Could Taylor be the key?

http://www.themag.co.uk/the-mag-articles/newcastle-united-renaissance-man-makes-5-wins-5-season/?

He might not be everybody’s cup of tea…but is Steven Taylor the biggest factor in the Newcastle United revival.

While younger players such as Aarrons, Perez and Abeid have grabbed the headlines after eventually getting a proper chance, is it a more ‘mature’ player who really deserves the main plaudits?

United started this season as they finished the last, struggling for goals at one end and perhaps more worryingly, letting them in for fun at the other end.

Before the Leicester match, Newcastle had conceded twelve goals in their previous five Premier League games with no clean sheets.

Injury to Mike Williamson brought in Steven Taylor and the rest is history, so far…

Three Premier League victories have followed with two clean sheets and only one goal conceded to Leicester, Spurs and Liverpool combined.

The only other two matches Taylor has started this season were the League Cup matches against Gillingham and Crystal Palace, making it a pleasantly surprising five wins out of five for the central defender.

That Coloccini/Taylor partnership was the foundation for Newcastle’s successful 2011/12 fifth place finish and could Alan Pardew have accidentally stumbled upon the successful formula again?

It appeared clear in the summer that Newcastle were desperate to unload both Mapou and Steven Taylor but the Geordie defender made clear he wasn’t interested in leaving.

Turning 29 in January, could Steven Taylor have rescued his Newcastle career and at the same time potentially saved Alan Pardew?

 

I've always been a fan of Taylor.
He is one of us and will certainly know how the fans have felt lately.

 

That's all it will be, an accident. As well as we are doing at the moment 'Pards' is still not the man for the job in my opinion. He is a lucky ****er, no doubt............ but with a more tactically aware manager I feel we could do so much better with the players we have.

 

To be fair, Pardew has stumbled across many things. For example, playing Abeid when he had no other option and he looks like a Tiote cross Anita footballer and better than both of them. He played Sameobi who has shown a slight resemblance of consistency akin to SHola along with Sissoko/Obertan both realising they know how to play football.

Pardew's tactics are still the same (albeit slightly better subs made by him - though he took a while to decide that it was Aarons replacing obertan), he is just lucky that the players have decided that Pardew isn't going to get the sack so they might as well try now!

 

No doubt that Taylor has made a difference.

It's also helped Colo no end having someone next to him that he likes playing with and they actually talk to each other.

It's not by luck that a team beats Tottenham and Man City on there own patch and follow it up against Liverpool within the space of 7 days.

 

BRS will have you killed for this ACS.

Yes though, hands up I slated Saylor, but he has been a massive factor in our revival. Colo all of a sudden looks more assured. Have to say though Obertan has been a massive factor too.