Nic Taylor
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Nicholas Taylor-Greaves | ||
Date of birth | 20 August 1991 | ||
Place of birth | London, England | ||
Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | A.F.C Croydon Athletic | ||
Number | 1 | ||
Youth career | |||
?–2008 | Millwall | ||
2008 | Crystal Palace | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2008 | Woking | 1 | (0) |
2009–2010 | Dagenham & Redbridge | 0 | (0) |
2010 | → Hemel Hempstead Town (loan) | 6 | (0) |
2010 | → Kingstonian (loan) | 1 | (0) |
2010–2011 | Kingstonian | 5 | (0) |
2011 | → Fisher (loan) | 5 | (0) |
2012 | Sutton United | 12 | (0) |
2011–2012 | Epsom & Ewell | 14 | (0) |
2012–2013 | Tooting & Mitcham United | 18 | (0) |
2013–2014 | Chipstead | 8 | (0) |
2014 | Cray Wanderers | 17 | (0) |
2014–2015 | Shoreham | 36 | (2) |
2015 | → Tunbridge Wells (dual registration) | 6 | (0) |
2015–2016 | Redhill | 9 | (0) |
2015 | East Grinstead Town | 20 | (0) |
2016 | Guildford City | 14 | (0) |
2016 | East Grinstead Town | 2 | (0) |
2016 | Ashford United | 5 | (0) |
2016– | Fisher | 64 | (0) |
National team‡ | |||
2014 | Montserrat | 2 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 09:00, 24 May 2015 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 09:00, 24 May 2015 (UTC) |
Nicholas Taylor Mills-Greaves (born 20 August 1991) is an English-Montserratian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Fisher. Taylor works as a sports coach in a primary school in Clapham, London.[1]
Career
Professional career
Taylor began his career progressing through the ranks for the Millwall Academy, before joining Crystal Palace in 2008. After a year in the youth set-up at Selhurst Park, he joined Woking. Signing his first professional contract later that year, he continued to spend the season with the youth side before his departure to Dagenham & Redbridge. Signing on professional terms, Taylor was also unable to break into the first team at the League Two club.[2]
Non-League career
Struggling to become a regular in the senior side, Taylor joined Southern League Premier Division side Hemel Hempstead Town on loan - making sporadic appearances for the first team while lining-up for the Reserves.[3] Upon his return to the Daggers, he joined Isthmian Premier Division side Kingstonian on loan.[4] The deal was later made permanent, but the goalkeeper only managed a single senior appearance, keeping a clean sheet in a 3-0 win at Walton & Hersham in the Isthmian League Cup second round.[5]
While registered with Kingstonian, Taylor joined Fisher on loan in October 2011 to gain first team football, before departing Kingsmeadow to join Epsom & Ewell.[6] Finally cementing his place in a senior side, he remained with the Salts until the conclusion of the 2011–12 season.[7]
Following a short stint with Sutton United, featuring in the Reserves once more, Taylor joined Isthmian Division One South side Tooting & Mitcham United and returned to senior football. Departing at the end of the season, he joined Chipstead for six months before impressing Isthmian Premier Division side Cray Wanderers and being rewarded with his international debut.[8]
Taylor joined Sussex County League side Shoreham ahead of the 2015-16 season and earned another international call up, following this he dual registered with Tunbridge Wells.[9] Taylor joined Combined Counties outfit Redhill in August 2015. Taylor was released by Tunbridge Wells in October 2015, due to costs.[10]
Following this, Taylor joined East Grinstead Town in November 2015, before a lack of first team appearances prompted another move. February 2016 saw him join Guildford City, where he was bought in to replace the injured Luke Badiali for the remainder of the season.[11] Taylor was sent off following a red card in his first game with Guildford City.[12] Taylor made 10 appearances for City as they finished the season in 14th place.
Despite being penalised for unexpectedly pushing another player in East Grinstead's final game of the season against Walton & Hersham in April 2016 and their signing of a new, more experienced goalkeeper Milan Stojsavljevic,[13] Taylor has signed for East Grinstead Town for the start of the 2016–17 season.[14] Following a short period with Ashford United, Taylor signed for Fisher in December 2016 as one of returning Manager Dean Harrison's key signings to help strengthen the club's defence. He wib Manager's Player of the Year at the end of the season.[15]
International career
Taylor made his international debut for Montserrat on 30 March 2014, featuring in a 1-0 win over the US Virgin Islands in the 2014 Gold Cup. His second international cap came during a 0-0 draw with Bonaire on 3 June 2014. Taylor was named on the bench in two fixtures against Curaçao in 2018 World Cup qualification a year later, but did not feature.[16]
References
- ↑ "Staff / School Structure - Bonneville Primary School". Bonneville Primary School. Retrieved 2016-06-12.
- ↑ "Musselmen strengthen squad - News - Shoreham FC". www.pitchero.com. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
- ↑ "Nick Taylor - First Team - Shoreham FC". www.pitchero.com. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
- ↑ "kingstonian.net | Players". www.kingstonian.net. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
- ↑ "kingstonian.net | Match Report". www.kingstonian.net. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
- ↑ "Fisher FC 1 – 3 Bethnal Green Utd". FISHER FOOTBALL CLUB. 2011-10-24. Archived from the original on 2013-05-17. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
- ↑ "Epsom & Ewell 1-4 Farnham Town - News - Epsom & Ewell Photographic Archive". www.pitchero.com. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
- ↑ "Saturday's Ryman Transfer List - The Ryman Isthmian Football League". www.isthmian.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
- ↑ "International call for Mussels keeper Nic". www.shorehamherald.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
- ↑ "Tunbridge Wells boss targets new signings". Kent and Sussex Courier. 2015-10-26. Retrieved 2016-06-12.
- ↑ "Combined Counties 2015/2016 Transfers". www.ccleague.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
- ↑ FC, Guildford City (2016-02-21). "Colliers Wood 2 Guildford City 4: Match Report". Guildford City Football Club. Retrieved 2016-06-12.
- ↑ "Former Fulham and Aldershot Town goalkeeper adds experience to East Grinstead Town squad".
- ↑ "Ex-Fulham man among eight new arrivals at East Grinstead Town". East Grinstead Courier. 2016-05-27. Retrieved 2016-06-12.
- ↑ http://www.fisherfc.org/2016/12/02/signings-like-new-deano-brings-in-defensive-reinforcements-including-international-goalkeeper/
- ↑ Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "Nic Taylor-Greaves". www.national-football-teams.com. Retrieved 2016-05-24.