Next Rovers manager. (Official: Matt Taylor)

I've given this some deeper thought today and I think, following the Rotherham news and reading through this thread, I am convinced in my mind that we should absolutely be approaching Matt Taylor immediately. He almost entirely fits what the board are looking for.

- 41 years old, so young in manager's terms.
- Experienced L2 promotion playing good football for an Exeter team that we know always do well to punch above their weight financially.
- Solid start in L1 and then poached by Championship Rotherham, who he kept up. Yes, ultimately it didn't work out and naysayers will point to his 18% win record there (fair point) but the Millers are a yo-yo club with what must be a bottom three Championship budget whenever they are in that tier - so keeping them up last season was the achievement in itself.
- 38.7% career win percentage in 282 games, fairly on par with the other frontrunner, Karl Robinson (40.9% from 694 games).
- Former defender, so just generally making an assumption that that is a positive given our plethora of attacking options v our noticeably weaker backline.
- Former Exeter, Bath, Cheltenham and Newport player/manager - safe to say he knows the area well and has spent a lot of time being settled in the West Country/Devon region.
- From what I can tell, his move to Rotherham only saw his assistant, Wayne Carlisle, follow. From also what I can tell, Carlisle has not left Rotherham. I am making the assumption, again, that this means he is happy to work with our coaching staff, present and future, as per HAS' plan, be that Bondy, Whelan and/or Mangs himself.

Basically the only thing he 'lacks' is a L1 promotion, which is probably not a dealbreaker given Mangs doesn't boast that on his CV, neither does Monk and Robinson's promotion was 8.5 seasons ago.

He ticks all of my boxes, personally, and given we now have a sizeable international break following the Newport game tonight, I hope the board use this time to approach him to gage interest.

Stop clutching your pearls, you hated Joey and would have been aware his mates would be going, if not now sometime in the near future; and you think BRFC will be better off being managed by Tisdale 2 - the Taylor Carlisle combo, lets hope your right. Neither of these two played at a particularly high level, with no obvious connections with any of the big premiership clubs, and had a win ratio before getting sacked at Rotherham of 18%. Tisdale 1 said he could not do anything with the squad. At least the Tisdale 2 will inherit a really good squad of Joeys players. 

With Matt Taylor likely to employ a 5-3-2 out of possession & 3-5-2 in possession, I think the following could struggle in the future for game time and potentially moved on, not matching the system:

Luke Thomas - not good enough defensively to work as a wing back, been poor when played centrally this season.

Scott Sinclair - struggling to get in the side as it is, no real threat from wide positions & struggled at wing back when asked to play there.

James Gibbons - not fit for wingback role & lacking pace

Those who will thrive in Taylor's system:

Luca Hoole - exactly the type of player he seems to develop, good depth at RCB / RWB

Aaron Collins - Will have support in a two up top formation

George Friend - Slots in nicely at that LCB role

I see Taylor had Wayne Carlisle as his assistant at Exeter and Rotherham. I wonder if we'll see Waynerrr return to the gas? Always thought he had a rare bit of quality about him in that poor Graydon side