Adam Taggart

The other part of me feels that if If he'd been on the other side, he would have wanted that probably blown as a penalty.

But in terms of his reaction, I love to see that as well because he's the captain of this side this year in the absence of Adam Taggart, who may or may not be back in January.

There are some new-look players.

I think above all, look, if you can put the results to one side, and obviously high-level sport, elite-level sport, is all about the result and getting the result.

I think both sides, the result is what it is.

Perth can be very happy, very encouraged by what they've seen, and I hope their fans are as well.

Adam Taggart, what are you hearing on him?

I just hear that it's just... just a disappointing situation that even, perhaps it was even out of, largely out of Harry Kuehl's hands, his coach in Vietnam as well.

They struggled, absolutely struggled last year.

Andy Keogh, Adam Taggart up top.

Adam Taggart at this point in time, still only 23 years of age.

One of the brightest players at this point in his career, at least within the A-League.

You then also have players like Josh Risdon, who went on to play for the Socceroos.

I mean, Keogh and Taggart, between them, Keogh 27 starts, 12 goals.

Taggart 20 starts, 12 goals too.

So that's not a bad turnaround, especially for a striker who's only 23 years of age at the time, in Adam Taggart.

And so obviously there's not a ton of match data to go off of because I'm obviously not gonna look at preseason friendlies, um, as seriously as I should or maybe, uh, would a regular season match or even a cup match.

Um, but I'm just gonna be going based off of the squad turnover and the two glaring, I guess, three glaring movements, uh, moves that I've seen from these is Perth Glory, they no longer have Adam Taggart.

Oh.

He's been their heart and soul at up top.

Very, very quickly.

My ugly is the Adam Taggart situation.

Obviously, leaving Perth and the... uh innuendo around that and then of course heading over to vietnam and then being told uh from all reports thank you but no thank you after two games so um i do kind of feel for him but the once again it's not a not a nice situation it is an ugly situation did

anybody do any good journalism at the launch last night and ask him what's happening he was there

Yeah.

Okay.

No, I can reveal that Adam Taggart was there last night.

But yeah, I didn't have a conversation with him.

All right.

Perth Glory in 10th place, um, surrounded by the curious story of Adam Taggart, who signed a contract extension, was then released from that contract to go sign with, uh, Hanoi FC, and then was [chuckles] removed from that organization as well as, uh, Hanoi wished to sign more visa players and Adam Taggart was pushed out after playing just two games.

So he's in the wilderness.

They'll have to go on without him.

Yeah, I guess it goes to the culture more or less because it's on the field.

It's like, yeah, there were signs that they were building something with Griffiths and, you know, towards the middle part of the season you thought, okay, they, they, they could be d- doing something good here and Griffiths could stay on and, and actually, you know, build something unique.

But if you have all this off-field stuff happening, and then you see the Adam Taggart situation, what a debacle that was, and obviously like you said, Matt's more close with Perth Glory and he knows sort of what's happening a bit more behind the scenes than we do.

But like for me, Perth could have been lower in my predictions.

But I also think that we've lost some key players.

Adam Taggart, a big one.

We don't know the full context of why he did leave Perth Glory in the first place.

I think a lot of that was kept out of the public eye.

Um, we've spoken about the women's in terms of, um, I think they're a young and improving upcoming team which has got continuity, so a real positive.

I think for the Glory it, it's a bit of a different one and a difficult one to assess because a lot of experience has, has left and, um, y-you're talking about Adam Taggart and, and Scott Wootton as two players-

Mm

... um, who are, who are not in the team.

And this is probably a good way to segue into the Glory, who we're gonna be talking to Gareth Morgan, the media manager from Perth Glory next.

Yep.

Is, was it just over a month ago, maybe six weeks ago, we found out the club was gonna lose Adam Taggart.

Yep.