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Originally Posted by RazabQ
hmm - maybe US has a point. But honestly we need our boys to be tough enough now to win without the soft psychology. Otherwise it will be that once in a blue moon win. The players who will survive this regime won't need some beer-goggle reality packaged in coach-speak to win. They will win because they bloody will WANT to win.
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US definitely has a point or two here, no matter how convoluted his ulterior motives may or may not be.
The flaccid,
putuputu approach oozing with ceaseless New-Age slash SW-esque positive affirmations doesn't work in Bangladesh IMHO. Because instead of inspiring players to do better, it tends to make them complacent, dangerously delusional and moronic.
Weirdly enough, the negativist approach does the same with different expressions of moronic delusions as recently observed from the behavior of Ash and Aftab.
It is important to maintain and enhance one's self esteem, and offer the sort of corrective action that focuses on the
what-what-why within clearly set lines, rather than the traditional belittlement in public -- but that has to be done within the context of International cricket WITHOUT taking away the few achievements we actually managed.
JS continues to almost casually flaunt his lack of interest, especially when compared to RM, in the details of our cricket and see everything from his almost arrogant, poorly informed and vacation-laden subjectivity. That is not helping either as the substantial difference between
tough love and
de facto fatalism in the name of "realistic expectations" is lost inside that smooth head somewhere.
He needs to learn a few things to and drop the know-it-all attitude...
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To this point: I'm looking at the likes of TI or S-a-H. You think those two need some Stuart-smileyesque daily affirmations to get their self-belief?
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... Funny image.
Tamim probably does it with a punching bag with Munaf and Talha's face printed around his eye level.
Tamim and MaMi are young and have their own ways of bouncing back I'm sure. I just pray to GOD they sustain their comparatively more consistent performances. MaMi's in terms of "containment" bowling only because despite the couple of magnificent recent knocks, his batting has been more on the shaky side.