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Scot lands dream scouting job at Rovers
12:16pm Friday 28th March 2008
ROVERS' new scouting and recruiting co-ordinator Kevin Cruickshank has admitted his appointment won't properly sink in until he walks through the doors at Brockhall on Monday morning.
The 32-year-old. from Elgin in the north of Scotland, is arriving in East Lancashire to take on the brand new role - liaising with manager Mark Hughes on a daily basis, profiling the club's major transfer targets and co-ordinating the movements of their 60 scouts across the globe - after a career with clubs in the Scottish Football League.
Cruickshank, who beat off 100 applicants and mastered two successful interviews at Rovers, previously worked with Elgin City for four years and Montrose for two, with his duties as diverse as writing the club programme and mastering the accounts.
And he is hoping his experience and hands-on approach in the lower leagues will stand him in good stead at Rovers.
He said: "I was always pretty hopeless as a footballer so I think the next best thing was to try to work for a football team.
"I've worked at a lower level so I've got a good grasp of what goes on.
"I could be sweeping the stands while ordering the pies, and then I would go and do the players' wages and write the match programme.
"It's a brand new position that's just been created and it's an opportunity for me to get in there and stamp my authority on it.
The chance to work on such a big project at such a big club is something that really excites me."
His first task will be to arrange Blackburn's scouting itinerary for this summer's European Championships in Switzerland and Austria, arranging flights, accommodation and match tickets for the duration of the tournament.
Cruickshank added: "When I first got the call that I got the job, I had to sit down.
"It caught me completely out of the blue."
"I asked her if she was serious. I think I asked her three times.
"To be honest, it's not sunk in and I don't think it will until I start on Monday."
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Tom Thumb, Standish says...
12:53pm Fri 28 Mar 08
TC, Blackburn says...
12:57pm Fri 28 Mar 08
Baden Powell, London says...
12:59pm Fri 28 Mar 08
Mark Hughes, says...
1:30pm Fri 28 Mar 08
Baden Powell wrote:Right here's ten bob, go to europe and bring back someone over thirty that no one has ever heard of, or shall we try something different.
Dib Dib Dob, Akela he'll do his best ...
ossy rover, ossy says...
1:38pm Fri 28 Mar 08
Mark Hughes wrote:two over 30's who have been fantastic for us Tugay and Brad.
Baden Powell wrote: Dib Dib Dob, Akela he\'ll do his best ...Right here\'s ten bob, go to europe and bring back someone over thirty that no one has ever heard of, or shall we try something different.
nuff said
KEEP THE FAITH
Trev, manchester says...
2:46pm Fri 28 Mar 08
Tom Thumb wrote:i agree, hardly impressive!! sounds like a cushty job tho, good luck fella.
Well at least he\'ll be used to attracting top talent having worked at the Scottish giants that are Elgin and Montrose.
Dasher Shane, Blackburn says...
2:58pm Fri 28 Mar 08
I would love to see this guy's CV!!....maybe there is an Elgin and Montrose in Serie A........emmmmm.....
...then again maybe not.
I would have liked to have seen the calabre of the other applicants!!!!!!
Never the less, good luck Kevin, you must ne still pinching yourself!
Woody Riversider, Blackburn says...
3:14pm Fri 28 Mar 08
Mark Hughes wrote:The modern day footballer is a lot fitter & mentally prepared than ever before & 31(depending which position) is a good age to be...Hughes is no fool & I know about SPORTS SCIENCE(I studied it 3 years) with all of it's benefits & believe me Vogel as an example will have had the most vigorous fitness tests to acertain just if he was up to the demands...
Baden Powell wrote: Dib Dib Dob, Akela he'll do his best ...Right here's ten bob, go to europe and bring back someone over thirty that no one has ever heard of, or shall we try something different.
MH uses SPORTS SCIENCE religiously.
So a 30+ will bring many quality's to this team & had Q.Fortune been up to scratch HE would have been signed(unless of course the coin wasn't enough!!?)
So for ten bob bob I would say MH as done pretty much of a decent job thus far !!
Arte et Labore (arn't we just glad we have a manager who embraces that motto to the benefit of this great & beloved club of ours)
HAIL MARK HUGHES
Ully, Blackburn says...
4:40pm Fri 28 Mar 08
Derek Conway, Westminster says...
4:47pm Fri 28 Mar 08
That what I like about Father Son nepotism.Will fit in perfectly at Williamswood.
Bring back the Tram Line, Ossy says...
5:17pm Fri 28 Mar 08
Ully wrote:Oh look a Blimping Dingle - "All Wave"
whatever happend to the previous what your calling it 'scouting and
re-cruiting co-ordinator' was the previous buys down to him/her, if so
should be given a medal with what bargins we got.....this guy beat a
100 applicants!!! presume that was the job centre making benefit
dossers apply for any job thats going, don't know who this guy is but
any future buys, and we know ur name now!!
Ully, Blackburn says...
5:52pm Fri 28 Mar 08
PS more of a Rovers fan than you are gimppy, don't get upset with me cause they bin your application!!!
Stephen, Blackburn says...
7:24pm Fri 28 Mar 08
DB,Chicoandalltheoth
erarseholes, says...
8:06pm Fri 28 Mar 08
I am applying for the position of scout with your football club.
I am currently scout with Montrose football club and was previously employed by Elgin City. Both of these clubs will be more than willing to provide a reference.
I have experience at organising jambouries and know all the words to Ging Gang Gully.
I have my badges for lighting a fire in the rain and making a shower from a piece of string and a bucket with holes in it.
There is nothing I like more than sitting around the camp fire singing "Its no nay never, no nay never no more, will we play etc.etc.
I do hope you will take my application seriously.
Regards,
K Cruickshank
Dear Sir,
Thanks for your letter. You have got the job.
Regards
J Williams
Dark Side of the Moon, Accrington says...
7:37am Sat 29 Mar 08
Ully wrote:"Got to keep the Looneys on the Path"
Oh look an Alias from the Bum Chums - "All Wave" cause wen i put that
in, it's so funny and you all wave to your computer don't you, hahaha,
your all wonderfull, love from oswaldtwistle mills!!
PS more of a Rovers fan than you are gimppy, don't get upset with me
cause they bin your application!!!
Mr Happy, says...
7:42am Sat 29 Mar 08
This is unbelievable!
Cruikshanks? is that a real name?
Iv seen this guy on Taggart!
Rovers fans where laughing at Newcastle with thier appointments!
This guy takes the biscuit.
Welcome to Williamsworld the home of the football inheritage.
dazzle, blackburn says...
12:34pm Sat 29 Mar 08
the guy is not a scout he has been brought in to help co-ordinate scouts ,book tickets for them and then profiling targets.
no where does it say he is a scout!
Ully, Blackburn says...
12:59pm Sat 29 Mar 08
dazzle, blackburn says...
2:39pm Sat 29 Mar 08
Ully wrote:you obviously cannot read .Are you a dingle?
ermmm, how about his job title, dumpass!!!
It says scouting and recruitment co-ordinator.
try reading a dictionary dumbass
Ully, Blackburn says...
3:28pm Sun 30 Mar 08
Chico, Still chasing that blimp! says...
8:32pm Sun 30 Mar 08
DB,Chicoandalltheotherarseholes wrote:Ooh look, a little dingle, all wave!
Dear Sirs, I am applying for the position of scout with your football club. I am currently scout with Montrose football club and was previously employed by Elgin City. Both of these clubs will be more than willing to provide a reference. I have experience at organising jambouries and know all the words to Ging Gang Gully. I have my badges for lighting a fire in the rain and making a shower from a piece of string and a bucket with holes in it. There is nothing I like more than sitting around the camp fire singing "Its no nay never, no nay never no more, will we play etc.etc. I do hope you will take my application seriously. Regards, K Cruickshank Dear Sir, Thanks for your letter. You have got the job. Regards J Williams
Careful, they get upset easily and start getting obsessed!
Chico x
James, Elgin says...
9:00pm Sun 30 Mar 08
dazzle, blackburn says...
10:29am Tue 1 Apr 08
Ully wrote:listen you silly little boy.u must be either a child or a dingle if u cannot understand that the operative word in the job title is co-ordinator.
...what part of SCOUTing do you not understand bean-bag breath,,,and how on earth can i read a dictionary when you so obviously state I cannot read,,,der!! - did you apply for that job then, you might of got it dazzle brush!!!
now please don't waste anymore of my time with your pathetic little rantings .go and run along and play with your lump of coal or ur sister if your a dingle
Ully, Blackburn says...
11:02am Tue 1 Apr 08
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Tom Thumb, Standish says...
12:51pm Fri 28 Mar 08