Cellular wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:05 pm
Damunk wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:03 pm
packerland wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:17 pm
I’m all for hiring a foreign coach but this one makes no sense. I’m sorry but some people at the NFF must be getting a cut from hiring these journey man foreign coaches. Finidi did let us down big time but I’ll rather give him a few more chances than hiring this underachiever. Now
our resident black panthers that like to call people WOWO will act like they didn’t see my post denouncing hiring this Dutch coach.
I love this.
I will,adopt it.
I’ve been calling them Nigerian Freedom Fighters (NFF), but I prefer yours.
Of course
both of you are of the same persuasion.
On this matter, obviously yes.
Including the part about keeping Finidi, which you neatly ignored because it waters down your argument about how to define a ‘WOWO’.
What really grates my bones is that you both are part of the people that enable these frauds running NFF under the guise, of "I just want a competent coach I don't care where he comes from".
Oh really? You’d rather sacrifice proven competence for fake patriotism in a field that your national flag is going into a ‘
War-By-Other-Means’ on a continental and even more, a global platform?
You funny die.
Where he comes from is a valid concern if the hiring process was fair.
No. It’s fair if it
doesn’t matter where he comes from,
but is the best candidate available.
Same reason you and I got our jobs in the UK and USA as Nigerians.
You’ve got it twisted.
Unless you’re telling me that you got your job by unfair means.
Articles upon articles written about discrimination, bias, and inequality in the hiring process of BLACK COACHES are all over the place for you guys to read even if you are willfully ignorant but you parrot the same jive.
So your solution to correcting that injustice is to play the same discrimination card of your own
at the expense of the success of the nation you so claim to love?
What grates me is you guys that want to settle a score at the expense of 200m people that are mostly craving for a little bit of success. Nothing is guaranteed but you are surely shortchanging yourself by being a ‘
WOWOOR’ - We Only Want Our
Own Race’.
That’s why y’all are confused Black Panthers.
No be so den dey do am.
Rather than champion the message that our coaches should work towards higher achievement at home and on the continent, you are encouraging them to cut corners and hang around to get the top jobs
simply because they are Nigerian?
Can I remind you that you have been the one pushing hard to convince everyone that people like us have “low ambition”, and that we revel in “mediocrity” and yet these are the very things you are championing by not insistent on standards?
You have your job because someone broke the barrier. Not because you are special... but because someone broke the barrier, that hiring you is no longer seen as a novelty.
That barrier was smashed by breaking discrimination,
NOT by lowering standards.
As you know, we black people in the west still have to make standards and even surpass them.
In Nigeria,
they ALL need to meet the minimum standards expected by the nation, not simply by being Nigerian.
Like I have said countless times, Finidi’s and Amuneke’s CVs WILL NOT make an anonymous Nigerian shortlist for the SE job.
Quota is not so bad if at least the applicants meets a minimum set standard.
What is your set standard for the SE job, ‘Chief Cellular Meritocracy’?
These crooks at the NFF read online chatter... you, Packerland, and the rest are the ones who give them the impetus to go the route they are going because they will cite that "online fan chatter is divided".
You might be right there and I have no regrets for insisting on meritocracy ALL the time until we lose the argument.
If they use the meritocracy argument to disguise their shenanigans, that’s on them, not me.
Your argument is more detrimental to our football. It’s basically an ‘
Emi l’o kan’ argument which we all know is not based on merit, but on sentiment with no regard for the medium and long term consequences.
You also conveniently ignore the fact that Keshi, Siasia and Amodu had the full support of people like me until/unless they royally screwed up. Like Fela said, ‘
Make I open book for you and see ’.
And now, I am happily championing young coaches like Olumide Ajibolade who know what it takes to get to the very top and are willing to take their time and do the hard work.
So please, don’t come at me with this your superior attitude simply because we differ in principle.
That will not be tolerated bro.