The manner in which Malaysia lost in their semifinal tie with China is embarrassing. We were outclassed in every department and made to look like novices in our very own backyard. There have been many post mortems from past Thomas Cups and there is a need for Malaysia to take a different approach.
Inviting and paying foreign coaches has certainly not paid off but instead left us stagnated as coaches came and went. From Morten Frost and Park Ju Bong and now Rexy, we have failed to regain the supremacy in badminton.
Once again, the depth in our badminton team is severely lacking. Wong Choon Hann and Hafiz Hashim has past their prime. It is time to move on and find new talents.
In this respect, we need to evaluate the sports programmes in our school curriculums. Encouraging active participation in sporting activities to promote sporting excellence is important to lay a good foundation of achieving success.
It will be another 2 years to the next Thomas Cup and there is little hope in us regaining the trophy for at least the next few editions of the tournament. We need to rebuild our badminton team.
Malaysia can achieve success again but there is much work in between.
They lost not because they did not have enough training, not enough time, not enough food, not enough allowance, not enough exposure or not anough of coaches!
THEY LOST BECAUSE THEY ARE DAMN BLOODY SOFTIES, WEAK MINDED AND THE LEAST OF FIGHTING SPIRIT!
THEY HAVE TOO MUCH PAMPERING !
THEY HAVE TOO MUCH MONEY !
THEY ARE TOO BIG HEADED !
THEY ARE TO BLOODY ARROGANT !
THEY ARE JUST A BUNCH OF WASH OUTS !
THE INDONESIANS, CHINESE, KOREANS AND JAPANESE ARE NO MORE BIGGER…BUT VERY MUCH STRONGER IN THEIR BLOODY HEADS AND HEART!
THEY WANT TO “WIN” BUT OUR BLOKES JUST WANTED TO PLAY AND FEEL GLAMOROUS.
LOOK AT THE CHINESE AND INDONESIANS.
THEY HAVE LOTS OF BACK UP PLAYERS.
EQUALLY GOOD AND MAY BE EVEN BETTER THAN OUR FIRST TEAM PLAYERS !
WE HAVE OLD HORSES AND WE KEEP ON FLOGGING THEM
IT DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE
WE NEED TO EXPOSE THE YOUNGER ONES NOW
DATO’ LEE CHONG WEI – HE PLAYED IN SO MANY TOURNAMENTS PRIOR TO THOMAS CUP…HE WAS ALREADY A SPENT FORCE BY THE TIME HE PLAYED T.CUP.
BEING RANKED THE WORLD NO 1. – MEANS NOTHING !
WINNING THE ALL-ENGLAND MEANS NOTHING !
BEING AT HOME AND LOSING IN THIS MANNER,
WHAT IF WE WERE IN CHINA OR INDONESIA — FAT HOPES !
LOOK AT LIN-DAN, HE WAS KEPT AWAY AND SILENTLY BUILT UP HIS HUNGER FOR SUCCESS AND HE WINS BIG TIME….A GREAT STRATEGY OF THE CHINESE MANAGERS…
BY KEEPING THE OLD HORSES ON THE TEAM AND HOPING FOR MIRACLES TO HAPPEN IS A WASTED EFFORT!
AND BY THE TIME THE OLE HORSES ARE ALL WASTED OUT, THE YOUNGER ONES ARE ALREADY TOO DAMN OLD TO BE ANY GOOD !
THE PLANNING IS WRONG…
MAXIMUM EXPOSURE OF THE YOUNG GUNS IS A MUST..
THEY CAN BLAME THAT CHINA HAS BILLIONS TO PICK FROM….!
INDONESIA HAS 200-300’S MILLIONS TO SELECT…
JAPAN AND KOREA ALSO HAVE MORE MILLIONS THEN US….WHAT THE HECK…!
IF THAT BEING THE CASE AND SUCH A STUPID EXCUSE GIVEN!
TELL ME WHY THEY CAN’T WIN ALL THE BLOODY FOOTBALL/RUGBY/SWIMMING/GOLF/TENNIS/CRICKET/BASEBALL/BASKETBALL COMPETITIONS – WHY ARE THEY NOT WINNING ALL THE WORLD CUPS & WORLD TOURNAMENTS ?