I would imagine a scaling back of the budget has surely to be a factor. Doyle, from what I know, is a full-time football man. Can the club afford to keep anyone full-time on the payroll when in the First Division? Attendances will be ~300 again and media coverage practically non-existent. Bringing someone in, who has a job outside of football, is possibly the way the club is looking. Someone like Collie O’Neill would fit that criteria and knows the division very well.
Doyle worked hard and is a great fella. Personally, I feel he stuck too rigidly to the lone striker tactic. Sligo away on Monday was typical for the season – playing decent football in the middle third but no end product combined with only one player to aim for (in Williams). Warfield under-used when we’ve been chasing games, as has often been the case. Sometimes you need that physicality ahead of trying always to be playing nice football.
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