Farewell #13 Taylor Adams

Dave The Man · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 9:49 pm

Really Nice Article from Rohan Connelly

skaman · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:05 pm

Although Connelly is a Bummers man, I like his journalism. Definitely has a soft spot for the Pies.

Piethagoras' Theorem · the hypotenuse, is always a cakewalk Joined: 29 May 2006

I like the boy but getting a little weary of all the talking up. Didn't he also have a great pre season last year? Hopefully, this will be a breakthrough year for him.

Collingwood Crackerjack · Joined: 28 Jul 2008 Location: Canberra

Bit late in the year for a 'training the house down' article....

RudeBoy · Joined: 28 Nov 2005

Adams is just about my favourite player. There's a bit of Tuddy about this kid. As his confidence grows, he'll become much more assured with his kicking and we'll be thrilled when he becomes captain in 4 years time.

Tannin · Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2015 4:33 pm

We have had threads extolling Sidebottom and Langdon and Tooves and Crisp after our good away win against the Brions, but we missed one crucial player out: Taylor Adams.

This kid has arrived. He is now a serious player. He struggled to make the senior side last year, but he will play 22 games this year if he remains uninjured, and soon be recognised as the engine room of our midfield. Hell, he already is. With Ball retired, Beams gone, Greenwood out for weeks, JT apparently gone for good, and now Sidebottom out as well, we are down to the two giants Pendlebury and Swan, plus a cast of midgets. Oh, and plus Taylor Adams.

Adams played a fantastic close-in game, and he was as hard at it in the last quarter as he was in the first. He pretty much shut down D. Beams, and got a ton of close-in hard ball for himself. He ran all day, flew for marks, made the odd clanger but just carried right on burrowing for the in-pack pill and feeding it out to the lads on the outside.

I rated him best on ground, as did a few others. It was a very even performance by our best eight or ten on the day, with a wide spread of five-vote candidates - you couldn't really argue with anyone on their votes, it was that sort of day - but I reckon every one of us had Tay up there with the best of 'em.

V the Brions, we saw a return to the classic Collingwood contested football game, the same sort of game that this club has played for decades: win the ball close in, clear the packs, win the one-on-ones, and get the damn pill forward somehow, anyhow. If you do that often enough for long enough, you'll win most games. Hell, that's how we won the 1990 premiership, and it's always been our best game. Add the fancy stuff, sure. Find some pin-point kicking genius to spot the forwards up, bring in some pacy wingmen to burn up the MCG turf, unearth a high-marking forward to boot a few, stack the defence with dour, courageous shut-down merchants like Brown or Tooves or Gafer or Presti - you need to do all those things to win a flag - but the Collingwood engine room is and always has been players who can win the inside ball. And in Taylor Adams, we've got a beauty.

Now we need to find three or four other youngsters to help him out. Swan and Pendles can't carry the ship forever. I have my eye on Broomhead and Kennedy; maybe Freeman is a chance, de Goey should be one in time.

Well played Taylor Adams. A great effort, and I reckon you just might do the same thing next week. And every week. Go you good thing.

RudeBoy · Joined: 28 Nov 2005

Top post there Tannin. I've been rapt in this kid since he arrived at the Pies and it seems he's finally got his mojo. With he, De Goey, Freeman, Kennedy and Broomhead, our future midfield stocks are shaping up well.

Given our now depleted midfield stocks, I'd like to see Crisp become our big bodied smash and crash midfielder, however I agree that De Goey is a great fit for that role too.

Tannin · Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2015 4:59 pm

Crisp. Yes, good point.

droversdog65 · Joined: 27 Nov 2014

Agree Tannin have liked the kid from the beginning, like Luke before him he knows no fear and has the heart of a lion.

roar · Joined: 01 Sep 2004

Was huge on the weekend. If he keeps going and keeps the turnovers under control, he'll be a beauty.

Dave The Man · Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2015 5:59 pm

Yep - Big Games coming up with Adams being 1 of our Major Midfielders.

Hope he can keep his great Form Up

Neil Appleby · Joined: 11 Feb 1998 Location: Melbourne

Err....umm......tap, tap......yes, it appears I am in Nick's. Hang on, I'll double check. Yep, here I am in Nick's reading a glowing report about Taylor Adams.
Well, it's about bloody time. Well said Tannin; hoping a few of the Adams Lynch Mob read this wonderful "Ode to No.13." Goota dash. Time for a cold shower.

stui magpie · Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2015 6:14 pm

Great post Tannin, you only get on average about 5 posts per year that are utterly correct, that's definitely one of them. Wink

He ain't no flashy outside player, he's an in and under fkn machine, the kind we should be feting more often.
Welcome Tay.

BazBoy · Joined: 11 Sep 2014

Imagine the day Adams is in a team that includes names like Sharenberg ,Freeman,Moore De Goey ,Broomhead ,Seedsman ,Gault ,Grundy ,Witts and others
Know i have to wait to see it but i expect it will be well worth waiting for