Mjvilla Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 Awful tackle and potential career ender. Can't dress this one up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevonIsAPlaceOnEarth Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 Horrendous. No place for that challenge, that said I'm sure he regrets it deeply. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 10 minutes ago, LakotaDakota said: he isn't Do you have another image? That one is pixelated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 It is a diabolical challenge but totally out of character for Taylor apparently and I am sure he is gutted for Coleman and remorseful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted March 24, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted March 24, 2017 11 minutes ago, LakotaDakota said: he isn't That looks very bad for Coleman, I'm no expert obv but I wouldn't be surprised if it was a career ender. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 2 minutes ago, markavfc40 said: It is a diabolical challenge but totally out of character for Taylor apparently and I am sure he is gutted for Coleman and remorseful. lol 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Zatman Posted March 24, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted March 24, 2017 2 minutes ago, markavfc40 said: It is a diabolical challenge but totally out of character for Taylor apparently and I am sure he is gutted for Coleman and remorseful. He came off nearly crying and was apologising to Irish bench. I wouldnt be surprised if he is not in a good state after it 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wezbid Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 Taylor is an honest pro and flew in full pelt. Sometimes the injury is far worse than the intent. Shawcross in Ramsey for example. People were treating Shawcross like a murderer when he was stretching for a ball that was there to be won. There's a difference between clumsy/dangerous and malicious. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 2 minutes ago, Zatman said: He came off nearly crying and was apologising to Irish bench. I wouldnt be surprised if he is not in a good state after it I agree. Despite the pic of the high boot above that was the second red card of his career spanning ten years and knocking on 300 appearances. He isn't even close to being a dirty player and that was totally out of character as shown by how devastated he was. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wezbid Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 8 minutes ago, Daniel said: lol Yeah, I'm sure he really was trying to boot Walker's head off. Glen Whelan leading with the elbow on his club-mate Allen is the sort of characteristic of a dirty player, not someone going for a high ball with his foot. A snapshot of a split second incident doesn't prove anything in the slightest. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sam3773 Posted March 24, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted March 24, 2017 He was 100% committed to winning the ball. Nothing malicious, just a horrible challenge to watch. Hope its not a career ender. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 But not malicious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJT123 Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 Bad tackle, but the reaction it's getting on Twitter is completely over the top IMO. Unfortunate that it ended in a leg break. The tackle on Hourihane the other week from that Sheff Wed player was worse. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 Bad challenge but anyone who says that's the worst challenge they've ever seen is a monumental f*cktard. It was not malicious at all, Taylor was 100% going for the ball, it was just an awfully executed tackle, yes these things do happen. This is no where near the level of Keane on Haaland, or Witsel on Wasilewski, two challenges that were clearly hyper malicious attempts to maim their opponent. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thabucks Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 It's funny as he seems (for now) to be the new fan fav some people are bending over backwards to defend him and call out anyone who thinks he deserves heavy criticism for that awful tackle that could end a mans career. Yet some of the bullshit vitriol towards non fan fav Bacuna over his ridiculous chest barge in comparison was astounding. Now I don't personally think that it was more than a over excurberant fully committed mistimed tackle. But I'm not Neil Taylor, only he knows deep down. He just can't be defended but equally I can't be too critical of him either. As these things can easily happen within a split second. He should get a hefty ban though. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villarocker Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 To be fair, both players were full-blooded into that challenge. Taylor was reckless and was too slow into the challenge, which resulted in Coleman getting in first but, unfortunately, took full force of the challenge from Taylor. It looks a terrible injury and I truly hope that Seamus Coleman makes a full and speedy recovery and is able to continue his career the way it was going because - and I mean this sincerely, not because of tonight - he is one of my favourite modern-day footballers. He plays full-blooded and seems to play his heart out every game. Hopefully, that level of spirit will help him through this terrible injury. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 Not sure how UEFA works in terms of his ban, don't know if there's a precedent for extending bans due to the severity of the injury, I'd be amazed if he got more than 3 games fair few idiots on twitter calling for the fa to get involved and ban him fromleague games, simply not going to happen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstonMartyn88 Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 Terrible terrible luck for both players. Taylor because he went full pelt for the ball and caught Coleman in the wrong place, and Coleman for obvious reasons. Not trying to defend Taylor and pretend he did nothing wrong. It was not a good tackle - sounds like he was completely devastated and it doesn't sound like there was malice in the tackle. Just trying to be objective in that we see lots of tackles like that that sometimes people get away with it, but I think the after effect makes it worse. Best wishes to Coleman though, devastated for him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 There was no intent in my view but it was that type of game where tackles were flying in all over the place and this type of thing can happen. Ref let too much go early on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwivillan Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 38 minutes ago, thabucks said: It's funny as he seems (for now) to be the new fan fav some people are bending over backwards to defend him and call out anyone who thinks he deserves heavy criticism for that awful tackle that could end a mans career. Yet some of the bullshit vitriol towards non fan fav Bacuna over his ridiculous chest barge in comparison was astounding. Now I don't personally think that it was more than a over excurberant fully committed mistimed tackle. But I'm not Neil Taylor, only he knows deep down. He just can't be defended but equally I can't be too critical of him either. As these things can easily happen within a split second. He should get a hefty ban though. The Bacuna vitriol was deserved. His behaviour was disgusting. I don't see what that has to do with a rash tackle that caused serious injury but was in no way malicious 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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