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Scouting Ostigard springs to mind with Haland playing in the same team.
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[Albion] Scouting and new head scout
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Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
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I've recently had strange urges to run into the middle of the Amex in the middle of a match and howl uncontrollably.
(But that picture is magnificent. I must have turned into a boy-scout by 1966. The scout district commissioner behind Mrs B-P looks like a clone for the one for East Sussex at the time: retired WW2 colonel).
The proof is in the pudding
Yep - identify / linked with good players , can’t convince them to sign
B-right-on
Living the dream
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No idea. You'd think they'd be in the negotiations to a degree. Maybe they're fine, maybe not.
All I see is the effects on the pitch. Or lack of them.
B-right-on
Living the dream
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Hate to disagree, but, well, I disagree. They either have scouts that are told to find strikers within our budget and structure and failing miserably, or if they don't exist, then what's the point of striker scouts trying to find something that doesn't exist.
Are you absolutely sure it was the wrong thread?
Even by NSC's high eclectic standards this thread is doing some serious willy waving.
I'll hazard a guess your cricket thoughts would have gone completely unnoticed.
So you think scouts do more than watch and provide analysis on players ? That they then also get in touch with the player or agents or the club to find out how much they’d sell for,
Salary expectations etc ? I don’t think so…
Given how lacking our recruitment has been in the striker department for 10 years or so know and many different personnel have changed I’m confident it’s not the scouts…
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B-right-on
Living the dream
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Wonder how much time our scouts spent looking at that Christiano bloke at Juve before he came to the UK again or the Yeovil Town striker if they have zero constraints.
Not Andy Naylor
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And you don't look a day different. But you really should stop trying to squeeze into that uniform.
Medwayseagull
JCB
What’s Captain Mainwaring doing on the left of the photo?
"Don't give her your name Straw "
Seagull58
In the Algarve
I wonder if he's spotted that tall lad Burn at Newcastle yet? He looks like he could do a job for us.
Jack Straw
I look nothing like him!
Thank you. Yes, it's a bit tight under the armpits nowadays!
Blimey, I don't think me and Jack Straw discovering that we're both old men and went to the same Boy Scout Jamboree in 1966 can possibly be described as 'willy waving'. Zimmer frame waving maybe. (And of course taking the thread wildly O/T - for which I did apologise).
Perkino
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- Dec 11, 2009
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If we only have 4 of them and 1 is solely for CB's then we may struggle to recruit well to all positions.
Presumably 1 is assigned to GK & another 1 to CM which is why we have plenty of GK's CB's & CM's. I'd suggest we get in another to focus on ST, CF & WF
Presumably 1 is assigned to GK & another 1 to CM which is why we have plenty of GK's CB's & CM's. I'd suggest we get in another to focus on ST, CF & WF
albionalex
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This is actually a pretty major part of what a scout does.
- Jun 20, 2021
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Apparently we're getting rid of a lot of scouts according to the Telegraph (behind paywall)
www.telegraph.co.uk
Brighton axe majority of scouts in surprise recruitment overhaul
Exclusive: Move underlines importance of owner Tony Bloom’s secretive data model and raises fears within scouting community
www.telegraph.co.uk