Live observation
Games watched in person, start to finish. Full ninety-minute context beats clipped highlights every time.
Scouting
The recruitment lens
Analysis grounded in real scouting work — assessing footballers live, week after week, for people who had to make decisions on them.
What the work involves
Talent identification
Spotting players before the wider market does — youth football, lower leagues and under-used squad members.
Player profiling
Technical, physical, tactical and mental. How a player fits a system, a dressing room and a step up in level.
Opposition reports
Patterns, set-piece habits, pressing triggers and the weaknesses a team keeps repeating.
Recruitment insight
The realities of budgets, agents, contract timing and why sensible signings fall through.
Pathway knowledge
Understanding of the Scottish football pyramid and how players move through and out of it.
Joe’s Scouting Principles
- —How a player solves problems under pressure.
- —Quality of first touch and decision-making.
- —Positioning with and without the ball.
- —Tactical understanding and game intelligence.
- —Communication, leadership and mentality.
- —Technical consistency over ninety minutes.
- —Physical attributes suited to the role.
- —Whether the player can improve with coaching.
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Transfer windows, emerging talent, squad building and recruitment stories — explained by someone who did the job.
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