{"id":167539,"date":"2025-09-29T06:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/167539\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T06:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:45:09","slug":"irish-premiership-glenavon-part-way-with-mclaughlin-after-winless-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/167539\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Premiership: Glenavon part way with McLaughlin after winless start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glenavon have confirmed that Paddy McLaughlin has been relieved of his duties as manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McLaughlin&#8217;s departure comes after Saturday&#8217;s 2-0 defeat against Crusaders at Mourneview Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That was the Lurgan Blues&#8217; ninth straight league defeat which leaves them bottom of the Irish Premiership table, nine points off Portadown and Bangor above them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Glenavon FC can confirm the departure of manager Paddy McLaughlin this evening,&#8221; a club statement said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The club would like to express its gratitude to Paddy for his contributions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Cliftonville and Institute boss replaced Stephen McDonnell as Glenavon boss in November 2024 on a three-and-a-half-year deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club were 11th when he took over, but McLaughlin oversaw an upturn in form to steer them away from relegation worries as they finished 10th last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite investment in the summer to bring in 12 players, McLaughlin&#8217;s side failed to click and scored just two goals in their first nine games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glenavon have yet to confirm who will be in the dugout for their next game against Portadown at Shamrock Park on Saturday, 4 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glenavon have confirmed that Paddy McLaughlin has been relieved of his duties as manager. McLaughlin&#8217;s departure comes after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-167539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}