Davefevs

Just wondering, could either Simpson or Downing have been offered the u23s / Academy role as Nige liked what he saw from Alex Ball?

I was gonna post earlier….”where are the new owner offers then”. Looks like we have the first show of interest. Will watch how it evolves.

Yes it is.

And we see plenty of youngsters picked by professional scouts / Academy employees who don’t make it either. Most scouts are amateur, being paid just expenses. It’s called having a scouting network, not everyone is a fully fledged club employee like Geoff Twentyman Sr. If you want coverage, you can’t pay 300 scouts a salary of £25k p.a. You need “amateurs”! As explained, you sift out the rubbish and look for the “amateurs” who look like they have an aptitude, the ones as I said in a earlier post that can describe the attributes of the player, etc, that show an appreciation of the game and potential needs to be a pro footballer. Worth Reading Michael Calvin’s The Nowhere Men, it’s all about scouts, from the grass roots, to the orange tanned Steve Jones….yes the same one who was here.

More positive reports:

I’m a Business Analyst….bit more to it than chucking it in a tool…..I’m offended! ???

I agree. His role here is in part to set the foundations, get the club moving forward. Someone else made a point that he might not be the “manager” when it comes to fruition. I’m of that opinion too. He’s being trusted by SL to get get the set-up right and not be conned. He’s acting in a capacity with a wider remit of manager.

He gave them a fighting chance of staying up in fairness.

In fairness, “random” fans suggest players to clubs quite frequently. The question is what info does the person send in and what the club do with these? - throw them straight in the bin - have some form of filtering process - reply to the sender asking them to fill in a standard scout report and then look at - etc Was chatting to a fellow OTIBer / Tweeter a few months back about this. If you wanted City to take your player suggestion seriously, you’d do more than tweet Brian Tinnion and say “you had a look at this player, Bri?” wouldn’t you?

Essentially, yes. Certain things will be allowed to be excluded from the FFP return.

Interesting article. The Harry Wilson deal is supposedly a one year loan with obligation to buy for £12m next summer.

This is something I picked up from a Dutch Football Analyst re opposition. Scouting.

I’m sure you could provide a template to fill in, showing the things they want to know.

I don’t know. We didn’t discuss players, was more about how an “outsider” handles the fairly closed shop world of pro football, How they converse etc.

He said he’d been doing some work here prior to official start date…just like Ashton was at Ipswich.

Lloyd is now a very strong and imposing CB. He’s grown into an athletic frame and muscles players off the ball these days. As you say Ryley will need to do the same.

Corrected! A job for the younger person without a family and with lower wage expectations. Now if I was a few years older and thinking of semi-retirement now wouldn’t that be a nice thought. Either that or I’ll be fighting @Clevedon Redfor the minibus driver role!!!

I had quite a few conversations online with Jay over the summer, very amiable and helpful guy. He was trying to explain how you can shove video in front of a football person, but don’t try and tell them tactically why a goal happened, they know that. however, If you can present trends, eg. Here are 4/5 similar occasions or here’s the data that backs up what you see in the video etc, then the football people become interested. He’s been a trailblazer for a whole group of fanalysts getting jobs in pro football recently.

I put this together in the recent break.

Micah Richards video analysis spot on too. You could’ve easily swapped Man Utd for us and Liverpool for West Brom. Similar errors.

You may have guessed from countless posts of mine that unless you have something consistent to judge against, it’s very difficult to understand what is working and what isn’t. That’s not just the manager in deciding tactics, personnel for a game but the players themselves. As for the coaches, I guess we will know more this week. Nige’s BBCRB interview makes Downing’s position untenable, so can only be final agreement of his pay-off. When you hear “he needs to decide whether he wants to be here or not”, I only hear that as a combo of Nige doesn’t want him, Downing wants to go. Bit of a mess, but rebuilds are gonna have some awkward moments.

I was doing tea and only half listening to Neville’s analysis on their pressing…..it sounded like us in the last 3-4 games. At least Harry has worked for City in Ashton’s time. That’s a useful starting point. Don’t diss Rothmans….although the Football League Directory annual publication (Tony Williams) was more detailed. ???

No, wish I did…..Bundesliga publish some fairly basic stuff for free. Think it was Weimann who said we ran more than any other team. Perhaps we are running needlessly at times through poor anticipation and structure. Nige said it was heavily incentivised.

So, Bristol City’s Kevin Mabbutt, Ex-Bristol Rovers’ Dennis Bailey (at QPR) and now Mo Salah.

I often think that a mandatory relegation wage reduction clause is the way to go, but you’d have to insert that into every contract, not just promoted clubs. As it stands you will get a player courted by 2 teams, one uncertain whether they’ll be heading into the Champ says “do you mind if we insert a clause to cut your wages in half”, the other, more bullish says “sign here, we will still pay you if you go down” The Rodwell / Sunderland one was good in theory. £70k p.w. Halved on relegation but suspended for a year, e.g. we will pay you £70k in the Champ as an incentive to get us straight back up. The problem was they went down again. ???