Peter Taylor was he so bad ?

[Icy Gull]

Taylor hoped DK would see sense and come back with a more sensible playing budget. DK called PT's bluff because he was arrogant enough to think he could get someone else in who would work within the constraints. He couldn't and we ended up with Hinshelwood

DK is our saviour but imo he is responsible for PT walking out
and has managed to deflect all the blame onto PT as well. We, as Brighton fans, were happy to join in claiming that PT didn't have the balls for the challenge.

Something else that is conveniently forgotten is that ITV Digital had not finally gone tits up at the time. PT reasonably expected that virtually all Div 1 teams would invest heavily with their windfall. Ours would probably have gone straight into the Falmer fund. As it happens most big spenders had to offload players and if we'd had PT or SC from the start of the season we would comfortably have avoided the bottom 3 places.

 

[Sorrel]

I thought PT was excellent for us, and honest with the club. OK, he could have resigned the day before the victory parade, but you can't blame him for going on that.

He did try to win games 1-0, but we weren't unhappy with a few of those at the time.

 

[Brovion]

I'm still in red mist (or maybe a blue and white hoop mist) so I currently agree with everything that oapdodge says. Peter Taylor had the decency to leave us at the end of a season and was content to be unemployed. Coppell has buggered off at the first opportunity.

Taylor won us the Championship. Coppell got us relegated, sold our best player and led us to a 5-0 defeat at Palace.

Yes I know I'm twisting facts a bit but I'm ill at the moment. I'll be better soon.

 

[JJ McClure]

I've got nowt against PT. Won us a championship, and he left giving DK plenty of time to find a replacement. Often treated harshly on here IMO.

 

[dwayne]

yes but he left without anywhere else to go to, that's actually worse IMHO!! and theonly reason he didnt leave mid season is because he had nowhere else to go.

 

[Yorkie]

Peter Taylor never signed a contract. He had no intention of staying with us.
Yes he got us the championship and wanted that to point to the job he really wanted. The assistant England manager's job after the World Cup was finished.

The budget was quite big enough for Butters (a div 1 player) and Kitson (a Prem player) and the ITV digital fiasco hadn't happened then.

He made himself available and got left in the lurch when the assistant didn't stand down when he thought he would. So eventually he took the Hull job. The assistant manager then resigend a month later but Taylor had settled down by then.

I know this is true because someone at our club confirmed that Taylor was talking about England etc way back in February.

He used us and we used him.

 

[dwayne]

and the ITV digital fiasco hadn't happened then.

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yes it had and that never really affected us too much anyway.

 

[Kent Seagull]

Taylor is an honorable man, he carried on with Mickeys side and got us promoted. He felt that the playing budget was too low for the first division and did not wish to sour his reputation by coming straight back down. He did not dump us mid season or breach a contract. He did what he was paid to no more no less. I've got no problem with the man.

 

[Adams score 0]

Did not loke Taylor,and i do not like you oapdodge.

 

[Icy Gull]

yes but he left without anywhere else to go to, that's actually worse IMHO!! and theonly reason he didnt leave mid season is because he had nowhere else to go.

err I think you'll find he only joined us mid season.

 

[chemical brother]

I know this is true because someone at our club confirmed that Taylor was talking about England etc way back in February.

I heard that as well. He thought he was going to get a job on the England coaching staff after the world cup.

I met him on a couple of occasions and he was a really nice bloke. Didn't enjoy his tactics too much though, I remember going to Blackpool at about Chrimbo time, being 2-0 up and cruising and then blowing two points by playing a 9-1-0 formation for the entire second half.

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[REDLAND]

Hes a good manager he showed that with us and is again with Hull, feel sorry for him a bit in a way coz i think he was promised something at England that never happened after he left us !!

And he turned down Majesky as well, so he aint all bad !!

 

[BrightonBird]

I never really warmed to Taylor either. He came straight after MA whom I really admired as a manager.

Peter Taylor got us promoted with pratically the same team that MA brought - he only brought a couple (thanks for Kitson btw).

He left and blamed the stadium - now this is what I'm getting peeved off about. MA always made his intentions clear that he wanted to manage a premiership side - so I was happy for him when he left. PT blamed our lack of ground. He's there to bloody manage not mow the lawn. He knew when he took the job the problems the club had about the stadium. He should have managed us for an extra year - take on a real project and grab it by the scruff of the neck, ie keep us in the 1st. It wouldn't have hurt him to stay and he would have got a lot of recognition for it from fans, managers, pundits, etc.

 

[chemical brother]

he only brought a couple (thanks for Kitson btw).

He didn't buy Kitson babe. The ones I can remember him buying were Lee, Webb and sunshine on a Waynie Gray. He might have bought Hadland in as well, can't remember.

That's the thing about Taylor, he's a fantastic coach but he can't build his own team, although maybe he's on the way to proving us wrong on that at Hull.

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[BrightonBird]

Apologies CM I thought he did.

I'll get me coat.....

 

[chemical brother]

No need for that, why not unzip your blouse and make yourself at home?

xx

 

[BrightonBird]

how rude

 

[(was)DBS]

go bb go

 

[Captain Sensible]

Get ya kit off!!

 

[BrightonBird]

Pervs - the lot of ya. I could be a man in disguise, but call myself bb as I want to be a woman.

You never know with this internet milarky!