Warning revisited 3 months later..

Is The New Captain Another Football Captain Just Warming Up? It May Be Worse, The Team (i.e. Advisers) Is Still In The Dressing Room! - By Matthias Chang
By Matthias Chang
Thursday, 16 April 2009 00:06

When the Badawi regime was listless and napping, Badawi gave the excuse that he was merely warming up.

I pointed out that he had five years to warm up as the deputy prime minister to the then prime minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad and that he cannot have the luxury to “warm up” when the game has already started.

Badawi did not heed my advice and when the game resumed after half-time, he gave away five goals. A third rate team scored five massive goals and was surprised that the much touted BN team was unimaginative in offensive play and its defenders were four overweight and over-rated players.

Badawi refused to accept responsibility for the massacre and demanded that he remain as Captain. The whole team sheepishly agreed that the captain should be allowed to serve the full term. The stupid rationale was that “a captain should not be challenged” as it was against the “culture”.

The fans and critics were so pissed off that they gave the ultimate warning that if there was no change in the leadership, they would bury the entire team.

Some team members asked the Deputy to take over the leadership but he refused. He calculated that it would be safer for his long term future that others should do the heavy work of pushing aside the captain. The Deputy knew that sooner or later, the captain would be toppled as the fans were really pissed off.

The Deputy’s advisers, being opportunists and lacking in principles agreed to this game plan.

The fans and critics fed up with the charade, mounted a massive campaign and indicated that events would turn ugly and the whole team beaten to a pulp, if the captain was not booted out. That scared the shits out of the entire team. And as they say, the rest is history, albeit a recent history.

One would have thought that the Deputy who had assumed the captaincy would be more than grateful to the fans and critics who for five years, did all the heavy work to boot out the under-performing captain.

To the utter consternation of the fans and critics, this new captain was not only ungrateful but worse, he has informed his opportunist “advisers” (a carbon copy of the 4th Floor Boys) that he intends to appoint the moribund and just retired captain as his adviser. It was reported that the new captain was fond of saying that the just retired captain was an “honourable man” as he had kept his word to retire.

Maybe we should remind this new captain that the just retired captain wanted to “retire” in 2010 as he had “unfinished business” to attend. The fans went ballistic and demanded “December 2008 or else….”

The just retired captain, with the tacit agreement of the Deputy, deviously postponed the Annual Meeting from December 2008 to March 2009 in the hope of buying time. But it was not to be, as the fans were adamant that the captain must get out of their sight for good!

So how in the world can this new captain and his opportunist advisers claim that IT WAS THEIR STRATEGY THAT WROUGHT THE CAPTAINCY from the just retired captain?

I am not going to waste my time arguing this point.

I will be blunt and frank.

I will now issue a warning to the new captain and his opportunist advisers.

You had five years of warming up. Enough is enough!

You had five years of experience in mismanaging the country under the just retired captain.

You had five years of experience in how to destroy a political party under the just retired captain.

You had five years of our patience and tolerance.

You had five years to address our grievances but you neglected our frustrations and F#@K up big time and paid a heavy price, when your team gave away five massive goals to our opponents. A day of infamy!

You had five years to prepare a program to make good the damage, but you and your team just did not have the balls to do what it takes to make things right.

You had five years, and it freaks us out that you and your team, right at this moment is still figuring out what is required to put things right.

If your bloody idiotic advisers, whoever they are, cannot see the shits that have hit the ceiling fan and messed up the whole place by now, its about time, you ditch each and everyone of these ass#@L#@!!!!!!!!!!

AFTER FIVE WASTED YEARS, HOW CAN YOU AND YOUR TEAM HAVE THE AUDACITY TO CONTINUE WITH THE SPIN OF THE JUST RETIRED CAPTAIN?

You must be freaking out to think we will fall for more spin!

AS A GOVERNMENT, YOU ARE EXPECTED TO PERFORM AND PERFORM WELL. SO DON’T TELL US THAT YOU WILL MONITOR YOUR TEAM’S PERFORMANCE.

YOU ARE THE CAPTAIN. ACT LIKE ONE!

YOU BETTER SHAPE UP FAST OR WE WILL SHIP YOU AND YOUR TEAM OUT!

WE WILL MONITOR YOU AND YOUR TEAM.

So why are you and your team still warming up, when you should be up and running and scoring some spectacular goals so that we have something to cheer, instead of hearing more excuses?

Team BN lost by five goals in the big game in March 2008. Since then you have lost three critical games. It would have been a consolation of sorts to have scored at least one goal in the three matches. But you came up with duds!

That is just not acceptable. It is the same old team, with the same tactics, and the same cheer leaders. Can you just tell us what is new, different and really meaningful? And for heaven’s sake, don’t do or say anything that will remind us of the just retired captain, his arrogant son-in-law and their baggage.

If you should utter again that the just retired captain is OK and you will look to him for advice, then all bets are off. We are tired of watching the same movie over and over again. Is this so difficult for you and your idiotic and opportunist advisers to comprehend?

FINALLY, get into your head that it is the economy that is our priority and if you don’t get it right by July, your time is up and you will have to go the same way as the just retired captain.

Please do the following as proof that you are listening to the rakyat.

Ask yourself the following questions:

Since you became the Finance Minister, why were you not up to speed on the global financial crisis?

If it is because you were getting the wrong data and advice (inspite of all the public warnings and publications), then why are you still keeping these advisers and or officials at the Central Bank and the Treasury?

What is the single most important thing that you must do as captain and treasurer of the team to win the confidence and support of the fans?

If you and your team do not know the answer, I suggest that you join the just retired captain and save us a whole load of aggravation.

You have been warned!