Guest Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 So, every now and again, one or more of my players is/are nervous or even very nervous at half-time. But what can you do? Clearly, the instruction "Calm down" does NOT work, EVER. It is only intended for the cases where a player looks "aggressive" or is already on a yellow card. Asking a nervous player to "calm down" will confuse and demotivate him, which doesn't make sense but there you go. Is there anything one can reasonably do to help someone cope with nerves? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HUNT3R Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 Depends what he's nervous about, whether it's pressure or confidence. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
martplfc1 Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 If they're nervous, telling them to calm down isn't going to do anything as they're not wound up! Ive had positive reactions by telling them calmly to relax, play without pressure or whatever it says. Won't always work though as you might have a slender lead against a rival and your player has low attributes for dealing with such an occasion. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
suncrush Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 Hand them a stiff drink. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westy8chimp Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 ignore them [never seen a player in ME cowering in the net or hiding in the tunnel trembling with fear] - or individual team talk - passionate - ' i have faith in your ability...' [doesn't always have positive outcome.. but would you want just a hard and fast rule to always work, afterall players are all different]... maybe have to sub them or live with it if they respond badly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cougar2010 Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 5 minutes ago, xzar_monty said: So, every now and again, one or more of my players is/are nervous or even very nervous at half-time. But what can you do? Clearly, the instruction "Calm down" does NOT work, EVER. It is only intended for the cases where a player looks "aggressive" or is already on a yellow card. Asking a nervous player to "calm down" will confuse and demotivate him, which doesn't make sense but there you go. Is there anything one can reasonably do to help someone cope with nerves? I would certainly be confused if I was nervous and you said "Calm Down" tbh. Nervous isn't always a bad thing either as it shows they are invested in the match. It can easily turn to confidence if things go well but on the flipside they could make a mistake & panic. In terms of what to say it really depends on the other players & the match position. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HUNT3R Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 22 minutes ago, xzar_monty said: Asking a nervous player to "calm down" will confuse and demotivate him, which doesn't make sense but there you go. SI provided a very good (if not the best) feedback screen in the assistant manager team talk feedback. If you use it after such a talk, you won't be confused anymore. It'll tell you why it didn't help the player's mindset. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wazza Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 22 minutes ago, HUNT3R said: Depends what he's nervous about, whether it's pressure or confidence. How would you be able to tell this - a players personality normally just displays determined, balanced etc....in his information. At the beginning of a match the assistant can report that **** player is suffering from overconfidence - in which I use expect a performance teamtalk. However as the match is playing out I am currently having this with alot of my players, looking at the confidence in game screen - we are expected to win the league and are half way through the season in 3rd place and 3 points off top spot - I ambeginning to question the mentality of some of my players. During the matches alot of my key players get nervous, especially the strikers, I try and counteract with the no pressure team talk but this seems to demotivate them as they still don't score and the game ends in a draw. Are there any hard and fast rules on what type of teamtalks to do in certain situations and how to counteract specific situations in any blogs/forums? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HUNT3R Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 Just now, wazza said: How would you be able to tell this - a players personality normally just displays determined, balanced etc....in his information. At the beginning of a match the assistant can report that **** player is suffering from overconfidence - in which I use expect a performance teamtalk. However as the match is playing out I am currently having this with alot of my players, looking at the confidence in game screen - we are expected to win the league and are half way through the season in 3rd place and 3 points off top spot - I ambeginning to question the mentality of some of my players. During the matches alot of my key players get nervous, especially the strikers, I try and counteract with the no pressure team talk but this seems to demotivate them as they still don't score and the game ends in a draw. Are there any hard and fast rules on what type of teamtalks to do in certain situations and how to counteract specific situations in any blogs/forums? You're forgetting very important factors. There's a lot of context that gets missed by people looking for 'if x then y' answers. Get to know your team. Know who gets nervous in big games. Know who gets nervous when you pile on the pressure with team talks. Don't pile on the pressure when confidence is low. Look at the assistant manager's feedback page. Etc. If you're looking for set answers, you have the wrong mindset. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 @Cougar2010: Asking a nervous player to calm down should not be confusing to the player, or indeed anyone in real life. Nervousness is a kind of agitation, a state of being overexcited, and the instruction to "calm down" simply means that a player should try to return to a more normal state. The instruction to "calm down" applies both to an aggressive person and a nervous person. (In fact, in real life, when someone is having an anxiety attack, for instance, it is imperative to get them to calm down - although asking them to do so isn't always a good idea, since they don't know how.) @HUNT3R: Thanks for the tip concerning the assistant manager's feedback page. I had forgotten about that. I'd been away from the game for a few years, and as you well know, there are lots of screens in the game, lots of information available. So thanks! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wazza Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 1 hour ago, HUNT3R said: You're forgetting very important factors. There's a lot of context that gets missed by people looking for 'if x then y' answers. Get to know your team. Know who gets nervous in big games. Know who gets nervous when you pile on the pressure with team talks. Don't pile on the pressure when confidence is low. Look at the assistant manager's feedback page. Etc. If you're looking for set answers, you have the wrong mindset. I always look at the managers feedback page and adjust teamtalks to suit ie player x is looking cocky in the warm ups etc in which I will expect a performance from them. What it doesn't tell me is why during a game a player may become nervous - on which I will give him a no pressure talk on the in match team talks - however this does not seem to do anything as when I look 5 -10 minutes more in the match its still the same. I cannot see a way of finding out the information of why he has become nervous in that game, I have checked players coach reports etc and the coaches don't say anything about handling big matches on them. What I have also noticed is that it is not just weaker minded players it happens to - its also players with a determined personality I wasn't really trying to look for set answers but just a general concensious of what to counteract the problem as everything I try to eleviate the issue doesn't work. ie giving no pressure team talk, giving I have faith team talk and also encouraging them. How do you find out why they are getting nervous in the match when it doesn't say on the assistants feedback - I'm guessing part of it could be a striker who is on his own up front and the pressure is on him to score - or a defence who is under constant pressure - or a striker who has missed alot of chances. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 @wazza: Yeah. What you say in your last paragraph is pretty much what I've also been thinking about. It seems that sometimes you can't really tell what's going on. The easiest one to understand is when a youngster is nervous or very nervous. But when one of your attacking midfielders becomes nervous, I'm left wondering whether he's trying too much, whether he's been robbed of the ball too many times or what. (Well, someone could point out that in real life, people themselves don't always know what they're nervous about, and they would be right...) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eriktous Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 2 hours ago, HUNT3R said: SI provided a very good (if not the best) feedback screen in the assistant manager team talk feedback. If you use it after such a talk, you won't be confused anymore. It'll tell you why it didn't help the player's mindset. What confuses me about that screen is why SI have designed it in such a way that the final column, containing the most vital information, isn't visible when I'm playing on the lower resolution of my laptop (1366x768), and there is no way to customize that view, at least not to my knowledge. I should post about it in the bug forum, actually, now that you mention it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pompey1978 Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 As Harry Redknapp once said: "I was going to pull him off at half-time, but he got a piece of orange like everyone else." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrycarrie Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 I just replace them at half time if its a single player getting nervous. I find it happens more with less determined, or younger players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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