Pat Scully Departs

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Rovers and Scully have parted ways..amicably.

http://www.extratime.ie/newsdesk/articles/944/

Shamrock Rovers and Pat Scully have mutually agreed to part company with immediate effect.

"Pat has given great service to Shamrock Rovers," says Hoops' chairman, Jonathan Roche. "I don't believe anyone else could've achieved what he did, coming in after we'd been relegated and working within a very restrictive budget.

"We won the First Division championship at the first attempt, and then finished fifth in our first season back in the Premier Division – again, on a very tight budget.

"During that time, Pat had to juggle funds and players out of necessity. But as well as bringing in some very experienced players, he developed young talent such as Padraig Amond and Eoin Doyle.

"He also brought in and nurtured players such as Aidan Pride, Ger O'Brien and Tadhg Purcell. He leaves behind an impressive legacy.

"We wish Pat every success in whatever path he takes," Roche adds. "He played a pivotal role in our club's revival."

Pat Scully joined Shamrock Rovers in December 2005, from Kilkenny City – a club he revitalised during what was his first management role after a distinguished playing career.

Shamrock Rovers will advertise the position of First Team Manager. In the meantime, a temporary, part-time replacement will be made for the remainder of the 2008 season.

Extratime.ie will bring you more on this story as we get it.

Inevitable really. Would do a decent job for Drogheda, Bohs or Cork's re-building...

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I called this last week.

Go me.

stovelid

Des wrote: »

I called this last week.

Your clairvoyant powers were not exactly stretched on this one, Des.

CiaranC

Fair play to Scully, a man of integrity if ever there was one. An exciting chapter in the history of SRFC just got even more interesting.

gimmick

Handy job for Alan Mathews.

monkey9

gimmick wrote: »

Handy job for Alan Mathews.

Someone is looking for a straight swap, me thinks

stovelid

At least Ricer may deign to favour us with his presence on Friday night, now.

gimmick

No, rumour has it down here that we will have a part time, all Cork management team next season. Talk is of either Caulfield and Morley or Colin O Brien and Billy Woods.

Mathews will hardly stick around, given our future is still very much cloudy.

As an aside, Billy Woods retirement as a player is official as of today. Great great player. My favourite CCFC player of all time.

CiaranC

Alan Matthews my hole

pablomakaveli

gimmick wrote: »

No, rumour has it down here that we will have a part time, all Cork management team next season. Talk is of either Caulfield and Morley or Colin O Brien and Billy Woods.

Mathews will hardly stick around, given our future is still very much cloudy.

As an aside, Billy Woods retirement as a player is official as of today. Great great player. My favourite CCFC player of all time.

I wouldnt think matthews will leave for definite. in fairness hes stuck it out this season and i respect him for that. but if he does leave pat scully would be a good replacement.

sad to see billy woods go. given the injuries in the squad they could have given him more first team oppurtunities. right now im lookin at the derry match and they have a few kids on the bench.

monkey9

Give it to Sean Connors for the craic

Tomthepost

I think Dave O Leary is still available:D
Scully done a great job at the Hoops pity to see him go before the stadium move.

Gavin "shels"

Gareth Cronin (Waterford) or John Gill (Dundalk) I'm hearing so far. Could see possibly Scully off to Dundalk if Gill leaves (sacked if Dundalk don't get promoted methinks).

CiaranC

You hear? I hear Gill is going to Shels.

Gavin "shels"

CiaranC wrote: »

You hear? I hear Gill is going to Shels.

Not a chance, if Keely doesn't renew his contract I'd be putting money on Cronin or Scully to be Shels manager depending on how other things pan out, etc...

RebelRockChick

Gavin shels wrote: »

Gareth Cronin (Waterford) or John Gill (Dundalk) I'm hearing so far. Could see possibly Scully off to Dundalk if Gill leaves (sacked if Dundalk don't get promoted methinks).

Have heard Cronin's name being mentioned also, with talk of some local fella take over at Waterford.

gimmick wrote: »

As an aside, Billy Woods retirement as a player is official as of today. Great great player. My favourite CCFC player of all time.

Sad to see Billy has retired, but he obviously hasn't been happy recently, pity he didn't go out on a high. But he does have his car sales job and a young family (another addition to the family recently). He has done well for us as a part time player, some great memories of him. My favourite player also, the local lad

Töpher

Gavin shels wrote: »

Not a chance, if Keely doesn't renew his contract I'd be putting money on Cronin or Scully to be Shels manager depending on how other things pan out, etc...

Think there'd be a few others close in the mix too!

OhNoYouDidn't

LOL at Shels and Cork fans 'in the know' about who will get a job that will be advertised less than 24 hours after Scully left.

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OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »

LOL at Shels and Cork fans 'in the know'

lol at you supposedly "in the know" about other clubs, yet when challenged refuses to post facts, and then pretends to have missed the questions posed.

lol at you claiming Rovers were "far from" getting rid of Scully only four days before he was "mutually agreed" to leave your club.

Clutching at straws there mate, it would seem a lot of people know more about your club's employment strategy than you.

gimmick

OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »

LOL at Shels and Cork fans 'in the know' about who will get a job that will be advertised less than 24 hours after Scully left.

How was I pretneding to be "in the know"? Is speculating what happens wrong now?

OhNoYouDidn't

Des wrote: »

lol at you supposedly "in the know" about other clubs, yet when challenged refuses to post facts, and then pretends to have missed the questions posed.

lol at you claiming Rovers were "far from" getting rid of Scully only four days before he was "mutually agreed" to leave your club.

Clutching at straws there mate, it would seem a lot of people know more about your club's employment strategy than you.

We didn't get rid of Scully, but thats not the point. No-one knew this time yesterday that he would ask for a new contract except Scully himself. You know all this though.

Anyone speculating about his replacement, especially on the LoI merry-go-round is swinging totally blind.

I have asked three times what 'backup' you and zebra have been claiming I won't provide.

OhNoYouDidn't

gimmick wrote: »

How was I pretneding to be "in the know"? Is speculating what happens wrong now?

so long as you acknowledge that it is just complete specualtion, no.

Saint_Mel

Rico Return?

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You've been found out as a waffler, suck it up.

gimmick

OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »

so long as you acknowledge that it is just complete specualtion, no.

You really amuse me.

Personally I think Alan Mathews would be an ideal candidate for the Shams job.

CiaranC

gimmick wrote: »

You really amuse me.

Personally I think Alan Mathews would be an ideal candidate for the Shams job.

Wind-up Merchant. Noone at Rovers wants to see that **** anywhere near the job, and Matthews hates Rovers with a passion.

gimmick

Not on a wind up at all. Mathews will most likely leave City at the end of the season unless something drastic happens, and go abck to his bank job. he is Dublin based, and is used to dealing with part time players. He did a good job with part timers at Longford, so I see no reason why he couldn't do the same at Shams.

Personally, and I cannot believe I would ever see the day i would say this, I hope he stays at City because he has done a very good job with us this season given the circumstances he had to deal with. Had the 10 points not been deducted we would be in with a reasonable shout for 2nd.

stovelid

gimmick wrote: »

Personally I think Alan Mathews would be an ideal candidate for the Shams job.

No thanks.

OhNoYouDidn't

stovelid wrote: »

No thanks.

x 2.

He will not be considered for the job.

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OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »

x 2.

He will not be considered for the job.

How do you know?

You didn't know Scully was on his way out.

OhNoYouDidn't

Des wrote: »

You've been found out as a waffler, suck it up.

Because I didn't know Pat Scully would ask for a new contract before the Rovers board did.

Yeah, so found out. :rolleyes: