. I still consider it him that won us BOTH championships - apart from Junior Lewis I can't recall a Taylor transfer that improved our Div 2 winning team...
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Although Junior Lewis was a good signing, it was the change in tactics that won us a title against teams with better players. There is no point in arguing the toss this far down the line but much like you feel Adams isn't getting enough credit I feel Taylor doesn't get the credit he deserves for taking a team that had come up from the 4th division to the 3rd division title. He took over after, what 6 games? How can Adams then be given the credit on 44 game league season? It's like saying Adams kept us up 2nd time around because Slade took over Adams team, when in reality, we would have got relegated if Adams hadn't got the boot
1. Taylor took over after 13 games that season. I think he did make a tactical change to us that season, and played a major part in our back to back titles.
2. I think that Adams had bad luck in that Nicky Forster and Glenn Murray were both injured and only started 26 and 18 games respectively. Just as you rightly said we may have struggled to be promoted under Adams without Zamora, I suspect we would have done significantly better if our front pair had been fit for the vast majority of the season.