Internal Affairs Within BAM

BAM has been denying there is politics within the organisation. How true is this is beyond our nowledge, but from one particular incident we know there IS some politics within the organisation.

Our government has been spending millions of ringgits trying to bring up our future players, and providing them with the best possible facilities to help them develop into one of the best world player. Recent example is our Men's double of Koo Kian Keat-Tan Boon Heong, Choong Tan Fook- Lee Wan Wah, Gan Teik Chai-Lin Woon Fui etc. We have so many potential world beaters and they knew it as well with a proper guidances, facilities and experienced coach, they will have a chance to take the world by storm.

Yet after just few days of its start of Malaysian Open before even Q-Final stage, we have heard Rexy, one of the best coach I've ever seen in Badminton world wanted to resign succum to the pressurised working environment (wonder why is that), two of our promising double pairs are heading to independent club, KLRC and having former coach Li Mao criticising our BAM.

All these do show that BAM is having a huge and difficult task ahead of them before players and results within the management levels. People have been trying to fully utilised their power into getting things done their way disregard of the national interest, people are blocking some potential young rising star from developing due to their history with others, independent body from outside BAM do have some say in BAM decision making role (What is this all about actually when someone not relating to BAM can have a final say in BAM decision?) Don't BAM have someone more capable of making decision than the outsider?

And come back to Rexy's resignation. Why would he do so when he know his charge is having a great chance of winning our country's first ever Olympic Gold medal? Is he bowed under external pressure? Or is he really giving up on his charges? Is it really there is no more hope for Malaysia Badminton? Is our players being too protective and spoilt by our government? All this I can assure NO is the answer. Rexy wanted to resign because he doesn't have a full control of his role. People would want a piece of his work here and there, and I think there are some minor and major restriction to his work.

We all know Rexy love Badminton more than anything except his family and he wouldn't just walk away like that. There is genuinly a reason for his action last week, which I think most probably due to BAM internal politics. With such kind of things happened within BAM itself, I do not see Malaysia badminton future will progress any further than what they'd achieved so far, and believe me, after Lee Chong Wei, we will never find another World No 2 let alone No 1 and world champion.

We Malaysian are really and truely disappointed with BAM and all the management people in there because they are wasting our time and effort in supporting them, and I really regretted to watch back badminton after believing we stand a strong chance in Beijing 2008 after seeing what happen over the past week. I would rather switching into sports like cricket or rugby than watching this stupid badminton because we stand no chance, disappointment after disappointment and now hearing all this damn speculations. I totally felt let down, ashame and disgrace at what's been said and speculated over the last week