Sunday, September 20, 2009

BAM Got Tough

BAM has got tough act against those who quit national team. Tan Chun Seang is the unfortunate one to be punished under this. Poor Tan that he now needs to find another way of making a living. But my real question here is why BAM get into such act against Tan Chun Seang, but not other before? Why Chun Seang has to be the scapegoat for this unfair ruling of BAM?

I think BAM has got it all wrong from the beginning. They don't know what they are doing, or what they should do to improve the national team. When Li Mao left BAM as coach, Lee Chong Wei quitted national team claiming BAM doesn't have the quality to help achieve his aims.

My ass! It's all loads of bullshit, and Lee Chong Wei should be punished for his action. It's an insult to BAM, and he thinks a player can be bigger than the organisation. That's why BAM is getting out of control now that a lot of predecessor cases. Now they are punishing aimlessly on someone innocent to try to make things right, but unfortunately, it's too late too little they could do!

Another issue is BAM is too afraid of "Good Players". Lee Chong Wei is the only top single player, and if Lee doesn't play for Malaysia, we would be death and buried before anything started. That's why BAM could close one eye on Lee Chong Wei, Lee Tsuen Seng, but not Tan Chun Seang simply because Chun Seang is still way far below world class player category! Is this fair?

The above reason is also why Malaysia will never ever win in a major tournament because top class player can overrule coach, management, and even have the will to do as they like! The mentality is all wrong from the very beginning, and that's the main reason after so many world champion coaches arrived and left, Malaysia still without a Badminton World Champion!

Same Old Datuk Lee

As expected, Lee Chong Wei lost again to Lin Dan at the Chinese Master. So I am now awaits for his excuses for the lost. What do you think it will be?

Probably he will says too many tournaments he's participated in the last few months and now he's feeling the fatigue. Probably he's gonna say it's game played at China, which Lin Dan has the "home" advantage. Maybe he will say his niggling knee is affecting his game. Maybe the split with Wong Mew Choo has affect his preparation for this tournement. Maybe it's the crowd that affect his game there. Maybe the stadium doesn't suits for the tournament etc......

We've heard too many of excuses given by Datuk Lee and his clown master, Misbun Sidek. These two just couldn't deliver what's expected of them, and it's time for them to behave like a man to admit it's the best they could and Lin Dan is a class above them. That's all! Simple!

Why is Lee CW finding all those excuses for all his loses? A lost is a lost, and you only learn from the mistake or failure. You can't always telling others you are world no.1 and demand respect from others with nothing achieve. I would rather he ranked 100th in the world, but wins an Olympic gold medal or world championship. In Badminton world, ranking doesn't mean a thing because it's not worth what it's worth for! One can be no. 1 by participating all competition without winning, yet the real no. 1 will win all important tournament yet not rank no. 1.

Which one you prefer?

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Respect for World No 1

Today's newspaper reads that Misbun Sidek is furious at criticisms thrown at him and his understudy, Lee Chong Wei. He is very unhappy of critics aimed at Lee Chong Wei after his flop performance in Hyderabad.

But common Misbun Sidek! How many times Lee Chong Wei has flopped at the big stage of tournament? How many times you want us to believe that Lee Chong Wei is lacking of luck during tournaments? How can you explain that why Lee Chong Wei always flop at big tourney?

I think there are many of us is fed-up with you Datuk Misbun Sidek, and your bloody Datuk Lee Chong Wei performance. There's always excuses of your failure, and you are demanding for respect of Lee Chong Wei as World No 1? How can Lee Chong Wei gain our respect when he achieved the position by playing virtually all the small potato tournaments?

If you only participate in 4 to 5 really important tournaments per year, wins few of them, and you performed in the really important tournaments, yet you are not no. 1, I think there wouldn't many would blame you for not being No 1. Just look at Lin Dan and Sony Dwi Koncoro

These 2 players are the best at the moment, regardless of their ranking. They can easily out perform Lee Chong Wei at ease simply because they have the urge to compete. Our own Datuk Lee is satisfying with his own achievement up-to-date, and he doesn't really care for World Champion so long he is the WORLD NO 1! On the other hand, Misbun's ability is to bring Chong Wei to where he is now, and there's nothing he could do to help Chong Wei go further!

So can we really hope for a brand new World Champion from the current crop? NO WAY in a million years.

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Who Should Responsible

BAM has ordered coaches to give full reports for their recent failure to deliver at Hyderabad World Badminton Championship! So who should take full responsible for this failure? Is the player not up to standard? Is the coaches not good enough?

For me all the failure started within BAM itself. They first allow all the players too much power over the rules. Secondly the incentives given to all the players are way too good for them to feel the pressure of maintaining their standard. Thirdly they always talk big prior to big tournament and all the players don't have the correct mindset to represent the country!

The above 3 reasons itself is enough to destroy all the hardwork put in by all the coaches. I can say we, Malaysia has the best coaches among all the badminton powerhouse, and yet we always fail to deliver. There are a limitation a coach can do to their players, and at the end it all depends on the players themselve to deliver what hardwork put into during training.

Look at Lee Chong Wei, he blamed the BAM coaching staff of not good enough, so opted to train away from BAM. How can a player get to choose his own training coach, venue and others. If this is Indonesia, or China, or even Denmark, I'm sure Lee Chong Wei will be a long gone story! No one is bigger than the organisation itself. Lee Chong Wei thinks World No. 1 is bigger than BAM!

Secondly, Lee Chong Wei's coach, Misbun Sidek is fighting to gain control of BAM coaching staff. If he thinks he can deliver and produce some world class player, why don't he joins in BAM and started the discovery of new young talent with the full backing of BAM resources? This is the thing borders me because my feeling is that he is trying to overpower BAM over player selection! So I will never respect Lee or Misbun for this aspect.

Then comes to BAM, their leadership is a big problem because they always being overpowered by outsiders. Also they never really look into the actual problem, and coaches is always the one getting the boot for failure. They always treated world ranking more important than actual result.

For this I am respecting the Chinese players because they don't bother about world ranking, because if you are good enough, you can win anything from anywhere! Malaysian players just can't do that because they will only win by avoiding strong oponents along the path. Is that how world No. 1 behaved?

So no matter what BAM and government do to help these players, their attitude is the main problem and should be solved before anything! Otherwise it's just a waste of time!