Queen of the South have decided to part company with manager Peter Murphy after their failure to win promotion to the Scottish Championship.<\/p>\n
The Dumfries side were beaten in Saturday’s play-off semi-final following a penalty shoot-out after a 3-3 draw on aggregate with part-time Stenhousemuir, who finished second behind Inverness Caledonian Thistle.<\/p>\n
Until the spot-kicks, Queens had finished the season unbeaten in 11 games, but it was only good enough to finish third, 13 points behind Gary Naysmith’s side.<\/p>\n
But chairman Billy Hewitson told his club website: “Football is a results business and financially we need to be in the Championship. <\/p>\n
“We have taken some time to reflect and have reached the decision that we need to take the club in a different direction. <\/p>\n
“Therefore, we will not be renewing the manager’s contract along with his management team.”<\/p>\n
Former Carlisle United and Ayr United defender Murphy had switched from local rivals Annan Athletic to replace Marvin Bartley two seasons ago. <\/p>\n
Exiting Palmerston Park with the 45-year-old are assistant manager Colin McMenamin and first-team coach Alan Casey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queen of the South have decided to part company with manager Peter Murphy after their failure to win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-227507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}