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Senior Team Manager 2011/12:
Darren Hurd
Assistant Manager & First Team
Coach: Lee Jones
Manorhamilton Rangers new senior manager Darren Hurd has been
coaching since 1996 and has managed teams at all age groups. Darren
managed Manorhamilton Rangers Reserves team in 1996-97 which won the
Reserve Shield. Darren
was also was assistant
to Gerry Farry for 2 years during which time the team
got promoted to the Sligo/Leitrim
Super league. Darren has coached underage teams for
Manorhamilton Rangers for many years and currently is also the
manager of the U16 Girls team having guided them to semi-finals in
the last two years. Darren has been involved with the FAI Emerging
Talent Programme since 2004 to date and has coached from U10s to
U15s over the years at that level and during that time Darren gained
his coaching badges and invaluable coaching experience. Darren
guided teams to two finals and reached two semi finals of the
National Cup. Darren was part of the coaching team that reached the
Galway Umbro Cup final in 2009. Darren was manager for the U13
Sligo/Leitrim Kennedy cup squad which won the Kennedy Bowl and came
5th out of the whole country, the best result a Sligo/lLeitrim
Representative Squad has ever achieved. In 2009 Sligo Rovers
recognised Darren coaching potential when Steve Feeney of Sligo
Rovers coaching team approached him to jointly manage Sligo Rovers A
team, U18 and U20
teams.Under Darren and Steves guidance they won the under 18 cup and
came runners up in the all Ireland Futsal Tournament.
Steve departed and signed for
Galway and Sligo Rovers appointed Darren to take over at
the end of April. Darren brought in lee Jones as my assistant and
brings Lee to Manorhamilton Rangers as part of his coaching setup.
Theyhad a great season finishing 3rd in the league behind Sporting
Fingal and Shelbourne. When the season had finished Sligo Rovers
extended Darrens appointment for another year. Darren recognised the
talents of two Manorhamilton players Evan Sweeney and Colin Ryan and
signed them for Sligo Rovers, a proud moment for both players and
this club.
Speaking to
www.manorhamiltonrangers.com Darren said “I have learned so much
over the years going all over the country playing against the best
teams in Ireland, talking to and watching
different managers and coaches working with their teams. In the past
2 years spent with Sligo Rovers I have gained invaluable experience
watching and learning from
Paul Cook and Gerry Carr.
I've also been involved with some of
the best coaches around like Niall Harrison the U15 National
Coach and the late Noel O’Reilly the former assistant to Brain Kerr,
Ryan Casey, Tony Mannion, Puaric Nicholson many more & this year
Gavin Dyke's who has taken charge from me and many more.I hope to
bring all my knowledge and experience that I have learned over the
years back to my home club. It will be hard for me to step into Joe
Kearney's shoes but I will try my very best. Joe did a fantastic job
and I'm glad he is staying on as a player and give me a few tips
along the way and I'm looking forward working with Eugene Gilgunn
and the new chairman Sean Gallagher and the clubs committee”
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