Steve Bone

No, I don't think that at all.

I don't know, because there is so much...

What there is now that there didn't used to be is the data.

Every player playing at a decent level has every minute of their game tracked.

So it is possible to find out how many yards they ran, how many passes they completed, and so on and so forth.

And then how many players is that being done for?

Thousands, because it's not just players here.

Even if it was just players in England that you had to cast your net to look at, that would be quite a task, wouldn't it?

But it's not just here, it's Scotland, Wales, Ireland, it's all the decent leagues in Europe.

It's Australia, in our case, as we know, we've had a good look there.

There must be American and Asian equivalents as well, where there are players that could be useful to you, could be valuable to you, that you need to keep tabs on.

I can't get my head around it.

I don't know where you start.

You can't possibly...

You know, how many staff would you need in a scouting department to have a proper extensive coverage of all eventualities?

You just couldn't do it, could you?

No.

So I suppose you'd have to sort of...

You have to spread yourselves as widely as you can with the resources you've got.

I think that department is quite well resourced from what I can tell.