Hull City: Stan Ternant's 'experience' key to Steve Bruce
HULL City manager Steve Bruce says he is delighted to have the experienced Stan Ternent leading his scouting team.
Bruce has appointed Ternent, who managed the Tigers himself more than two decades ago, to lead his team of talent spotters at the KC.
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Stan Ternant
The pair have a long friendship formed in football, and Ternent has helped Bruce with scouting at Wigan and Sunderland in recent years.
Bruce identified a need for an experienced head in his scouting team when taking on the job in the summer, and with 66-year-old Ternent now in place, he feels he has the perfect man for the job.
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"Stan has been in this game a long, long time, and the one thing you can't have too much of in football is experience," Bruce told the Mail.
"Stan has been there and done it as a manager, and whilst at his age he doesn't want to be managing any more, he is still passionate about the game. We go back a long way and he had been doing some scouting for me at Sunderland.
"I was looking to bring some experience to the scouting network in place here, and Stan knows football, and he knows Hull City having managed here before."
Bruce's offer was quickly snapped up by Ternent, who said he was "too active" to cope with full retirement from the game.
His role as chief scout will see Ternent spend a couple of days at City during the week, but for the majority of the time, Bruce will expect him to be talent spotting players the old-fashioned way, travelling to games and filing reports on matches and players.
"In football, you like to have people around you with experience, and whose judgement you trust, and I have that with Stan," Bruce said.
"The scouting network is a big part of football clubs and recruitment now and a chief scout has a big role to play in identifying the right players who can improve the club.
"He will be at the club a couple of days a week, but the majority of the time will be spent on the road watching football, looking for players with potential."
Comments
by piddsta
Thursday, September 13 2012, 7:20PM
“Off topic but how about a rousing chorus of justice for the 96 on Saturday.”
by adolfo
Thursday, September 13 2012, 10:41AM
“How unfortunate, Ternant has already shown his lack of judgement with many clubs not just Hull City, I hope this works, as up to now SB does appear to be making informed decisions, I sincerly this one does not backfire on him”
by valencian
Wednesday, September 12 2012, 12:22PM
“N1shy you are right he was not our manager in the 70´s it was 89 to 91 but you are wrong about other things, I understand fully the position unlike you. I also know the difference between the role of a manager and the role of a scout they are completely different but you are basing your viwes on his ability to be a scout based on his work as a manager over 20 years ago. We are employing him to scout for players or watch opposition a completely different job. A scout remains in the background compiling reports for the manager they don´t publish this work. We don´t see his work so how are we qualified to comment on it? I fail to see any reason in what you write not to employ him. The manager has seen his work previously and obviously rates his contribution or he would not be here now and personally I don´t care what he thinks of the people of Hull the only views of his that matter are his views on players opposition etc.”
by TonyM
Wednesday, September 12 2012, 12:07PM
“None of this matters. That was then, this is now. Lot's of people's views of Hull have changed over the years. The fact is that SB seems to have very few bad decisions so far, so let's just let him get on with what he appears to do best.”
by n1shy2012
Wednesday, September 12 2012, 11:47AM
“Valencian I think it's you who has a lack of understanding, Ternent was with us in the 90's not the seventies and also his signins then were atrocious as was his management. Plenty of reason for him not to be employed by our club whether Bruce is his friend and rates him or not.”
by jimmy_melton
Wednesday, September 12 2012, 8:51AM
“Is the 'experience' headline in inverted commas for comedy reasons????”
by MikeMadrid
Wednesday, September 12 2012, 8:40AM
“Calm down boys. Only a bit of fun. I'm sure Alex is fine, and FYI the mother in law is not washing the shirts. Also think Steve Bruce is great so far. Hope he has got the Tenant decision right. Time will tell. However I think all in Hull or Madrid should raise an eyebrow regarding this character if he is as anti Hull as they say he is!”
by GarethC2010
Wednesday, September 12 2012, 7:19AM
“@tigercol. You are spot on about Alex Bruce. He is a very good defender and is in the team on merit alone.
As you say it is always the City fans who least attend who pass comment.
Have you seen Alex Bruce play this season Mike,Madrid ?”
by Tigercol
Wednesday, September 12 2012, 7:04AM
“MikeMadrid, have you been to a game this season, Alex Bruce is a great defender, he's not in the team because he's the managers son, he is in it because he's good enough. Stan may not have been the greatest manager in the clubs history but he would have had his scouting set up, it could be them to blame for the poor signings. He is probably a very good scout. As for him saying he doesn't like Hull, he's not going to do anything to jeopardise his job. Give him and Steve Bruce a chance. The only people to blame for Hull not been a very successful club are the people with a negative attitude. We get a good manager and they drive him away, be careful what you say or you will do the same with Bruce.”
by Salwa_Tiger
Wednesday, September 12 2012, 5:41AM
“Some people just don't understand, it's not just about the football or what happened in the 70s, it's also about how he feels about the people of Hull and Hull itself, his autobiography says it all.
Try reading it
UTT”