Do we know if this kind of work is in Garreth Carvell’s remit? I know he is looking after the under 19s but I thought his actual job was more in line with Paul Highton’s old role rather than Alan Hunte’s.
In fact, when Garreth was interviewed on BBC Radio Manchester a few weeks ago, he was talking about emulating some of the work Karl Fitzpatrick is doing at Warrington regarding player welfare. One example he gave was helping Chris Hill carve out a career as a plumber on the side; Hill now actually undertakes work alongside his professional RL career: [urlhttps://twitter.com/premplumbing15[/url.
I imagine this is a full-time job in itself.
Quote ="Ayres Rock"I don't believe the club do have any scouts other than lads involved on the scholarship. I know I spoke to Danny Barton about them coming down to look at a few lads playing and they did come down and have since spoken to a few boys but not sure of any others in that role at the club.'"
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The club recently advertised for volunteer academy performance analysts. I wonder whether a scouting network could be set up along similar lines with expenses for say travelling outside Greater Manchester and commission paid for a find that signs with the club. This is an interesting snippet from the an article about football scouts:
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Quote ="Nabil Hassan, BBC Sport"After a day scouting, Penney will normally file a lengthy report [including detailed analysis of a player’s strengths and weaknesses, and always answers one key question: ‘Does he play with a smile on his face?’
Penney gets £25 if a player is eventually signed by Bournemouth's academy and a small monthly salary. He works for a building maintenance company in Poole in his ‘full-time job’.
He has a network of contacts, including youth-team managers, parents and fellow scouts, as well as scouring the internet for attractive fixtures from his 'patch'.
The pay for talent scouts is bad enough, but tactical scouts - who scout upcoming opponents for a team - are among the poorest paid people in football. Michael Calvin, author of [iThe Nowhere Men[/i, a book about scouting, recalls a night with a tactical scout called Steve Jones.
‘He was doing an opposition report,’ recalls Calvin. ‘It was 13 pages in length, 1,700 words long and he did the game and finished the report after midnight.
‘Essentially he'd been working for eight hours. For that eight hours' work he got paid £4, because he was on mileage of 40p a mile. As fate had it, he only lived five miles from The Valley. That was his reward for the evening.’'"
Bar low reward, because essentially it would be a labour of love, I guess the problem here would be knowing what to look for in a player and forging links with a people in the game at various levels. I guess the Academy manager could coordinate this, however.
