Handball_!! Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 Don't be such a spasmo, it's the North stand always has been always will be! We always knew it as 'the cantilever' back in the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M Royds Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 Not for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Handball_!! Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 Never heard of him so your showing your age there mate but maybe Chris Waddle stand or David Hirst stand would be more popular. A lot of what you know as SWFC today was down to this bloke. The OP is correct, if the club were to honour 1 single person, he'd get my vote every-time. Eric Taylor Born: 1912, Birley Carr. Died: September 1974. Managerial Career Manager: Sheffield Wednesday, April 1942 - July 1958. Honours Division Two champions: 1952, 1956. Division Two runners-up: 1950. Eric Taylor spent the whole of his working life as an employee of Sheffield Wednesday having joined the club in 1929 as an office boy to Wednesday’ s first secretary-manager - Bob Brown. For 16 of those years he was responsible for the team and although he’ d never played professional football, he knew the game well and proved an able manager. He broke the British transfer record when he signed Jackie Sewell for £ 35,000 in 1951 and he also brought Ron Springett to the club. It was also in his time as manager that Dooley, Quixall and Fantham all came to the fore. Taylor had great ambitions for the club, he wanted to make the ground one of the best stadiums in the country and worked hard to make it a choice for representative games and semi-finals. He succeeded in this respect, and it was a venue for the World Cup when England staged the event in 1966. When Wednesday were relegated for the third time in seven years, in 1957-58, Taylor decided to give up responsibility for the team management and Catterick was appointed as manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bpmber Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 Some would say that money was invested in the ground instead of the team at a time when the league title was attainable. However the status of i believe the first cantilever stand in the country and subsiquent fa cup semi final ground and euro finals after the 66 world cup we should recognise someone who had vision and made the ground what it is today nearly 45 years on Sadly until now no chairman has been in his league so i would agree with THE ERIC TAYLOR NORTH STAND Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kopman9 Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 How about the Bert McGee Stand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmyowl1212 Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 You've never heard of Eric Taylor? Are you serious? Thats what i thought. How anyone who supports Wednesday doesnt know who Eric Taylor is needs to look it up quick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torryowl Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 Never heard of him so your showing your age there mate but maybe Chris Waddle stand or David Hirst stand would be more popular. wednesday's greatest side in the last 80 years the 60-61 team was eric taylors side all but one of them signed by him ....but for me he dont get no stand named after him coz of what he did in 66 with the cup-final ticket sales Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorian gray Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 (edited) You've never heard of Eric Taylor? Are you serious? i've heard of him, nearly every home game at one time you heard his name, during the early 70's at hillsborough it was the only name you heard the crowd shout as the cushions were retrieved from the field again...TAYLOR OUT, TAYLOR OUT, TAYLOR OUT, was the incessant roar from the NORTH and kop most weeks as the chairman took the whole blame for the terrible slump, no disastrous free fall in results, after what was widely believed at the time to be money spent on the ground at the expense of the team...if i had to be honest, i would have to say in those days he was perhaps less popular than dave allen was to become 30+ years later... as such for the abuse he took for sticking by his guns over the development of the ground, maybe renaming the north would be an idea, though i can't help that some would be turning in their grave at the thought... Edited January 22, 2011 by dnhc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BirdonaMaguire Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 I'm sure Taylor was gone by the 70s. Dr Andrew Stephens wasn't it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorian gray Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 I'm sure Taylor was gone by the 70s. Dr Andrew Stephens wasn't it i started watching wednesday around 68/69...so it has to be after then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodger Wylde Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 Eric Taylor died at the start of the 1974-75 season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspector Lestrade Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 What about naming it after a chairman, under whose tenure we actually won a trophy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@owlstalk Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 You've never heard of Eric Taylor? Are you serious? Best darts player EVER Owlstalk Shop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgmetcalf Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 Call it the Derek Dooley stand just to wee wee off the pigs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspector Lestrade Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 (edited) OCS Stand! Stand! Stand! ............... I'lll get my coat Edited January 22, 2011 by Holmes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfmanjack Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 Is there anyway the club could break with traditions and rename this after one of the clubs greatest servants and a man who made this club one of the best in the land. The Eric Taylor Stand Most of the fans who attend games at Hillsborough wouldn't even know who Eric Taylor was, and those who are old enough to have been around when he was, probably screamed for his head every week, for spending money on the ground, not on the team. How quickly we forget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eckingtonblue Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 Arthur Dickinson was manager and honorary secretary of Sheffield Wednesday. He became Sheffield Wednesday's first manager in 1891 and its honorary secretary two years later. He remains the club's longest serving and most successful manager with 393 wins, 338 losses, and 188 draws in 919 games with the club. He also managed the club to two league titles and two FA Cups during his 29 year reign. He first offered his resignation in the middle of the troubled 1919-20 season but was convinced to stay on to the end of the season. He died in November 1930. If all that is accurate, why not him ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest intercity0wl Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 We always knew it as 'the cantilever' back in the day. Correct, it was always known as the Cant to us, same as the kop was always the East Bank, and as for the poster never hearing of Eric Taylor, learne the history of the club and the people involved in that History. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzys Dad Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 i've heard of him, nearly every home game at one time you heard his name, during the early 70's at hillsborough it was the only name you heard the crowd shout as the cushions were retrieved from the field again...TAYLOR OUT, TAYLOR OUT, TAYLOR OUT, was the incessant roar from the NORTH and kop most weeks as the chairman took the whole blame for the terrible slump, no disastrous free fall in results, after what was widely believed at the time to be money spent on the ground at the expense of the team...if i had to be honest, i would have to say in those days he was perhaps less popular than dave allen was to become 30+ years later... as such for the abuse he took for sticking by his guns over the development of the ground, maybe renaming the north would be an idea, though i can't help that some would be turning in their grave at the thought... Absolutely spot on. I agree 100% with everything you`ve said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveyboy66 Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 Correct, it was always known as the Cant to us, same as the kop was always the East Bank, and as for the poster never hearing of Eric Taylor, learne the history of the club and the people involved in that History. Correct it was always the Cant...can't believe anyone who supports the owls wouldn't take the trouble to learn our history...where we come from makes us who we are Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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