Looking for a light

Today was a good day for training, I think the possession play is realli beginning to pay off, so at last I know I am doing something right there. The game was also good, I thought both teams played well, and I was happy with the moevement and stuff. We can and have to be fitter of course, but overall its ok, we are heading somewhere at least. Jolyn also gave me some good ideas about how to improve training thru specificity,well actually her dad did, so will be implementing some new stuff next week.

But of cos, there is something on my mind now which I just have to offload, which I shall call "The coaching dilemma". Whenever one becomes a coach, he always has to face this dilemma when sorting out a two-side game.

Should I play the first team against the second?

Should I mix it up?

Both has its pros and cons, which I do not wish to talk about cos I discussed it so much after training, I'm sick of it. But inevitably I think ppl always get hurt, when divisions are made, when THIS dilemma is faced, when sides are taken and when cuts are executed.

I hate it and never liked it, and I guess I never will. But too bad it has to be done.

After training today I saw a couple of long faces and I instantly knew why. I mean cmon....I was a sportsman for so long, still am, so wat the heck, very easy to tell.

I guess I came into this whole thing wanting to be everybody's hero, wanting people to respect me and look up to me, but its realli not dat way at all. As I have always maintained, the sad truth remains dat as a coach, one is there to be judged. And u can never ever make everyone happy. I mean even if a coach wins a world cup and each of his players get a million dollars, the players who were cut from the squad before dat will be realli pissed, and so will those who got less playing time, so even at its ultimate, its hard to please everybody. Sigh.

Salome text'd me this just now:

"Yo...Dnt worry too much... Things wld work out jus fine.. Gals take tings 2 heart easily but we jus need time 2 tink trgh n realise tt we shldnt behave e way we did.. Every1 has 2 start frm smewhere n tis may b a turng pt 4 sme of dem.. U've 2 b convinced tt wat u did was right so tt e team can b convinced k?"

Well I guess wat they also say is true.

There are people who take the heart out of you.

But there are those who put it right back in.

I'll keep fighting the good fight.

Great training all. Oh and thanx salomee, for remembering I'm still a human wif a heart. =p

Out.

posted by Me @ 1:39 AM