I'll start off by acknowledging the criticisms of watching hyped up players on youtube, and the fact that for the most part many have seen most of (or even all of) a player's actual play on youtube in some cases. I also understand that YT can make anyone look good. But with that said, ScoutNation is still very interesting when you're looking at players who play in a certain league which you might not have TV access to and their videos are well organized, of an ok quality and it's exclusive to football. They also have a very simple but cool feature of highlighting the player to which the video pertains to at the very start of the play for the few lower quality clips. I have to say that although they don't have hundreds of videos they are the best way to go as far as researching an up and coming player on YT.

Never knew about this YouTube account till now. Don't like how they've mostly concentrated on goals/assists made by players as I think those videos should have more things like link-up play, movement, a missed chance here and there, passes that didn't end as assists and generally more stuff.

This is one great example of what I'm talking about:



Also more defenders please

But I really like the idea! If I could give ScoutNation a suggestion it would be: Instead of making two 4 minute videos make one 10 minute video where you can see more of a player and not only his goals and assists.

Well, you can't really rate them, can you? They just make videos of young players. It's not like they give an opinion on the player's ability and potential, then you could rate their opinionas reliable or not.

free_cat wrote:Well, you can't really rate them, can you? They just make videos of young players. It's not like they give an opinion on the player's ability and potential, then you could rate their opinionas reliable or not.

I guess I meant to ask "what do u think of their vids", which on this forum is usually asked as how highly you rate something, lol. I'm not really looking for a 1-10 point rating, just how you think that their videos stack up against the others which aren't as organized, or much less have their own channel. That's what I meant though.

I've only watched a couple of videos but I like that they locate the player with a circle. Not much to be honest.

free_cat wrote:I've only watched a couple of videos but I like that they locate the player with a circle. Not much to be honest.

Yeah, they're ok compared to any other highlight videos I've seen. I came across then when looking for footage of Bernard and it seems that they are also in the know about which up and comers people are looking for.

As an example, here it is guys: