By Lai Jun Wei
Presbyterian High (Black) defeated Fairfield Methodist Secondary 2-0 (25-12, 25-22) in the last match for both teams in Round 2 of the U-16 Girls Volleyball Championship recently. The result of this game caused Yuying Secondary to lose out on a place in the semi-finals.
Yuying needed Fairfield to beat Presbyterian High (Black) to go through. However, that likelihood disappeared when Fairfield Methodist fielded a team of reserves. Fairfield were already out of contention and the reserves got a chance to play.
The Yuying team were frustrated to see their semi-final place disappear, especially since Yuying had beaten Fairfield Methodist 2-1 and Presbyterian High (Black) 2-0 in previous encounters.
As Fairfield had lost three out of four of their Round 2 matches, their remaining match against Presbyterian High was inconsequential. The Fairfield Methodist coach therefore fielded his reserve players and retired some of his main players to the bench.
This gave Presbyterian High an easier task and they took advantage to win 2-0.
Despite the unhappiness in the Yuying camp, some readers in the Red Sports chat box felt that giving the reserves a chance to play made sense.
A reader by the name of Mel said: "As a coach, your players are down for every match but all they do is sit on the bench. How would you feel? Surely you’d want them to gain some exposure, isn’t it?"
However, another reader retorted: "(Fairfield) should know that if they did this, some other team will be out. So to put in reserves to let (the reserve players) have the feel, it’s like killing the other team’s opportunity to qualify.”
But Mel replied: "You’ve to think of your players and not other teams right? Deep down in your heart, some of your players, though not up to certain standards, have been training hard. They didn’t get a chance to play much in that particular tournament, so maybe the coach wants them to leech (sic) some experience from it?"
According to the players, their coach told them after the game his reason for fielding the reserve players was to give them exposure.
Put yourselves in the shoes of yuying? Then why not put yourselves in the shoes of fairfield too? Being accused of cheating when they purely had no intention of doing that. Think.
They didn’t have to say that fairfield cheated right? Shuqun slammed the door, so what? They didn’t say that Ngee Ann cheated. Did they? No. So there’s no point dragging two different incidents together when they have totally no link at all.
wow.the conversation has stopped.
thats amazing!
Hey, its not really appropriate for me to enter this quarrel at this time, but what would you do if you all were Yuying? Obviously you guys would feel angry and injusticed right? Sportsmanship is important, yes. And besides, its not only YYS, SQS also did. After th match at Hougang with NAS, thy slammed th toilet door? I don’t see whats wrong? I mean, in a game there’s definitely a win and a lose. So no point quarrelling.
Whats with the heat man? You all shouldnt be going around calling Yuying sore losers. Yes, i’m sorry. But sore losers is seriously offending. Its true that we dont know the real truth behind this.
But why cant some of you just step in the shoe’s of yuying and see how they feel. Yes, as you all have said, the reserves deserves to play at times and get experience, after all they’ve trained so hard too. But why dont you take a look? Yuying in some way, deserves to feel unfair. Because they themselves have worked hard too. Their improvements are tremendous so i dont understand why you all have to sort of give this feeling like, yuying is being looked down upon. Think for yourself, if you were yuying this time round, wouldnt you definitely feel a little unfair for yourselves?
ya lor! who ah? today go hougang sports hall, then end up DIDNT PLAY, i wonder who.
okay.
“According to the players, their coach told them after the game his reason for fielding the reserve players was to give them exposure.”
i quoted this from the post up there. if you really want to doubt the coach’s intention, then go make an appointment with him and ask everything and anything you want.
the end.
If yuying really got sportsmanship then they wouldn’t have started this right? Trying to assume that fairfield cheated. If they think fairfield had ulterior motives about fielding their reserves then what makes you think they had no motives for starting this? Wake up please. Nothing they do would make a difference right. So why don’t you tell them they need to have some sportsmanship and grow up? Accept the fact that they’re out. Rather than blaming others thinking that fairfield shouldn’t have fielded reserves? Fairfield don’t owe them anyth.
i hate sore losers!
i agree!
Whatever it is, the fact now is yuying is alrdy out. There’s no point arguing bout this matter anymore. Not as if yuying will be in top 4 if someone wins this arguement?
dunno who out in top 8 leh.
who arh?
go hougang sports hall cannot play.
to J.T –
you just dont get it. im not assuming or anything! just EXPRESSING MY OWN VIEWS right? cant you just accept the fact the different ppl have other views? you cant force other ppl to share the same views and thoughts as you right?
and LET ME answer you. its all about personal connections (IN MY OPINION, im telling you, IN MY OPINION). or maybe even personal grudges, perhaps youre just young and dontknow ALOT of things behind the scene yah. but, yes, JUST STATING IN MY OWN VIEWS. (:
AND IM TELLING YOU AGAIN, im not trying to defame the coaches or anything. what will i gain? hello, i dont bear any grudges against the coaches. i just sharing my own thoughts with you guys. IF youre trying to get personal or into arguements, then im out of it. im not here to argue, but just to share my views. and please, sharing views in this forum wont spoil the coach’s reputation in any big way. cause its just oneself’s personal views. agree or disagree with the view, is up to you. (:
to number19 –
yeah, maybe thats what everthing’s about.
to “(:”
actually u should explaining yuying what is “SPORTSMANSHIP”!!
just look at their behaviours today at hougang sports hall.
explain to them wat is sportsmanship!
** monkey behaviours.
Yup, there is a point. So, this topic should be rename as, “Did Fairfield coach help Presby by losing to them?” This topic will be more direct to the topic we are commenting now.
Then why can’t you just accept the fact that he really wants his reserve team to gain experience? Rather than assuming that he’s cheating when he’s not even close to presby at all. LEMME ASK YOU. What will he gain by helping presby? Nothing. So why do you think he’s doing that. You can believe what you wanna believe, but you don’t hafta defame coaches.
to J.T-
HELLO, i told you so many times. im expressing my own views. it is the ppl’s choice of whether to agree or not. you can choose to disagree yah. im not spoiling the coach’s reputation. im just stating my own views. MY OWN VIEWS. (:
and seriously, it will be about sportsmanship if they did it on purpose. HELLO? this is a competition, that will be like SO NOT having sportsmanship if they did it on purpose.
AND ONCE AGAIN, its not about pushing the blame on others. its about stating your own views here. it may not be true. but. its just what ppl think.
but i seriously think that fairfield coach didnt have the intention of “helping” phs black.but to let his player gain exp so that they can improve on their skills.
to number19-
thats the whole thing we’re talking about!
okay, if its like what you’ve said, he really wants the reserves to gain experience, then so be it.
but if its another reason, helping PHS(black), he wouldnt be stupid to walk over or just stand there right? ppl will say that he help presby! i mean, (pardon me for saying this, no offence though) if you have to do something that you know it’ll spoil your reputation but in order to gain another advantage, you wont want others to know right. so he must well just send down his reserves and get the same results rather than letting ppl to say him being not fair or helping presby instead of playing real. you get what i meant?
he wouldnt be so stupid to make it so obvious right?
so this whole incident causes two different points of view :
1) he really wants his reserves to gain exp, have the chance to play.
2) he’s helping presby
well well, all are in my opinion though. no offence. (:
i totally agree with number 19!
yuying just dont be sore loser can liao lah!