Lee Dunn — Video Analyst

Michael Kenrick , 16 January, 21comments | Jump to most recent

Everton are appointing a new video analyst — Lee Dunn, who has been performing this function at Torquay United.

Lee Dunn will leave Plainmoor next month after landing a job with Premier League giants Everton. Lee has been part of Martin Ling's coaching team at Torquay since the manager arrived at TQ1 in the summer of 2011 and it is a measure of his calibre that a club like Everton are seeking his services.

“We are very disappointed to be losing someone like Lee but this is a wonderful opportunity for him at a top-flight club,” Martin Ling told the Torquay club website.

“Lee has worked extremely hard during his time at the club and shown himself to be a dedicated professional. I would like to thank him for his contribution to our coaching department and wish him every success at Goodison Park.”

The video analyst works closely with manager and assistant manager in producing specific footage for the team to digest on opponents, as well as splicing together video clips for the players to assess their own performance.

Quotes or other material sourced from Torquay United

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Peter Thistle
1 Posted 16/01/2013 at 18:31:25

Sounds a pretty easy job to be honest, sure most of us could do it.

Kevin Day
2 Posted 16/01/2013 at 18:41:29

I'm sure it's not as easy as it sounds Peter, he will have to trawl through hours of footage looking for chinks in a teams armour collectively and on an individual basis, get it wrong and it can cost a team valuable points.

Brian Murray
5 Posted 16/01/2013 at 23:09:47

I wonder how much he's costing.

Harold Matthews
7 Posted 17/01/2013 at 07:46:29

Lee Dunn.......Sounds scottish.

Long hours and tedious work. Did our own guy retire or was he kicked out?

Harold Matthews
8 Posted 17/01/2013 at 07:46:29

Lee Dunn.......Sounds scottish.

Long hours and tedious work. Did our own guy retire or was he kicked out.?

Sam Hoare
9 Posted 17/01/2013 at 08:13:07

First signing of this transfer window?! Ha.

James Morgan
10 Posted 17/01/2013 at 08:51:58

But who's the new tea lady???

Kev Johnson
11 Posted 17/01/2013 at 08:57:46

That's a bit sexist, James. It's a tea man, actually. His name is Mr Round.

At least, I think he's the tea man. I don't know what else he does.

Steavey Buckley
12 Posted 17/01/2013 at 09:57:19

Video profiling is used extensively in many sports to make participants aware of their weaknesses and strengths. It could be very useful to Osman, when in front of goal, to put the ball towards the goal not either side of it. Which he has habit of doing this season.

Nick Entwistle
13 Posted 17/01/2013 at 10:23:47

Mr Round! Brilliant.

Would this have much to do with sabermetrics, the subject of uber good sports film Moneyball?

Joe Clitherow
14 Posted 17/01/2013 at 11:04:55

Peter 209

On the basis, that many of the posters on here clearly think they could do Moyes's job much better than him anyway (usually after the game has played out), doing the video analyst's job shouldn't be too much of a stretch at all.

Eugene Ruane
15 Posted 17/01/2013 at 11:32:59

'Lee Dunn - Video Analyst" - has a nice ring to it.

Could almost be a TV series.

Like 'Dr Quinn - Medicine Woman'.

Or 'Quincy - M.E".

He could have a footballing case to solve each week.

- SCREEN RIPPLE -

Open on (angry looking) Moyes, sitting in office.

Moyes: "Tut - 17th draw this season and we're still nae closer tae findin' oot the reason"

The door bursts open, a man in a white lab coat stands holding a video tape.

Moyes: "Whit is it Dunn?"

Lee Dunn: "I think you should take a look at this sir"

Dunn inserts a video showing a compilation of Phil Neville's performances.

We see him hitting balls into spaces occupied by nobody, we see him pointing, fouling, running into goalposts, scoring own-goals, being screamed at by Coleman and generally getting in the fucking way.

We see a close-up of Moyes eyes narrowing.

The tape stops.

Dunn: "Well....do you see it sir?"

Moyes: "Dae a see WHIT exactly?"

Dunn: "Well sir, he's.........really shite!"

Moyes spits tea out.

Freeze frame.

End titles and music (Z-Cars played on a thwacky-thwacky 70s porn guitar).

Tony J Williams
16 Posted 17/01/2013 at 12:04:19

I can do that.....gizzza job!

Kev Johnson
17 Posted 17/01/2013 at 12:06:28

Ha-ha! Eugene Ruane: scriptwriter. That has a ring to it, too! More, please, Eugene...

Joe Clitherow
18 Posted 17/01/2013 at 12:13:12

Eugene

Using a "video tape" has a comforting olde worlde 80's feel to it as well...

Eugene Ruane
19 Posted 17/01/2013 at 14:38:00

Agree Joe (331), not sure why he isn't referred to as "Lee Dunn - DVD analyst' or 'Lee Dunn - mpeg analyst' or something more up to date.

Maybe it's to reflect 'If you know your history" - ie: a 75lb Ferguson home video recorder (one of those coal-powered video recorders Granada used to rent out in 1981 - the ones that needed three big fellers' weight on the 'play' button just to make the fucking thing work).

Nick Entwistle
20 Posted 17/01/2013 at 14:48:42

Good script Eugene, but these analyst types need their own 'thing'. You've got the goth kooky girl in NCIS, the English boffin type in CSI, or in Quincy - M.E. being Asian is enough. Yes Lee Dunn is coming up from Devon, but large brow and knuckle scraping doesn't play well with the market.

Phil Walling
21 Posted 17/01/2013 at 15:30:36

Anything that speeds up Davy and `Notes`Rouse`s instructions to potential subs can only be a good thing although one of our ex-players told me nobody understands them,anyway!

Chris Leyland
22 Posted 17/01/2013 at 16:04:25

Eugene - I'phoned the club to ask what technology Lee Dunn is using. I've just had the carrier pigeon back from them and it is a betamax system. Bill has invested heavily in betamax, using the £24million of other operating costs, as he is convinced that it will be the winner in the war against VHS

Kev Johnson
24 Posted 18/01/2013 at 11:14:46

Are Southampton any good in the snow? That's what I want to know.

We need a Weather Analyst, looking at our opponents performance in different weather conditions. (I reckon it varies quite a bit.)

I just hope the lads have been training with an orange ball...

Nick Entwistle
25 Posted 18/01/2013 at 11:20:44

Do they still have the orange ball? Thought that stopped once we got the silly yellow one.

Kev Johnson
26 Posted 18/01/2013 at 11:39:34

Of course they do, Nick! Check out this link from the BBC...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/21078417

There must be a chance of the game being postponed. Southampton is pretty badly hit, I think. Light falls here in Kent. How's the snow in The Pool of Life?

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