Time for a change??

[RHB]

I see that Spud Taylor has just received the grand order of the boot at Gillingham. Time for another wonderfully long thread about new(ish) managers we want to bring in?

 

[dannypav]

In Phil we trust.
He will lead us to the Promised Land .

 

[ooh-andy-ansah]

Taylor is a great coach but never cut it as a manager, we could do worse than getting him in to work with the strikers !!!!! Doubt he would even want paying, would PB swallow his pride ?

 

[SUFCFANS]

We're at the business end of the table, a few points off the autos. So no change please... Season is going well..

 

[tottenham541]

No change.....that is all:smile:

 

[Big Bad Barry Corr]

Peter Taylor has never cut it at any club side he has managed and he would certainly not be an upgrade on Phil Brown.

 

[shrimpled]

With tremendous respect to Peter Taylor, there's no way I'd do that swap. Brown has done a good job all in all and deserves the opportunity to get us up this year. Despite not playing well yet this season we're 6th and in a decent position. I think he'll take us up this year.

 

[bess30]

Didn't he take Wycombe up one year lg2 to lge 1??

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Didn't he take Wycombe up one year lg2 to lge 1??

And Hull and Brighton and Gillingham....

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Peter Taylor has never cut it at any club side he has managed and he would certainly not be an upgrade on Phil Brown.

What utter garbage.

I was no fan of his in his time as Southend manager but he clearly cut it at these clubs:


Gillingham

Taylor returned to club management at the beginning of the 1999–2000 season with Gillingham, and at the end of the season guided them to victory over Wigan Athletic in the Division Two play-off final which marked the Kent club's promotion to the upper half of the English league for the first time in their history. During this season he also guided the Gills to the quarter-finals of the FA Cup after impressive wins over Premiership opposition in Bradford City and Sheffield Wednesday (a brace of 3-1 home wins), before losing 5–0 away to Chelsea in the last eight.


Brighton & Hove Albion

After being sacked by Leicester, he returned to management within two weeks to take charge at Brighton & Hove Albion whose previous manager Micky Adams had become the new assistant manager of Leicester City. Taylor guided Brighton to the Division Two championship (marking their return to the upper half of the English league after 11 years) but resigned from his job at the end of the season, citing a low budget and the delay to the new stadium.[9]

Hull City

In November 2002 Taylor was appointed manager of Hull City who were weeks away from their move to the 25,404-seat KC Stadium. A mid-table finish was followed in 2003–04 by promotion as Division Three runners-up. They finished League One runners-up the following season, 2004–05, and thus reached the Football League Championship in the 2005–06 season – their first appearance at that level since 1990–91, and they finished 18th in the league.

Wycombe

On 29 May 2008, he became Wycombe Wanderers manager, following the resignation of Paul Lambert after their failure to reach the League Two play-off final.[12] He signed Junior Lewis yet again, this time as first team coach.[13] Taylor had a successful start to the 2008–09 season as Wycombe went on an 18 game unbeaten run in the league with promotion to League One being secured on the final day of the season. However, he was dismissed on 9 October 2009 after Wycombe's slow start to the League One season.[14]


It's a far more accomplished CV than Phil Brown's.

 

[NZamba Legend]

Exactly. Taylor's record is far superior to Phil Brown's.

 

[mrsblue]

Exactly. Taylor's record is far superior to Phil Brown's.[/QUOTE



Sturrock had a far superior record than Phil.

 

[shrimperjon]

I think he did a great job at U21 England level as well

 

[Rayleigh boy]

I think he did a great job at U21 England level as well

there was also a bloke around called Tilson

 

[wiggy]

Exactly. Taylor's record is far superior to Phil Brown's.

Spot on.....not at all keen on Taylor but Phil Brown is on a par with Alvin Martin.....just very lucky that we are in a league full of borderline Conference teams!

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

If Peter Taylor couldn't make a winning side out of Ricky Otto, Chris Powell, Jonathan Hunt, Keith Jones, Tommy Mooney etc etc, then I don't think he's a viable candidate to do so with the current talent pool.

 

[londonblue]

If Peter Taylor couldn't make a winning side out of Ricky Otto, Chris Powell, Jonathan Hunt, Keith Jones, Tommy Mooney etc etc, then I don't think he's a viable candidate to do so with the current talent pool.

That's a tad unfair. A lot of those players were Barry Fry players, and didn't try once Fry left. In fact, they wanted to go with BF.

I bumped into Peter Taylor on holiday many years after this episode. He told me and a few friends that he had just attended Chris Powell's wedding and that Ricky Otto and a number of other players actually apologised to him for not trying their hardest once BF had left...

 

[Pak Power]

Leave things as they are until the end of the season. See if Phil's has got us promoted, if not then do as his contract probably says!

 

[rlb999]

Whether it was the manager or the players, I can't think of a manager that has taken us backwards as quickly as PT - our fall from grace that season was massive. Every time a good player went out, he brought some garbage in.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

That's a tad unfair. A lot of those players were Barry Fry players, and didn't try once Fry left. In fact, they wanted to go with BF.

I bumped into Peter Taylor on holiday many years after this episode. He told me and a few friends that he had just attended Chris Powell's wedding and that Ricky Otto and a number of other players actually apologised to him for not trying their hardest once BF had left...

It's been widely reported that Judas Fry was promising moves to Birmingham with big wage increases to our top players at that time, and that distraction must have been a huge hindrance to Spud. But at the same time, he did have some great talent available, and probably the most enthusiastic and rabid crowd behind him that I can recall in my 33 years supporting the club. The fact that Steve Thompson was also able to get far better results than Taylor from the same group of players also doesn't reflect well on him.