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Post by Antonio Fargas on Dec 26, 2014 21:33:26 GMT
I'm not a Taylor 'hater' but I am consistently disappointed how the debate about him resembles a tennis match. Yeah, every long-running debate on here seems to turn into a tennis match. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2014 21:39:16 GMT
Taylor now has 7 goals for us this season, i predicted a few weeks back that he could get 15 goals this season which IMO is a decent effort when you consider how good his all round game is and that the bloke is as fit as a fiddle and been available for nearly every game. The way the squad has avoided long term injuries and the fitness levels is testament to the new regime DC and Steve Yates have brought to the club. Gone are the days of sicknotes, we actually have good honest pro's who can get through 40 plus games a season, something which i've gone on about us needing for the last few years. Great win today, this could be one of the best xmas/new year's the club has had, superb stuff from DC and the players. I'm not a Taylor 'hater' but I am consistently disappointed how the debate about him resembles a tennis match. If he doesn't score for 4 matches the 'haters' gain ground, and each time he scores people pipe up about how good he is and how he's proving the haters wrong. If I every hear that useless phrase 'he's due a goal', or even 'the floodgates will open', ever again I will string someone up. He's not due a goal. NO-ONE is due a goal. It's that sort of rubbish talk that got us into non-lge. No-one has the right to score goals or be successful in footy just because of their general play, skill or history. I think we can all agree his all round work is good, and his goalscoring is poor. '7 goals' just proves the old adage of 'lies, damned lies and statistics'. 3 are pens. 4 goals from open play and he's played nearly every game this season. Every fan who has watched him will effortlessly recall several very clear chances he has missed. And hopefully most will also recall some excellent touches and a good work rate. Defenders won't like playing him, but goalkeepers will. True say. He is what he is, with the strengths and weaknesses we've all seen. He's an integral part of a side who are getting good results but he isn't converting his chances as regularly as we'd like. I'll keep him until we find someone who also provides what he does but with added goals. |
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Post by gasheadnaboo on Dec 26, 2014 22:24:03 GMT
By my reckoning Taylor's got 4 in the last 8 league games, which inc just the one pen which I think he won himself. 1 goal in every 2 games is a decent return for a striker if he can now keep that run going. Not sure why he's getting stick tonight when Blisset's managed 1 goal in 7 league games since his signing! I assume DC will be looking to add another goal scorer to the squad but that won't be an easy task. As far as goalies are concerned can we really afford 4 goalies wages come January, Speed, Puddy, Preston & Mildenhall, once assuming Puddy will be fully fit in a week or two? Blissett has scored 2, one on his full début against Chester and another on his home début against Welling, he's also yet to complete a full 90 minutes here and is in his first full season as a professional footballer! Cut him some slack; I don't think being a prolific goalscorer is his game or ever will be. Spiess looks ropey to me and Puddy has to surely start ahead of him as soon as his arm is 100%!? |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2014 22:31:35 GMT
By my reckoning Taylor's got 4 in the last 8 league games, which inc just the one pen which I think he won himself. 1 goal in every 2 games is a decent return for a striker if he can now keep that run going. Not sure why he's getting stick tonight when Blisset's managed 1 goal in 7 league games since his signing! I assume DC will be looking to add another goal scorer to the squad but that won't be an easy task. As far as goalies are concerned can we really afford 4 goalies wages come January, Speed, Puddy, Preston & Mildenhall, once assuming Puddy will be fully fit in a week or two? Blissett has scored 2, one on his full début against Chester and another on his home début against Welling, he's also yet to complete a full 90 minutes here and is in his first full season as a professional footballer! Cut him some slack; I don't think being a prolific goalscorer is his game or ever will be. Spiess looks ropey to me and Puddy has to surely start ahead of him as soon as his arm is 100%!? Puddy's contract is up next week. |
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Post by gasheadnaboo on Dec 26, 2014 22:35:30 GMT
Blissett has scored 2, one on his full début against Chester and another on his home début against Welling, he's also yet to complete a full 90 minutes here and is in his first full season as a professional footballer! Cut him some slack; I don't think being a prolific goalscorer is his game or ever will be. Spiess looks ropey to me and Puddy has to surely start ahead of him as soon as his arm is 100%!? Puddy's contract is up next week. I believe he is here on non-contract terms. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2014 22:42:26 GMT
Puddy's contract is up next week. I believe he is here on non-contract terms. Correct with an agreement to the end of December. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2014 22:52:14 GMT
Seaurchin is going to get a battering next week.
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Post by pirate49 on Dec 26, 2014 23:11:15 GMT
Puddy was hardly Mildenhall before so his injury unless he's 100% fit we may have to stick with Spiees and hope he has made all his howlers. beg to differ. Puddy's distribution is excellent, and he has grown in confidence throughout the season. He is better than Mildy on crosses (not that hard I admit). Mildy is prob the best shot stopper in the lower divisions, so no-one we get is going to beat him on that. Sadly Puddy lacks height and always will. But a choice between him and Spiess seems quite easy; unless politics and tactics come into it. Totally agree with mehewmagic. Every time I have seen Puddy (Professional Development games etc) I have been really impressed by his distribution. It is varied and he has the happy knack of almost always finding one of our players. If fit Mildenhall would still be my first choice, but Puddy any day over Spiess. (For the older Bristolians out there, isn't 'puddy' a term used for 'hands', as in "Go and clean your puddies.") He had to be a 'keeper! |
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Post by blueginger on Dec 26, 2014 23:17:14 GMT
No coincidence that Taylors started to score since Blisset and Wall have joined..seems to have better understanding than with Cunnington.
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Post by Alveston Gas on Dec 27, 2014 7:32:57 GMT
No coincidence that Taylors started to score since Blisset and Wall have joined..seems to have better understanding than with Cunnington. Wall.......not sure what he has to do with it. Unimpressed! |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2014 8:54:11 GMT
It has come to my attention that Grimsby and Barnet haven't played each other yet this season. Interesting, let's keep winning  |
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Post by Topper Gas on Dec 27, 2014 9:26:25 GMT
By my reckoning Taylor's got 4 in the last 8 league games, which inc just the one pen which I think he won himself. 1 goal in every 2 games is a decent return for a striker if he can now keep that run going. Not sure why he's getting stick tonight when Blisset's managed 1 goal in 7 league games since his signing! I assume DC will be looking to add another goal scorer to the squad but that won't be an easy task. As far as goalies are concerned can we really afford 4 goalies wages come January, Speed, Puddy, Preston & Mildenhall, once assuming Puddy will be fully fit in a week or two? Blissett has scored 2, one on his full début against Chester and another on his home début against Welling, he's also yet to complete a full 90 minutes here and is in his first full season as a professional footballer! Cut him some slack; I don't think being a prolific goalscorer is his game or ever will be. Spiess looks ropey to me and Puddy has to surely start ahead of him as soon as his arm is 100%!? That's my point there's no need to go any of our strikers stick at present! |
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Post by Topper Gas on Dec 27, 2014 9:29:02 GMT
It has come to my attention that Grimsby and Barnet haven't played each other yet this season. Interesting, let's keep winning You do wonder who chooses the fixtures, and why have double headed fixtures at Xmas/Easter? We're looking odds on for second at present whether we can make the summit will be interesting. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2014 9:58:11 GMT
I'm not sure we look "odds on" for anything!
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Post by DudeLebowski on Dec 27, 2014 10:35:18 GMT
The Torquay forum is an absolute laugh riot.
Makes you wonder if any one giving their post match thoughts, were actually anywhere near the ground!
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Post by lostinspace on Dec 27, 2014 10:44:14 GMT
The Torquay forum is an absolute laugh riot. Makes you wonder if any one giving their post match thoughts, were actually anywhere near the ground! your right, looked in late last night and did wonder from the posts[not at the game myself] ,and there is quite a contrast .but having said that "friendlygas" does make hisself seem a bit of a tit in one of his later pots,, getting a bit carried away methinks |
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Post by DudeLebowski on Dec 27, 2014 10:57:42 GMT
The Torquay forum is an absolute laugh riot. Makes you wonder if any one giving their post match thoughts, were actually anywhere near the ground! your right, looked in late last night and did wonder from the posts[not at the game myself] ,and there is quite a contrast .but having said that "friendlygas" does make hisself seem a bit of a tit in one of his later pots,, getting a bit carried away methinks Personal highlights were, we didn't have ten clear chances in the match, they played all the football and we should have had two red cards! Not entirely sure there was even one bad tackle all game! Mansell & Sinclair were going in hard but won the ball every single time! Great to see. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2014 12:25:55 GMT
The Torquay forum is an absolute laugh riot. Makes you wonder if any one giving their post match thoughts, were actually anywhere near the ground! To be fair it's only a couple of sad acts blaming the ref and the weather for their defeat and other posters have shouted them down.All the 'your nothing compared to Barnet and Gateshead' is a bit unnecessary and stinks of sour grapes mind. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2014 12:31:05 GMT
Leadbitter got away with a cracking foul early on, it was a definite booking but the ref thought he got the ball.
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Post by matealotblue on Dec 27, 2014 12:38:27 GMT
beg to differ. Puddy's distribution is excellent, and he has grown in confidence throughout the season. He is better than Mildy on crosses (not that hard I admit). Mildy is prob the best shot stopper in the lower divisions, so no-one we get is going to beat him on that. Sadly Puddy lacks height and always will. But a choice between him and Spiess seems quite easy; unless politics and tactics come into it. Totally agree with mehewmagic. Every time I have seen Puddy (Professional Development games etc) I have been really impressed by his distribution. It is varied and he has the happy knack of almost always finding one of our players. If fit Mildenhall would still be my first choice, but Puddy any day over Spiess. (For the older Bristolians out there, isn't 'puddy' a term used for 'hands', as in "Go and clean your puddies.") He had to be a 'keeper! Re the bit in brackets. Falling into that category I can confirm your statement. Maybe that's why we don't get pens when we shout "Puddy ball". Maybe the refs don't understand it! |
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