So, as all things end, so do contracts for trainers. Specially for trainers who feel "entitled to renegotiate my contract". Contracts should definitely end for trainers who think "I was worth a little bit more after the time I have been here".
Grant Compton, Pakistan's trainer for the past two years, feels somewhat slighted by the PCB because they don't think he is worth a raise and worth added benefits to his contract. Now, I am not the PCB's biggest fan, never have been, probably never will be, but I can't fault them here. What has happened to the overall fitness of the Pakistani players over the past two years? There has been not one iota of difference. For all of Compton's new fangled, modern methods, can one really honestly say that Pakistani players are fitter today? If anything, Inzamam is more rotund, Shoaib Akhtar is more fragile, and players like Shabbir, Naved and Umar Gul have been declared fit and not fit on whimsical fitness tests, which if Compton was a competent physio would never have come to pass.
Now, what this says about Bob Woolmer's future, is the more interesting question. I think it is a foregone conclusion that Woolmer will be moving on somewhere else after the World Cup is done, whether it is England or somewhere else. I think his act has run its course, for all its achievements in Pakistan.
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Grant Compton, Pakistan's trainer for the past two years, feels somewhat slighted by the PCB because they don't think he is worth a raise and worth added benefits to his contract. Now, I am not the PCB's biggest fan, never have been, probably never will be, but I can't fault them here. What has happened to the overall fitness of the Pakistani players over the past two years? There has been not one iota of difference. For all of Compton's new fangled, modern methods, can one really honestly say that Pakistani players are fitter today? If anything, Inzamam is more rotund, Shoaib Akhtar is more fragile, and players like Shabbir, Naved and Umar Gul have been declared fit and not fit on whimsical fitness tests, which if Compton was a competent physio would never have come to pass.
Now, what this says about Bob Woolmer's future, is the more interesting question. I think it is a foregone conclusion that Woolmer will be moving on somewhere else after the World Cup is done, whether it is England or somewhere else. I think his act has run its course, for all its achievements in Pakistan.
Technorati Tags: pakistan, pakistan cricket board, cricket, bob woolmer, fitness
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