Sean O'Driscoll
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Sean Michael O'Driscoll | ||
| Date of birth | 1 July 1957 | ||
| Place of birth | Wolverhampton, England | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Nottingham Forest | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1977–1978 | Willenhall Town | 33 | (4) |
| 1978–1979 | Alvechurch | ||
| 1979–1984 | Fulham | 148 | (13) |
| 1984–1995 | Bournemouth | 423 | (19) |
| Total | 604 | (36) | |
| National team | |||
| 1982–1983 | Republic of Ireland | 3 | (0) |
| 1983 | Republic of Ireland U21 | 3 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2000–2006 | Bournemouth | ||
| 2006–2011 | Doncaster Rovers | ||
| 2012– | Nottingham Forest (Coach) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Sean Michael O'Driscoll (born 1 July 1957) is an English-Irish football manager and former player. He is currently first team coach at Nottingham Forest. He joined Doncaster in September 2006 following Dave Penney's departure. He was previously manager at Bournemouth. Known for being a very quiet, private man, he adopted the ironic nickname "Noisy" in his playing days at Fulham. He represented the Republic of Ireland as a player.
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[edit] Playing career
As a player, O'Driscoll was a midfielder for Fulham (1979–84) and Bournemouth (1984–95). He also won three caps for the Republic of Ireland. When he retired in 1995, he had played a club-record 423 league games for Bournemouth (the record has since been broken by Steve Fletcher), and subsequently joined the club's coaching staff.
[edit] Management career
[edit] Bournemouth
In August 2000, he was appointed manager, and despite limited financial resources, achieved good results, including promotion via the Third Division play-offs in the 2002–03 season.
In 2006, after 22 years at Dean Court, he left the club to become manager at Doncaster Rovers.
[edit] Doncaster Rovers
He made a rather steady start to his career at Belle Vue, including many draws. Notable events early in his career with Doncaster include a 4–0 victory away at Brentford, winning the manager of the month award for January 2007, and also overseeing Rovers' 3–2 success over Bristol Rovers in the Football League Trophy final in 2007. This success meant that O'Driscoll had achieved the rare feat of managing two different teams to victory at the Millennium Stadium.
In O'Driscoll's first full season in charge, 2007–08, he steered Doncaster to promotion into the Championship after a 1–0 victory over Leeds United in the League One play-off final at Wembley Stadium. The following season, 2008–09, saw his side initially struggle to adapt to the demands of the Championship, but they ended up 14th, comfortably clear of relegation.
For the following season and a half, O'Driscoll turned Doncaster into a comfortable mid-table team on one of the tightest budgets in the Championship. However, a plethora of injuries in the second half of the 2010-11 season (which at one point even saw the club request to postpone a match with Norwich City because they were struggling to field a first 11.[1]) saw Doncaster go on a dreadful run of form winning just 1 of their final 19 matches of the season, though they still survived due to their good form over the first half of the season.[2]
O'Driscoll could not inspire a comeback during the start of the following season and on 23 September 2011 with Doncaster taking just a single point from their first seven games,[3] it was confirmed that O'Driscoll, along with his assistant Richard O'Kelly, had been relieved of their duties by Doncaster Rovers.[4]
O'Driscoll joined up with Steve Cotterill at Nottingham Forest, becoming part of the coaching set up on January 18, 2012.[5]
[edit] Statistics
[edit] Manager
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | ||||
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| G | W | D | L | Win % | ||||
| Bournemouth |  |
19 August 2000 | 10 September 2006 | 326 | 118 | 98 | 110 | 36.20 |
| Doncaster Rovers | |
8 September 2006 | 23 September 2011 | 268 | 97 | 72 | 99 | 36.19 |
| Total | 594 | 215 | 170 | 209 | 36.20 | |||
- As of 23 September 2011
[edit] Honours
[edit] As a player
- Bournemouth
- Football League Division Three Champions: 1986–87
[edit] As a manager
- Bournemouth
- Football League Division Three Play-offs (Promotion): 2002–03
- Doncaster Rovers
- Football League One Play-offs (Promotion): 2007–08
- Football League Trophy Winners: 2007
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ "Norwich City dismiss postponing Doncaster game". BBC.co.uk. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/norwich/9404364.stm. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
- ^ "Doncaster Rovers 2010-2011 : Results Doncaster game". statto.com. http://www.statto.com/football/teams/doncaster-rovers/2010-2011/results. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
- ^ "oncaster Rovers 2011-2012 : Results & Fixtures". statto.com. http://www.statto.com/football/teams/doncaster-rovers/2011-2012/results. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
- ^ http://www.doncasterroversfc.co.uk/page/News/0,,10329~2459949,00.html
- ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16627142.stm
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- People from Wolverhampton
- Republic of Ireland association footballers
- Republic of Ireland international footballers
- Republic of Ireland under-21 international footballers
- Fulham F.C. players
- A.F.C. Bournemouth players
- Republic of Ireland football managers
- A.F.C. Bournemouth managers
- Doncaster Rovers F.C. managers
- 1957 births
- Living people
- Alvechurch F.C. players
- The Football League managers
