He has only ever had real success with us. Shows to me it is all about timing, if you just happen to find the right mix of players it works, but they are hard to find.
We probably owe him a lot, he was one of the major contributors in turning this club around, bringing us out of the eternal doldrums and into the most successful period in our history, (sadly tainted as that has been).
Peter Taylor is my favourite ever City manager. I don’t care about his attitude (he once called me a prat - fine judge of character), I care about his results. There’s a lot of crap written about his management style as well, we used to muller teams week after week under him, until we had to be more circumspect in the Championship.
To be fair, we were pretty dreadful in that first Championship season, he was obviously brilliant for us ahead of that, but he went on to be dreadful at Palace as well.
There were still some terrific games: the 3-0 at Stoke, the 3-2 at Luton, the 1-0 home win against Leeds. And there were mitigating circumstances: Ash's injury, Lynch and McPhee - two signings he was relying on - barely being able to kick a ball for us (I think Coles got a bad injury too, but I may be wrong on that). After two promotions in two seasons, consolidation was a sensible policy. And we never really looked like going down. As for his personality, I interviewed him last year and he was one of the nicest people imaginable. Very funny, gracious, makes time for everyone, and obviously looks upon Hull City and Hull with enormous affection.
Taylor was lucky to inherit some very good players. We also spent more than most of our competitors. Push out, push ouuuut
McPhee was one of those players who looked like a terrific signing. He'd been linked with Liverpool not long before when he started at Biera Mar, and seemed like a real coup for us. He had a good debut against QPR too. Had he been fit, who knows, but yes I take your point. Another minor point on that season - of all the teams in that league we had the second lowest record signing sum (ahead of only Crewe) so we were in among teams who had finances we could only dream of at that point.
Yeah I agree with this, but also, we'd just been promoted twice. Expecting better than the lower-midtable finish we got would have been asking a lot.
Didn't know if he was been truthful when he said he made a massive mistake leaving City..i think he'd probably gone as far as he could with us. Always found him to be a decent bloke at the Fans Forums with Adam...No complaints. Only good memories... 2-1 at Boston when the stand was rocking from side to side. The 3-0 at Torquay on a warm August evening.. 3-1 at Tranmere...The 1-1 with MK Dons in a blizzard...2-0 at Bratfud. Ash's Maradona-esqe swerve at Yeovil.....
Can't remember at which club, but just before he went to Palace, he had another interview. Here's a quote from when he was asked about that interview. "It was half way the interview, I had a change of heart and realised I still had unfinished business at Hull". A week later he took the Palace job He's full of ****
There's a book coming out next year (hopefully) which will cover all of that, and there's more to it than meets the eye. It was a Premier League club, to be fair to Taylor, and he'd never hid his desire to manage there again.
