Insider can't be a regular reader of NSC..........

[London Irish]

....because here he is "staggered" that Richie Morris asks inane questions.

http://www.northstandchat.biz/showthread.php?s=&threadid=75258

 

[Woodchip]

Originally posted by Insider
3. Bearing in mind the number of Sussex boys graduating, I think the existing network put in place by Dean and Hinsh is perfect. Trust me they have every angle covered and there isn't a player (junior or otherwise) that they don't know about.

Bet the scouts have never seen me play though.

 

[sir danny cullip]

I cant quite understand why he was so staggered by that question, didnt really see anything wrong with it.

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

No, perfectly fair question.

 

[Simster]

I cant quite understand why he was so staggered by that question, didnt really see anything wrong with it.

Exactly. Just ignore the gay boy who posted this thread.

 

[DJ Leon]

I cant quite understand why he was so staggered by that question, didnt really see anything wrong with it.

"Do the club have any fitness experts?"

If you can't see what's staggering about that question then you're not looking hard enough.

 

[Albion Dan]

I see nothing wrong with the question at all, which is a shocker as Morris posted it, and considering the shit like shambles that was The Albion not oh so long ago (mid 90's) all very valid.

 

[Rangdo]

I cant quite understand why he was so staggered by that question, didnt really see anything wrong with it.

I think as DJ Leon said asking the representative of a (until recently) Championship club "Do Brighton and Hove Albion have a dietician and/or fitness specialists?" is quite staggering.

 

[London Irish]

"Do the club have any fitness experts?"

If you can't see what's staggering about that question then you're not looking hard enough.

Essentially it appears the majority of people who are posting on this thread believe, like Morris, that we might have no fitness advisers and no scouts

Good old NSC - the home of informed comment about the Albion

 

[Simon Morgan]

Essentially it appears the majority of people who are posting on this thread believe, like Morris, that we might have no fitness advisers and no scouts

Good old NSC - the home of informed comment about the Albion

 

[sir danny cullip]

Essentially it appears the majority of people who are posting on this thread believe, like Morris, that we might have no fitness advisers and no scouts

Good old NSC - the home of informed comment about the Albion

I think youll find were different to most other clubs in that we dont have anyone who is employed as a "scout". The coaching staff do a lot of scouting but from insiders answer it seems we dont have people specifically employed to scout for players.

 

[e77]

The Dietician was behind the health thing being run on the club website.

 

[Race]

I think youll find were different to most other clubs in that we dont have anyone who is employed as a "scout". The coaching staff do a lot of scouting but from insiders answer it seems we dont have people specifically employed to scout for players.

Lots of clubs these days use freelance scouts covering different regions so they dont necessarily have employ a scout/s full time.

 

[sir danny cullip]

Lots of clubs these days use freelance scouts covering different regions so they dont necessarily have employ a scout/s full time.

Yea I understand that but we are surely one of a few clubs that dont employ one person specifically responsible for scouting.

 

[Race]

Yea I understand that but we are surely one of a few clubs that dont employ one person specifically responsible for scouting.

Plenty of clubs dont employ one person specifically, its probably a lot cheaper using regional scouts too. There isnt a need to employ one person though when most of the staff are covering it anyway.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

To be fair to the Youth set-up there are a number of others (ie not Wendy/Hinch or Vic Bragg) that are always watching games around Sussex.

In answer to Richie's question (as I know he's from Horsham) I am aware that the Albion have looked at, and had training boys of 10/11 from this area.

There's a few things wrong with the Albion, but the current Youth set up isn't one of them.

 

[Brovion]

3. Bearing in mind the number of Sussex boys graduating, I think the existing network put in place by Dean and Hinsh is perfect. Trust me they have every angle covered and there isn't a player (junior or otherwise) that they don't know about.

Certainly as far as the Juniors are concerned I can vouch for that. They have a first intake of boys at about age 8 but after that they continually monitor the youth leagues, school matches and representative games (Brighton Boys, inter league etc). My lad is now 13 and in the last 5 years or so I've seen Hinshlewood himself on about four separate occasions watching boys matches. They always invite promising boys down to training sessions at the Centres of Excellence, some they give a trial periond to and some they sign. And it is always the best, most consistent players they pick, not just someone who had a good game when a scout is watching.

Some invariably will slip through the net. Some are got by other clubs first (one boy I know went to Portsmouth) and some sadly choose to go to a supposedly 'better' club (another boy chose Chelsea over Brighton. Mind you he lives in the north of the county so it wasn't perhaps that surprising).

BTW sometimes the ones who go to bigger clubs come back. The Albion Youth captain Tom Fraser was originally at Portsmouth, but one of the factors that made him switch was that the training methods at Brighton were streets ahead of those used by the Portsmouth youth coaches.

So I'm pretty convinced that as far as getting the yoiungsters go there isn't much else the club could do.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Maybe these weren't "inane questions" from Richie. Maybe he is writing another major feature for 442 and wanted a quote from An Official Spokesperson for Brighton & Hove Albion.

Maybe.

 

[Gwylan]

Maybe these weren't "inane questions" from Richie. Maybe he is writing another major feature for 442 and wanted a quote from An Official Spokesperson for Brighton & Hove Albion.

Maybe.

It's possible but surely if a journalist wanted the club's line on an issue, he'd ring up the club's press officer?

Only a crap journalist would post a question on an Intenet message board to try to get an answer.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

It's possible but surely if a journalist wanted the club's line on an issue, he'd ring up the club's press officer?

Only a crap journalist would post a question on an Intenet message board to try to get an answer.

Richie is very shy, though.