Career
Joe Gallen played for Watford, Exeter, Shamrock Rovers, Shrewsbury, Dundalk F.C. and Drogheda United and represented the Republic of Ireland national under-21 football team, before his career was cut short with a back injury at the age of 26. He joined Shamrock Rovers with David Byrne (football player, born 1961) in January 1993 also on loan from Watford but only made three league appearances. After the end of his playing career, Gallen then took up coaching and after working at youth level at Queens Park Rangers he moved onto become first the Assistant Manager at his old club Exeter and Millwall.
He now has once again joined up with Kenny Jackett to be his Number 2 at Wolves
During his time as youth coach at QPR he brought through many talented young players into the professional ranks.
As QPR at the time had no academy many of these players were subsequently signed by other clubs. He did, however, much work in the development of Ray Jones (football player, born 1988) who made it into the first team at QPR until Jones" tragic death in 2007.
Gallen acquired all of his coaching badges by the age of 28.
