Monday, June 14, 2010

Hockey Round-Up Gossip

1.Malaysian Women Hockey Team.

Mutiny! Yes, that was what happened with the women's national team. After a disastrous performance at the recent Women World Cup hockey qualifier, the ladies decided they had enough of their coach particular with his "language", as he was preparing them for the Commonwealth and Asian Games for later in the year.

This coach seemed to have "Lady luck" for nearly a decade and can be regarded as Malaysia's most unsuccessful coach. Prior to being with the ladies' team he was the coach of the Malaysian Juniors for the 2001 Tasmanian Junior World Cup. The performance there was so pathetic that we were literally one of the worst teams at the tournament.

Despite this he was given a "life line" to be assistant coach to the ladies team and after the resignation of the foreign Indian coach he was elevated as the chief coach. Mind you without an FIH coaching certificate he was yet again entrusted with a high performance national team. It is probably the "decision makers" at NSC and Women's hockey, who must have had very high regard for him or maybe there are not enough coaches in Malaysia to choose from. The decision making process seems to be highly "mystifying" especially when a person lacks the success profile and the appropriate qualification and is still given to coach high performance teams. Surely, there must be a story to this?

Some say the mutiny was orchestrated bya certain official and i do not think it is proper to state where the person originated. Apparently the person is well known to the hockey and also sporting circle and the said personality had meetings with the players. At this stage it is still a rumour but knowing the person it may not be beyond such an individual's activity.

Now there is a move to replace the ladies coach, however his "Lady's luck" is still shining for he maybe offered the post of coach under the "Pelapis" programme for the ladies development project. All cannot be that bad for the coach as he still would enjoy the various perks that come with an "outstation" based coach which is generously offered by NSC. I do hope there would not be mutinies brewing in the future with the ladies development teams too.

This compromising outlook of NSC and the Ladies hockey in not having people with the right qualification and appropriate success profile for a coaching job shows the short-sighted outlook and how the resources are wasted. In such instances Sports Administrators do not work in the best interest of sports on a meritocracy basis with careful planning embodying the principles of excellence.. Until that comes into play, sports would continue suffering such disastrous fate.


2. Games played by KL off the hockey ground.

2 incidents in a week which involves Kuala Lumpur hockey, makes me wonder whether the administrators of hockey in KL are also exponents of the "Machiavellian" principle ie "the end justifies the means".

Mind you, here we are talking about sports and if it is wrong it must be reported at the earliest and rectified as far as possible, without having to be disruptive.. Unfortunately the desire to win and carry the titles created a zealous manipulative thinking combined with the greed for glamour which forced hockey administrators to undertake matters beyond the very spirit of sports.

In Sukma hockey, KL dropped a Project 2013 player based on a "bias" selection process taking account of "connections" of certain players based on their parents. This discarded young player then went to train with Malacca and KL had knowledge of it.

In fact KL was trying to get the player back or even recommend him to another State but not for Malacca, who were in the same pool as them. Unable to "stomach" that the discarded player was playing for Malacca, KL decided that they would protest on the ground that they had not released the player. The maneuvering and manipulation to "kill" the young boy's opportunity to play in Sukma was more to do with a "fear factor" of KL hockey administrators feeble mind that Malacca would be a stronger team.

Malacca did drill home the point when on Sunday they thrashed KL by 5-1. Maybe KL was right and when they decided to do whatever possible to disqualify the young player, they were not successful. The point being the hockey administrators of KL were "Machiavellian".

In another incident where the KL Under 12 girls became champion by default when their opponent Kelantan was disqualified for registering an over-aged player using another person's identity. KL girls were defeated 4-1 and on protest they were awarded the game. The action to disqualify Kelantan was right but to award the game to KL may set a precedent for the future, where calculative officials may take advantage of similar situation.

Sources indicate that KL was aware that such a player was over-aged but did not protest before the game. The idea was to take an "insurance" on the game just in case they lost. They did lose the game but called on their "insurance" ie to protest on the over-aged player. Had they done it before the game there was no guarantee they would be champion.

Assuming in such instance if the Malaysian Schools decided to disqualify Kelantan as champion and still maintain KL as runner-up, then in the future such "Machiavellian" tactics may not be adopted, for it would make no sense to take "insurance" by not reporting the incident before the game until it is over..

29 comments:

Anonymous said...

IF is it true that KLHA did know before hand that the player was over aged and did not raise the issue till they lost speaks volumes to the character of the officials in KLHA and the integrity of the association. I am not taking anything away from Kelantan they deserved the whole 9 yards twice over and weather MSSM has the courage to take this to the next level.

What are we teaching our kids today?

As for SUKMA the cat and mouse game is played not only by KLHA but most of the states coz the eligibility rule is so loose you could being in a player form another state and keep him locked up.

SUKMA runs the tournament as they see fit, where else can you get teams preparing a year in advance spending 50-60K and play 2 or 3 matches and bye bye.

SUKMA has always refused to change the group format citing cost, so why spend money at all preparing the teams in advance

Anonymous said...

The author seems to have a lot of inside knowledge but pretends to be ignorant about the dropped player and also pretends to be ignorant of the reason kl failed in the hands of malacca

Anonymous said...

i fully agree with you . the KLHA and its officials are only interested in winning at all cost.Why as organisers they did not protest earlier. They knew about the overaged girls but waited until the final whistle to protest. Sore losers. KL are also cheating by pinching players from other states and placing them in Setapak school. Perak lost 2 players.

Anonymous said...

KLHA HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH UNDER 12 GIRLS. IT IS A MSSM TOURNAMENT AND MSSKL IS THE BODY THAT GOVERNS THIS AND THEY NEVER HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH KLHA. THE WHOLE TOURNAMENT INVOLVES TEACHERS. NOW YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THE CHARACTER AND INTEGRITY OF THE TEACHERS. THE TEACHERS ARE NEXT TO GOD.PLEASE SAY SORRY OR ELSE GOD WILL PUNISH YOU.

Anonymous said...

KLHA and MSSM is 2 different organisation,why ppl dont understand,simple as ABC.
Teachers are at power for MSSM and teachers ARE trying to be power in other tournament also.
They(teachers) are no more concentrating on studies,they just studying to get power in hockey, they are more satanic than gods they believe in.
Pity the boys and girls who involves with them.
Teachers are like Napolean bonaparte, i came , i saw, i conquer, but only in words...
politics become more important than teaching in schools.
TEACHERS! Please dont kill boys and girls because of your greed.
i know not all teachers are like that, but most of the teacher are..

ex-student who gave up hockey because teacher in Sport school

Anonymous said...

aiyoyoo
enough is enough lah.msn/mwha no need to hire this coach anymore.find others and there's a lot of young and fresh coaches available.the old man with the old style need to rest peacefully at home lah.eat a lot of taxpayers money already and become rich now.but the result still zero lah.give chance to others lah.

Anonymous said...

Teachers still the great

Anonymous said...

Wanita tebal lemak (setiausaha MWHA) harus bermula. Dia tidak boleh melakukan kumpulan hoki Perempuan sendiri, tetapi menyertai dalam kumpulan hoki Lelaki dan Sukma adalah Penyelamatnya. 90% daripada perlawanan selama Sukma dia hilang dan bahkan tidak datang ke hoki lapangan. Melaka menikmati cuaca dan makanan dengan ibunya. Dia membunuh wanita hoki. Tidak ada kegiatan devlopment hoki, tidak ada pelatih yang memenuhi syarat untuk wanita hoki, tidak ada wasit untuk meniup wanita perlawanan, hanya 3-4 wasit hanya perempuan. Mereka bergantung pada orang pengadil kebangsaan untuk memimpin perlawanan perempuan. Simpan lah situasi. Tunjukkan kad merah untuk wanita ini dan memberi dirinya secara kekal dari kegiatan perempuan hoki, kerana kehadirannya tidak akan pernah allowe pelatih baik pemain hoki dan warna fajar untuk Malaysia. Dia sendiri adalah menggali kubur untuk hoki. Akan hoki akan berehat dalam damai.

Anonymous said...

Apa kata kita ambik coach projek 2013 bawa team 2013 ok x??

Gandhi, said...

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Dia (perempuan pelatih hoki kebangsaan) adalah (deleted) hampir semua pelatih yang pernah lihat. Dia memandu mercedz di bandar asalnya. Tinggal di MSN dengan ruangan secara kekal ditempah untuk dia. Makan di kafe atlet tidak (Semua wajib pajak lah wang). Tidak perlu untuk menghabiskan kuih tunggal dari sakunya. Dia berfikir bahawa dia adalah pelatih terbaik. Dengan karakter, ia harus bekerja sebagai pekerja biasa di perkebunan. Dia bahkan tidak mempunyai kelayakan FIH. Dia tidak tahu apa yang sukan ilmu dan berbicara tentang psikologi. Di Melaka, ia masih bergantung pada dengan gigi harimau kehilangan untuk mendapatkan simpati dan berharap boleh merosakkan kerjaya dari gadis-gadis yang akan Induksi untuk pelapis program. Sila berhenti dick ini, jika tidak perempuan akan berhenti bermain hoki hoki dan willy terbang layang-layang lah.

Observer, Penang.

Anonymous said...

Coach pasukan perempuan negara ini memang sudah patut pencen.hidup dia di msn semua tanggung percuma.makan,minum,tempat tinggal,claim,dll.semua duit siapa kalau bukan duit rakyat malaysia juga?dah semua dapat free, result pun free of charge je.tiada improvement.kesimpulannya, ganti sahaja dengan coach lain yang lebih muda, beridea baru dan lebih bertenaga.sudah jemu dan mahu muntah bila tengok muka bercermin mata itu yang kuat maki hamun juga semasa berlatih.

Anonymous said...

BRAVO RAJAN!!!
BRAVO RAJAN!!!
BRAVO RAJAN!!!
VOTE RAJAN TO BE PROJECT 2013 COACH

Anonymous said...

BRAVO RAJAN!!!
BRAVO RAJAN!!!
BRAVO RAJAN!!!
KL WITH GOLD MEDAL SUKMA 2010..
VOTE RAJAN TO BE HOCKEY PROJECT 2013 COACH!!!

Anonymous said...

Hello Mr.Bravo,

KL is bravo not your Rajan.

What happend when he is the KL Razak Cup coach?He pull out to coach army for RM 5000.What happend then.Army finish last and demoted to 2nd division next year.

KL with Norsaiful Zaini still become champion.

MSSM KL u-12 boys,u-18 boys, u-12 girls champs.U-18 girls runner-up.That would go into the records.

So sorry you can convince me.With the team that kl have can even lose 5-1 to malacca and only beat them 1-0 in the final.Malacca was controlling the game,wherelse kl has all international in the squad.How can that be.

This is not political election.Keep trying maybe would be lucky in Cambodia.They are looking for a coach.

BRAVO KL

Anonymous said...

Rajan ... shit....coaching... just managed to win over Melaka with 1 goal after having maximum number of national players and project squad players in the team.
What happend to the same Rajan who lost 5-1 to Melaka in the league? Then why have you not said BRAVO ? Logically comment. Melaka got more than 5 Penalty corners and played more tactical game and it was lucky that KL got through. The Melaka coach should be applauded for showing a better display with no stars in their team other than the 2 rejected project players from KL and Selangor. Have more no of coaches children in the KL team so that even though Rajan does not have ability to coach, he could always take guidance and expertise coaching hints from national coaches Stephen and former national coach Sarjit as their kids are in the KL team. Better take all former national coaches children to claim that he is a BRAVO coach ...or BRAWO Coach..(BR - BEER, A - AND, WO -WOMEN)...
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. BRAWO RAJAN..

Anonymous said...

BR-A-WO RAJAN !!! (BEER AND WOMEN)
BR-A-WO RAJAN !!! (BEER AND WOMEN)
BR-A-WO RAJAN !!! (BEER AND WOMEN)
BR-A-WO RAJAN !!! (BEER AND WOMEN)

HAD TO GET ASSISTANCE OF SARJIT & STEPHEN TO WIN SUKMA !!! as he (RAJAN) need their help so inducted their children also in to KL Sukma team. The children were not as potential as comparred to a boy who was dropped from KL team and who then played for Melaka. So we get a clear picture of RAJAN's coaching ability. Mind you that these 2 coaches will not be there in the venue, when you take another junior world cup Malaysian team. So RAJAN better remain as a BRAWO !!! coach. You can enjoy life with BR And WO.

Singh is King

Anonymous said...

Bro,

i have told you all time and time again not to ever mention Dink,dink, fcuk, fcuk coach and still you persist.

Thigh Coach( i cannot mention his name because it is to dirty) left the KL Razak Cup Team because he wants the RM5K from the Armed Forces. So he left for the Money and led the Armed Forces to be last in the Razak Cup and relegated to Div 2. KL still become Razak Cup Champion under Nor Saiful Zaini. Why is Nor Saiful Zaini not the SUKMA Coach? Is it because he did not drink with the KLHA officials and his sidekicks? Wake up KLHA, do not practice favouritism.

During the Inter-Forces Games the thigh coach, coached the Army Team which were made up of the whole Armed Forces Team that played in the Razak Cup and they went and lose to the Navy Team which have no established players and was coached by Saiful Azri.

KLHA still take him to be the Sukma coach after what he had done with their Razak Team. Why did the KLHA appoint him leaves a very bad taste to all those involved with KL Hockey.

Then with a ready made KL Sukma, KL have to struggle to be champions by the skin of their teeth, exposes the uselessness of the thigh Coach's ability.

KLHA, please accept the truth that the thigh coach have run out his expirary date and he should be gone.

With his reputation of deceit and misbehavior, an organisation like the KLHA would have nothing to do with him. Forget all your drinking Kakis moments, as he is a tramp.

Say more about them, i will open their cans of worms wider.

Justice Bao

Anonymous said...

Whoever is the coach the result will be the same. You talk of old days but they too never won any tournament. Maximum SEA games.Women and wine should not be a basis to discredit others unless he has committed adultery on your loved ones or you have depleted your cash in his booze. So it is better to have your comments on his coaching or else people will have different view on you

Anonymous said...

setuju dengar BRAWO - beer & woman. dengar persatuan thailand dan ahf telah buang beliau. org buta latih kl pun mesti champion sukma. semua pemain kebangsaan dan remaja. kat antarabangsa dapat no 12. cakap serupa tarak bikin.

Anonymous said...

Dear June 19 2010 7.29pm,

Either you are an aske-licking dickhead or else you have been badly brought up and a god-dammed head injured society member(male/female).

To be a Coach we must have exemplary conduct in all strata of being a good human. Committing adultery and boozing on people"s money is a gift and that can be condoned if you are doing on your own steam because it is not any body buisness.. But to be employed to look after the Nation's pride and then not teaching the basic rules of being a decent person is the greatest sin.

If your heroes: Thigh Coach and 102 commit these sins when they were employed by a Country, then the sins that they have committed should be ten times more serious then those whom have committed the sin on their personnal time.

And they should be jumping in front of the KTM and fools like you should not have to magnify your stupidity by singing their praise.

If you are the wife or friends of this type of character, beware they will play your back. If one can ditched someone for you, he also can ditch you for someone. Please do not be contented to be resting on your laurels and spend ill-gotten gains secured by him. Take a friendly advise: Watch your back.

Justice Pao

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SIAPA CAKAP COACH RAJAN TAK MENANG EMAS KAT SUKAN SEA GAMES?

DIA DAPAT 'ANAK EMAS" DARI WANITA THAILAND. KAKI {deleted}, KAKI (deleted) DAN KAKI HOKI.

SILA SIASAT.

WAKIL TNB

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dengar rajan & raja gaduh besar kat klha. di sebabkan oleh ayah-ayah pemain hoki dan untuk rajan hidup dia kena tolong ayah-ayah seperti jurulatih kebangsaan, bekas jurulatih kebangsaan dan pakcik (deleted). (Deleted) ada dua anak. dua botol telah berjaya utk rajan memilih. tiga pemain yang dipilih adalah kerana rajan takada telur. pasal itu enbaraj pun menarik diri. pegawai-pegawai klha tak ada prinsip dalam kerjaya.
Bekas Pegawai KLHA.

Anonymous said...

Bala jurulatih melaka adalah bagus kerana bole bimbing pasukan tanpa Bintang Kebangsaan.Bala patut diberi peluang menjadi jurulatih u-16 malaysia,ganti vellapan yang gagal membawa pasukan pilihan Johor.

Rajan patut mengambil pasukan sekolah BJSS ganti Prakash.

Bob yang ada bakat sebagai Komentator patut jadi jurulatih BPSS.

Prakash patut jadi jurulatih pasukan kebangsaan wanita.Sebab perangai macam wanita.

Vicky unikl patut jadi jurulatih project 2013.Dharma bole balik ke kl.

Sarjit bole coach KLHC.

Enbaraj coach unikl.

Beng coach Sapura.

Vellapan coach nurinsafi

Ustaz Wan bole coach Askar.

Lan janggut jadi coach TNB.

Gopi jadi coach Maybank.
Norsaiful zaini patut jadi jurulatih negara.

Yahya dan stephen patut buat development.


Balai Berita

Anonymous said...

Congrates KL gor the Sukma 2010 gold medal....

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Where is Armpit and Ridsect? went hiding after the defeat in Asian Champions Club. Now you all know the attitude of current national player and former captain - traitor on and off the field. Could be a feet to the legends sarjit, mike, mirnawan, soon, saiful, shanker, enbaraj, beng hai and etc. Ridesct spent so much money and armpit talks like sports guru and behave like Sir Alex of MU but still lost. Now you know reality and standard and mindset of current players that destroyed by E&Y and KLHC. pamper them and give freedom and no action taken. Goodbye msian team under this ridsect managerial and his advisor - armpit, pooking, joking, boobying, red light king, viking and all the kings. no future.
Gone the days.........

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Armpit was behaving like managing YNS before. now the current players been spoilt by ridsect by his style. arrmpit get code 10 or baby johson powder. talk and criticise people and now yourself after the defeat silence and hiding in the tampin roundabout. ridsect and armpit has to stay away or else hockey no future. bring sarjit back. afterall armpit and sarjit are very close like brothers. adjust and speak to mhf hahsim sure can one. malaysia boleh.

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Mr. Gandhi,

As long as the Ridsect and Armpit is still alive in the hockey arena, our hockey will always be in crisis.

We dare to challange him & his cronies 2 stay away from hockey next 3 yrs...

Malaysia will be a GREAT TEAM

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DOES ANOBODY KNOWS HOW KLHC LOST AT ASIAN CHAMPIONS CLUB. KLHC WITH FULL SIDE NATIONAL PLAYERS WITH FORMER CAPTAIN FROM EX-SAPURA STILL COULD LOOSE. NO RESPECT FOR THIS FORMER CAPTAIN - TRAITOR. ARMPIT TEAM MANAGER TALKS AND BEHAVE LIKE SPORTS GURU BUT LOST. VERY SILENCE LIKE A SILENCER OF A VEHICLE. NOW HE KNOWS THE ACTUAL STANDARD OF THE PLAYERS ON AND OFF THE FIELD. WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD. WHERE IS RIDSECT THIS DAYS.

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Hitory of VP - Dr.INKING.
If we track this VP's records, that in itself may speak for him. In the previous MHF's administration, he managed to be with the winning team but as time went on he "fell off' with the "powers" who were controlling MHF then. He was relieved from the key portfolio of Development Committee and given the mundane responsibility of Competitions Committee. In a way that worked to his benefit for it gave him the opportunity to think about taking on the Deputy President's post at the last MHF elections. Fortunately his relationship with a particular personality in Asian Hockey Federation (AFC) paved the way for a "peace talk" whereby he was instructed to remain as VP. The reason was not to split the votes for Deputy President and allow the incumbent to win. Obediently he followed suit but he still has not forgiven the person who went on to win the election for the Deputy President's post.

This view stems from the fact that in the latest round of "fiascoes" relating to the Coaching Committees "politicking" on the appointment of coaches, he took side with people in the Coaching Committee including those he had "fallen off" with in the previous administration. Sadly, it is not the decision he made that is being questioned rather it is the unsavoury remarks which constituted the reason against of one Malaysia's greatest hockey sons who had loyally served the nation for 15 years. The person concerned was the most capped national player and his record still illuminates brightly awaiting to be surpassed for the last 10 years. This is a person who with his employer TNB is undertaking nationwide the "Thunderbolt" Development programme for kids. In the heights of audacity, the Coaching Committee supported by this VP with his cynical view decided to drop this former hockey international from the national coaching list for the most absurd of reasons. It probably shows that the VP is a staunch "Machiavellian" ie. "the end justifies the means".

Such an outlook may be because this year is election year for MHF and there are rumours that the VP may still want to fulfill his original intention of becoming the Deputy President.