Jason Taylor has opened up about losing his job. I know some will paint Taylor as sour grapes but his criticism that the players have no loyalty seems to have merit from the outside looking in.
Lets face it players refusing to commit to the club is causing the club anxiety and certainly has given the club unwanted media speculation. As Gus Gould says you either want to put on the jersey and play for the club or you don't. This having managers and behaving like prima-donnas and quitting on a team in the middle season is not a good look.
"SACKED Wests Tigers coach Jason Taylor has opened up on his controversial saga with the club in a tell-all interview.
The former rugby league star, who was sacked from the struggling Tigers, slammed the club’s administration for his dismissal.
“I didn’t get to talk to anybody. I found out the same way you guys (journalists) found out,” he said on FOX Sports’ League Life. “That was probably the toughest part.”
“Journalists started turning up outside the window. Then I got a phone call. That was really disappointing.”
Taylor famously dropped club veteran Robbie Farah, who is now playing for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, late in 2016, a decision that was blasted by long-time Wests fans.
The Tigers were then plagued with a number of other controversies going into 2017. Winger Tim Simona was sacked after being caught in a betting scandal while contract debacles surrounded famous “big four” players Aaron Woods, James Tedesco, Mitchell Moses and Luke Brooks.
Taylor took aim at the big four immediately after Moses’ surprise announcement confirming he’d been in talks with Parramatta to leave the Tigers.
“It was a shock to think that Mitch decided so quickly he’d want to move on from the club,” he said.
“In my opinion I think the four players need to repay the respect the club gave them to allow them to get to a point where they’re earning top dollar in the game.
“They should be stepping up on the opportunity they’ve been given to develop themselves. I was disappointed this week to see some of them say they wanted to play in a club that’s going to play semi-final footy.
“I think the Wests Tigers have said ‘you guys are the ones I believe can take us to the semis. Let’s get your head down and your bum up, work hard and you can lead us there’.
“It’d be enormously disappointing (for fans) and I think it’d be really disrespectful for those two (Woods and Tedesco) to leave the club. They should sign on the dotted line and get on with leading this club.
Taylor said the myriad of controversies hanging over the club so early in the season had a negative effect on their performance.
“It came to a perfect storm and I was the scapegoat in all that,” Taylor said.
“But it’s part of coaching, I’ve got to get on with life and get on with my coaching career. I’ve learnt so much over the past couple of seasons.
“I still love the game. This is a part of a coach’s life and for me this is just another dip in the road.”
Taylor’s incredibly-public sacking placed him in the firing line for a number of scathing criticisms, but one in particular stood out.
“I walked into the school playground a few days back and saw a young fella I’ve never seen in my life walking up to me and say ‘Jason Taylor – you got sacked’,” he said."
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