Harry McCue sacked

[pete]

Harry McCue has been sacked from the manager’s position at Drogheda United with immediate effect.

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[joeSoap]

is a shoe in for the job...great chance for Roddy to ruin two clubs in the one season...

[iceman]

Dont think the" zombie in the crombie" Collins will be in the running. Paul Doolin odds-on favourite.

[max power]

make noel king manager, then drogs will bew relagated and we won't have to look at him on tv3 every monday night

[A face]

Doolin in the frame

UCD manager Paul Doolin has emerged as the favourite to take over the vacant manager’s position at Drogheda United, although he admits he has not been approached by the Boynesiders.

Doolin, the much-travelled league veteran, hung up his playing-boots last season, and proceeded to perform a minor miracle with the unfashionable Students last season.

College spent the majority of the season at the foot of the table, but rallied tremendously near the end of the campaign, ending the season with SIX successive clean sheets, including four victories, to climb to a lofty sixth place by the final reckoning.

However, Doolin lost three key players in the close-season with the departures of goalkeeper Barry Ryan to Shamrock Rovers, centre half Clive Delaney (West Ham) and striker Robbie Doyle (Bohemians), and has been unable to replace them adequately this time around.

As a consequence, UCD are again occupying the Premier Division’s bottom spot, although their plight looks even bleaker this time around – they are currently eight points adrift of second-from-bottom Drogheda, have lost their last four matches, including three in the league, and have scored a paltry eleven times in 19 matches, by a distance the worst offensive record in the division.

Doolin is currently on a short break abroad, and will return to take charge of UCD for their league clash with Cork City at Belfield Park on Sunday afternoon.

He told the Irish Mirror: “I’m working for UCD. To be fair to them they gave me a chance in management. And nobody has asked me to go anywhere else. I’m on Portugal on holiday and in a way I’m glad to be away when speculation like this surfaces.

“I’ve no comment to make on the subject [of the Drogheda position] except to say that it is unfortunate for Harry. He’s a good man and I know how tough a job it is at the bottom of the league.”

Former Gillingham, Shelbourne and Shamrock Rovers manager Damien Richardson has also emerged as a possible contender, as has experienced coach Noel King, who is employed by Drogheda in a training capacity.

Monaghan manager Bobby Browne, a Drogheda favourite during his playing days, may well part company with the struggling Mons before the end of the weekend, and could come into the reckoning for the Drogheda post.

The club are believed to have distanced themselves from speculation that Roddy Collins is in the frame for the job, however.

Defenders Aidan Lynch and Pat Scully have taken temporary charge of the side for tonight’s (Thursday’s) Premier Division meeting with Waterford United at O2 Park, when a victory would see the Drogs out of the relegation play-off place, at least until Derry City play Shels on Friday evening.


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