Kavanagh has been at Tallaght Stadium since 2018 after seven years with Fulham that included loan spells with Mansfield and Hartlepool United.<\/p>\n
A former Republic of Ireland Under-21 international, he won five league titles with Dublin side as well as two FAI Cups.<\/p>\n
His last appearance come in their UEFA Conference League campaign against Hamrun Spartans in December.<\/p>\n
Bradley described McPhail’s exit as “some time away” in today’s announcement about Kavanagh’s appointment.<\/p>\n
The Hoops boss said: “With Stephen having some time away, that was definitely a factor (to appoint Kavanagh).<\/p>\n
“Stephen was obviously a big influence in the staff room and coaches room. Experience has taught us, it is a heavy load throughout the year in terms of preparing for and recovering from games. I think Se\u00e1n will be a really welcome addition to help all the staff, especially Glenn Cronin and I.<\/p>\n
“It’s something we have spoken about with Se\u00e1n for a long period of time. I felt for some time that this was the road Se\u00e1n would go down. He has a brilliant football brain and has a really clear identity in how he wants to see the game.<\/p>\n
“Se\u00e1n has a very good opinion on the game and has always brought that to the dressing room and when we had our team meetings.<\/p>\n
“He was always one who stood out as someone who would be a coach. When we had a change in the last few weeks and when we had the conversation with Se\u00e1n, I\u2019m sure it wasn\u2019t an easy one for him as he was still a player.<\/p>\n
“I think Se\u00e1n has made the right decision and it\u2019s a brilliant one for us, as he\u2019ll add so much to our staff room.<\/p>\n
“He\u2019s also only stopped playing so he knows the dressing room. He\u2019s also one of the ones who\u2019s helped build the success that we\u2019ve had. Se\u00e1n has been a vital part of it on and off the pitch. We\u2019re absolutely delighted he has taken up the role.”<\/p>\n
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\nSean Kavanagh’s playing time was limited in recent seasons<\/p>\n
Kavanagh said he couldn’t turn down the chance presented, particularly with his injury issues.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019ve always watched the game and thought that I could coach at some stage. But with not having played as many games as I would\u2019ve liked over the last few years, it possibly was a factor in that. But I was given the opportunity to coach and I decided to go for it.<\/p>\n
“The biggest thing for me is learning how Stephen and Glenn do it and learning new skills. I will learn more about myself off the pitch as well. I always knew where I was on the pitch, but now I’m going to be outside of the playing side. I\u2019m looking to learn and upskill with the coaching, so I\u2019m really looking forward to it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Se\u00e1n Kavanagh has retired as a player to join Stephen Bradley’s staff at Shamrock Rovers ahead of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-232414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}