I feel really sorry for TT at the moment. He has just not had a chance since joining us. He recovered from his injury but hasn't had a sniff of first team action
He played against Cambridge and was probably the best player on the pitch but since then he's disappeared again. His dead ball delivery is extremely dangerous and he's more offensive than Coventry, Docherty Anderson.
So what on earth has he done to annoy successive managers to the point they won't give him a sniff of first team action? As cliched as it is - he would be like a new signing
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- He has been caught playing Black Sabbath Records backwards
Or
- He is shagging Jones' missus.
There must be something going on behind the scenes imo give him a chance and if it doesn't work out then discard him
He was fit at the back end of last season and didn't get a look in - even when we were mathematically safe. Didn't make the bench or anything. For a player like that to return to fitness, be contracted to the club and with the games at L1 he has played elsewhere to not get picked says to me that there is another reason. Just screams of an incident/outburst that led to where we are now. I believe we absolutely would have sold him if we had any interest in the summer.
Even if you assess him from a footballing perspective as a mirror of Coventry, his ability from set pieces at the very least should, in theory, warrant a place on the bench - particularly when we bring Chuks on for the last 30. My assessment of ACampbell is that he is a Coventry mirror but with obvs infinitely less ability on the ball, but he brings much less to the party than Taylor imo AND has been picked in more forward positions to try and kickstart our midfield. Anderson, despite his lack of experience, is also similarly given all the exposure to both the first team and bench in comparison.
Call it tinfoil hat craziness if you wish, but I really think this is the case.
We tried to sell both him and Edun in the summer, this would have opened up some funding for Jones to bring another one or two in. Both of them refused to go. Jones is now freezing them out hoping they change their mind in January.
The thing is, both Coventry and TT are ball playing midfielders which we desperately need to start doing. I think it's more Jones wants to play hoofball and that just isn't TT's game. I'd argue it's not Coventry's game either, but Coventry has covered a lot of ground and looks after the ball well.
If Taylor returns I very much doubt he can now hit the ground running as his treatment generally, and his current state of match readiness is off. So coming back with an indifferent performance will creat fan antagonism towards him.
However there remains the question as to whether he could be worse than Berry or Docherty, or even Coventry.
He should at the very least be picked for the U21’s each game as the overage player, and with Mwamba’s straight red on Tuesday the opportunity is there.
I don’t believe Taylor is a dud like Bakinson or the ageing Lua Lua or Fraser or Kirk, and he is our player who ought to be utilised somehow.
Maybe there is some kind of dark matter preventing him playing, something we don’t know about.
An unlikeable prat at times isn't he.