Taylor's done one...

Hear hear..remember that clinched fist to the Kempton on his first game when we thumped Rochdale.

 

Everyone back for corners

 

That was because he'd seen me out with his daughter

 

Met him once at fer ark when he signed some stuff for all the kids,nice bloke who realized what we all wanted. Set us up not to concede and then counter attack at pace plus he was a set piece specialist still missing this day. Remember that stare he gave to a section of the fans at Bury?

 

I'm grateful for the 2 promotions and he seems like a great bloke, but we often had a much stronger squad than the oppo in those 2 seasons and we often seemed to be labouring and cautiously seeing out games. I wasn't that bothered as we were winning but it had the feel of the 1-0 to the Arsenal feel about it.

 

Bye eck we're a tough lot to please aren't we. He did a brilliant job for us overall, surely we can all agree on that. And I remember being somewhat shocked that we had attracted a manager of his calibre and reputation when he signed for us. Good times.

 

I'll always have a soft spot for PT.

Oxford, Doncaster and Darlington where brilliant performances in League 2 and Shef Wed, Bournemouth and Tranmere in League One where great too.

People say we didn't play that great football, but under him we were the top scorers in league 2

 

You'd have to go back to Waggy and Chillo's era to find a team that had goals form all quarters covered in the manner in which we did when we had Green, Elliott, Price, BB and Allsopp firing together that season (we were the second highest scorers in the division the season afterwards as well).

As for whoever said he inherited some great players - yes, Ash, Elliott, Greeny (who only signed full-time under PT), Justin and Dean Keates were here, but who else? Within a year only really three of the first-choice team weren't 'his'. He brought in Daws on a free, Boaz, Delaney, Pricey and Ryan France for very little, so he wasn't quite the chequebook manager either.

 

That 03/04 season you mention was one of the first I can properly remember (I'd been going 5 years by then but there wasn't much memorable about that spell I guess) so for a while I thought it was normal for both wingers to get 10 goals as well as each striker getting 15 each, with the rest of the team chipping in plenty too.

 

Scored some crackers during that time too, mostly from Elliott. Most memorable for me of his goals was one when he was on the left wing and somehow managed to hammer a shot in from that ridiculous angle, cant remember who it was against but what a goal. Proper city legend is Elliott.

 

From your description of the goal I think he scored it against most of Leagues 1 and 2.

 

Might've been Luton, not 100% sure but yeah it was in league 1 or 2.

 

was it second goal?

or the goal at 4 mins 20?

 

"I don't really rate him, I mean what does he bring apart from the goals?"
Peter Swan on Stuart Elliott

 

You could count the number of aerial challenges Elliot lost on one hand across his entire time with us. Lept like a fricking Salmon.

 

I started taking my son as a four year old around this time. He loved it so good enough for me.

Seriously, how can anyone question what he did for us. Doesn't matter about the budget, squad, the **** ups. He started the ball rolling.

 

The one at 4 minutes on the second video yes! thanks for that, brought back some great memories. A time when it was very enjoyable being a city fan with no divided fans and problems! Stuart Elliott, he did god proud

 

He was strange player. He'd go 20 minutes without touching the ball and then bang back post header, goal.

 

Might have been his best goal, but the most celebrated:

3. The header in the 1-0 win versus Swansea in 2003. There was something special in the air that night. We knew Taylor was on to something good from that moment on, I think.
2. The last-minute winner against QPR in 2007. People will tell you that Stuart Elliott was a disappointment in the Championship. But he scored seven goals in our first season up there, a decent return for any winger. And he scored those two goals against that hateful, hateful QPR side, which turned out to be crucial in the end.
1. The last winner versus Donny, Christmas 2004. Donny were more of an irritant than a genuine rival, but we really wanted to beat them that night after all their crowing the season before. When Barmby got sent off because Jermaine McSporran stamped on him on the floor it looked like we'd have to settle for a draw. Not so. Elliott's anticipation, running with the ball and finish made for a special, special end to a game that felt huge at the time.

It was a toss-up for the top spot to be honest. And I didn't even mention the braces against Luton and Blackpool, or that brilliant winner against Plymouth.

 

Brace v Torquay away 10/8/04 after a beauty from Stuart Green...Next game scored in the 90th at Port Vale only to concede in the 92min....Now where have I heard that before.

If he had not been injured vs Huddersfelt, he'd have bagged 40 goals that campaign.