Playing Career
Taylor spent his junior years at Green Valley United JRLFC and the Ashcroft Stallions JRLFC, in Sydney's south-western suburbs. He first attended Ashcroft High School before spending his late teenage years St Gregory's College, Campbelltown. Taylor played for Sydney's Western Suburbs Magpies from 1990 to 1993. He was also selected to play for the New South Wales team in the 1993 State of Origin series. With the North Sydney Bears from 1994 to 1999, he remained with them for their merger with the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles to form the Northern Eagles in 2000, but joined the Parramatta Eels for 2001. Between 1992 and 2000 (and across three clubs) Taylor played 194 games in succession, also a standing record, 20 games clear of Hazem El Masri's 174. Taylor's last ever match was for Parramatta at halfback in their 2001 NRL grand final loss to the Newcastle Knights.
Taylor retired with the record for most career points in the National Rugby League and its predecessors. He scored 2,107 first grade career points, a mark later surpassed by Newcastle Knights halfback Andrew Johns in July 2006, then again by Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs winger Hazem El Masri in March 2009. He retired holding the record for most first grade career goals at 942 and was the Australian Rugby League's top point-scorer in seasons 1996 and 1997. He was awarded the Rothmans Medal in 1996.
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