Lee Johnson has revealed he’s hired a SNIPER to help fire Hibs up the Premiership. The Easter Road gaffer has Rangers in his sights this afternoon and has big targets for the campaign despite a bumpy start.
Johnson has drafted in a raft of motivational speakers and he’s hoping the latest one hit the mark. He said: “We do a speaker series where guys come in. We’ve got a sniper coming in a couple of weeks, which will be good.
“All these little things, it’s like drawing on anybody and everybody to try and give these lads that little bit more resilience. I’ve killed a few people in the past but not by a sniper! Listen, I think it keeps it fresh. In the past we’ve had the Red Arrows and the SAS come in.
“We’ve had cricketer Marcus Trescothick. Anyone that we can get hold of really at a reasonable cost to try and inspire and keep it different. It’s a bit of a schooling. I enjoy it, I think the staff enjoy it, and the players end up enjoying it as well.
“We have to create this growth mindset and this environment which is consistent. In terms of the sniper, it’s definitely about control isn’t it? It’s about the slowing down the mind’s eye and concentration because this modern day young pup, let me tell you, is used to three second entertainment on Instagram and they move on.
“To hold concentration isn’t the easiest thing to do for these younger guys. How do you build resilience? It’s experiences isn’t it? We’ve already had that in three or four games at the start of the season and that’s going to come thick and fast.
“We need to keep working on it, trust it, trust the training.”
Johnson admitted it’s early days in his Easter Road revolution but he’s hoping the motivational speakers can speed up the process. He said: “How long will it take? That’s the million dollar question. It is very difficult to put an absolute timeline on that.
“You have all those micro, mini stories with every individual and then there is the team-building process, which becomes really important. We are doing everything we can to try to fast track that, whether that be video analysis, analysing the performance of the individuals as well as the team stuff which we want to constantly drip feed.
“There is philosophy-based stuff that we have already got in house and we are working on that every day in training, having those little conversations. But, it does take time, it really does.
“I want us to be able to have a team with a blank kit and everyone says ‘yeh, that’s a Hibs team’ because of a recognition of the way we play.
“If we get beat, we know why we’ve got beat. If we play well and win, we know why we’ve done it because there’s a philosophy and a consistency.”
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