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 careerhttps://twitter.com/premplumbing15rl.
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 scoutshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24653124rl
Quote: Ayres Rock "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 questionThe 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.
