In years gone by the received wisdom was every English team needs a Scotsman in it to be successful. Well now we have two.
Three if you include McGrandles…
Anyway, are we saying Taylor is Scottish? Or Welsh because he plays for Wales youth internationally?
Stupid me, three of course. Taylor was born in Aberdeen so I don’t know, listening to his interview I had trouble pinning down his accent, I thought a bit Welsh too. Scott Fraser pronounces ‘pie’ as ‘peh’.
Of course there is. You won't find a better tackler and ball-winner at this level but if you want a holding midfielder who can spray a few more passes around and control the game a bit more there are other players who offer that profile better. I'm interested to see with the new shape and Camara in the midfield if Dobson can be freed up a bit and able to spend less time firefighting and more time playing. He's a better passer of the ball than he's given credit for but he still needs to improve on it. Plenty of time for him to do so.
In years gone by the received wisdom was every English team needs a Scotsman in it to be successful. Well now we have two.
Three if you include McGrandles…
Anyway, are we saying Taylor is Scottish? Or Welsh because he plays for Wales youth internationally?
Stupid me, three of course. Taylor was born in Aberdeen so I don’t know, listening to his interview I had trouble pinning down his accent, I thought a bit Welsh too. Scott Fraser pronounces ‘pie’ as ‘peh’.
He's Scottish.
The Welsh in recent years have capped a number of younger players not born there. I wonder, with the Wales senior team on the decline, whether players will be less keen to declare for them instead of another home nation. After all Scotland now top their Euro qualification group, whereas Wales are struggling.
For comparison’s sake, against the rest of the team
(Wildig led chances created for Newport with 3)
The issue with those stats are they are heavily weighted in favour of players who take set pieces, every cross from a corner or FK is considered a chance created.
For comparison’s sake, against the rest of the team
(Wildig led chances created for Newport with 3)
The issue with those stats are they are heavily weighted in favour of players who take set pieces, every cross from a corner or FK is considered a chance created.
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Anyway, are we saying Taylor is Scottish? Or Welsh because he plays for Wales youth internationally?
Taylor was born in Aberdeen so I don’t know, listening to his interview I had trouble pinning down his accent, I thought a bit Welsh too.
Scott Fraser pronounces ‘pie’ as ‘peh’.
The Welsh in recent years have capped a number of younger players not born there. I wonder, with the Wales senior team on the decline, whether players will be less keen to declare for them instead of another home nation. After all Scotland now top their Euro qualification group, whereas Wales are struggling.
Good article about him from 2019.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50465291
Terry Taylor baby...
Tel, Tezza, TT, Tayls, any others?
A bespoke Taylor.
(Wildig led chances created for Newport with 3)