chowyunfat
Regular Member
Perhaps you can join SBA and 'make a difference'. It's good to have somebody who cares.
Ha ha I would apply if there is a vacancy n hope you are the one who interview me

Perhaps you can join SBA and 'make a difference'. It's good to have somebody who cares.
In this World Money can buy anything, the question is just how much?
If you want to succeed you have to spend - just like Real Madrid, Barcelona n Chelsea.
Malaysia n Japan pay huge to get Morten Frost n Park joo Bong..
Why can't Spore pay to get Li Yong Bo-he need a new challenge after leading China for 20 years.
Its depend on SBA's vision, want to stay as a weak badminton nation or want to become a top 5 power.
Then you need to be an accountant and a manager. Do a whole review and see if more money and incentives will produce better results. Ask the government if they will provide 25% or 50% more funding to players and coaches. Do an analysis to see if that will be attractive enough for the population of singapore to go into badminton as a career.
Money can buy you professionals not patriots, LYB seems the latter kind..... You can't afford LYB even if you offer him a few hundred thousand trillion dollars, because he isn't in the coaching game for money.
You spoke of RM, tell me why did Gerard stay away from RM (or Chelsea or City) for so long???
In 2012 and 13, LM10 rejected offers from PSG which were paying him substantially more than Barca.
I know for a fact that even if SGP spends its entire GDP + huge ForEx reserves, PG will still laugh off any approach to coach a foreign team. (until given the get go from BAI/SAI/GOI, who will take the money and put on some ID project)...
Instead of cribbing, you should be happy, that a small city manages to punch substantially above its weight in badminton.....
Your comparator should be fellow monetarily rich micro-nations like Monaco, Lichtenstein, San Marino, Qatar, UAE, Brunei etc. and not the geographically and demographically rich teams you mentioned.
We are entirely on different wave length. Base on current n historical ranking Spore are stronger badminton nation than Canada, France , Spain n Netherlands n should beat them with ease. If one day India's National hockey team were to lose to Spore, China n USA, are u happy?.
You could be right about LYB (I still think he or PJB won't mind coming to Spore for 2 years) besides SBA could definitely able to pay more to get much better coaches than the current ones.
We are entirely on different wave length. Base on current n historical ranking Spore are stronger badminton nation than Canada, France , Spain n Netherlands n should beat them with ease. If one day India's National hockey team were to lose to Spore, China n USA, are u happy?.
You could be right about LYB (I still think he or PJB won't mind coming to Spore for 2 years) besides SBA could definitely able to pay more to get much better coaches than the current ones.
thats the main problem"Perhaps you can suggest what the players are really lacking. You also have to realize the womens singles players were up against a commonwealth game champion and a world champion, that's hardly a disappointment they couldn't score against them."
Yes the two players mentioned Michelle Li n Carolina were nobody 2 years ago, they were even ranked below ex Spore player GU Juan (who quit when SBA sacked her coach Luan Jin now doing very well for HK) Liang XioaYu, a top junior player has stagnated and show no progress.
Chen JiaYuan played as if she got no interest n about to quit too.
We are entirely on different wave length. Base on current n historical ranking Spore are stronger badminton nation than Canada, France , Spain n Netherlands n should beat them with ease. If one day India's National hockey team were to lose to Spore, China n USA, are u happy?.
You could be right about LYB (I still think he or PJB won't mind coming to Spore for 2 years) besides SBA could definitely able to pay more to get much better coaches than the current ones.
Ranking doesn't mean everything, badminton players in those countries get even less funding to travel around and play in international tournaments. Other than Carolina and maybe some french players, almost all of the rest play exclusively in their regional international challenger events. Their abilities are very under represented by their ranking because they simply cannot afford to attend all the tournaments.
I don't really agree with the rest though, Singapore went from virtually unknown team to a sudirman cup level 2 champion contender in less than a decade. Largely due to their import program, and to me that's a success. The tier 1 countries have several decades of excellence in the sport and even close to a century of dominance. Catching up to them is not going to happen over night. If Singapore keeps up with even half their progress, then I can see them in tier 1 competition in another couple of years.
Yes the two players mentioned Michelle Li n Carolina were nobody 2 years ago, they were even ranked below ex Spore player GU Juan (who quit when SBA sacked her coach Luan Jin now doing very well for HK) Liang XioaYu, a top junior player has stagnated and show no progress.
Chen JiaYuan played as if she got no interest n about to quit too.
Maybe we can get some enlightenment on Singapore's badminton history as I don't have a clue and to me Netherlands has historically been the higher ranking country. That aside, based on the current squads Sing would have been the slight favorite in the tie ...
But there indeed doesn't seem to be any progress anymore as compared to say 4-5 years ago.
And indeed the focus in team Netherlands for 2016/2020 is in WD and XD(?) so the other events don't get equal funding/focus ...
Maybe we can get some enlightenment on Singapore's badminton history as I don't have a clue and to me Netherlands has historically been the higher ranking country. That aside, based on the current squads Sing would have been the slight favorite in the tie ...
But there indeed doesn't seem to be any progress anymore as compared to say 4-5 years ago.
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