Sean O'Driscoll

Sean O'Driscoll
Sean O'Driscoll 2014
Personnel
Surname	Sean Michael O'Driscoll
birthday	July 1, 1957
place of birth	Wolverhampton ,  England
position	midfield player
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1979-1984	Fulham FC	148 (13)
1984-1995	Bournemouth AFC	423 (19)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1982	Ireland	3 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2000-2006	Bournemouth AFC
2006-2011	Doncaster Rovers
2012	Crawley Town
2012	Nottingham Forest
2013	Bristol City
2014-2015	England U-19
2015	Liverpool FC (assistant coach)
2015–	Walsall FC
1 Only league games are given.

Sean Michael O'Driscoll (born July 1, 1957 in Wolverhampton ) is an England-born former Irish football player and current coach of the English third division club Walsall .

Player career

Sean O'Driscoll played for Fulham FC from 1979 to 1984 . After relegation to the Football League Third Division in the 1979/80 season, he returned with his team to the second-rate Second Division in 1982 . In 1984 O'Driscoll moved to the third division AFC Bournemouth coached by Harry Redknapp and rose to the second division in 1987 with his new club. After relegation to the Third Division in the 1989/90 season, the club remained in this division until O'Driscoll's career ended.

In the summer of 1982, Sean O'Driscoll played three caps for the Irish national team . He made his debut on May 21, 1982 in a 0-1 defeat in a friendly in Chile.

Coaching career

Bournemouth AFC

After the end of his playing career, he moved to the coaching staff of his long-term club. On August 19, 2000 Sean O'Driscoll took over the post of head coach and missed with his team as seventh in the table to make it into the play-offs. The 2001/02 season was much more negative and ended with relegation to the fourth division. In 2003, the club achieved a direct return to the third division with a 5-2 win in the play-off final against Lincoln City FC . After two single-digit places in the table, Bournemouth finished the 2005/06 season in Football League One in seventeenth. At the beginning of the 2006/07 season O'Driscoll left after more than 22 years as a player and coach Bournemouth and took over the coaching post with the Doncaster Rovers .

Doncaster Rovers

With his new team, also playing in the third division, he finished the 2006/07 season in eleventh place and also won the Football League Trophy with a 3-2 after extra time in the final against the Bristol Rovers . Already in the following season the rovers' performance increased significantly and led to a third place in the play-offs. After a first-round success over Southend United (0-0 and 5-1), Doncaster defeated Leeds United 1-0 in the final in front of 75,132 spectators at Wembley , making it the second-highest division for the first time since 1958. In the Football League Championship 2008/09 , the Rovers secured relegation as 14th. After another year in the middle of the table, the team around top scorer Billy Sharp finished the Football League Championship 2010/11 after a good first half of the season and significantly worse performance in the second half of the season only as 21st. After the first seven games of the Football League Championship 2011/12 , the club finished last in the table with just one point and then separated after five years from its head coach Sean O'Driscoll.

Nottingham Forest

After an interim position in the coaching team of Steve Cotterill at Nottingham Forest in the second half of the 2011/12 season, he took over the third division promoted Crawley Town on May 16, 2012 . Before the start of the first competitive game, O'Driscoll left his new club and returned to Nottingham Forest as head coach and successor to the dismissed Cotterill. On December 26, 2012, he was sacked immediately after a 4-2 home win on Boxing Day against Leeds United . The club was at that time in eighth place in the Football League Championship 2012/13 and only one point behind the sixth play-off rank.

Bristol City

After he had rejected an offer from Barnsley FC a week earlier , O'Driscoll signed on January 14, 2013 a contract with bottom of the second division Bristol City . He was also unable to give the team any new impulses and was relegated to the third division with Bristol 2012/13 in last place. Since the performance in the Football League One 2013/14 did not improve and the club found itself again in the relegation battle, Sean O'Driscoll was dismissed on November 28, 2013.

Liverpool FC

In the summer of 2015, O'Driscoll became assistant coach at Liverpool FC . After head coach Brendan Rodgers was fired , O'Driscoll left the club in early October 2015.

Walsall FC

On December 18, 2015, he took over the coaching post at FC Walsall , third in the table in the third division, where he replaced Dean Smith , who had moved to second division club Brentford .

Web links

• Profile at the League Managers Association
• Soccerbase trainer data
• Games for the Irish national team

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chile - Ireland 1-0 (eu-football)
2. ↑ Bournemouth win seals promotion (BBC Sport)
3. ↑ O'Driscoll hails super Cherries (BBC Sport)
4. ↑ End of an era (BBC Sport)
5. ↑ O'Driscoll named Doncaster boss (BBC Sport)
6. ↑ Bristol Rovers 2-3 Doncaster AET (BBC Sport)
7. ↑ Doncaster 1-0 Leeds (BBC Sport)
8. ↑ Dean Saunders replaces Sean O'Driscoll at Doncaster (BBC Sport)
9. ↑ Sean O'Driscoll joins Nottingham Forest coaching set-up (BBC Sport)
10. ↑ Sean O'Driscoll appointed Crawley Town manager (BBC Sport)
11. ↑ Sean O'Driscoll appointed new Nottingham Forest manager (BBC Sport)
12. ↑ Nottingham Forest sack manager Sean O'Driscoll (BBC Sport)
13. ↑ Sean O'Driscoll rules out vacant Barnsley manager job (BBC Sport)
14. ↑ Sean O'Driscoll: Bristol City appoint ex-Nottingham Forest boss (BBC Sport)
15. ↑ Sean O'Driscoll: Bristol City part company with head coach (BBC Sport)
16. ↑ Liverpool FC: Reds confirm first-team staff departures , October 8, 2015, accessed October 9, 2015
17. ↑ Sean O'Driscoll: Walsall name new head coach to replace Dean Smith (BBC Sport)