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Message: [QUOTE="Major JW Hochstetter, post: 2108677, member: 1828"] We need to keep in mind that Taylor is fresh out of nappies and still growing physically and mentally as a footballer, which needs to be taken into consideration when assessing his progress at this stage of his career. His great potential has already been identified (which may currently be to his detrement), but from a realistic point of view a footballer's natural progression suggests he has at least a few seasons ahead of him before that potential is realised consitently enough to make the sort of impact we'd want out of him as a top notch first grade prop. To play a very young prop, who is still growing, in spurts throughout the season is going to bring about frequent occassions where he'll put in sub-standard, sometimes woeful performances - often not through a lack of trying, but also the issue of a "boom", hyped-up youngster getting their head in order. Given the above, we must expect a decent level of shyteness in Taylor's game from time to time, and probably more often than not. This isn't to say that Bennett's method of nursing youngsters into first grade is wrong, indeed he has the runs on the board to completely silence any critic in this area. But given the hype surrounding Taylor, and Bennett's strict plan of gradually building a youngster's first grade experience no matter what level of hype or potential they have, means Taylor may be trying way too hard at every opportunity to live up to his reputation and thus not approaching the game in the manner he should. The result - the odd moment of skillful brilliance with many, many instances of attacking errors, ineffective tackles, poor defensive reads, and so on. Which then leads to decreased levels of confidence, laziness and frustration. A full season or two of playing first grade every week from the bench should see his game gradually blossom and mature, but until then we need to take the good with the bad with Taylor, knowing that we should have ourselves an exciting talent for the long-term (barring any onset of Meyers-Carlaw Disease). As fans we need to be patient with this one. [/QUOTE]

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