The changes at Truro – who were sharing a ground in Plymouth for much of the time after they left their Treyew Road home in January 2021 – are not just on the field.
Having gone fully professional they have had to employ more staff to cater for a side that had previously only trained a couple of times a week.
“Probably for the first time ever at the club we do have a chief scout who is able to go out and look at players,” Black added.
“We have some analysts that are coming in on internships, who when we find players and players that are put to us, can do a full analysis on them.
“We’ve got a great media team that is putting together presentations, so when we want to sit down with clubs and players we give ourselves a better chance of selling ourselves to them.
“If you just look at simple things, when you’re bringing players at this level and on those sort of wages, which are, even though it’s a low budget, is a significant increase in what we’ve done in the past, you need to be able to do medicals.
“Bar the odd one, Truro have probably never really done medicals before.
“So you have to get a system in place to fully assess the players and make sure that you can give them that commitment of the contract.
“Last year we had a part-time sports therapist, but we also have strength and conditioning and then they’ve been able to get some interns in as well to assist them with that.
“So you go from a team of one part-time to two full-time and then some assistance as well.
“It’s a big change and everything has to gel in and everybody has to manage it together.”
