Sean O'Driscoll

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Sean O'Driscoll
Personal information
Full name	Sean Michael O'Driscoll
Date of birth	1 July 1957 (1957-07-01) (age 50)
Place of birth	Wolverhampton, England
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Doncaster Rovers (manager)
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1979-1984 1984-1995	Fulham Bournemouth	148 (13) 423 (19)
National team
1982-1983	Republic of Ireland	003 0(0)
Teams managed
2000-2006 2006-present	Bournemouth Doncaster Rovers
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Sean O'Driscoll (born 1 July 1957) is the manager of English football team Doncaster Rovers. He joined Doncaster in September 2006 following David 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.

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. In August 2000, he was appointed manager, and despite limited financial resources, achieved good results, including promotion via the Division Three playoffs in 2002-03.

In 2006, after 22 years at Dean Court, he left the club to become manager at Doncaster. O'Driscoll's appointment came as a surprise for many Doncaster fans when it was announced. Newspapers and fans alike were tipping local hero Kevin Keegan to become their manager. However, as the weeks before the appointment pressed on, no statement from Keegan was forthcoming.[1]. Other names mentioned with the post had been Peter Reid and recently sacked Nottingham Forest manager Gary Megson.

He made a rather steady start to his campaign, including many draws and arguably bizzare formations (mainly due to the crowd being used to the 4-4-2 formation preferred by former manager Dave Penney for numerous years.)

His best moments so far in his reign at 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 Johnstone's Paint Trophy final. This success meant that O'Driscoll had achieved the rare feat of managing two different teams to victory at the Millennium Stadium.

In May 2008, he led Doncaster to the Division 1 Play-Off final at Wembley. A 1-0 victory over Leeds United secured Doncaster promotion to the Championship.

[edit] Managerial stats

As of 29 May 2007.

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %
Bournemouth		August 19, 2000	September 10, 2006	326	118	110	98	36.19
Doncaster Rovers		September 8, 2006	Present	53	22	14	17	41.50

[edit] External links

• Sean O'Driscoll management career stats at Soccerbase
• BBC Sport Article

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