♪♪♪;1217149 said:
You can take all the serious objections you want, doesn't mean Gavaskar and Kapil become know it all Gods. Kapil had a dismal rtecord as coach, and a person who allowed himself to be hired as coach on the basis of reputation as a player has no business rating other coaches. And the less said about Gavaskar, the better. I question his thought processes and commitment to the game when a committee headed by him comes up with ridiculous suggestions to make the One day game more batsman friendly.
And when did they claim that know it all ? Aren't they allowed to convey their opinion and have a say in Indian Cricket ? And why cant he rate coaches ? If he and other like him arent going to rate coaches then who will, you and I ? or the likes of Niranjan Shah and JY LELE. Please I would rather have Kapil and Gavaskar's opinion than LELE/Modi/Shah's.
And you can question Gavaskar's commitment all you want but the man has a right to have his opinion and he says it.
As proved by the unanimous selection of Chappell as coach by a committee he was very much a part of ?
Doesn't it prove that he is not really against foreign coaches, as you are trying to convey here.
Sorry, putting forward these excuses is whats ridiculous. Prasad didn't do a certified coaching course in England to work as coach in just India. As long as there isn't a valid reason why these guys do not land jobs overseas with proper teams they must not be hailed as the solution to all our problems. I don't even have a problem with Prasad and Robin anyway, they are more likely to be attuned with modern coaching techniques than many of the older ex-players hoping to land the job purely because they're Indian. Any proposition requires some leeway, and Prasad and Robin have earned the right to credibility, I have a lot of respect for them as coaches, but not for the rhetorically vocal group of ex-players who are now nursing bruised egos on seeing foreigners usurping 'their' jobs.
How is saying 'I dont know' an excuse ? You are making all the assumptions about Robin/Prasad's qualification, How do you know why Prasad/Robin did their coaching course in England and that they have secret aspirations to coach in England ? Why do they need to have a coaching experience in England/Australia to be qualified as a good coach ? Why doesn't an coaching expereince with Bengal or Tamilnadu count ? And If you didn't have problem with Prasad/Robin, then why question their credibility and say that dont have experience with PROPER TEAMs ? What is a proper team, Isn't team India a proper team, Isn't U-19 a proper team ? Or are you suggesting that only Kent, Lancashire etc are proper teams ? And No one is saying that they are solutions to our problem, they are not, neither are foreign coaches, so why not even consider them on the basis of their nationality ?
As said, the problem is not with Qualified Coaches like Prasad and Robin, the problem is with wannabes like Madan Lal, Kapil, Gavaskar (whose name was suggested by Kapil), Bishen Singh Bedi etc. At the same time, if it is felt that Ford might be a better choice than Prasad/Robin, one shouldn't hesitate in hiring him, and should stay away from all this jingoism.
But I am talking about coaches like Prasad and Robin and so are these guys. And can you please tell me what kind of 'Wannabes' MadanLal, Kapil Gavaskar, Bedi etc are(I really didn't understand the context and the accusation) ? All they are saying is that If we have home grown coaches why not appoint them rather than import coaches from outside, who have not been proven as a great success anyway. It is not Jingoism, it is conveying their opinion in favor of home grown coaches.
Ford might be a better choice, on the basis of what ? Considering that he has not coached for last few years, Last time he coached an International team he was sacked in the middle of his tenure, I have no reason to think that he is a better choice than Robin.
To put the boot on the other foot, neither is having an Indian coach a recipe for success. What matters is the quality of the coach, not his citizenship. Sadly, Kapil paaji needs to realise that. Just because one advocates the name of Graham Ford doesn't mean it is a slight to all the Indian ex-players.
OfCourse, but then dont disqualify them in the name of regionalism CRAP. Robin wasn't even born in India, neither does he have that kind of personality, he grew up in WI, I see no reason to why he would be partial to any particular player.
