2013 CALENDAR REVEALED

Since three persons of the MHC Competitions Committee have made baseless accusations, I hereby go one step further to expose their lack of concern towards hockey by releasing the long overdue competitions schedule for 2013.

There seems to be a tendency to hold a women's tournament similar to the men's, and this will put a heavy burden on the finances of MHC.

-Malaysian Junior Hockey League - 11th Jan – 3rd March

-Malaysian Hockey League – 22nd March – 12th May

-National Under 16 (M) – 22 March – 31st March

-National Under 16 (W) – 22 March – 31st March

-RNA Cup (W) – 15th April – 21st April

-National Under 21 (M) – 18th May – 25th May

-National Under 21 (W) – 18th May – 25th May

-MSSM (M&W) – 3rd June – 8th June

-Razak Cup – 7th September – 15th September

-National Indoor (M&W) 2nd October – 4th October

-MSN Under 16 Indoor (M&W) 7th November – 10th November

-National Under 14 (M) 18th November – 27th November

-National Under 14 (W) 18th November – 27th November

-National Veterans 28th November – 1st December

WHY THE OBSSESION

There seems to be an hidden agenda in wanting to merge the Malaysian Hockey League and the Malaysian Junior Hockey League.

And it has nothing to do with the interest of hockey but rather the greed of making money at the expense of loyalty to a sponsor that has stood by Hockey for more then three decades.

Read later on how this blog reveals the sinister motives of some within MHC that are worse then ulat Tiket be it at taxi stands. Airports and sports venues.

NEW REGULATIONS?

When incompetent persons head something, it is bound to invite inadequacies as they are carrying out responsibilities entrusted to them with an hidden agenda.

Just take a look at the appointment schedule for the Under 16 and one could understand the haphazard manner in which the tournament is being organised, so much for the ability of some personalities who tend to undermine honest people, even to the extent of making false allegations when there are deaths in the family.

Suchj low esteemed personalities cannot even get a sufficient number of Umpires and Technical Officials for the tournament as one Technical Official is appointed for three matches in one day while some umpires have to officiate two matches.

So where are the Technical Officials and Umpires? Why not import them from across the causeway and do your friends a favour? As for Technical Officials, just two appointed to do five matches in one day?

Wonder what happened to the subsidy of RM3,000 promised to the teams, something that even MHC Senior Vice President Dato Nur Azmi Ahmad was unaware of.

"Who approved the subsidy of RM3,000? I need to check on this matter with the Competitions Chairman. Maybe the sponsors have pledged the amount," was what Azmi told this blog on Sunday when asked about the subsidy.

It is interesting to note as well tha in the Penang v Selangor match, an umpire awarded a goal but play was then stopped by the Technical Official on duty, ironically from Selangor, and upon chatting with the umpire the goal was reversed.

Wonder if the MHC website administrator will actually report on this matter and even write match reports, rather then just put up scores. Its the ability to write that matters as you do not need to be a professor and insult death of still born babies to show how "cute": you are.

NEW LOOK JUNIORS

There are eight changes to the Project 2013 squad that will participate in the Obaidullah Khan Gold Cup Tournament in Bhopal from the squad that played in the Sultan of Johor Cup last month.

The Obaidullah Khan will commence on 19 December with the finals slated on Christmas.

" It is a new look team and we intend to provide the players with the necessary exposure. This team is being build towards the Junior World Cup and I believe the level of competition will prove useful," said team manager Mirnawan Nawawi.

" We hope the players will adapt well to the conditions and play to their abilities despite facing more senior players in the tournament."

The players who played in Johor and are ineligible to play in the Junior World Cup at the end of 2013, Mohd Noor Faeez Ibrahim, Dedy Aryadi, Mohd Ramadhan Rosli, Amir Farid Ahmad Fuzi and Nor Hizzat Sumantri have been left put as coach K.Dharmaraj seeks to rebuild his team.

Mohd Izad Hakimi Jamaluddin, Shahrul Azaddin Auskrazie, Fitri Saari, Faiz Hemi and Mohd Syamim Yusof are included in the senior squad for the Doha Asian Champions Trophy that will be held at the same time as the tournament in Doha.

The new players included by Dharma who did not see action in Johor are Mohd Hazrul Faiz Othman, Mohd Haziq Shamsul, Mohd Nor Aqmal Ghaffar, Dangerous Lee, Meor Muhammad Azuan Hassan, Ibnu Fathillah Mutalib, Sobirin Illias and Mohd Fitri Ismail.

Those retained are Mohd Shahril Saabah, Mohd Zulhairi Hashim, Mohd Firhan Ashaari, Shazril Irwan Nazli, Mohd Hafiz Zainol, Mohd Azri Hassan, Kavin Karthik, Mohd Rashid Baharom, Shazrul Imran Nazli and Mohd Hafizuddin Othman.

The remaining players with a few to be called up will play Korean National Sports University in a series of friendlies at Bukit Jalil from 18 to 24 December.

The Bhopal bound team will play the Koreans on December 15 and 16 at the National Hockey Stadium.

TWO MORE JUNIORS ROPED IN

A total of four players from the Project 2013 have found a place in the senior squad for the 2nd Asian Champions Trophy in Doha next week.

Two of them Mohd Syamim Yusof and Mohd Izad Hakimi Jamaluddin will be making their international debut while the other two junior players are Fitri Saari and Faiz Helmi.

Ironically the team will see two pairs of brothers donning national colours at the same tournament , Izad and Roslan while the other is Fitri and Faisal.

Had Jivan Mohan be retained, he would have teamed up with Jiwa Mohan to make it three set of brothers.

Eight players from the squad that finished fourth in the recent Champions Challenge in Argentina have made way for the inclusion of several youngsters.

The eight omitted are Chua Boon Huat, Jivan Mohan, Ismail Abu, Izwan Firdaus, Mohd Amin Rahim, Mohd Shukri Mitalib Mohd Marhan Jalil and Baljit Singh.

They have been replaced by Izad, Syamim, Hafifihafiz Hanafi, Jiwa Mohan, Mohd Sallehin Ghani, Mohammad Azammi Abadi Mohd Noor Faeez Ibrahim and Norhizzat Sumantri.

THE MISSING 300

Well it's not the movie 300 that I referring to but rather RM300.

It seems that a club that submitted a protest in an MHL match never got a reply in writing let alone the receipt or return of the RM300 that was attached with the protest.

It seems that while the protest was rejected it was decided that they money be returned at this was also reported in the media

So where is the 300?

UNPAID SUBSIDIES - THE SAGA CONTINUES

After highlighting the issue of the unpaid subsidies that irked the National Sports Council, a far bigger blooper is now revealed.

The TNBMHL commenced in September with the final being played in October. Each team was compelled to wear the logo of the MHL on the front and in accordance wth the rules and regulations of the MHL, the teams were to receive RM2,000 each as subsidy.

However this blog can now reveal, having sought confirmation from clubs in the Premier and First Division of the MHL, that none of them received the subsidy, despite reminding the MHC several times.

So much so that one club claimed that they consider the subsidy as a donation to MHC since the national body could not even keep up to its word.

All that talk that moves are in place to take MHC to a more professional outfit could well be a Red Herring given that even simple things like this cannot be resolved.