What happened after FGM SEA games training.

Note: Please follow the sequence of event carefully to see if my train of reasoning carries water.

Hours after Zhuo Ren returned to KL his email appeared on Jimmy's blog. The speed was astounding. I was informed but didn't read it until the next day. So I called Zhou Ren and asked him why he couldn't just call me to say he had changed his mind about joining FGM instead of a public attack like that? Btw, I feel this is a relatively minor point since I already know the attitude of some of the trainers here.

FGM has the audacity to actually train our players to meet and take on the IM's on the table. Hard for some of them to take since they think the juniors should wait until they retire.

Sumant had left his helmet at Zhuo Ren's place so I asked him to give me some feedback when he met Zhuo Ren. He told me that when he saw Zhuo Ren, he was crying and Zhuo Ren said that he has a deal with the IM's to draw with him if he cooperated.

Now this is more alarming. But this is also almost impossible to prove. So when I heard this, I called Sumant's dad, Greg, Najib and Yee Weng. Selection must be a clean fight. Otherwise why train? With Sumant's dad and others monitoring the selection, we had the results that we did. Sumant made it on merit.

So at this stage Zhuo Ren has left FGM. And I have only 2 players left. Sumant and Mark. Sumant who is the first junior to make senior squad via selection and Mark who was the U18 number 2 and National junior number 2 that year. So FGM is starting to show results from our hard work.

But it's not over. Next came the Malaysian Open. Sumant was suddenly dropped from the Malaysian Team in the team event. Now follow this closely. I called Greg and explained that this would be bad for Sumant's morale but Greg did nothing.

Now the hands are beginning to show. The message was getting clearer. Cooperate like Zhuo Ren or we will fix you. I formed a team around Sumant when he was dropped but that was not enough.

One of his parents explained this to me. They don't like FGM. There are whisperings that Sumant would be dropped from SEA games squad unless he distances himself from me.

Now lets reason this out. There is one IM and one FM in Malaysia that talks about how weak our junior players are. And now one junior has taken the fight to them and won a place on pure merit. And he is dropped from the team event at Malaysian Open!? And he is attacked on the blogs. His parents are quietly warned.

Think about it. If they really wanted strong juniors how would they have greeted Sumant's achievement? Why the need to attack FGM?

And so finally Sumant made that public apology. To Sumant's credit, he took the flak for a long time till his parents were warned. What does Sumant need to apologise for? For training? For trying to win his place in fair competition?

And FGM is left with one player. And then they try to ban Mark.

Now understand that none of this can take place without the collusion of Greg. Nobody but him can determine the Malaysian team and nobody can drop Sumant from the squad without his consent. Nobody can ban anyone without reason except with his OK. He has shown his hand.

And this is very very alarming.

So my case is if we want to see that GM, if we want to progress, then the leadership must be changed.

No other trainer/coach have produced players with our results. FGM has the best track record so far in the short time we have been around. So they need to knock us out with their dirty tricks.

And now what can FGM do? They ask me on facebook why don't I continue to do more. Look at our history. First training for our juniors before International representation. Attacked. Thematics. Attacked. Our players attacked.

So until we can find a way to stop this we have to stop our activity. Otherwise it is not fair to our players. For in actuality it is MCF that is attacking them. Or more directly Greg, the hidden hand.