Richard Taylor

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12 Feb 2027
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28 Edition

The Bromley Courier

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Lakyle Samuel at 20 — 7.99

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Lakyle Samuel did not need any: 7.99, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Transfer targets

Bromley rebuffed over Ollie Scarles

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Nottingham Forest have kept their man, and Bromley go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

A falling-out at Bromley

Lakyle Samuel and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

The window shuts on the Adriel Walker deal

Bromley ran out of time with Stoke City. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

The terraces

One of their own: Ephraim Yeboah

He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

Bromley get the job done against Newport County

A 1‑0 win over Newport County, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Oliver Jones, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

The dugout

Bromley pick somebody else ahead of Felix Goddard

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

The dugout

No hiding place for Charlie Robinson

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Charlie Robinson, and the manager let it.

In brief

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24 Edition

The Bromley Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Every point is an argument now for Bromley

Position 23 and 15 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Brandon Thomas-Asante

Bromley and Coventry City have settled on $3.4M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Ephraim Yeboah at 20 — 8.00

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ephraim Yeboah did not need any: 8.00, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

The dugout

Dillon Addai keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bromley may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Transfer targets

Craig MacGillivray is a medical away from Bromley

The deal with Milton Keynes Dons is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Alfie Gilchrist rejects the move

Bromley had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at West Bromwich Albion, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Transfer targets

Bromley bid $380.0K for Adriel Walker

The offer went to Stoke City this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad

Charlie Robinson is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Richard Taylor in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bromley this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

22 Edition

The Bromley Courier

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Felix Goddard stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Player ratings

Mitch Pinnock pops up at the right end — 7.67

7.67, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Match

4 matches without a win for Bromley

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Bromley are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bromley

Richard Taylor and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match

Bromley come up short against Gillingham

Gillingham left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Mickel Miller runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

Oliver Jones faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Oliver Jones after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Squad

Bookings catch up with Corey Whitely

One yellow too many, and a match watched from the stand. The most avoidable absence in football, and Bromley will feel it on Saturday.

Squad

A row about effort at Bromley

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tade Ibrahim was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

20 Edition

The Bromley Courier

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Bromley sink to position 23

12 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Player ratings

Michael Cheek, 35, rolls back the years — 7.98

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.98 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Michael Cheek is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.23 with 14 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Match

Bromley and Shrewsbury Town take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout

Oliver Jones on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Oliver Jones after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Squad

Emmanuel Deh falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Nicke Kabamba

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ephraim Yeboah

Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Charlie Robinson does not fit this one

Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.

In brief

17 Edition

The Bromley Courier

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The drought breaks for Bromley

15 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Harrogate Town were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

Player ratings

Vintage Michael Cheek — 8.04

At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.04, and nobody on the pitch better.

The dugout

Freddie Cowin keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bromley may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

Mickel Miller was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

A falling-out at Bromley

Richard Taylor and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Bromley get the job done against Harrogate Town

A 1‑0 win over Harrogate Town, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The dugout

Oliver Jones has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Oliver Jones on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

The dugout

Corey Whitely asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Squad

Words at Bromley training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emmanuel Deh is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

15 Edition

The Bromley Courier

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Bromley's wait for a win

14 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bromley has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Bobby Hassell

25 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bromley lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Tempers go at Bromley

Richard Taylor was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Bromley count the cost of losing George Evans

32 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Hayden Carter

A mark of 7.48, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad

Charlie Robinson stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Charlie Robinson and Bromley agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Bromley

Something was said to Ephraim Yeboah and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

The dugout

Oliver Jones on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Oliver Jones after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Player ratings

Mickel Miller shuts the door

Defensive actions: 14, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

In brief

14 Edition

The Bromley Courier

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

13 matches without a win for Bromley

The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Bromley are no longer polite ones.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Bobby Hassell

32 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bromley lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Bromley are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 6 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Squad

Tempers go at Bromley

Lakyle Samuel was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

Bromley come up short against Bristol Rovers

Bristol Rovers left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Felix Goddard

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Bradley Grant signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Bradley Grant commits to Bromley for another 4 years.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Bromley

Something was said to Hayden Carter and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

The dugout

Oliver Jones faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Oliver Jones after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

In brief

10 Edition

The Bromley Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Max Rope damages knee ligaments — 38 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 38 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings

Mickel Miller was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 38. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match

9 matches without a win for Bromley

The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Bromley are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

A brace, and Michael Cheek takes the afternoon — 8.95

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Michael Cheek provided it, and the 8.95 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bromley

Richard Taylor and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Real improvement from Luis Lines at Bromley

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Luis Lines is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Match

A bad afternoon for Bromley against Grimsby Town

2‑3 to Grimsby Town, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Corey Whitely signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Corey Whitely and Bromley agree another 2 years.

The dugout

No hiding place for Ephraim Yeboah

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ephraim Yeboah, and the manager let it.

In brief

8 Edition

The Bromley Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Bromley out of the cup

Millwall ended it 0‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Match

The wait goes on for Bromley

7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Player ratings

Mickel Miller beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 29. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The terraces

Bromley are taken apart by Millwall — and the town wants answers

It finished 0-3. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.

Match

4 matches without a goal for Bromley

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

Richard Taylor in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bromley this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Felix Goddard

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

The dugout

No hiding place for Tommy O'Donnell

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tommy O'Donnell, and the manager let it.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Bromley dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

In brief

  • Squad Bromley are still strangers to each other
  • The dugout Oliver Jones: “We have to be better”
  • Squad Words at Bromley training over how hard people work
1 Edition

The Bromley Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Bobby Hassell hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bromley can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Mickel Miller signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mickel Miller commits to Bromley for another 3 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bromley

Richard Taylor and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Words at Bromley training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bobby Hassell is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Market

Talks stall between Bromley and Emmanuel Deh

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Transfer targets

Bromley ask about Luke Faxon

A loan enquiry to Sheffield United: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets

Bromley try to borrow Harrison Jones

Sunderland have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Squad

Mickel Miller walks taller at Bromley

His past walked in ahead of him. Players who have been where he has been get a hearing in a dressing room before they have earned one, and he has it for as long as his form does.

Market

49 months and counting on Brooklyn Ilunga

Still no offer on the table, and Brooklyn Ilunga’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

In brief