New Strength & Conditioning coach

New Strength & Conditioning coach

Was just on 4 o'clock sports news. Hooray!
Leigh (or Lee) Taylor from Notts County

listen here


http://www.radiosport.co.nz/ThisWeek/61600.wma/George Costanza2011-07-01 16:27:14

It's Lee.

Barnet, Luton, Wimbledon and Boston United. Plus Liverpool yoof. Wibblebutt2011-07-01 16:36:16

Mates with Chris Greenacre.  Family on way out.  Feedback from my spies at today's session were that he was good.

Finally some positive news

now for GK coach, assistant coach and some players

hope he brings some mega awesome players too..

but really good news!

We're DOOMED

Sorry,force of habit.

SACK LEIGH!

So no more pies and coke?

shouldn't mess with essential food groups.just saying.

Is his TV on EBay UK ???????

Is he bald?

Scouser

When Lee Taylor saw a strange number flash up on the screen of his mobile phone while sitting in the kitchen with wife Leanne watching Sky Sports a few weeks ago his first inclination was to ignore it.

He thought it could be one of the phone scams prevalent in England.

Leanne convinced him to answer it, but the voice of Wellington Phoenix football operations manager Mal Impiombato didn't at first convince him the call was genuine.

"I'd not long since lost my job as strength and conditioning coach at Notts County when Paul Ince was sacked as manager and had been applying for a position at two or three clubs," Taylor, who prefers to be known as LT, said.

"One of my mates is great at different accents and I thought it was him winding me up.

"Mal convinced me he was calling from the Wellington Phoenix and said the club wanted to talk to me about going to New Zealand.

"Soon after that I got a call from Chris Greenacre, who had been on loan at Scarborough when I was there, asking if I had got a call from the club. Obviously he had talked to them about me."

The next call Taylor received was from Phoenix coach Ricki Herbert and from the moment he put the phone down he knew where his future lay.

"I talked to Ricki for a long time and was impressed with his calm, positive attitude," he said.

:"Straight away, for the first time in my career, I felt wanted. He made me feel very good.

"There were a few more discussions and then it was all sorted out. It has been something of a whirlwind."

Taylor made his first appearance as strength and conditioning coach at Phoenix training on Friday July 1 and soon put the players at ease with his mixture of fun and firmness.

Rather than it being his first session, Taylor looked as though he had been there for ever as he went about his business.

"I love my job and I am disciplined. I want the players to be just as disciplined as me, but I want them to enjoy being there at the same time."

It should come as no surprise that Taylor is so at ease in a footballing environment.

His father Tommy, an English international, spent 10 years at West Ham United, making 340 first team appearances. He also had two spells at Leyton Orient either side of his West Ham days, playing 230 times for the club.

In management Tommy Taylor had spells at Margate, Cambridge United, Orient, Farnborough Town, Kings Lynn, and Boston United.

"I grew up in a footballing family, it was in my blood," Taylor says.

"As a youngster I played for Maidstone United in the old fourth division but got released. I tried a few other clubs but realised my future wasn't as a player so went and got qualified as a physiotherapist.

"I did play in America for a while and spent six months in Australia at Shepparton before going home and joining the backroom staff at Cambridge United.

"I was No 2 physio at Leyton Orient then got the break I needed by joining third division Scarborough when I was only 20 years old."

Taylor quickly developed a good reputation and was head of medical services at Barnet, Luton Town, Wimbledon and Boston United before joining Liverpool in 2007 where he did fitness and physiotherapy work.

When Paul Ince became manager at Notts County he asked Taylor to join him and he was happy there till Ince got the sack.

"That's the way football is. When a new manager takes over he usually wants to bring his own people in.

"It could turn out to be a blessing for me. I've got a feeling I'm going to love New Zealand."

Leanne and the couple's two children, Courtney, 10, and Harrison, 7, will join Taylor in Wellington soon.
http://www.voxy.co.nz/sport/new-fitness-coach-phoenix/5/93877

anyone else feel like we're making a big deal out of this due to little positive news from the club?

I like how the headline on the club website says "New signing for Phoenix"

Not really, pretty sure the last fitness coach we got from UK (Ed someone or other) was just as big a story.

Yeah I do. Its all good parading him joining the club, but the way they titled the story was definitely intended to make us think we signed a new player.

"His father Tommy, an English international, spent 10 years at West Ham United"

Think his old man may have been capped at U23,but not at full level:unless his dad survived the Munich air crash,changed clubs and switched from centre forward to centre half...

But in doing so they reminded all the fans about our lack of signings...

I'm sorry to have to ask this, but everyone who really thinks the Nix are doomed, Terry's going bust, we won't finish or perhaps even start this season, etc, just f**k the hell off out of this forum? You're really beginning to get me down and p*ss me off. Go support Gold Coast, their owner is really rich. Thank you.

I don't see 4 stars. Scottishbhoy2011-07-04 19:22:23

Maybe we should add a 'positivity' subforum,where people can go if they're getting too depressed reading the angst in the main forum.

We can discuss the same things as in the other sub forums,but without all the angst, doom and gloom.

ah that would be this thread ...


http://www.yellowfever.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=14681/

I that link it makes me feel positive.

I am also pleased that some dude got a job. Big ups.

I see 4 stars.

So what exactly do you guys get out of the negativity, whinging and doom-mongering? I'm serious. You actually enjoy yourselves? Because for me, football fandom is not Serious Business. I come here for fun.
Doloras2011-07-05 08:33:15

Does the new signing play upfront or where?

well I think we need to take this VERY seriously. And I hope that by raising some of these issues someone, somewhere who is in a position to actually help the club survive make take notice and start doing something...it worries me that everyone thinks that it is all fine. Clearly it is not! I think that we as supporters who know the club best and know the issues are in the best position to try and solve things - pretending there isn't an issue is the worst kind of support in my book.

Well you won't be surprised to know that I disagree with that.

I think it's fatalistic to say that we can't do anything. E.g. if we as fans came out and announced in the media saying thanks Terry but we don't have faith in you anymore what would that say to him, and anyone who might be interested but is sitting on the sidelines deciding whether to get involved with a bid? And if there isn't anyone then it lets Terry know that our patience isn't infinite (I can't be the only one sick to death of the current instability and inaction?).

And on this thread, has it really got so bad that we're celebrating the appointment of a fitness coach? I think we should stop this thread before it provokes further embarassment

We have gone off topic, so with your permission, I will move our chat back to the Rumours of our Death thread...

of course, but I will have to pick this up tomorrow - it grows dark in the nth...