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The future of the coaching staff

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If I am not mistaken, the current coaching staff took over in June 2018 and results have not been up to scratch. Of course there are other factors but judging from execution in the games, sometimes it seems the team plays without a clear plan or approach. For example, as recent as yesterday, the bowlers just seemed to be throwing it and hoping for the best.

All three main coaches honestly were not great during their playing days and I do not think they are good enough in terms of strategy and game plan. At best they are just trainers to me were Stuey can just throw a 100 balls to batsmen in the nets, but when it comes to how they strategize on how to approach a game, a match situation I do not see this being translated onto the field of play and the same can be said about the bowling department.

Are there any standards to which they have to live up to as coaches and who do they report to? It always seems as though it is business as usual, no pre or post match conferences where they face tough questions. This is not good for the development of the team. As it stands, the coaching staff has not been good enough and their CVs are not inspiring.

It is a big 2 to 3 years for us and we need the right people in charge. There has to be good coaches to nurture these youngsters and remove this culture of just showing up losing and no visible improvements. Cricket coaches need to have a very strong cricket brain and we are lacking very much there. They have lost enough and they must go. If Raza can go out in 3 consecutive TEST innings trying to hit a six, it shows a lack of accountability which further indicates how useless the coaches are to the players also.

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If you really wanted to be offensive you must call us pink pigs, but we will suck it up, metaphorically of course.

The pigs and the apes stand in solidarity. 'Tsek!!
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secretzimbo wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 4:35 pm

Jeeez this is getting well out of hand on all sides.

Personally I never even knew 'pig' was offensive to Indians. Muslims and Jews, sure. But I don't think it's common knowledge that it's 'racist' to Indians. Googly clearly wasn't trying to be racist directly at you with that line. Besides, he didn't even call you one. He used a metaphor.

The response about black apes and forests was extremely racist and offensive....and it was aimed directly at someone and fully intended to racially offend....on a f***ing Zimbabwean forum ffs! Even if we are white obviously we are going to be offended by that in Zimbabwe. That's not cool at all.

Similarly Doggy it's not cool to repeat it. Unlike Raj who views it as 'fight racism with racism', I reckon it's probably best to be the bigger man and not keep on at it.

There's a lot of very very good Indian posters on here and I'm pretty sure nobody here is trying to be racist to any of them. Apart from Raj, you are all cool.

Raj, you said you were leaving. PLEASE do then. Nobody at all will miss you.

Ultimately this whole thing is why eventually the remaining community here is going to have to consider the future because this place is just unsustainable with no admins/moderators at all.


Muslims do live in India also, and they are also Indians. You must know it being a cricket fan
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Aah the alter ego. Didn't take long. Maybe we genuinely have a quad polar moron here.
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You know you can actively ignore him? Don't give him the attention he lives off of.

Without active moderators or admin, this will continue and he gets away with it.

Short of a new platform with active moderation, just stop feeding him.
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What are the odds that at least one of his personas has gone? They're fair to middling. I inadvertently pressed a button there. Maybe some low level stuff will keep him at bay.

If this forum gets cluttered with those types it will be a shame and there's a real danger of it.

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