Matt taylor

Having witnessed the utter dross that his team produced from last January onwards, I renewed my season ticket in spite of Taylor, not because of him.
I know it`s early days, but as of yet it doesn`t seem to make much difference if he`s managing his own squad of players, or someone else`s.

Where is this report that we smashed the budget this time around ? I’ve not read it. 

Ditched our highest earners Collins & Evans. 
Absolutely no evidence what you’re claiming is true.

The problem is we are not an attacking team. We have exciting attacking players I believe but the problem is to MT that defending is more important. ~.This 3 at the back is rubbish -it isnt three at the back the way Taylor plays it. It is three plus the two wing backs plus two defensive midfield players then the three left are dragged back for every corner/free kick.
What attacking can they do? Our system if that is what it can be called is constant pressure put on ourselves as we dont ever pressurise as a team. Only Promise pushes the opposition defence an d the battle cannot be won by one player, the front three have to press as a unit.
I dont want to see Luke Thomas tackling a player as last man- I want to see him running at players and scoring goals. We are just using players to make up for poor defending by individuals- you take pressure off defenders by attacking. What is the point of just standing back and letting opponents bring the ball outthen they hoof it forward and the next thing you know they have a corner and we have ALL our players back and if it isnt a goal conceded it is hoofed out by us to nobody and back the opponents come.
It is terrible to watch . MT makes so many changes that nobody gets a chance to feel part of the team. LM played well saturday but he knows if he plays poorly next game off he will go at half time. Hutchison is the same- MT does not give players runs in the team to gel.The only players who get to play together most matches with MT are the three defenders and half the tome they are the ones making the errors- Mola is the only defender who has been consistent.

Only by giving players a run of games will we see any change. At present i see MT as a dour defensive Manager with very limited tactical ability.

It’s all about transition, we’re just not very good at turning defence into attack at the moment

It's obvious Barton wasn't sacked on performances. We were 7 points behind Stevenage with 2 games in hand . Stevenage were in the play off spot. If Barton won one of the games in hand we would of been 4 off play offs and miles behind the relegation zone.

And I doubt the board will compare the 16 points from 13 games under Barton come mid October. So yes the above Hidden agendas might be true.






P.S We were 6 points of relegation ( better GD ) with a game in hand in mid October. Taylor would need to W 3 D 2 L2 out of our next 7 to suppress Bartons record. Let's see

Yes both did I think

This will see us relegated. 

What is the process? Zero patterns of play and Taylor even admitted in a recent interview that his tactics were kick and chase.

Having 2 competent players per position is the basics of football and recruitment. We have no backup keeper and no wingbacks (apart from Hunt who is always injured - Thomas is an attacking midfielder not a RWB).

That's without the off field issues - running on threadbare commercial staff, half the fanzone unopened at the last home game.

Just all round water poor. We seem unable to do the bare minimum in all facets of the club. 

We were effectively 2 points off the relegation zone, as Wigan were in a false position and would have been above us, if they were not deducted points. We were 7 points of the play offs, with one game in hand as Stevenage were 7th.

Barton had 7 points from his first 8 games in League 2 with a new squad at a similar stage of his managerial career with us. We currently have 7 after 7 games. So get a point against Wycombe and he's doing better.

It's not been good enough, but we were struggling when Barton left and he had years to build that squad. Their records are similar at the same stage, but we are in a harder league now with a less experienced squad. Taylor's record was better than Barton's, when they were in the same league.

Taylor is close to the edge and it will be hard to come back from this, but I would give him a few more games. I would have given Barton a few more games as well, but I can see why he went.