They are the biggest scouting organization in the world, according to their bumph. I've never heard of them but doubtless the rest of you will have done. And all you have to do to get picked up by IPSO is to put down an initial £50 deposit and pay the rest in installments before you take part in their workshops.

What could possibly go wrong?

Yes it all makes sense......give some online company some money and you'll become a scout like loads of others....well WHAT an innovative idea

mad norm wrote:Yes it all makes sense......give some online company some money and you'll become a scout like loads of others....well WHAT an innovative idea

Dave Boddy's 'Official Partnerships' with just about anyone. Our 'contract' with Elite Management, our sponsorship with Interbet, and now this.

Well as our American cousins would say, never give a sucker an even break.

I guess Our new sporting director is responsible for our partnership with this company, this could be a stroke of genius only time will tell, as the saying goes you have to speculate to accumulate.

See the link below and take a look at what they do.....

https://ipsofootball.com/

It does strike me that with tighter immigration rules, international scouting will shrink and in-country recruitment become more important. No more EU journeymen.

George Street-Bridge wrote:It does strike me that with tighter immigration rules, international scouting will shrink and in-country recruitment become more important. No more EU journeymen.

Two points. I'm not altogether sure that of the hundreds of players on County's books these last ten years too many are what might be described as EU journeymen.

Secondly immigration rules are always easily circumvented, if you have the cash or connections. Ronaldo won't have a difficulty getting a work permit and the rules apply just as much to him as anyone else.

On topic I just don't get this tie up.

I'm trying to look at it less narrowly than just scrabbling for sticks to beat the club with. On topic, one strand of their business looks like a shrinking field.

The only EU journeyman I can immediately think of who played for County was John-Paul Ayena, but some of our rivals have had a regular throughput e.g. Oldham and Crawley.

It will presumably give us access to online scouting reports, stats and video clips - nothing more.

Clubs like Brentford and any of Mark Warburton’s teams have had relative success by honing in on data on players, their injuries and how long it takes them to recover from injuries so I’m all for us joining the group, however - as always - it’s pot luck when researching a new player unless our management team also watch the player ‘live’ in 3-4 games to assess temperament, comms etc.

I think it was Charlton who went over to recruiting on stats and it was disastrous.

George Street-Bridge wrote:I think it was Charlton who went over to recruiting on stats and it was disastrous.

I looked at the ISPO website. Amongst their claims is that their course designer is a certain Ted Davis. 15 years experience as a chief scout at Charlton Athletic.

I do wish you would stop picking up any stick you can find to beat the club.

When the Sporting Director was appointed I did question on here that it may lead down a route to the "Moneyball" statistical analysis model.

If what you've been doing hasn't been working then you make a change. County's recruitment has largely not been working and a "Moneyball" approach may unearth some bargains (if this is that). I'm willing to see this as a positive development.

wattsville_boy wrote:When the Sporting Director was appointed I did question on here that it may lead down a route to the "Moneyball" statistical analysis model.

If what you've been doing hasn't been working then you make a change. County's recruitment has largely not been working and a "Moneyball" approach may unearth some bargains (if this is that). I'm willing to see this as a positive development.

From reading their website they seem to be an organization who train people to be football scouts. I genuinely don't understand what this has to do with advancing the progress of Newport County. Other than it seems a Dave Boddyesque I'm taking a salary I had better make it appear I'm doing something.

Although looking up Darren Kelly's coaching and managerial career I fear that we might soon be longing for a return of the financial genius that is Dave Boddy.

Flynn once again opining about a new training ground. All I think is not well behind the scenes.

Picking up on some earlier statements, I'd like to point out that until 31 January 2020 probably almost every player we signed was an EU player. And post-Brexit, we still have at least two EU "journeyman" players on the books, and an ex-player in the background.