Firstly, I am very surprised a battling 70/120runner trying to pick up a race on the pro circuit would team up with an international 44s 400m athlete. Different events and massively different standards. Looking at his results, it wasn’t the best decision. :o
Secondly my view is, based on my experiences, running at Lambton has little if nothing to do with how Josh ran at Canberra. It was a decision made at the time that Nanny & Josh thought was OK. Providing he got through it alright, it was just another step along the road to recovery. There is no right or wrong answer on it.
There is one massive flaw in Sharma’s arguments and its a recurring theme throughout most of the waffle he adds to this site.
His comments are based on his theories, mainly based on observations. From that he deducts whether it is black or white, right or wrong. There is no middle ground or grey areas.
He relies almost entirely on the results and successes of others to mould his view.
Consequently Sharma cannot imagine what it would be like to actually have to make a decision based on his own practical experiences.
He talks of trenches but he’s never been in one.
Not for him to look up from the start of the final at Central Park Stawell on Easter Monday, and feel the pressure and the weight of expectations of stablemates, family, friends and those who have wagered their hard earned.
Nor is it for him to know what it’s like to have to make coaching decisions on a day to day basis, sometimes getting them right but other times getting them wrong, but then being able to bank that information, so it can be recalled for similiar circumstance in the future.
Coaching can be a brutal environment with plenty of critics ready to lay the boots in when things go awry. My experience is the good ones survive and prosper. The bad ones end up bulldusting their way through, ruinig careers along the way.
One day Sharma might enlist in its ranks and really get the feel of being in the trenches instead of playing make believe coach in an athletic version of fantasy football hiding behind the safety of a computer screen, where his decisions can never be scrutinised.
