Resumption of top flight Taylor-made for Greg

GREG Taylor has revealed his hunger for action as Celtic move into the “business end” of the season.

The 24-year-old Hoops left-back missed almost two months of the campaign after shoulder surgery but recovered to get back into Ange Postecoglou’s side ahead of the League Cup final win over Hibernian at Hampden Park last month.

After training with his

Hoops team-mates during the rescheduled winter break, Taylor is looking forward to resuming the season with the visit of Hibs in the cinch Premiership on Monday night before a trip to Alloa in the Scottish Cup the following Saturday.

The Scotland international said: “This is the business end you could say, the next four or five months is where you get handed the silverware – apart from the one we just won. Everyone wants to play their part and hopefully contribute to success. We will all be trying to do that.

“It has been a mini pre-season so it was good to get some serious work done. We don’t really get the chance to get proper training through the season as we have that many games so we had time to do that.

“It was pretty good that I managed to make it back before the cup final and it was a long period I was out.

“It is a good chance to build on my fitness and build on the game I got before the break. I am feeling good and ready to attack the next few months.”

Taylor has been impressed by Yosuke Ideguchi, Reo Hatate and Daizen Maeda who were all signed from the J-League to bolster Postecoglou’s squad. They join fellow Japanese Kyogo Furahashi.

Steve Clarke knows the Scotland support can seem like having an extra man.