you would find this in the "fiction" area of the Library.

He didn't want to improve the team. He resisted change. He was happy in mediocrity so long as he called the shots and played origin. As soon as the captaincy was stripped he unravelled.
He cared more about the blue jersey. I believe that.

The captaincy was not stripped from him, not officially anyway - it was his way of compromise to help the whole situation. That denotes caring for the Club Even when he lost the opening DH spot he enthusiastically came on after 20 mins and played excellently. I could well understand him hogging the ball early in the season and unfortunately we did not have him hogging the ball and attacking opposition players against the Raiders later on in season.

Having him against the Raiders wouldn't have made a lick of difference. Stop being ridiculous.

 

[stryker]

I dont understand why people wanted Robbie to stay at the club.
He liked being the big fish in a little pond. The best player in the team status.
He hadn't done anything since 2005 except bomb another premiership and hold grip on his status of best tiger player and origin jersey.
That's all he wanted. Winning wasn't as important to him and that's why he had to go.

If you believe what you wrote to be true then you only started following this club 2015 at the earliest.

 

[stryker]

Putting a trip to the US ahead of pre-season training set a terrible example for young players at the club. From that point you could never question whether he was truly committed to the club, the answer was obvious. Would do everything to play an origin game with an injury, but would skip club games because an injury could get worse costing him a blue jersey.
I will be interested to see whether he is selected to play for NSW this year. If I was a selector, I would move on and look for a new hooker, though with Peats injured, the cupboard is fairly bare.

What a load of crap

 

[innsaneink]

No…. It's spot on... Bar maybe skipping club games.

 

[stryker]

No…. It's spot on... Bar maybe skipping club games.

If there is one player who left everything out on the field week after week, year after year for his club it was Farah.