Matt taylor

To be fair to MT, the end of last season was very difficult as so many players were going to be out of contract and released with little to play for. This season there are a lot of new players most of whom are youngsters.

On Saturday our best performers according to Dan Hargreaves were Griffiths and Sousa, our worst Taylor, Wilson and Bola, it sounds like the more senior players are letting us down.

What I can't understand is why we've started our last two, possibly three, away games so poorly, surely youngsters can start off on the front foot even if they struggle once we concede a goal. Although we only seem to start playing when we are behind.

I challenge you to twist any of those stats to give the appearance that we are doing ok or making improvements or in fact been better than any of the results have suggested….



Agree with that but I simply cannot understand where or how you think there is an improvement in our play?

The perception of so many individual performances are so far removed from what they are actually doing based on things ranging from their perceived “pressing” which amounts to little more than chasing crisp packets in the wind, to the “that’s the best we’ve been with the ball” when it was less possession than the previous game, to a fan favourite based on the fact he’s a lovely lad and smiles loads which has bought him a shed load of patience on his actual performances to the “he’s finding the step into league one tough” when he’s been no worse than regular league one players, to the “it’s a young squad” when it’s actually older than our opponents, to the “we’re so solid defensively” when the GK has had 5 MoMs in 7 games…..it’s a load of nonsense and anyone who’s played coached or watched a lot of football can see it and being taken for a fool is just insulting and condescending by the manager.



This high press nonsense is exactly that too. The “high press” has been fed by fans who for some reason have been massively impressed by a few players playing crap but winning approval for running around chasing crisp packets in the wind. An actual high press involves a co-ordinated effort to force play one direction using tactical set up and various “traps” to encourage teams to do something that you’ve preempted and are ready to take the ball from them when they either fall into the trap or run out of options or take the ball into trouble. It involves every single player and is a tactical way of defending that involves incredible energy. We have shown the energy but I see no evidence whatsoever of any tactical plan to execute it.



It’s not that young a squad! MT made my sh** itch Saturday when he said they play like a development squad!! That’s as big an insult he can throw at his own players as is humanly possible!!! They are making naive mistakes because every single player looks sh** scared of taking the ball and being brave enough to be a game changer. MT is making them feel like development players by criticising everything that doesn’t actually come off and shouting and screaming at players to tell them what to do because he doesn’t trust them to make their own decision and think for themselves.



I can see that confidence is shot to sh**. My prediction is the next few games we’ll go more direct because the manager shows no belief in his players and can feel it. Players aren’t reacting naturally to any given situation they’re ponderous and second guessing themselves and that’s a clear sign of lacking confidence.

I actually think he’s done. I think the players are done with him already.



That’s lower league football for you. Bjt by now even if we aren’t free flowing I’d expect to see evidence of a plan of a system of a pattern. I see none. In fact it’s got worse in my eyes.



Of course. I agree with this completely. But I think that’s a problem the manager is displaying too!! What allowance has he made for players to settle in? To adjust to life at a new club on a new city with new team mates? He’s just dragged them off, left them out or bombed them from the squad completely.

He’s almost demanded that they are devoid of human behaviours and he’s done nothing to assist confidence levels particularly from our creative players who rely on that the most.



Agree but give me one game that we’ve lost or dropped points this season due to a referee decision? Individual errors have largely come from poor tactical decisions and poor coaching, whether it’s a mistake or poor technique to execute a situation or a complete inability to be able to retain possession or constrict attacks that prevent opposition from dominating games.



Disagree. Player mistakes were actually a result of poor coaching poor selection and poor positioning. That’s the coaches job to have it right. Confidence was shot before we kicked off and that tells me they have no confidence in the man in charge or his methods.



It’s a fair opinion and I like your post in general and it’s well thought out and written - personally I just don’t agree with it 🤣😜

Topper...Griffiths is older than C Taylor. Still, you know best.

How do JB have years to build a L1 squad, he only had two summers as he couldn't build one when we were in L2, particularly how we got promotion on the last day of the season. Although the promoted squad started off OK.

As things stand there's less glimmers of hope MT will turn things around than JB, or even BG, showed, when he was sacked. If we're still losing convincingly after our next two home games there really is no hope that MT can suddenly turn things around.

JB had also proved that he could manage at L1 level with Fleetwood, MT just as 11 L1 games on his CV.

I`ve been hearing this for over 40 years now.  It really should be the club`s motto.

It will be interesting to see how he sets us up on Sat. He seems set on 3 at the back which personally I don't think we're equipped to play properly with the players we currently have fit or in Hunts case seemingly out of favour.
The thing I found strange at Posh was the lack of a centre back on the bench. I assume Forbes was fit yet he chose to go without him as a back up. If one of our centre backs had got injured early on we'd either have had to play Bilongo or Sousa as a makeshift centre half of change shape. If you have your go to system whiich you'd presumably worked on all.week surely you'd make sure you were able to keep it if someone goes down early

I would be interested in what the pre match routine is like for our players, we more often than not seem slow to start, don't look interested...what are the players doing to get in the zone and on the same wave length, ultimately I want to see a team that is pumped up, American football player sort of energy or maybe not quite, but you get what I am saying...to look at it seems like it is just another Saturday for most our players. Where is the intensity .

I was definitely a Taylor fan before he signed for the Gas. The Jury is well and truly out now.

Saturday's game was very disappointing. Did Peterborough take their foot off the pedal? or did we suddenly find the magic formula?

IMO, we have to start with the 11 players that finished the game, or we will never know the answer.  TBH we should have been dead and buried long before the revival.

But being an optimist and dare i say it a sad and hopeful Gashead since 1957, I was surprised and heartened by the last 20 mins when in all honesty we should have probably won the game.  

Hoping Taylor gets his act together this weekend and the boys give Wycombe a good whooping.

Stoney UTG