TAYLOR OUT NOW..!

Barton was the catalyst for the split in the club's fanbase and remains so.
Most Barton supporters wanted Taylor gone day one and still do irrespective of recently winning 3 out of the last 4 games.
Apart from wanting Barton back many of them cannot suggest a suitable replacement.
And sadly I get the impression from the aggressive posts you can see on social media [which I am reading less and less] the fanbase will be divided for many years to come, some of them even angry that we won and Taylor remains.
Whether Taylor is right for the job or not, it will be a long time before anything changes unless we can find someone like DC or Holloway who can bring people together.

In your opinion. Not backed up by his track record which is mediocre at best and that despite two large playing budgets here and at Fleetwood. He left us with a really unbalanced squad which has had to be rebuilt and with plenty of sulkers who jumped ship rather than stay and play for the shirt. Like his playing career, he thinks he is a genius when the reality is anything but.

That’s even before we get to his abhorrent off the field antics. Not quite as bad a manager as the hapless Benny or Big Fat Mal but on a par with Buckle and McGee in our illustrious history of terrible managerial appointments

Capable of what? Getting us relegated with not even as much as a whimper? Hovering above the drop zone through playing boring tippy tappy football with no end product? Spunking away a large playing budget and leaving us with a lopsided unbalanced squad? Dragging our reputation through the mud and making us a laughing stock and despised in equal measures? Yes - he’s capable of all these things and that’s exactly what he delivered.

Don’t get me wrong - Taylor would not have been my choice to replace him and I am yet to understand how he is trying to get us to play and some of the football under him has been awful. I much prefer what we have now to what we had before though. If he keeps winning 3 from every 4 games even if that is by winning ugly then fine by me. From what I’ve seen so far margins are fine even when we win and we could just as easily slip into another spell of September form. Confidence makes a massive difference in football and nothing breeds it like winning especially if you win ugly.

Barton should never have been appointed in the first place - a staggeringly poor decision so was sacked long after time.

Interested to know what your expectations were for us this season. Where did you expect us to be at this point? Me - I think we are realistically and reasonably placed despite the football. I’m also not sure there is an obvious alternative to Taylor who would get much more out of his squad, and we cannot afford the cost and disruption that ripping things apart right now would bring especially when we are still paying for Wael and Barton’s folly.

We are back in the cycle of luck and chemistry (and hope) again which suggests that the new owners are no better at running a football club than the last lot and the lots that came before them. Pity we don’t get to run the train set as I’m sure we’d smash such a simple task out of the park eh? 🙂

Not quite a like for like comparison either Chesh as Poundland Pep’s stats include a full season in L2 whereas Taylor’s are all L1. If BT is right (and I’ve no reason to doubt him) then Taylor has only had about 20% of the games Basel’s hero was given yet the Toxic Turd Fan Boy Club are baying for his head

Are you saying that the abuse those who were against the appointment of Barton were given was inconsequential?

That had'nt crossed my mind.

Chesh,I played local football for 18 years.It takes all sorts to make a fc.
It is for everyone.
Everyone.

A church of people.

Good for you. I did the same at every game I attended during Barton’s tenure.

Barton could have won me over if he had proven to be a good football manager and behaved like a decent human being. Instead what we got was an insecure ego fuelled narcissist with an over inflated opinion of his own ability and who thought he was a genius and on a different planet to everyone else. Even during his promotion season it was only when he started to use a settled side and stopped meddling that he got the best out of the talented squad he had assembled. I’m not in the know but I’d wager that Kevin Bond had a big influence on this and when Barton fell out with him because he knew better things went pear shaped. Off the field Barton continued to act like a prize knob proving that leopards really can't change their spots.

Bluetornados does an excellent job cataloguing them gasheads.org/thread/11974/managers-coming-24-25-season

Critchley was at Blackpool not Wigan btw