Peter Taylor has taken a swipe at the City fans who slated him during the Barnet loss.

Taylor is determined to pick up the pieces from Saturday’s shock defeat which jolted his team’s push up the table.

But while he is keen to move on and prepare for the hectic schedule coming up, the City chief revealed his anger at the way some supporters turned on him during Barnet’s comeback.

Taylor, who has stood up to the Valley Parade boo boys before, was unimpressed with what he heard in his first game since turning down Newcastle’s offer to become their assistant manager.

He said: “What I can’t understand was our crowd’s reaction. They weren’t fair.

“I got a nice welcome before the game thanking me for staying at the club. Then all of a sudden, two seconds later people are shouting ‘Taylor, why don’t you go off to Newcastle’.

“I know people get frustrated but that doesn’t mean I just have to accept it. And I wasn’t happy with their response.”

With rearranged games building up, this is City’s last free midweek for a month. Taylor admits it could not have come at a better time to get the Barnet result out of the system.

“We are definitely going to have a good strong week on the training pitch because there were some ridiculous things that happened.

“It was an amazing day. The first half was nowhere near good enough but we went in 1-0 up.

“Then we had two tremendous chances to increase the lead and the momentum was with us. But all of a sudden, we let in two very poor goals and then another from a good counter-attack.

“We can’t carry on making the type of ridiculous mistakes that we did. But I wouldn’t class us as a very experienced team. We’ve got a lot of new players and some were in non-league last year. Maybe we have to go over things a few times.

“Thankfully for me I’ve dealt with all sorts of players and all levels. I know the ones who you can tell once and those who might need a bit more.”

Jake Speight was back in training with City yesterday for the first time since his loan at Port Vale ended. The striker had been given last week off after a family bereavement.

And Taylor has told him that there are places up for grabs in the forward line.

He said: “It’s up to Jake to come back and show us what he’s got. There is an opportunity for him after Saturday because I don’t think any of them did that well.”

In two months with Vale, Speight started only once and came off the bench three times with a single goal.