How to motivate players

I think part of the problem for Neil Lennon is how to motivate players who do not know the club and are financially very comfortable win, lose or draw.
I can feel the passion of the supporters on this web site and at the games, the anger after a poor result, the embarrassment at having to go to work and see the grins on the faces of their blue nosed colleagues. This you would think would build up a fire and a determination to succeed. Most of the payers don’t seem to have this.
WHY!!!!!

 

Low confidence? No faith in the manager? Secretly do not want to be here? Just the lazy type of player who cannot be motivated?

These are the answers Lennon needs to find soon. But then if we all knew the secrets to man-management we would be jockying with Fergie, Mourinho and Guardiola for European Cups every season!

Perhaps a Sports Psychologists is the answer to add to the backroom staff?

 

I think one of the issues is that the majority of the backroom staff are not all that experienced. Even if Lennon is to stay he needs better coaches and assistant manager. I think it's all a bit to "pally" at celtic park at the moment and as always when your mate trys to tell you to do something your often reluctant to do so.

Solution would be whole new management staff.

 

I personally think that if you don't win you don't get paid . Maybe that would help to motivate some of the money grabbers.

 

To be fair they get paid a * tonne of bonus's like appearance, goal, assistant, mom and such. That should be enough to motivate.

Sometimes not paying someone makes them perform worse. Proper incentives like they have should be enough

 

How about not selectively criticising them in post-match interviews? How many players have missed penalties under Lennon's tenure? Loads. At least 6. How many have been publically slated? One. Just the one he doesn't like. How does that sort of bullying affect motivation? It saps it.

 

One of the main traits of a good manager is the ability to motivate players. Playing for a great club like Celtic should even need to come into the equation. Players can be motivated to play for teams like Motherwell and ICT as we have seen. These same players proved last season that they are good enough and can be motivated. Something has gone wrong and if it is the managers fault then he must fix it or leave.

 

The players that put in 100% every time have it built in, take Stokes or Ledley for example. Although the management staff do have the responsibility of lifting players after a defeat, although I can't imagine anyone better than Neil Lennon for that - he's so passionate.

The players are at fault for not being motivated.

 

it just stinks at cp right now where as across the road all the negativity off the park has been turned in to a positivity on the park,i feel all the stories coming out of cp must have some truth in them and its been projected on to the park its up to the board to act now as i feel lenny has ran his corse with the team he cant seem to get anymore out of them

 

Maybe Lennon needs to take a step back and have a look at himself? After every disappointing result he's threatening to re-shuffle, Name and Shame and so on... Thats never going to reach the ears of every Celtic player and motivate... Quite the opposite id expect

Remind our players that the other Glasgow team who are supposed to be weakened financially, In quality and numbers are cantering towards their 4th SPL title in a row.... Without so much as a feeble fight from us..

 

The naming and shaming and public criticism of players doesn't help. If your manager was criticising your work to the media, would you try to improve, or just develop a "* it" attitude/

 

Spot On!

 

that picture is enough to motavate them, stick this in the changing room of every game they go out to play

 

Is it really, though? Most of our non-British/Irish players haven't really gotten to feel like what it's like to be one of us. To them, we're another club.

How about arranging for some legends to go in and talk to the players about what it's like to be a Celtic player. Let them read Jock Stein or Tommy Burns interviews, etc.

 

Most of them where here last year thou to remember what it felt like to lose to them *. As for the the lengends coming in, that would be a good idea.

 

i disagree mate , i would do everything in my power to improve and shove it up his *. the people or players who say " * it" dont have what it takes to succeed imo. i dont back slagging players in the media but part of being a good manager or foreman in work etc... is when to stroke and when to choke your players. lennys tried the good gaffer approach , backing his players when they played like *. now hes running out of options and hes just searching for an answer. these * play for GLASGOW CELTIC , they shouldnt have to be motivated by their manager,especially when that other lot are starting to run away with the league.

 

i think the position is now, as like it was with Paul Le Gwen
every single team has all the motivation to out run and out play us, as the players in a cynical way will get a kick out of this and are able to put there self in the shop window at the same time.

 

We don't have a settled captain right now either.

In the absence of Brown one minute it's Kayal who takes over the next it's Mulgrew and the next it's Mark Wilson.

A captain also has the job to motivate the rest of the team actually on the pitch and chopping and changing them too often is creating no real leadership on the park.

While the stand ins have done an ok job I think there should just be one settled captain until Brown is back.

 

They shouldn't * need more motivation!
Our travelling support should be enough!