Ex-Southampton ace Josh Sims provided the sprinkling of stardust required with Taylor admitting his side had been “nowhere near” the standard required and that he would “accept the criticism that comes my way”.
Taylor told The NLP: “Everyone at the football club has to be hurt, there is personal pride and personal standards.
"This one stings but when things are not going well, take the football away from it, you tend to see the character of people.
“I can tell you now that I won't stop swinging. My job isn’t to berate the players. It would be easy to do that but the conversations we have in the dressing room stay in the dressing room.
“I will be as open and honest as I can and as manager, I accept full responsibility for the performance.”
Yeovil’s steady growth into the game was rewarded when Sims terrorised Joe New-ton with his low cross-shot diverted into the net via Alex Whitmore’s attempt to block.
Ponderous passing at the back almost gifted the Glovers a second with Charlie Cooper pouncing to tee up Ciaran McGuckin to fire wide.
Taylor tried to aid lonely-looking frontman Manny Duku by pushing Fletcher Holman into the centre at half-time but Sims made hay down the right, finding Sonny Lo-Everton whose cross was diverted over by the stretching Co...