Lee CW is the face of MAS badminton, its icon, for him to go ballistic against Morten Frost like that repeatedly shows not only disrespect to Morten, specifically, and BAM top officials as well but also a big embarrassment, esp when the BAM president has already announced he's settled the matter between them. I mean Lee CW's initial reaction is understandable but for him to go on and on without letting up while Morten refrains from responding in kind and remains silent throughout is really too much and is, unwittingly, casting himself (Lee CW) in a bad light.
On the contrary, from the beginning when Lee CW erupted publicly, Morten Frost has conducted himself in a respectable, admirable and wise manner, hats off to him. Now that he has even made peace overtures to Chong Wei and offered BAM a proposal to move forward for consideration, the ball is in Chong Wei's court to do the right thing, play his part and move on.
What's done cannot be undone, the damage is irreversible, we can only hope to let time heal. Let us wish Lee CW do himself a favour and help to take MAS badminton to the next level. All the best.
Ah, now this is where I enjoy your "putting down LCW" posts and again, I would love to give other people the other side of the coin, using your post as a basis. This civil discussion is really making me tick, some other forums go ballistic with personal attacks and insulting parents' when their favorite brand/player/whatever is being put down like that, but man, here I really enjoy the civility and really, neutrality in terms of feelings/hostility.
Didn't wanna type another essay but hey, why not.
Anyway I won't be doing any translation on the links I provide, I'm here to comment my views, not translate. But I would like to say whatever I type, aka the happenings, is as what's reported; nothing fantasy or plucked from air. My views, however, are.
http://www.sinchew.com.my/node/1615676/ (18 Feb) - This "OLIVE branch", hah, is essentially MF backtracking on whatever he thought would benefit the youngsters mentally by not getting their asses handed to LCW day in day out. Guess what, it's now reversing. MF messed with the standout of the lot; and now he's unstirring whatever he's done. Reeks of complete guilt and of course, stress from everybody above him to "pacify the star because your idea mucked it up big time from the start".
Next up on "what would MF do", this (20Feb):
http://www.sinchew.com.my/node/1616274/
Now this move to me is complete utter bullcrap, only trying to serve the purpose of him being "be all things to all men" and trying to unshit the shitstorm he brewed thus far. Asking NSI to help with custom insole making and forcing/mandating everyone to get customs done at this point is like "oh snap, fire's burning; quick; get me any liquid you can find" comedy that he's writing himself. Since the man himself said that the Danish national team mandates all players who are in the squad to use customs, why only choose now to segue this exact technical enforcement? This should have been from day 1! (or first month, benefit of doubt getting into the role and position)
Cross inferring this mandate to the current mess; common sense would dictate that it's the OUTER RUBBER sole that is the main contact point to Victor's court mat, and the lack of friction/grip is what causes someone/LCW to slide and tear his MCL; so this inner insole malarky just reeks of "nice head guy PR" Frost undoing his own shitstorm by whatever he can, because he's in the position and has the power. If it was an ankle/ PF injury, I'll give MF all the credit by being the saviour to the disaster.
If he is to show genuine care to remedy the situation, he should be grilling the manufacturer (Victor) or that cleaning lady in the closet to clean the surface much more often. From my own shallow inference, there is very little link between LCW's injury and this, so the move at this time just tries it's best to enforce what Justin L calls "respectable, admirable and wise manner" behavior that MF is trying to show everyone. I scoff.
And now; today (22 Feb), comes this:
http://www.sinchew.com.my/node/1616804
BAM stepping in and doing what I previously posted here (
http://www.badmintoncentral.com/for...lee-chong-wei-李宗伟.39718/page-643#post-2530100) ; which is gather resources and polishing the diamond till it bloody blinds everyone (hopefully) as to what is essentially the most over-hyped tournament with no payout in August: the WC, aka Water Close.... I ,I... mean World Champs.
Crux of the story is this: Hendrawan & Tay Seu Bock to head a small special project group till August with 5 other MS guys to train and practice and help LCW get his crown this year; by-effect (hopefully,ideally) is that these youngsters who were already Hendrawan & TSB's disciples to start with would up their game as well.
MF TO HAVE NO SAY OR AUTHORITY IN SAID GROUP while HDW gets promoted to part of the coaching committee and report directly to upper management on progress of group.
Of note: this was MF's idea, BAM took it and fine-tuned it, with the 5 tournament planning and finances to be decided at a later date.
Now come on, COME ON. Tell me in my face this isn't someone micromanaging, ****ed up the equilibrium, and now just backing off and hoping the earthquake un-shaking itself and praying the good ol' days will come back. MF "messed" with Goh Jin Wei, she quieted down or got repressed (because newbie young'in), but who knew, next up; the biggest standout who happens to have so many medals and titles, overflowed and
exploded like a bottle of Coke jammed with Mentos and can't stop ejaculating off the top after it started, now this is what I call getting your hands burnt after playing with fire (how apt, the fire of pride in Malaysians' hearts).
I've had a similar incident in real life, new boss comes in and goes "everything is gonna change around here" and then within 2 weeks, a spectacular firework of dissent and words. Reverse gear follows immediately.
I guess MF has a stand of "everyone should progress together while no one should especially stand out", but does anyone else have a chance of winning even Grand Prix Golds consistently?
As a side note: if you came into work sick, and your supervisor says "quit if you can't take care of yourself better" compared to "how are you, oh my working while sick", would you go Vengaboys (boom boom boom boom) on him/her?
So since this was MF's idea, the 2 sides are "respectable, admirable and wise mannered" MF (*cough*), the other being "undoing his own shitstorm because he has the power". You choose?
It's a cumulative blowout of everything MF has done (subjectively wrong) in the past 1.5 years, not just a stupid whining of not changing court mats, even the most introverted of types (especially them) when having a blowout, is the most spectacular.