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Sean O'Driscoll (born 1 July 1957) is the manager of English football team Doncaster Rovers. He joined Doncaster in September 2006 following the sacking of David Penney. He was previously manager at Bournemouth.

As a player, O'Driscoll was a midfielder for Fulham (1979-84) and Bournemouth (1984-95). He also won three caps for the Republic of Ireland. When he retired in 1995, he had played a club-record 423 league games for Bournemouth (the record has since been broken by Steve Fletcher), and subsequently joined the club's coaching staff. In August 2000, he was appointed manager, and despite limited financial resources, achieved good results, including promotion via the Division Three playoffs in 2002-03.

In 2006, after 22 years at Dean Court, he left the club to become manager at Doncaster. O'Driscoll's appointment came as a surprise for many Doncaster fans when it was announced. Newspapers and fans alike were tipping local hero Kevin Keegan to become their manager. However, as the weeks before the appointment pressed on, no statement from Keegan was forthcoming.[1]. Other names mentioned with the post had been Peter Reid and recently sacked Nottingham Forest manager Gary Megson.

Despite a rather steady start to his campaign, including many draws and arguably bizzare formations (mainly due to the crowd being used to the 4-4-2 formation preferred by former manager Dave Penney for numerous years), O'Driscoll has recently greatly improved his reputation with the Doncaster fanbase.

His best moments so far in his reign at Doncaster include a 4-0 victory away at Brentford, winning the manager of the month award for January 2007, and also overseeing Rovers 3-2 success over Bristol Rovers in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy final. This success meant that O'Driscoll had achieved the rare feat of managing two different teams to victory at the Millennium Stadium.

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %
Bournemouth		August 19, 2000	September 10, 2006	326	118	110	98	36.19
Doncaster Rovers		September 8, 2006	Present	37	17	7	13	45.94

• Sean O'Driscoll management career stats at Soccerbase
• BBC Sport Article

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