My friends are more disgusted how MF treated LCW than LCW to his junior who they actually think being nice and nothing whatsoever. They prolly too upset they play the Trump card, I mean ang mo card.
And exactly how is it that your friends evaluate the situation? With neutral and objective observations? No, the stuff you write are so far out. MF don't want to retire LCW after the OG, but he's been hired to do a job, which consists of more than going all out for LCW. He's been hired to NOT put all the eggs in one basket. And LCW don't want that, he wants full focus on himself to perform well. He sort of got what he want (a special setup, not having to deal with MF), even from a very early point.
You make it sound like MF didn't change the mats in order to injure LCW. What a load of crap. First of all, the mat problem went like this: LCW -> Hendrawan -> BAM Directors/MF. So many people in that chain. And it's professional badminton mats for crying out loud, it's not an ice rink. In other countries they play semi-professional tournaments on those mats, so how dangerous can they be... You cannot blame MF for not stepping up over Hendrawan and BAM Directors and ordering a professional mat changed immediately, because otherwise injuries will occur.
Now, here comes LCW, claiming his knee injury will make him miss AE. (and it doesn't matter if he actually thought it was so bad, or if he exaggerated the injury - what he said matters). MF then asks Hendrawan (because LCW will not talk directly to MF), if he thinks the injury is so severe, that it could spell the end of LCWs career. A valid and perfectly relevant question at the time. He did not ask him to retire, he just asked for the severeness of the injury - it's two very very different things.
Claiming that MF has taken the job, only to ruin Malaysian badminton, and make things easier for Axelsen, is the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a long time... If he wanted to pave the way for Danish players, Malaysia would probably not be the right country to derail (sigh).
Now, your Malaysian friends - who apparently see all white people as oppressive conspirators - translates that to MF asking for LCW to retire? It seems that no matter what happens, these "Kampong talk" type fans will ALWAYS take LCWs side, will ALWAYS see foreigners as a bad thing, and will simply not see facts, but tell stories to stir up things and make their case.
Here's the deal:
If LCW can bring in medals, by all means, MF is happy with that! The more medals to Malaysia, the better. Fans will be happy, BAM will be happy, government will be happy. It will mean more money and resources to badminton, and it will mean happy fans and media, thus less tough questions for the coaches and directors. Malaysian success (no matter from which players it come) will also make it easier to attract better foreigners to the purple league, and better foreigners to the Malaysian training camps as sparring partners.
On the other hand, MF will not be completely derailed by LCW and Malaysian belief that LCW is the person to generate medals in 2020 and past that date. He simply has to do his job, which is to develop Malaysian badminton as a whole. It's obvious that ultimately LCW and MF will have conflicting interests, but nothing that should not be able to get sorted out. It is in the interest of Malaysian badminton to make it work for MF and all the upcoming juniors, etc. They have hired foreigners to change the badminton training culture, and get inspired by countries who get so many more results with smaller talent base and budgets.
This is my last reply to posts of such low quality - I simply will not spend my time on such stupid discussions with people who have such biased and preconceived stands. It's not interesting to me. What's interesting is to discuss what's actually going on, how the different countries are trying to develop their talents, what works and what doesn't work. New ideas and setups, etc. Not if all white people are ang mo with hidden agendas...
