Steve Bone

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.

It's not just Richard, is it?

He's got his team below him.

But yeah, as you say, there's too much out there.

And if you're not careful, you end up with a, you know, you could spend a week studying the stuff from that website that you've discovered.

And you could come up with a list of 150 potential good signings.

Yeah.

But that's not a lot of good to anybody, is it?

Because if you've only got a week to decide who you're going to sign, how do you look at all 150 and make a judgment?