Just interested to hear your take on motivating players to play to their best.
My only experience is working with kids and school teams, and getting them motivated is rarely a problem, they are all desperate to get on the pitch! And they normally give their all.
The team I've got at the moment is probably the best of the bunch, some little erberts in there, but when they put on the school shirt they become everything you could ask of a bunch of kids.If somehow their commitment and desire could be transferred to our current Charlton lot, you'd want to follow them to the end of the earth.
Pards clearly made an initial impact and quite a few of the players rallied. But 4 games on, and we seem to be back where we started. Anything to do with Bent's injury/ possible sale in terms of morale?
I still don't know whether it is a case that we are simply not good enough, it seems to me more that our players don't need to perform. They are all wealthy before they have done anything these days.
How do you motivate someone consistently who has it all whether win or lose?
It is beginning to look as though some of our players have just not got the personal desire to be the best, whoever is in charge.
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Roy Keane mentioned in a recent interview that when one of the first things that a player asks when he's looking to sign him is "What's the financial package" he begins to think "do I really want this player?"
Curbs took a lot of stick for not playing people who he'd, allegedly, fallen out with. Maybe this was one of the things that kept the team performing to a reasonable, well at least adequate, standard. If Pards begins to do the same thing, dropping players who don't perform or want to play for him, he'll get the same kind of criticism that Curbs got when he dropped Euell and Konchesky.
At the end of the day (groan) Pards will be the one who must motivate the team. I hope the Board and terraces will support his actions, whatever they may be.
Find it all pretty baffling to be honest, if you are a professional footballer being paid a load of money doing something you presumably love, why wouldn't you play your heart and soul out every game?
In years to come as a player isn't it the thing you look back on, how good must it be for old players like Killer,Wenty, Kins Clive etc to come back to a hero's welcome at the Valley.
Yeah the money these days must be great, but to become a legend at your club must be the best indicator if you meant anything and made your mark in the game.
Just don't think some players see it like that any more.
Talk about out of the frying pan, into the fire!
http://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/07/01/07/SOCCER_Forest.html&TEAMHD=soccer
I dunno.
If they just get out there and give it their all, most fans will give them their full support win or lose.
We just don't want to see Ben Dover and Roger Mee out there.
COME ON U REDS