Everyone's slagging Taylor off right now.....

your pushing it a bit calling it a sport, but tbf I saw taylor interviewed on Sky and he was very repentant, said he was even disillusioned with the game.

nice write up

i loved Stephen Hendry, he is a winner, also Tiger Woods.

Taylor has been a **** for years, but it was kept in check because he was winning all the time.

Now that his time is nearly up, the true Taylor is coming to the fore and it is not pretty.

I don't remember Steve Davis telling anyone to F*** Off when his vanquished opponent offered his hand. Taylor's common as muck and a nasty piece of work. A total phoney and the mask slipped big time last night.

cj180, you're proving my point.
they shook hands, then Barney didn't let go, and pulled Taylor back.
Other than that neither of us knows what happened.

Don't remember Davis or Hendry being found guilty of indecent assault either.

As a Dart player the man is pure class 100 per cent

As a man he is just a pikey scum bag... and last night proved it.

Show a bit of class Phil.. shake the mans hand then start all the Fist shaking boll0cks to the crowd.
Theres Bad losers but Taylor last night was worse...a bad winner

Taylor is and always was a professional w*****. He got very good at a pub game and should appreciate that it turned him into a millionaire. Disillusioned, isn't that the way he made other players feel for 25 years. The cheek of the b    d.

"A Phoney"???  At what?

The other pro's don't like him. This probably extends to their families.

Great post Studyform

The reason the other players don't like Taylor is because for all these years he has been winning it has cost them in the pocket.

Painter has even gone on record moaning that Taylor has cost him something like 2 million pounds or something stupid because of all the times he has had to face Taylor in the opening rounds and lost.

If the other players don't like to lose to him why don't they put the dedication in like he does , stop worrying like Wright and Nicholson about your on stage personna and get down and practice till it hurts , if you do that and you still can't beat him then just accept he is better than you.

I for one did think Taylor let Barney get to him pre match with that rubbish of Barney's ' I don't fear him, I want to play him ' and Taylor should have made more light of it but one silly reaction shouldn't get him treated like he has done , Taylor will get the boo's now the crowd have found a new messiah to bow to in Gerwen.


Sky have already lined up Gerwen as the new idol of there's , notice how the musical montages with Gerwen are very much like the ones they do for Taylor , you know that behind the scenes at Sky they have been sh!tting themselves what to do when Taylor retires and like a gift from the God's along comes Van Gerwen , O how they must have dropped to there knees and given thanks to the great God of Hyperbole.

Taylor is a proper professional which is why he hates it when the crowd are doing there stupid chants when he's throwing instead of actually appearing to be there for the Darts and watching the best players in the world perform , even when Gerwen and Lewis were at the critical point in there match you could see half the crowd facing away from the action and chanting at the tables/stands , so no excuses about doing it inbetween sets or when Doolan is playing Ovens for e.g

He does let things get to him but thats because he is a perfectionist.


I sincerely hope he wins tomorrow and then retires and let the rest scrap it out for years to come.

I have the utmost respect for Taylor and nobody can take away the fact that he's been a colossus within darts. When you watch any sport you want to see it being played as well as it can be and he has consistently done that.

But his persona has become a real issue. I used to tend to ignore it to a large degree but over the past 12 months or so I've found him to be increasingly unlikeable as a person. That culminated in events both before and after last night's match.

So great darts player that he is, possibly the best we'll ever see, I hope Van Gerwen wipes the floor with him.

Nothing I have seen or heard can detract from Taylor's excellence at darts, which is all I do (and everybody should) care about.

So by that logic if Adolf Hitler was knocking in the 180s, he would also become a hero of yours?

Ozymandius.
That is a ridiculous analogy, on just about every level.

Thing is, none of us knows the man or what he's really like.
It's well known that the other pro's don't get on with Taylor and I should think that this filters through to the media. Not only that but Sky (and the papers) love a bit of contention and 'edge'.

I think that if we have preconceptions, ie like or don't like someone, then we will perceive whatever they say or do to be proof of what we're already thinking of them.

Mark my words.

As much as you all may think the other players hate Taylor , that will be nothing to the hate they will have for Van Gerwen very shortly when not only is he winning but all that face pulling , fist pumping and general screaming will quickly (if it hasn't already) wear on everybody's nerves.

Lewis you could tell by the looks he was giving Gerwen over his ridiculous over the top celebrations (people think there cute now , hmmm wait till you've had a number of years of them) wasn't impressed at all and the same i suspect goes double for Wade which is why he wasn't exactly jumping onto his back over his 9 darter.

Van Gerwen will become Mr Hate as soon as Taylor goes.

I have found the vitriol spewed in Taylors direction nothing short of incredible. Sure he was a bit out of order to react the way he did, sure he has made a few crass comments down the years, but the general reaction on here and elsewhere has been well over the top.

Barney was on the wind up by grabbing and pulling his hand and then putting his arm round his neck. Taylor clearly didnt like this, but Barney carried on.

Taylors character has been a bit David Brent at times, but he is usually very generous in defeat and in Barney's own words was the only player who supported him at one low point in his personal life.

I am obviously in quite a minority, but I hope Taylor can fulfill his dream and land one last World title and the first Sid Waddell Trophy!

You tell erm Philthepower lol You make the rules for the human race and tell erm all whats right whats wrong and what we can all do

I was looking at the main in running thread throughout the evening. I've never seen so much crap written.

It doesn't matter what Taylor said or did during or after the final, he couldn't get it right.

If he's magnanimous and kind in victory, he's smug. If he gives the dartboard away to Bruce, he's cringeworthy.
If he hadn't been magnanimous and kind he'd have been wrong.

I refer you to my opening post. For lots of people, for no real reason, he's become a figure of hate.
I often wonder if jealousy plays a part.

As King Cally says; I have found the vitriol spewed in Taylor's direction nothing short of incredible.

This is another load of bullshhit that's been creeping into the forum for the last few days.

The intimation that he's some kind of kiddie fiddler, (and I know you didn't say he was).
Once again, as with the rest of the pony I've read on here, we all no nothing of the facts, save for a couple of ( well in their 20's btw) women's words against his.
I'm not suggesting he's innocent, nor that he's wonderful, just a puzzlement at the apparent hatred.

the women where 23 and he was found guilty.

People don't like him as he comes across as a patronising tw@t and the way he went on after the 1/4 final saying those things about Barney (who i wouldn't be a fan of either) showed him up for what he is, he then proceeded to show himself up again after the 1/2 final.

You seem to think he is just disliked because he is the best in the sport, no doubt that is the case with some who always want to see the best beaten and will go for the underdog but it's not hard to see why so many dislike him for the way he carrys on.

EXPECT A CALL SOON