Matt Taylor offered Rotherham job!

[BarnsleyWhites]

Quite right Rich. Let’s face it, Exeter is a fabulous place to live and bring up a family, so convincing a partner to move to Rotherham isn’t a small task. I suppose it’s that over career ambition. If he’s been offered the job as it sounds, I can’t see him not taking it as long as he can convince “er indoors.” Should be a really good appointment for the Millers.

[frogmiller]

My main point to opening this thread is not whether this is a good OR bad appointment but who authorised this press release? What the hell is going on? If someone can give me several examples of this happening between other clubs then I will hold my hands up. If he is at the NYS on Monday everyone now knows,including the entire squad,that 48 hours earlier he actually didn't know himself whether he would be or not.I am not a football snob by any means,in fact I am not a snob in any aspect of life so we will use the well used phrase of the ''football pecking order''.We can't entice the manager of Cambridge,the manager of Exeter City 'needs time' to 'think about it' and has no problem what so ever informing the press of his dilemma.Meanwhile our previous Manger and ALL of his staff stampede down to Derby County within 24 hours without a whisper. Where are we in this 'pecking order'?

Has anyone been offered the job or are they trying to get a better personal deal.

[frogmiller]

My main point to opening this thread is not whether this is a good OR bad appointment but who authorised this press release? What the hell is going on? If someone can give me several examples of this happening between other clubs then I will hold my hands up. If he is at the NYS on Monday everyone now knows,including the entire squad,that 48 hours earlier he actually didn't know himself whether he would be or not.I am not a football snob by any means,in fact I am not a snob in any aspect of life so we will use the well used phrase of the ''football pecking order''.We can't entice the manager of Cambridge,the manager of Exeter City 'needs time' to 'think about it' and has no problem what so ever informing the press of his dilemma.Meanwhile our previous Manger and ALL of his staff stampede down to Derby County within 24 hours without a whisper. Where are we in this 'pecking order'?

The deal was done within 3 days because the negotiations between Warne and TS was short lived.

Warne had an offer from Derby, he told TS of the offer and what he was offered included and TS wouldn’t or the club couldn’t match it.

Warne accepted the offer.

Warne said nothing and TS told Scott to look for a replacement.

Derby released the info before we did

[Jimmy Badfellow]

The deal was done within 3 days because the negotiations between Warne and TS was short lived.

Warne had an offer from Derby, he told TS of the offer and what he was offered included and TS wouldn’t or the club couldn’t match it.

Warne accepted the offer.

Warne said nothing and TS told Scott to look for a replacement.

Derby released the info before we did

You may be right but Warne didn't 'walk' the press through his own personnel thoughts throughout the process.Look,everyone can dress this up which ever way they want but some one tell me another scenario where a manager has said....''I've been offered a job but I need the weekend to think about it before I make my choice''.

[CTMilller]

As far as I can see RUFC have played a straight bat:

"Rotherham United can confirm that the club has requested and subsequently been granted permission to speak to Exeter City manager Matt Taylor about the vacant manager’s position.

We can confirm that initial talks have taken place and remain ongoing.

Rotherham United will be making no further comment at this time."

Exeter, on the other hand, have made the mess:

"Exeter City Football Club can confirm an approach was received from Rotherham United to speak to manager Matt Taylor late this week.

The club reluctantly agreed to the request and we await confirmation from Matt regarding his decision as to whether he will accept Rotherham's offer.

A further statement will be released once more information is available."

Matt Taylor has also said pretty much the same thing to, amongst others, the BBC.


Unless I've missed something, Exeter need their knuckles rapping for this...and Taylor is well out of line.

[wrinkly]

As far as I can see RUFC have played a straight bat:

"Rotherham United can confirm that the club has requested and subsequently been granted permission to speak to Exeter City manager Matt Taylor about the vacant manager’s position.

We can confirm that initial talks have taken place and remain ongoing.

Rotherham United will be making no further comment at this time."

Exeter, on the other hand, have made the mess:

"Exeter City Football Club can confirm an approach was received from Rotherham United to speak to manager Matt Taylor late this week.

The club reluctantly agreed to the request and we await confirmation from Matt regarding his decision as to whether he will accept Rotherham's offer.

A further statement will be released once more information is available."

Matt Taylor has also said pretty much the same thing to, amongst others, the BBC.


Unless I've missed something, Exeter need their knuckles rapping for this...and Taylor is well out of line.

100% agree with this CT

[Jimmy Badfellow]

As far as I can see RUFC have played a straight bat:

"Rotherham United can confirm that the club has requested and subsequently been granted permission to speak to Exeter City manager Matt Taylor about the vacant manager’s position.

We can confirm that initial talks have taken place and remain ongoing.

Rotherham United will be making no further comment at this time."

Exeter, on the other hand, have made the mess:

"Exeter City Football Club can confirm an approach was received from Rotherham United to speak to manager Matt Taylor late this week.

The club reluctantly agreed to the request and we await confirmation from Matt regarding his decision as to whether he will accept Rotherham's offer.

A further statement will be released once more information is available."

Matt Taylor has also said pretty much the same thing to, amongst others, the BBC.


Unless I've missed something, Exeter need their knuckles rapping for this...and Taylor is well out of line.

Thank you for your support CT.....it sounds like Exeter can't wait for the compo tbh!

[Brin]

Read between the lines, he’s a northern lad who wants to come home …..nuff said.

[Shark27]

He has said so himself so unless he has a repressed resentment to the town of Rotherham then I guess he has!

To be fair Jimmy I read the first line of your post saying “My main point to opening this thread”.

I didn’t read the rest as I thought the main point would be to tell us that Matt Taylor has been offered the job.

[ragingpup]

Jimmy, if you read the BBC article, his wife has recently given birth. It is perfectly understandable that he needs time to think this over.

That's what I thought, but doesn't seem to fit the narrative of some.

We seem to be having an outbreak of 'massivitis' at times. We're where we are as a result of excellent team management from the former staff but any prospective manager will be examining what Stewart will tell them we have to spend (again without endangering our existence) and it isn't hard to work out that it will be a hell of a challenge to even keep us in the league, even for a very good manager. I'm sure even Warne knew that he was punching above his weight and he was only a losing run away from losing his job with us. Three defeats in a row and this board would be knives out for him, we know this. Likewise, I'm sure any manager would have to question whether the stock they have built could be easily lost with us at this stage. Ironically we might have more chance of getting managers like Bonner if we were rebuilding in league 1.

And then there is the relocation and family situation.

Let's face it, our budget, unless we start playing risks, is that of a top 10 league 1 club. Some of us might be in denial about that, but a new manager, inspecting who we are, where we are and what we've got is likely to be much more objective. Hopefully Matt gives us a go as he seems very well thought of by Exeter as a talented young manager.

As for those saying we have to get someone established at this level: WHO??? And if they're established at this level, wouldn't a team that call pay 5 times our wages and 5 times our squad budget ( Hull, Huddersfield etc) already be snapping them up??