What should I do? For a bit of background information, this is how it goes: Around 6 years ago, the team I play for currently was founded. It was originally set up as a Church team, for the kids who go to church to play in. However, one of my closest friends originally invited me to join. So I went along and slowly grew to fall in love with it. I've been tempted away with offers of trials and so on, but stuck to my guns. I first played when I was about 11 (I'm now 17) and we were pretty abysmal. We were the team that people took the mick out of, but we loved every minute of it. But slowly, we began to sign some of our other mates, who were decent players, and we improved as a team. The team was originally just about having fun, and it still is, but we improved, and ended up moving to a different league set up.. Which we got promoted from and went unbeaten all season, scoring more than 100 goals. Since then, we've been getting better and better. But recently, an ex player of ours said to this guy 'Why don't you go train?' to wind us all up as we didn't like him. But since we were a team that was about enjoying ourselves, our manager let him train. Now the new season has come around, he's looking to join. And may I stress, he is a really bad player. Our manager is letting him join, and I personally am gutted. Some of the other players find it funny and are having a laugh. None of us want him to join but our manager is okay with it. I felt we had been making progress as a team and now we're letting ourselves down slightly by allowing someone to join because we are a bit too nice. Also, generally, because this season is now 'roll-on, roll-off' subs, he will be playing a part. I think that's what makes it worse. Any help/suggestions?
What harm can he do? If he is that pathetic. Stick him up top and feed him the ball. Give home direction during the game and when training and what not. He will get better in time. I'm playing with guys that are levels below par, friends, but I just try to help them out and encourage their ball control and turning and passing.
We have a similar player who is bad but we don't mind cos he's part of the furniture now. But this guy isn't even a friend of ours. He's just a random guy from school who's a bit of an arse really. I've calmed down now though.
Lol, i know exactly how you feel. We had one guy, who sent his registration forms in before another player, who is quality, and the coach said "i think the league are just taking longer to process it" but the quality guy was playing next week haha and we never signed the other guy. Also, for the first half of the season we had another awful player, so we stuck him up top. You couldnt even force feed him the ball. so it was like playing with 10 men. I must say though he had great work ethic and never gave up, no matter how bd he was, and we never put him down, and hes gone from an awful player to an average player, which is great.
Usually an "awful" player is someone lacking ball skills. Since on average someone is only playing on the ball less than 5 minutes per 90 minute match, the lack of ball skills will only hamper his play for a small part of the match. The first place you look for improvement is in the "awful" player's off-the-ball play. With modest physical effort and modest mental effort, you can see relatively quick improvements in effectiveness in off-the-ball play. That is: stretching the defense out after a transistion to attack or closing down space after a transition to defense. You can get there with positive attitudes on the team's part. Negative attitudes will get in the way.
Same problem... This guy on my team is bad... Worse than me even (didn't think that was possible ) and he's benched half the game... Even though we have no subs