Most liked posts in thread: New signing finally confirmed ... Chris Taylor

What is plain bonkers. He has an agent. These are the kind of these they should advise on. I always thought when the season starts you can play trialists but not sure at that level

 

It’s only a two month deal right now so we can reassess in January. Sure we’d sign a forward if we could but presume there’s nobody good enough available right now.

 

Complete waste of time signing while we're in a position where we can't offload.

How many poor back up midfielders does he need?

 

Spot on. We had a central midfield of Akpan and Devine on Saturday with Anderson as backup. That's got to be concerning.
Every time we think we're getting close to fielding something like a first choice team we lose two or three players to injury or suspension and have to draft in players who most City fans don't rate as good enough.

If Taylor is better than Devine or Anderson then I think it's a worthwhile short term signing. Bowyer worked with him at Blackpool, I believe, so he must think he can do a job for us - presumably as holding midfielder deputy for Cooke. With all his L1 and Championship experience you'd think he should be fine in L2.
If we're suddenly blessed with an abundance of quality fit and firing CMs in the New Year then we can let Taylor go. But with fixtures piling up and heavy winter pitches ahead I think this is a sensible signing.

 

BREAKING NEWS | We are delighted to announce the signing of Chris Taylor

https://twitter.com/officialbantams/status/1183774211837329410

 

Not sure what to make of this one. Doesn’t seem to fill any of the obvious gaps we have. Not a bad thing having plenty of cover, but not a particularly inspiring signing.

Not sure whether I remember correctly, but I seem to recall that he may have turned us down in the summer to pursue football at a higher level. He then went on trial for Bury. If true, doesn’t sound wholly committed.

 

Can’t really grumble on this one. Will provide cover until Devitt is back and better than Devine etc starting

 

We dont need numbers in midfield though. We have plenty. Its lack of depth in quality that's the issue.

The consensus from Bolton fans is that hes garbage.

I cant say I can recall much of ever seeing him play....

 

Who Reeves?

 

OK you lads have me there but lets wait and see how the season pans out he may be required at some time but yes not the best so far.

 

Don't get this signing.

Seems like a job for the boys signing.

He isn't that good and it just makes offering Anderson & Devine new contracts seem more foolish.

 

To be fair he was decent in that game all considering.

 

Longridge might be a kid to you and I Bronco, but in footballing terms he is experienced with over 150 appearances in Scotland.

Dont know who scouting him, but sounds like he may be out of his depth down here, or maybe homesick, which has been mentioned before

 

I was fine with Akpan.

Look Cougar. Don't start!!

How on earth would you know who I rated and didn't if you've just joined recently??

 

That's a little unfair. Granted he looked a little unfit but he was playing on a pitch that hadn't seen a mower in a while, in a frantic game. I thought he was the stand-out player in terms of touch, trying to play the right ball and making time for himself. (Admittedly that's not saying much as they're wasn't a great deal of talent on show that day).

 

he did ok against Liverpool.

 

The ability to make the ball stick up top is more critical than volume of headers.

Obviously Doyle did neither, and performed very poorly.

 

Not a target man but just how he/a player performs. To be fair he was woeful in a woeful team. Scored 10/11 (3 or 4 pens) so not a bad return but there's no argument that he was poor, really poor at times.

 

Taylor played well over 200 games for one club, Wright has been a half a season man at most clubs apart from Gillingham.

Chalk and cheese.