Pat Scully to be announced as Rovers new boss today

**monkey magic** · 01/12/2005, 7:16 PM

good appointment, he comes across on tv as having a bit of mass between the ears, something surprisingly few el managers appear to have...

from a footballing point of view what he done in the second half of the season was impressive, given kk's budget etc.

can any of the first division fans tell us what kinda football kilkenny played under scully- is he a longball merchant or do they get the ball down and play

**hoopy** · 01/12/2005, 7:17 PM

Originally Posted by finlma

Can't wait to beat Rovers next season and beat them to promotion.

Going to be hard, especially as (from my source) he'll be bringing at least 3 of your players with him

**sfc red** · 01/12/2005, 8:03 PM

what he done

Even for a Longford person......

**superfrank** · 01/12/2005, 8:18 PM

Originally Posted by Peadar

I predicted that months ago.

superfrank thinks that Scully isn't up to managing a team in the First Division??? What do you think he's been doing at Kilkenny?

Someone came on here before and noted how many players he'd brought in on loan. Kilkenny will lose all those players and obviously he didn't have the faith in the players he had.

I don't call that great management.

**coislaoi** · 01/12/2005, 9:32 PM

Originally Posted by superfrank

Someone came on here before and noted how many players he'd brought in on loan. Kilkenny will lose all those players and obviously he didn't have the faith in the players he had.

I don't call that great management.

He had three players on loan from us - Guthrie, McCarthy & Lally. In fairness he had to do something at the start of the season - they were losing all around them. The arrival of those 3 and a couple more on loan co-incided with a with a massive increase in form (they won something like 12 out of 13 I think).

I think he has great potential as a manager as long as Rovers fans give him time to settle.

**green-blood** · 01/12/2005, 10:32 PM

sure he has until at least the end of March...we'll have him sussed by then

**Macy** · 02/12/2005, 7:25 AM

Originally Posted by Wiseguy

BTW Is Roddy due any compo from Rovers?

Shoddy thinks so, but the long drawn out process by Rovers was obviously to avoid paying him anything.

**Lim till i die** · 02/12/2005, 9:33 AM

Pat Scullys appointment was a great move for the supporters of all clubs in the first division (okay maybe not Kilkenny) because it gives us prime abuse fodder in the Shamrocks Rovers dugout after being denied the chance of a go at that other uber-Dub superplank Shoddy Roddy

**joema** · 02/12/2005, 6:22 PM

He is an excellent manager. Of the 3 lads from Cork only one (Guthrie) made a real impact, Lally looks a lovely player but didnt do it for us. McCarthy was on the bench for us at first but soon got his place and did reasonably well - scored a few good goals. Im gutted that Scully has left us but Im sure he will do a very good job at Rovers.
Btw what players do you think will follow Pat to Rovers hoopy?
I hope its not Aidan Price and Tadhg Purcell but it probobly will be. They were our two best players this season and Scully brought them both to the club, they are signed up for next year with us though!
On another note I was very surprised to learn he had gone to Rovers as he was talking about his plans for next season with us in the local papers alot