Tumshie RFC 0 Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 The article is correct. The lack of a scouting system is embarrasing and has to be the number 1 priority for everyone connected with the club. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilledbear 16 Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 My fear is we will end up in the top flight sooner or later, and nothing will have changed. We will still be throwing money around, and all the hurt will have been for nothing. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gribz 743 Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 I think McCoist struggles to gel players on the park with current ones. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elfideldo 406 Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 It is a fact that the scouts do not scout pro youth games as there is no budget to buy these players. Given Sinclair's record on "purchases" this may not be a bad thing. Scouts do not sign players they only recommend them. A bigger concern is youth prospects moving out of contract in the summer and others stalling in signing contract extensions. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UCF2008 0 Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 It is a fact that the scouts do not scout pro youth games as there is no budget to buy these players. Given Sinclair's record on "purchases" this may not be a bad thing. Scouts do not sign players they only recommend them. A bigger concern is youth prospects moving out of contract in the summer and others stalling in signing contract extensions. Any player over the age of 17 who's been nowhere near the first team this season probably doesn't have much hope of making it at the club to be honest. Younger players with potential however are another story and I agree it is worrying if those players think the grass is greener elsewhere. The budget and scouting issues at youth level need to be addressed. If Sinclair isn't to be trusted with the money then he should be replaced, but we need to invest in our youth system if we want it to be successful. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GovanAllan 0 Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 It is a fact that the scouts do not scout pro youth games as there is no budget to buy these players. Given Sinclair's record on "purchases" this may not be a bad thing. Scouts do not sign players they only recommend them. A bigger concern is youth prospects moving out of contract in the summer and others stalling in signing contract extensions. Well if they aren't scouting Pro-Youth they won't be watching much, the thing I've noticed from following my sons for the last 9years is all the very best players get sucked up into the Pro-Youth set up very early too early for me to be honest. When I played as a boy every team had 3 or 4 cracking players and the lesser players had something to aim at. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
der Berliner 3,234 Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 I think McCoist struggles to gel players on the park with current ones. Which is why I don't view the current season as a benchmark for him (and I know that others will not concur). 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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