Jason Taylor was and still is one of the best technical readers of the game. He's not like Andrew Johns in terms of talent but he for what he lacked in talent, he made up for with brains. He's one of the few premier players of the game who could quite easily become a very successful coach.
With Parramatta's current halves issue it would be feasible to have Taylor brought into the club to assist in coaching the Eels halves, in particular Luke Kelly. Taylor was a terrific leader of men and commanded the team and his forward pack. Kelly, by all reports, is a great organiser and talker. One would have to believe that having a man like Taylor coach him would no doubt improve his game.
I know Ricky Stuart was a halfback, and a mighty good one at that, but he is the head-coach, he can't spend all his time coaching the halves. We had Andrew Johns but I believe Johns is the type of player and coach who is all about the execution of kicking and executing a specific play. I see Taylor as the type of coach who can point out the small idiosyncrasies in the way a halfback runs his team and how a certain team defends.
When I listen to Andrew Johns, he's great in his ability to read what a certain player is going to do and when a team is going to run a play. However Taylor is better at being able to pick a weakness or a player out of position and exploiting it completely. As well as that Taylor is a terrific talker whereas Johns is more of a "follow me" type halfback.
I point to an article that Taylor wrote on Isaac Luke last season. Andrew Johns was talking up how great Luke was at his ability to play 80 minutes at hooker and play with such energy. However, Taylor showed just how much Johns had missed. He showed a tackle that Luke had made 10 minutes into the match. It was very energetic and physical. Then in the 75th minute he showed a gap that had been left for the opposition to stroll through un-touched and win the match. The lazy defender? Isaac Luke. Why? Because he was playing 80 minutes at a very high intensity, too high to play 80 minutes at.
Stuart is the type of coach who could work alongside Taylor because he knows how to coach. It wouldn't be like Taylor being coaching director under Kearney. Let's face it Kearney was an idiot and Taylor wouldn't have had as much respect for him as he would for Stuart.
So I'll turn it over to you. Is there room for Taylor on the coaching staff?
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I dont think JT will quit the Roosters coaching staff to join us. I highly doubt Ricky would want him anyway.
He's only a little bloke, I'm sure we could find room for him...
But seriously, Stuart has already got 2 or 3 assistants with him, and they are supposed to be some of the best going around in Pay and Parrish. I'm not sure we need any more experts coming in to mix the messages more than they otherwise might already be. I wouldn't have been against him being signed on as head coach if Stuart hadn't been signed, but I think the ship has sailed.
What about as a halves consultant. Pay and Parrish are hardly experts in the halves department. A number of clubs employ former halfbacks to assist coaching their halves. I'd ideally like Sterlo at the club but that won't be happening any time soon.
But 90% of people on this site said that we needed Ricky Stewart because he'll attract big names. Hahahahahahaha
Still waiting for that.
Ye taylor got my vote when we were shopping around but im not upset stuart got the job. We have a few players coming in next year and maybe even more before 2014 starts. We will have to wait and see. I would be more than happy to see taylor at the eels in any capacity.
JT found Hayne when Brian smith wouldn't give him a go.
If this man could be a part of our club again, it would be amazing. But just don't see it happening.
I think it was JT first game against knights, Hayne scored 4 tries at parra stadium.
Can't really argue with that!
Though it is worth noting that Sandow has been a lot better so far in 4 games than he was at any stage last year. That might have little to do with Stuart though!
For a moment there I thought you were talking about signing him to play.
Hmmmm Taylor at 7, Sandow at 6......you never know, it might just work.....
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