Player Watch #5: Curtis Taylor - re-signed until the end of 2024

[hotchilli]

Fumbles way too much. I miss the days when I was initially excited by what his future might look like at AFL level.

 

[zoomba23]

Fumbles way too much. I miss the days when I was initially excited by what his future might look like at AFL level.

It also doesn't help that the club saw marking flair and a sound set shot technique and decided to play him on a wing for two years

 

[Shane Clayton]

Utter trash. He's still out there trying to pick the ball up.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Utter pants.

 

[Lomas]

It also doesn't help that the club saw marking flair and a sound set shot technique and decided to play him on a wing for two years

And we use him and Coop, in previous matches, for the kick king down the line. Somehow they both do better than Xerri.

 

[The Nostradamus]

One of the few who run both ways to help cover for others or chain up
His marking is very good
Needs to be more one touch though

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Runs both ways with zero impact in either direction.

Cardio.

 

[The Nostradamus]

Runs both ways with zero impact in either direction.

Cardio.

maybe he should run less conserve his energy and be more high impact per possession then

But then we’d have only 3 players who actually run hard both ways

 

[zoomba23]

Runs both ways with zero impact in either direction.

Cardio.

Tbf to him though he crashed in when he needed to. The fumbles are part and parcel of the player he is and the reason it's ludicrous that we've tried to turn him into an outside mid

 

[bennymate]

Has hands of shit below knees and still looks like a rake, but he can run ay?

 

[north_lad]

One of the few who run both ways to help cover for others or chain up
His marking is very good
Needs to be more one touch though
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Wow Bailey Scott is a good runner eh?

 

[The acurate one]

Wow Bailey Scott is a good runner eh?

Well Bailey if he stopped getting the ball could run even further.

 

[hotchilli]

Runs both ways with zero impact in either direction.

Cardio.

Now if we could somehow combine Taylor's running with TT's football skills.

 

[SammyRoo]

I dunno if this wing role is really working?

From memory he was drafted as an impact forward? He had a great leap and a good goal sense (A sort of Bayley Fritch type)

Good’ol North Dev team turns him into something he’s not presumably?

……And sadly I’d say his career is now hanging by a thread

 

[BRider]

Nah too fumbly for todays game, he didnt have one clean possesion, that kills you in the modern game.

 

[hotchilli]

I dunno if this wing role is really working?

From memory he was drafted as an impact forward? He had a great leap and a good goal sense (A sort of Bayley Fritch type)

Good’ol North Dev team turns him into something he’s not presumably?

……And sadly I’d say his career is now hanging by a thread

He was predominately playing as a half forward today, think he only really moved onto a wing for the final quarter.

 

[Devil Fish]

Arrived at the club with a bag of tricks & a terrific leap. Haven't seen him fly for a hanger in a year or 2. Hit the scoreboard regularly in his first season.

Just not sure why the club has turned him into an endurance athlete who runs 1km/disposal.......

 

[DocSholl]

maybe he should run less conserve his energy and be more high impact per possession then

But then we’d have only 3 players who actually run hard both ways

But then you don't rate the guy who runs harder than anyone both ways (and had by far the most sprints on the ground of either team)?

 

[shinboner magic]

One of the few who run both ways to help cover for others or chain up
His marking is very good
Needs to be more one touch though
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All that extra running is due to him trying to gather all his fumbles
All summer he needs to work on that or he is done

 

[The Nostradamus]

I dunno if this wing role is really working?

From memory he was drafted as an impact forward? He had a great leap and a good goal sense (A sort of Bayley Fritch type)

Good’ol North Dev team turns him into something he’s not presumably?

……And sadly I’d say his career is now hanging by a thread

It’s cos he’s one of the better runners at the club so they are trying to utilise it

I think Mason wood is the prototype for this guy. Can take a good mark, use his tank and get to good positions create mismatches etc

I agree that he’d be better forward but we’d need better runners brought in to make it a permanent forward role for CT

But then you don't rate the guy who runs harder than anyone both ways (and had by far the most sprints on the ground of either team)?

That’s correct I don’t really rate running

But others do so just pointing out that double standard

I rate CT as he has a point of difference being that he can beat players in the air and on the ground and is dangerous around goal when he actually plays forward

See goal scored today as an example

 

[roos_fanatic08]

Gym. Eat Steak. Sleep. Repeat.

That needs to be his training schedule for the next 6 months.

Got kids in my sons under 12’s team that have better physiques than him and they haven’t even gone through puberty yet

 

[tazaa]

Send him back to Mick. Please North

I mean his physique as a kid is not too different to today Ffs

 

[roos_fanatic08]

It’s cos he’s one of the better runners at the club so they are trying to utilise it

I think Mason wood is the prototype for this guy. Can take a good mark, use his tank and get to good positions create mismatches etc

I agree that he’d be better forward but we’d need better runners brought in to make it a permanent forward role for CT

That’s correct I don’t really rate running

But others do so just pointing out that double standard

I rate CT as he has a point of difference being that he can beat players in the air and on the ground and is dangerous around goal when he actually plays forward

See goal scored today as an example

His aerial prowess has been overblown on this forum. Even in juniors his marking wasn’t that good. Is he capable of a mercurial contested mark? Definitely, Yes. Is he a genuinely elite contested mark? Nope, not even close.

What goes against him is that at ground level he is an absolute liability.

Yes his running capacity is good but he doesn’t use it well enough to get into dangerous positions or to accumulate the footy. Additionally he doesn’t provide any running link up play because he is too one paced.

He is as plain and non effectual as they come.

 

[zoomba23]

Arrived at the club with a bag of tricks & a terrific leap. Haven't seen him fly for a hanger in a year or 2. Hit the scoreboard regularly in his first season.

Just not sure why the club has turned him into an endurance athlete who runs 1km/disposal.......

He kind of flew for a hanger in R1. It was a weird one where he ended up about three centimetres off the ground but at an angle that almost no one else on the list would be able to mark on.

He was played forward in the first three weeks of the year and I cannot understand why the coaching staff have moved away from that type of position for him. A guy with a decent leap, an ok set shot on him, and goal sense. With no muscle tone, no pace, and the worst case of the fumbles of any regular in the league. And we play him outside the forward 50. Go figure

 

[roos_fanatic08]

He kind of flew for a hanger in R1. It was a weird one where he ended up about three centimetres off the ground but at an angle that almost no one else on the list would be able to mark on.

He was played forward in the first three weeks of the year and I cannot understand why the coaching staff have moved away from that type of position for him. A guy with a decent leap, an ok set shot on him, and goal sense. With no muscle tone, no pace, and the worst case of the fumbles of any regular in the league. And we play him outside the forward 50. Go figure

It’s because he is so easy to push under/off the ball and because he provides next to no defensive pressure inside forward 50 when he plays deep.