I think broadly the set up is the same, however personnel have changed.
We still have Mark Thomas who is 'Head of Recruitment and Performance Analysis'. Our head scout has obviously left, however doesn't appear to have been replaced? I guess under that we have a network of scouts.
I would think that Thomas does the numbers stuff, highlighting possible targets in specific positions, the scouts go out and get references of personal traits etc before feeding back to KR.
The strange part is that KR is so actively involved (from what we see). Appleton spoke of meeting players for a coffee, seeling the club, vision etc, KR *appears* to be more involved in the finding of players.
In this article (
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/sport/...robinson-and-owner-sumrith-thanakarnjanasuth/) KR talks of a new role between himself and Tiger:
“This person will work on recruitment and a number of different things to bring everything together.
“The person I have in mind is very good at that and he’s someone that knows me and is not frightened to tell me when I’m wrong.
“I think that’s important, because he knows me he has that freedom to argue with me.”
From the first paragraph it sounds like he is suggesting a Director of Football type role, however the traits he later suggests appear to describe Derry (havent checked when Derry was bought in). This then raises...if KR was talking of DoF what has happened? If Derry, does that therefore mean he is more involved with the recruitment?
