Troy Taylor [merged]

[Penelope]

Its interesting that he is returning to footy now. Just in time to start a preseason somewhere I imagine.

Apparently Richmond's request to allow him to train and play with NT Thunder was rejected by the AFL.

You're right in regards to being pre season, but the season proper starts this month, not next year.

[Smokey]

something smells fishy bout this whole friggen thing.  We let him go and we will get borked, bet on it.

Reading too much into it I reckon Owl.  Don't think this kid wants to (and will ever) do much more in football than the local grades.

[Penelope]

reckon you are bang on the money there smokey.

[Coach]

stuff. this thread shows its ugly face again.


eff it all

[Owl]

Why didn't he just stuffing say so then instead of hanging round like a rotten fart

[cub]

68 pages 

[Smokey]

Why didn't he just stuffing say so then instead of hanging round like a rotten fart

Agree with you but young, immature, messed up, starry-eyed, blah blah blah.  Probably plenty of the dream being poles apart from the reality when it all became real.

[Hellenic Tiger]

something smells fishy bout this whole friggen thing.  We let him go and we will get borked, bet on it.

Reading too much into it I reckon Owl.  Don't think this kid wants to (and will ever) do much more in football than the local grades.

Spot on Smokey.

[Hard Roar Tiger]

He's n ars crack

Taylor still has dreams of AFL

GREY MORRIS   |  NT News | October 7th, 2011

RECLUSIVE recruit Troy Taylor's AFL dream is far from over.

The 20-year-old forward delisted Tiger told the NT News last night he wanted to play AFL football again - at another club.

Taylor was officially delisted by Richmond yesterday after four games in two traumatic seasons at Punt Road.

He joined two other Territory footballers who spent the 2010 season at AFL clubs - Shane Thorne and Relton Roberts - at NTFL club Wanderers last night.

"That's good I'm delisted, it frees me up now to do what I want to do," he said.

"I'm going to play a full season with my mates at (NTFL club) Wanderers and see what happens from there."

"How are the recruits????????? Have they been playing for other NTFL clubs?????????"
DT
Part of his comeback plans include a season with the Northern Territory Thunder, who were premiers in the Brisbane-based NEAFL competition this year Thunder also won the cross-conference final by beating Canberra side Ainslie a week later.

"If Thunder want me I'd love to play there next year before nominating for the (2012) AFL draft," Taylor said.

But his playing days at Richmond are definitely over after two years of discontent when he walked out on the club twice when he felt the club was not supporting him.

"There's no more Tigers, I'll just wait and see what happens next year and go from there," he said.

"But the AFL dream's not over. Personally I felt they didn't help me as much as I would have liked and I didn't have anyone down there as a mentor type, which didn't help as well."

Taylor's demeanour changed from disappointment to excitement when asked why he was back at Wanderers, the club he had a brief stint with in 2008.

"It's my old club before I left Darwin and I've got a lot of brothers and cousins here," he said.

"Shane Thorne, Ali Bond, Relton Roberts, Jared Erlandson, all my good mates are at Wanderers and I know everyone else down here. If it goes well for me here I'll put myself back in the draft. A good season here, see what happens with Thunder in their season (April to September) and who knows from there."

http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2011/10/07/265051_ntsport.html

[Owl]

Knew it.

[gerkin greg]

Money is on him landing in the slammer before landing back at another club

I'll go up there and bait him into hitting me

[Penelope]

12 months of hanging around with the same mates that saw him get locked up to start with?

good luck with being a free man when the 2012 draft comes along.

if anyone takes a risk on him in the so called superdraft it would be a rookie at best.

On another note,
with both him and relton leaving the club with similar sentiments it begs the question, has the club still not got it right with dealing with indigenous players or did they just get their assessments of their character wrong?

[Owl]

stuffing wrongun, blames everyone else for his rubbish.  Hope no-one gives him the time of day.

[Phil Mrakov]

WANKERRR

Anyone remember the "I want a house mum" line?

ahahahaha

[Penelope]

stuffing wrongun, blames everyone else for his rubbish.  Hope no-one gives him the time of day.

No clocks on the walls inside?