In the modern football world, technology has had a positive impact when it comes to the area of scouting.
But to this today, the old-school method of attending games and watching players first-hand remains key.
But with the restrictions that have been brought in due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, how detrimental is it for scouts not to be able to attend matches?
London City Lionesses head coach Lisa Fallon, who has been part of Cork City and the Northern Ireland national team's backroom teams, joined RTÉ2fm Game On to share an insight.
"To be fair, there's really good technology in professional football. These are online scouting systems that basically have almost every professional game in the world," she explained, referencing Wyscout as an example.
"You can go online and you can watch games, watch players and these systems have been around for a long time.
"At times like this, they are really, really useful and particularly at Cork City when we had European games in the Europa League, sometimes we'd be playing on a Friday in the league and then you'd be playing the team from Europe on the following Thursday and you might only know 10 days before who you're playing against if you were lucky.
"You had very little time to scout them so those type of systems were really good to give you an indication and an opportunity to watch teams.
"The only thing is - and I often say this - when you watch a game on TV or in that type of video, unless it's from a really high level where you can see the whole pitch, it's a little bit like watching a game with an eye-patch on.
"Because you can see where the ball is but there is a whole lot going on around the pitch that you can't really see.
"So whilst [online scouting systems] are very useful and they can give you a good indication, nothing beats being able to go to a game and physically watch the team live and in the flesh."
For Fallon, the current challenge is preparing her London City team for the next FA Women's Championship season which is due to begin in September.
"It's really busy. We had our first Covid-19 test today, so hopefully all will be well and we get our results in 24 hours," she said.
"Then that sets us up to come back in to training next week. We have phased return to training, one to ones and then we move into small groups.
"Then we move into team training and please God, all being well, we'll be able to get back on the pitch and playing competitively in and around the first weekend in September I think is the aspirational date."
