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Message: [QUOTE="rnabokov, post: 2680734, member: 1847"] [b]Re: Should Ashley Taylor Be Promoted[/b] All I am saying is that the undoubted football talent that Taylor was born with is now on show in the grades he plays - skills like kicking and decision making, speed, footwork etc etc. and probably helped to develop by good coaching. This talent can't be manufactured, along with instincts and intuition but can be honed to become something special. As far as a kicking game is concerned, I think as Porthoz posts, Hunt just hasn't got that talent Taylor has ... well he hasn't shown it yet, and at a level where talent goes a step further, where Cronk and Thurston are at, as 2 examples, and the level where Taylor looks like he's heading. However, and this is the crucial bit, we all know NRL is a whole new ball game pardon the pun. There, it becomes no longer a question of just raw footballing skills, but one which makes or breaks a quality junior footballer, (and Lockyer was one example) : absolute commitment and utter determination to excel and be the best, which means total commitment to hard work, discipline, practice, training etc etc. as well as good coaching. The talent you have either blooms or withers. That is what I want to know about Taylor - and a few other juniors as well. Has he got what it takes mentally, and the heart and soul, to go to the next level. Looks to me like Bennett thinks he can. The question is when and where Taylor gets the chance. [/QUOTE]

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