BAM Never Ever Improved

After the open heart talk between BAM president and players, I still cannot see any changes in the BAM or players themselve. Until now I still think they act just like before, and they still possess the same mentality and thinking.

I wonder what's the purpose of the open talk held? Have they all learnt to improve the Badminton sport? Talk is always talk, and there isn't any changes and improvement made, or at least some effort to be put in.

So wonder will they ever learn? Badminton - No Hopers now!

Stumbling Block For BAM

BAM President said there may be a stumbling block in the prize structure in BAM, which will rewards players who maintain their higher ranking for longer period of time. Maybe he's very slow in realising this, but also now only do I know Malaysia actually has such reward systems.

Why Malaysia will set such stupid and ineffective rules. Does the ranking really reflect their standard or ability? Malaysia has long been proudly mentioning their WORLD NO 1s, DATUK Lee Chong wei, Koo Kian Keat - Tan Boon Heong and the once No 1 Wong Pei Tye - Chin Ei Hui. To me I don't rate them as No 1s simply because they do not possess the quality and skill to be No 1s.

They are No 1s just because they participated in more competition, accumulating more points than others. That's why they are No. 1s. Unless they can consistently win major tournaments, it will be pointless because they accumulated more points by participating more competitions.

Just look at China, Indonesia and Denmark, even Korea, they normally participating in those important and necessary tournaments which will give them a good runs out against a more calibre opponents, at the same time can judge their own, as well as their opponents' skill and level. What's the purpose of competing in a tournament with no classy players, where you will not be able to judge even yourself? It wil be a complete waste of time and money to participating in such tournaments.

Oh maybe Malaysia players know deepdown in themselve that they could not compete with top class players, and they will not accumulate enough points to get them into top rankings, so they decided to achieve the No 1 status by participating in more tournaments. Only those chicken players will do this, and I'm sure Malaysia is the only one!

Secondly, with such rewards, players would try to participating in more tournaments to collect more points in order to stay top, and collect prize money every quarterly. So when comes the major tournaments, they wouldn't care so much because they've collected more in their country than the prize money on offer. This has made the players with a wrong attitude when representing their country!

I noticed that Malaysian players do not feel proud representing their country partly because there's no huge rewards for them, as compare to when competing in individual competitions. The team morale is also very low when playing in a team events because players do not supporting each other. They are more willing to supporting their own pocket!

That's the Malaysian players' attitude, and unless this reward system is totally and completely abolished, Malaysia will never progress in any sports, especially Badminton. Like I said before, Malaysia will need to get rid of all current players to set up a new system for new and younger generation of players, train them from scratch and start phyco them from the very beginning!

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?

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.

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!

F1 Budget Cap and 2 Tier Technology on Track

F1 is enforcing a budget cap to marginalise some big team, while helping smaller team to excel in a race. I think this is a very stupid idea, and this will cause a lot of F1 fans to divert their interest elsewhere.

Since 50s, F1 is all about technology, and whoever have the most powerful and modern technology shall win the F1 championship because they have the best of the best. One of the team that competed since day one in F1 is Ferrari. Because of their success, FIA is trying anything to pull them back and put them in the back foot in the F1 race.

Ferrari is paying for their huge success in F1, and now they are being targeted. Similar fate goes to Renault, Toyota and McLaren because these are the few teams with huge budget. By implementing a GBP 40 mil cap, I think teams like redbull, Sauber, Force India etc would enjoy a greater technology liniency, while the big team must operate with a limited technology.

This would cause the race to be unfair and from my point of view, Ferrari, Renault and Toyota is very rightly to pull out from F1 for good. This will bring the field to more even technology sharing, and also a more fair races among them.

Max mosley said F1 can survive without Ferrari, and I fully agree. There's no one bigger than the organisation itself, and this applies to FIA as well. But this will cause some inattractiveness to the sport, and many fans would turn their back on the sport because of off field issue, not because of boring races.

As an F1 fan, I would rather watch a boring race, with high technology, rather than watching an uneven and unfair race field of cars. It's like comparing a Proton cars with the luxury of Audi, Merc and BMW. What a pity!