One of the most important things is like João [Alves] can come down and give me
instant feedback quick maybe there's three or four common trends that jail's picked out
um using the b pro cameras and he can come down and we can review that in depth and
then go and deliver that back to the players at half time that's a great asset to have
my name is Ian Burchnall i'm the head coach at Notts County football club
i'm João Alves and i'm first team tactical analyst at Notts County Football Club
the importance of having an analyst in the in the coaching staff is is huge not only just to look
at the the games back but also reflect on the training also having somebody that sits in the
stand that's kind of understands what i want and what i want to look for every game every training
and then be the connection between that material and the players so when joe understands how
i see the game and how i would want my team to set up it makes it much easier for him to be able
to operate it's important to to know what he's looking at if i don't have that it's very hard
to actually show him what he wants the goal is to look at the game kind of through his eyes a little
bit that's why the connection is important and why it's important to know exactly what we're after
because then i can just go and look for it and take a bit of load off of of gaffer's plate and
deliver it to the players a bit we're always in touch we're always quite clear on what
what we're after and what's good behavior what's behavior that we want to improve
for me stop this is no brainer here here we just come out and all the spaces on this side
but we've played three four passes all on the same side before i went out to Norway
i visited around a few clubs and spoke to different managers and a couple of
the managers that were working in the premier league and one of the things that they said is
the the one of the biggest the most important roles is the relationship with the analysts
because they are the ones that are going to be able to give some of the most important feedback
to the players on a daily basis so you know that that role is hugely important within the group
if you can watch things as a team and as individual with
certain coaches and what things that you're working on it's a massive advantage i mean
João would just been speaking with him then he always sends me clips of certain strikers who
sort of similar or want that sort of movement and things and the gaffer has sent me videos
as well on the be pro certain strikers what he wants without seeing what you're doing you don't
know how you're going to progress you don't know what to progress in and with them being able to
analyze it with you and give it a detailed reaction of what you're analyzing i'm learning
stuff at 30 which i'm happy about if i'm going to stay ahead of youngsters coming
to the team ahead of everyone else i need to know that i've got these tools available to use
on a weekly basis we have big group meetings obviously with reflections of last game and
then opposition analysis for upcoming games so they're normal but on top of that we have small
group meetings so unit meetings defense midfield attack but then on a daily basis with myself and
jail the analysts will look at training we'll go back through the training sessions we'll maybe
click bits of that to be able to to send or show players the next day and also use it in one-to-one
meetings both myself and the other coaching staff on board will also be active in terms of clipping
certain players positions roles responsibilities just to try to break the game down and give as
much feedback as possible to the players so they're not coming in and the only coaching
they get is on the pitch it's a cycle so i do post match after a game so we go day to day so we'll go
before the session we'll get together we'll look at whatever happened in the game and what we want
to push to the players as a group then what we want to push to the players individually i'll
then go to the training grounds i'll have a look at what's being done i find it very helpful to
to know exactly what's being done in a in a training session because that blends in with
what we're trying to do as analysts i'll get the the recordings done then we'll come back
we'll review training whenever there's interesting tactical behaviors and then
i'll start then looking at opposition analysis and pushing out bits with individual players
and again it's a cycle it's a constant feedback and it just goes we've done this if we've done
well why was it that we've done it well so we try to give them that platform that base of
this is why it's good so then it becomes clear as a behavior what we want and then same with when
it's bad if it's bad why is it bad so if the game starts to stretch what's causing that to
stretch how can we correct it if the game's nice and compact and and we keep it as we want it then
what's the reasons for that and what's impacted their structure and what's given us success
i came into first team football about eight or nine years ago now
and the technology has really evolved since then Monday night football
graphics that were there a few years ago are starting to become much easier and much more
accessible at probably a lower cost so you can make the visual aids for the players so
much stronger if we keep playing same side and clip long i don't think it's to our advantage
and now look Vinny's dropped cal's a little high and then maybe we don't land on it well enough
in here we all analyzed again even years and years ago before this sort of technology the
old school recorder and fast forward and rewind was there everybody was looking into the game
to try and get a margin but i think it's become more accessible quicker with the feedback loops
you know with filming the games live at half time jail can come down and give me instant
feedback quick maybe there's three or four common trends that jail's picked out um using the b pro
cameras and he can come down and we can review that in depth and then go and deliver that back
to the players at half time i think that's a great asset to have we can have the same on the training
ground because we're filming it so i just think that it it massively is kind of sped up and give
more depth to the coaching process i second all that so in terms of technology for sure and then
the knowledge actually i think increased in the past what 10 years and there's a lot more
people and a lot more knowledge available and then it's improved players experience as well
because we're giving them a platform to this is what you do specifically to have a good game
and i think that clarity as well has improved he's that tight in the box it only takes that
that yeah and then he gone that guy nearly just scored do you know what i mean yeah definitely
years ago i went into clubs and they were needing three four five analysts and they were we probably
getting that kind of quality of work with less personnel now which means that you can go further
down the leagues with maybe less finances behind you but still get good quality analysis done
you want to have things that push your work so we want to have more things to work on so the
more advanced you get with the technology the more access to stuff you have but certainly it makes us
more efficient in terms of if you take an overall season and the ability to get all of your messages
across the more information you can get to the players in a short space of time means that you're
more efficient with that it allows us to give stronger clearer feedback to the players quicker
to make our overall process of developing the team much more efficient almost everybody spends a lot
of time looking at their smartphones so i guess to be able to have access to all the things that
you need and the information around an upcoming game at your fingertips on your smartphone is is
a huge benefit really so that it's so accessible for the players there's no excuse really for
for not being aware of opposition or your own strengths and weaknesses or your own
reflections on the last game so i think it gives that accessibility and it stops players
only being spoon-fed waiting for a big group video analysis or one-to-one they can take some of the
initiative on the analysis themselves and have opinions on it which is great when you can see
it and you can watch it over again it's a massive help for me anyway you could be sat at home just
on your sofa thinking oh i'll have a look at click on the beeper app straight away there you go you
can look at your individual clips you can watch the full game back or you can watch the defensive
clear set except these clips it's great i have two kids i have things to do it's not just as easy as
i'm gonna you know got a cup of tea in my hand there's three hours of spa i'll just whip up my
laptop sometimes i have to watch a bit here watch a bit there and the convenience so that's what the
convenience of that is so good by the end of my sunday i've watched what i needed to do it becomes
very clear when you've got pictures basically and if the players can see them you can you can be a
lot more certain that they understand exactly what you're trying to put across the be pro cameras
they're very important to us in the sense that they help us get the pictures have a nice platform
where you can just store stuff and share stuff with the players as well so it all just filters
into that one platform rather than me having it on different folders on my laptop external usb
drives i don't actually have to man the camera uh so they've installed the cameras there with
the training ground one's got decent vantage the stadium definitely really good vantage as
well so that's one of the struggles i used to have before be pro was to see the stuff that
i needed to see while operating the camera it became very clear that it's i was either to do
one or the other well i ended up analysing better than filming if i'm honest
you