[3] In 1997, Doorey moved to France to become a player-coach at Villeneuve, where he won the Treize Tournoi in 1998,[4] and a European Challenge match against a Northern Ford Premiership XIII in 1999.
[5] In 2001, he reached the quarter-final of the Challenge Cup with the team before losing to Super League side Warrington Wolves.
[6] After leaving Villeneuve, Doorey later moved to rugby union, where we worked in 2003 for Bourgoin CSBJ with Phillipe Sanit Andre and Laurent Seigne and Francis Leta in the French Top 14 competition, Doorey moved to Italy in 2003 as an assistant coach alongside John Kirwan for the Italy including RWC 2003 and 6 nations championships in 2004 and 2005, helping Italy to its highest ranking of 9 in the IRB rankings.
He went back to CSBJ in France for 2005-2006 leading CSBJ in the Top 14 with Christophe Urios gaining 2 European Cup qualifications before again joining Kirwan in 2007 with Japan RWC 2007 where he stayed until 2011, winning PNC championships in 2011 and taking Japan from 17 in the IRB rankings to 11 prior to RWC 2011, its highest ranking ever to date.
In 2012 joined Kirwan to be assistant coach with the New Zealand Rugby Union of Blues where he coached for 3 years helping produce numerous new All Blacks including Frank Halai, Francis Saili, Charles Piutau and George Moala in the worldwide Super Rugby competition.