londongull63 wrote:I feel it's pretty unfair this criticism of Taylor. He only ended up as manager because of the unfortunate unforeseen circumstances.
He's supposed to be a coach and as a coach who was a defender he's certainly done a great job with our defence.
Last season we won all those 1-0s built on a rock solid back 4. Nicho was voted top left back in the division.
This year the defence has also done pretty well, especially as for so much of so many games we've been defending, yet they've not conceded that many which is why our goal difference is superior to other strugglers.
On top of that Lingy and him have managed to replace the loss of Robinson and Ellis with Saah, Downes and McDonald (all great finds), and brought in two young full backs who are exciting prospects.
I respect your opinion and the right to post it, however I can not agree with this part, in terms of the day to day footballing side of running things, there is no difference at all between being a coach and a manager, a football coach should be able to plan training sessions, you learn that on the most basic coaching courses, which I have done so can vouch for. A football coach should be able to plan match tactics and have a fair idea on substituions. I could write a small book on Shaun Taylors reign of terror.
However I will keep short and sweet, players describing training under Taylor as like being at Butlins, watching Taylor stand there motionless as the team managed just 2 shots on target in nearly 270 minutes of football, and worst of all we go to Aldershot a game we must not lose with an unfit Ian Morris on the bench. He then commits one of the biggest sins a coach could make, buy bringing on a subsitute( the same unfit Morris, who had no pace before he was injured for Stevens on the wing,doh) while the other team are waiting to take a corner which they then score from, suprise, surprise. That was the straw that broke the cammals back for me.
As for the clean sheets last season, being a S/T holder saw every home match saw 5 away aswell, more down to having one of the best keepers ever seen at this level than the defence in my opinion, this season think our centre back pairing has been good, but the full backs by and large have been woeful, so I would not say over all the team have been good as far as the back 4 are concerned, recently great credit must go to Pokey who has saved more than he should have had to.