Darren Mowbray

[tdmickey3]

2 minutes ago, Give it to Ron said:

I can’t be arsed to discuss anymore with you I can’t decide if your a troll, pedantic, ill or just lonely.

All of the above

[Matthew Le God]

22 minutes ago, tdmickey3 said:

Ahahahahaah rapidly at Dorking

No, rapidly from Dorking to Saints. Jumping up a lot of leagues.

[ApprenticeBillionaire]

7 hours ago, ErwinK1961 said:

“Anthony Sheldon has joined as a Video Scout, having previously been a Software Engineer at Barclays.”

😂😂😂

SportsRepublic are fucking clowns.

Optimism my arse.

They need to fuck off.

If we're outside the playoffs (we're going to be) next season, their needs to be a shitload of empty seats at every home game until they sell.

[Matthew Le God]

4 minutes ago, ApprenticeBillionaire said:

SportsRepublic are fucking clowns.

Optimism my arse.

They need to fuck off.

If we're outside the playoffs (we're going to be) next season, their needs to be a shitload of empty seats at every home game until they sell.

Video scouts coming from software engineering backgrounds is not uncommon. 

[ApprenticeBillionaire]

2 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

Video scouts coming from software engineering backgrounds is not uncommon. 

"Barclays" is all I needed to hear.

We're coming off the back of the worst season in my lifetime and that's part of their Masterplan is it?

They're treating saints like a fucking experiment and they need to piss off.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

47 minutes ago, Give it to Ron said:

I can’t be arsed to discuss anymore with you I can’t decide if your a troll, pedantic, ill or just lonely.

 

44 minutes ago, tdmickey3 said:

All of the above

Yesterday, it was @lambtiss and @miserableoldgit that were looking to be added to an ignore list. Last week there was a list of several others. Today, there could be more volunteers.

8 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

Video scouts coming from software engineering backgrounds is not uncommon. 

Do you know what the entry level (which you describe this as) salary is for a video scouts?

Entry level software engineer at his previous employer is over 40k (source: first result in search). You'd leverage experience to push that up to a more realistic starting grade of approx 45k.

Possibly, as discussed with prior video scouts hires, they may have other income streams to make up the deficit.

Speaking of which, would you be adding stats for RDF Tactics into FM?

 

[Matthew Le God]

7 minutes ago, ApprenticeBillionaire said:

"Barclays" is all I needed to hear.

We're coming off the back of the worst season in my lifetime and that's part of their Masterplan is it?

They're treating saints like a fucking experiment and they need to piss off.

So you aren't interested in him also working for a football club?

[Matthew Le God]

3 minutes ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

1) Do you know what the entry level (which you describe this as) salary is for a video scouts?

Entry level software engineer at his previous employer is over 40k (source: first result in search). You'd leverage experience to push that up to a more realistic starting grade of approx 45k.

2) Possibly, as discussed with prior video scouts hires, they may have other income streams to make up the deficit.

3) Speaking of which, would you be adding stats for RDF Tactics into FM?

 

1) What is your point?

2) These are full time roles.

3) He is already in the FM database.

[Maggie May]

7 hours ago, ErwinK1961 said:

“Anthony Sheldon has joined as a Video Scout, having previously been a Software Engineer at Barclays.”

😂😂😂

Laughing his way to the bank.

[ApprenticeBillionaire]

7 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

So you aren't interested in him also working for a football club?

Eh? Which club then?.. Who?

[Holmes_and_Watson]

1 minute ago, Matthew Le God said:

 

1) What is your point?

2) These are full time roles.

3) He is already in the FM database.

1) The way you term the role, it's some way off where the person had come from. So, I was asking a question.

2) Many people have multiple roles, providing income.

3) I wonder if he's peeked at his PA 🙂

[Turkish]

7 minutes ago, Maggie May said:

Laughing his way to the bank.

Wonder if he can secure us some decent loans?

[Turkish]

24 minutes ago, ApprenticeBillionaire said:

"Barclays" is all I needed to hear.

We're coming off the back of the worst season in my lifetime and that's part of their Masterplan is it?

They're treating saints like a fucking experiment and they need to piss off.

I take it you’re not banking on him being a success?

[Turkish]

32 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

Video scouts coming from software engineering backgrounds is not uncommon. 

Such as whom?

[tdmickey3]

55 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

No, rapidly from Dorking to Saints. Jumping up a lot of leagues.

Yep, way out of his league, too far too soon

More SR bollocks no doubt

[bpsaint]

58 minutes ago, ApprenticeBillionaire said:

"Barclays" is all I needed to hear.

We're coming off the back of the worst season in my lifetime and that's part of their Masterplan is it?

They're treating saints like a fucking experiment and they need to piss off.

Madness isn’t it. Whatever happened to just scouting talent from across the continent and getting them in for a trial to see if they’re actually decent.

27 years ago we sent a bloke to a country hardly anyone had heard of at the time to scout a player called Marian Pahars, and here we are in 2025 with some bloke that worked for a bank watching videos of a player to see what their xG is or some other shite analytical data. Honestly modern football is bollocks.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

20 minutes ago, tdmickey3 said:

Yep, way out of his league, too far too soon

More SR bollocks no doubt

He'll be company for the Dorking manager when SR hire Marc White.

"We need promotion, and hardly anyone has as many promotions, self or footballing, than Marc," said a SR spokesperson. "With such success, Marc has taken the title as best pound for pound manager in Europe, and that's always been a SR focus. With his banking and marketing background, Marc will also assist in transitioning Southampton FC into a player trading data hub, and E-Sports franchise."

[Galway saint]

We are shit at recruitment using traditional methods so can this be worse than the methodology that landed us with Edozie, Bazanu etc ? Very possibly as it's Saints but feels like we have much bigger problems 

[Turkish]

14 minutes ago, bpsaint said:

Madness isn’t it. Whatever happened to just scouting talent from across the continent and getting them in for a trial to see if they’re actually decent.

27 years ago we sent a bloke to a country hardly anyone had heard of at the time to scout a player called Marian Pahars, and here we are in 2025 with some bloke that worked for a bank watching videos of a player to see what their xG is or some other shite analytical data. Honestly modern football is bollocks.

And the funny thing about it is you’ve got geeks who have never played the game at any decent level telling everyone who will listen that people don’t understand how modern football is

[sockeye]

To be fair, software engineers and Saints players have a lot in common.

They both earn a lot of money for doing fuck all.

[Patrick Bateman]

6 hours ago, Matthew Le God said:

He isn’t fresh out of school. He is a 27 year old with a masters degree in physics at a good Uni. He has 3 years experience in top level football in an analyst role and another 3 years experience as a software engineer for a major football software company. Given his role at Saints, all very relevant.

Where are you looking?

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-sheldon/

He has a BSc from Leeds. He has 10 months (I suspect less) as a 'software engineer'. As an ex'Software Engineer' myself, I remember seeing so many people coming and going in tha industry. I left after 10 years. 

But regardless, good luck to him, hope he smashes it, for the club's sake. 

[Patrick Bateman]

1 hour ago, sockeye said:

To be fair, software engineers and Saints players have a lot in common.

They both earn a lot of money for doing fuck all.

Ridiculous comment.

[HKsaint]

Should hire someone who plays football manager everyday.