Pete mahon - Media Whore

[HarpoJoyce]

Interview with PM from LOI site.

http://www.eircomloi.ie/news-centre/news-1/news-33/index.xml

".....When we get a couple of players capped at underage level, it is a real boost for the club. I don’t think we are ever going to be able to win the league, but success can be measured differently and I measure mine differently to other managers.”

[pineapple stu]

Media whore?

[John83]

Maybe Harpo reckons Pete measures his success in column inches!

[HarpoJoyce]

I realise the term 'Media' appears as a Thread title. But it may be helpful to have publications and broadcasts from Pete on the same thread. For a while anyway.

[DmanDmythDledge]

This might interest you Harpo.

[HarpoJoyce]

SPOILER ALERT

Extended MNS interview (2:15) with Pete Mahon after the Brandywell game,
http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/mns/features/ucdav.html
Derry City 4-1 UCD - 23 May
Pete Mahon, manager UCD.

[HarpoJoyce]

Evening Herald article 04/07/2008 (day of United Park game)

Mahon needs top frontsman

Dalymount favourite Aidan Fitzmaurice reads like he interviewed Pete Mahon over the phone on Thursday evening. (may be slow to load)

http://www.herald.ie/sport/soccer/irish/mahon-needs-top-frontman-1427715.html

"UCD boss Pete Mahon admits that he's desperate for a striker to try and lift his side out of their slump so they can survive in the Premier Division."

"...Defence is not the major problem for UCD, as No 1 Matt Gregg has kept three clean sheets in the last seven games, one of the better records around, but their worries lie at the other end, and it sums up UCD's fortunes in front of goal when right back Alan Mahon is their joint top scorer with two, one of the reasons why Mahon made an attempt to sign former Northern Ireland and Man United striker Phil Mulryne, before he ended up at Linfield."

Quoted from Mahon
""We need someone to put the ball in the net because confidence is low," says manager Mahon ahead of their trip to Drogheda.

"We had three games against First Division teams, Monaghan and Wexford Youths, in the cups and we scored only one goal, and that's just not good enough if you're a Premier Division side.

"UCD have never been a club where strikers did really well, you'd probably have to go back about 12 or 14 years for the last time the club had a free-scoring striker, when Mick O'Byrne and Jason Sherlock were here. I think it says it all when Alan Mahon is the joint top scorer, he never scores goals," says the UCD boss of his son.

"I think the problem is the mindset of our forwards. They don't go into games and get into situations knowing they will score, they are simply hoping they can score and there's a big difference.

"One of the professors out here in UCD, Aidan Moran, wrote a book called Pure Sport, about the psychology of sport and I'm thinking of getting a copy for every player in the squad because they need to read it. We're not scoring goals because we don't have the confidence and the attitude to score them. In the cup games against Monaghan and Wexford we missed two penalties, we missed lots of chances. So we need to get a forward in, but there aren't too many around.

"There was talk of Andy Myler moving on but it looks like he's staying at Bray, Shamrock Rovers got Mark Leech and Tony Grant went to Glenavon, they are three strikers you'd like to have but we weren't in a position to attract them to UCD.""


"The UCD boss is keen to bring in more fresh blood and has two trialists lined up to come in next week, one from eastern Europe and one from the lower leagues in England."
He is such a tease. Exotic English lower leagues.


The photo on the website is cropped to fit and doesn't do Justice to the hardcopy photo which shows the body languuage of Pete Mahon's hands expressing exactly what he needs in the striker he's looking for.

A cross between
John Maynard Keynes

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_15/art04_15/0415_20innova.jpg

and Martin Luther King Jr.

http://readwritenow.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/martin-luther-king2.jpg