Ex England and Albion manager Peter Taylor to leave Bradford City

[KLF]

Currently fourth from bottom in League Two. How the "mighty" have fallen...

 

[Ninja Elephant]

Really didn't expect Bradford to struggle this season, I thought they'd made a good appointment to manager and had some good players. It's just not worked out, which is such a shame. Bradford really shouldn't at that level I don't think, the club itself is still quite big I think, that's my perception of them anyway.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Can i now say "I told you so"?

You wouldn't want him with you in the trenches.

 

[Kuipers Supporters Club]

England historical attendance and performance

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

I wonder if Junior Lewis minds being made unemployed by proxy...?

 

[sjamesb3466]

England historical attendance and performance

Blimey thats a cool website. Looking at the Albions attendance history is weird. Its looking like next season will be the first time in my lifetime that we will have had and average attendance over 10,000 (I was born in 87). However before '85 we only fell below 10,000 four times dating back to '46!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Liking the attendance of 1,002 for what I can only assume was a JPT game at the Pissfield.

Even during our lowest times, playing 70 miles from home in the midst of the compost heap of the Garden of England, we still managed better average crowds than many teams in the bottom division do now. And even one or two at our current level.

 

[Grassman]

Back to Peter Taylor though. What went wrong? He was tipped to be a great coach, the things he did with the England youth set-up were always raved about. Has footie moved on that much. Though I have to say it always struck me, when he walked out on us after claiming we weren't giving him enough of a budget to compete, what was it he was after? A budget that would have bankrupted us? Cos that was all we could afford at the time. Was he really not confident in his coaching abilities? Mmmh, I guess he wasn't.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I'm also assuming, without looking, that 1964-65 season was when the club signed Bobby Smith, as average gates jumped from 9,000 to nearly 18,000, while the team continued to play in the same division?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I always found Taylor 2.0 somewhat negative.

We'd take the lead in a game, and then retreat into our shells, leaving us clinging on and chewing our nails in the stand, as though the players were afraid if they attacked again, they'd concede a goal.

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

I'm also assuming, without looking, that 1964-65 season was when the club signed Bobby Smith, as average gates jumped from 9,000 to nearly 18,000, while the team continued to play in the same division?

You're correct officer and this has reminded me that I planted a piece of Goldstone turf from the 1965 promotion game in the garden of my parent's flat in 'Angleton.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

taylors's a good coach, no doubt.

give him a bunch of talented players, like the U21's and he can do something with them but give him a bunch of FL players, some talented, some not, and he can't make a team.

Once results go against him, he can't pull out that extra trick to turn things around, and that shows throughout his career. With Albion he had a good side but had that fear of losing. We should have been thrashing sides but so many single goal wins and quite a few time when we couldn't win from being 2 up.

 

[KLF]

I always found Taylor 2.0 somewhat negative.

We'd take the lead in a game, and then retreat into our shells, leaving us clinging on and chewing our nails in the stand, as though the players were afraid if they attacked again, they'd concede a goal.

I could hardly stand watching under Taylor. Yes, ultimately it was successful, but so nerve wracking. So, so defensive and turgid. Yuck!

 

[Cpt. Spavil]

aparently tomorrows game agaisnt whoever they are playing its £1.00 to go and watch lol

 

[fork me]

There's only two Peter Taylors...etc etc etc

 

[8ace]

Quite a few peeps in Bradford support dirty L**ds I think.

 

[public school boy]

Good coach, bellow average manager

 

[supaseagull]

Taylor was overrated as a manager just like McGhee. Both won promotion with another managers squad (Adams & Coppell respectively).

 

[SpidersLegs]

Lost all respect for Peter Taylor when he walked out on us. Didn't have much before that TBH. Never really took to him when he was here.

 

[Gritt23]

Strange one Peter Taylor, as he had a CV to get him a very good job, but it just never came off for him. The cut and thrust ("in the trenches" as has already been said) of club management doesn't suit. Maybe a job managing the U21s would have suited him for life.