Peter Taylor was he so bad ?

[oapdodge]

I know I'm probably in a minority but :-
He left after he got us promoted,winning the championship.Didn't take his bonus for winning the league.
Left Dick Knight with the whole summer to get a replacement.
Stated that he did not have enough quality players or budget to stay up,and was proved right.Also stated that he didn't like it without a ground on the horizon.
Coppell got us relegated and just used the ground as an excuse.In the middle of the season with not much time to get a replacement easily.
Taylor was Reading's first choice and turned them down because he has got to finish the job he's started at Hull,better principles then Coppell.Both ex P****e but on reflection perhaps Taylor was better then Coppell ?
The other thing that has been said regarding Taylor was that he didn't win the championship it was all because he inherited Micky Adams team.We were 4th when Taylor took over in div 2 in a league that many have said was better in standard then this year.So by that view we are 2nd now so whoever takes over will piss the league, guaranteed promotion,and get no credit because it is Coppells team.

 

[C1 BHA]

Maybe in the minority, but now there's two of us, and to think I used to think that PT had s*at on us. Come on Stevie, PUT US OUT OF OUR MISERY.

 

[eiregull]

by the way were top, top i say

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

every thing he said at the start of last season turned out to be true our playing budget was far to small for div one.
he left in plenty of time for us to get the right man in 2 months i think it was the clubs fault they didnt not his.
plus his signing of lewis was the reason we won the title

 

[Citrus]

He did the job in hand. Not as bad as people make out he was.

 

[bigc]

nope.

David Lee is a bitter taste left the mouth though

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

nope.

David Lee is a bitter taste left the mouth though

every manager makes bad signings any wayhe has not played for first team for an age didnt look that bad when he did, evberyone thought butters was crap till got second chance

 

[albiongirl]

The way things are going Hull could win the Div 3 championship he will be in the shop window and history could repeat itself!!!!!!

 

[BUTTERBALL]

I cannot understand the Peter Taylor witchhunt. They guy left at the end of his contract having got us promotion and warning of underinvestment.

I wish him all the best at Hull. At least he stayed loyal to them when Reading came calling!

 

[bigc]

thats true.I respect the guy, but can understand where the "haters" are coming from.
there was enough budget to stay up, well, i think so. A shrewder manager would have not purchased Butters(i know he's good now, but wasnt up to first division standard) or Kitson. We had to draft in a new cb(blackwell) plus loanee strikers(rougier etc) when if we hadnt been paying out money to them we could have got in players in areas we needed(like rb) and survived
PT didnt think he could do it, fair play to him.SC in my mind would have done it had we appointed him in may or whatever, he could have well snapped up owusu,ingimarrson,etc

 

[albiongirl]

My gripe is he walked out on my birthday!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Football Genius aka FG]

he was better when partnershipped with Brian Clough

 

[Soton Seagull]

I never really warmed to Taylor. I am grateful that he continued the work by MA and got us up. THis bit can be sniped at for being ungrateful as we won the league, but bloody hell his one tactic of scoring a goal and putting 10 men behind the ball to alk the tightrope towards victory. It was dull and stressful.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

but bloody hell his one tactic of scoring a goal and putting 10 men behind the ball to alk the tightrope towards victory. It was dull and stressful.

this tactic has worked for most sides like arsenal.would you rather had come 8th and played free flowing football or won the league playing like we did?

 

[scott]

peter taylor played for chelmsford city

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

scott played with his mother

 

[ac gull]

In terms of games played and number of games won etc then Taylor is our most successful manager

DK was right to say we could not spend what we had not got - money anyway does not gaurantee success - just look at Nothampton - have spent best part of 500k this summer and has so far got them nowhere

Taylor left of his own accord and took his chances on the job market - did not end up quite where he planned to be I think!

 

[Soton Seagull]

this tactic has worked for most sides like arsenal.would you rather had come 8th and played free flowing football or won the league playing like we did?

Hence my invitation to snipe. The fickleness of football fans eh?

 

[SiNZ]

Coppell got us relegated and just used the ground as an excuse.In the middle of the season with not much time to get a replacement easily.

That's harsh. We were firmly nailed to the bottom when SC joined us. I hardly think you can claim that SC got us relegated.

 

[SiNZ]

I think what gets people riled about Taylor, myself included, is that he left us not for a better offer or career progression, as Micky did. You can grudgingly accept those motives.

Taylor left us for nothing. Didn't he end up assisting at Southend for a bit before Hull came in for him?

To me, that hurt. It suggested that he felt being unemployed was better than being with us in Division 1.

Yes, Taylor's concerns were valid. But SC came real close to rescuing us from the headstart that Hinshelwood had given everybody else.... kinda suggests that it was not mission impossible for a decent manager to have kept us in Division 1 had they been in place from day one.