Need help to improve your opposition scouting?
Getting feedback on reports is vital if you want to improve, but it can be hard to find.. I was
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Author: Stephen
Analysing a League 2 opposition report
I was going through some old notes under my desk when I came across a thick envelope. I opened it,
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Spotting patterns in football: An easy step-by-step process
After two weeks of trying to calculate the very best way to study football and improve myself as an opposition
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Whitstable Town were brilliant for 89 minutes. And then…
A season to remember for Whitstable Town FC, but a week to forget. But even in playoff defeat, Whitstable Town showed how and why they were the best team in the league for much of the year…
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Now you can read on substack
This blog has been going around four years now. I don’t post as often as I’d like, which is mostly
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How to be a better scout next season
It’s natural to think back on the season thinking of what went well and what I’d like to improve. I
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How to put together a player report
Trawling through some old player scouting files on my Obsidian account I found an old player report I write. I’ve
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The good and the bad of football scouting
Spend twenty minutes on football tactics X/Twitter and you begin to doubt what a forward pass is. In many ways
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5 things to look for in a team’s defensive set-up
It can be hard to know where to look when you’re trying to analyse a game. Especially when you’re at
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How to reach the first round of the FA Cup
It’s fair to say it’s been an unusual start to the season at Tonbridge Angels. First, we went unbeaten in
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