Barely had the dust settled on the KRFU Gala Awards that were held last Friday, a bombshell rocked the KRFU from within its technical set-up. The on-off sometimes used selectors commitee have tendered their resignation to the Board citing a number of reasons and issues. Well, Paul Odera, Thomas Odundo and Bill Githinji have resigned! Below is a letter they sent to the KRFU secretary Frank Sabwa.
Monday November 29th 2010
Frank Sabwa
Hon. Secretary
Kenya Rugby Union
Dear Mr. Sabwa,
Thank you very much for appointing us National selectors for the 2010-2011 season.
We as selectors had a meeting on Friday the 26th of November. During the meeting serious concerns were raised around:
1) The selection of players from outside the squad of 24 players we had initially agreed on. We have received no official clarification from the Kenya Rugby Union.
2) The absence of any selection criteria for the players.
These two issues have meant that we are unable to fulfil our mandate and to take responsibility for squad selection.
After careful consideration of the current environment, and the events of the last four weeks, We herby resign from our positions as National selectors with immediate effect.
We do wish the Kenya Rugby Union and the national Teams the best of luck in the coming season.
Yours sincerely,
William Githinji - Chairman
Paul Odera - Selector
Thomas Odundo - Selector
Githinji is a former sevens coach having been with the team for a long time. He has recently been pursuing a level 3 rugby coaching certificate and is on course with this. He is an oft winning coach with his club Impala and has budded many players who have gone on to be successful stars.
Odera is black Africa's first level 3 coach with impressive coaching credentials. A young budding coach who has done well coaching schools he has ideas that could be useful in developing Kenya's nursery of players. This is one coach the KRFU needs to utilize though has not been treated well in recent years by the KRFU.
Odundo is a former national fifteens coach who had mixed results with the national team. He is credited in leading the team to the second round of the World Cup qualifiers for the first time ever before being replaced by Manuel Okoth. Successful at his club and Super Four level he once had a 2 week stint in New Zealand with the NZRU.
These 3 rugby icons have felt betrayed by KRFU and have this called it a day. What a loss to Kenya Rugby.
15 Comments:
What's happening at kru?few weeks ago the speed coach resigns,now these great gentlemen with impressive coaching cv's follow suit,word is the assistant 7s coach never shows up for team training etc could this be the downfall of RO era?could he be the stumbling block?
how can the assistant coach show up for training yet when there is asome technical meeting like the one is Delhi before world cup then Ollows attends?
What was his reason for sidelining the coach who had been specifically invited, the organizers were emailing him and yet he had no clue about the meeting. and that is not the first time.
wait and see the good reasons that come out for this screw up.
http://www.sportsnewsarena.com/?itemId=17&articleId=513
Is it not Ollows who has been trying to fire Benja and Toti and replace them with Mitch? Ombisi tried to hvae it done at board level but it was shot down by Omwela.
This is once again another Quins vs IRB story!
Lets just get a Mwamba guy in charge and put Rombo as 7s Director!
Anon 1:08 - Rombo is the fifeens director. Githinji is Impala, Odera is Nondies, Ondundo is Quins, Ombisi is Impala. Muthee was there before and Manu. So forget Mwamba they are already doing good stuff as players.
looks like in kenya people want things that are already set up never wanting to actually set them up. when they coached national sides, did they have a selectors panel to work with?
isn't it their turn to set up something and they walk away? kenya rugby is very young technically. if the guys with some idea of how IT needs to be done walk, who will lead the technical?
this is simple quitting, let's not raise it
I think its high time Benja was fired... i support the selectors to a point and this is my point.
Has anyone taken a keen look at the team, one, there are 9 forwards and 3backs.of the 3 backs 2 are playmakers and one inexperienced. basically there are 9 guys who predominantly play in the forwards. trouble as this guys may cover in the backs but lack the sharpness that is required.
Remember commonwealth, Benja selected 7forwards and 2play makers and when Lavin got injured same did our chances of winning
If Peter Ocholla who loves contact or Gibson whose struggling with form gets injured we are in trouble.
Selection of Shimenga into the team is unwaranted and only undermines the work of the selectors. outside the training squad their are anumber of players who were dropped due to age who will offer more and have played 7s.
Nway this are serious issues as they will impact performance but not sufficient enough for one to resign. they should have requested an audience with union first.
They should first atleast distance themselves from the teams performance in the 1st two legs and try use dialogue to solve this problem we have with our 7s, Benja.
ofcourse KRU is a mess but try first dont assume.
There are dynamics here and not everything is black and white.
All these guys have been in this system and they therefore have dealt with issues like this before.
Bill- sevens coach hounded out like a dog after giving his services thrown to the sidelines to rot.
TO- Kenya 15s coach sent to NZ for training comes back hounded out like a dog thrown to the side lines to fester and rot.
Odera- coached our under 18s, traveled with them abroad where Sabwa caused the children to suffer by pure greed, underhand deals.
Paul does report highlighting all the problems undergone. hounded out like a dog by Sabwa and his cronnies, currently the highest ranked coach in a very big region, but until then kept out with kenya loosing cause of a truthful report.
How do you give that a chance? it looks like the same shit but just in a different toilet.
The chance given was the acceptance of the duties as soon as things looked 'back to normal' it was time to leave.
Quitters!
When a team is selected for duty and doesnt perform... who gets blamed? the Selectors panel or the coach?
The buck stops with the coach, so let Benja have his final say on the team, as coach.
What boys need is ur support, not cry babies!
Lets Go Kenya!
Kenyans will always be Kenyans! Seems that there is no pay for being a selector, otherwise I doubt if they would have resigned.
I will agree with mama Pima 100%, Benja needs to be fired for this team to move on.Performances atvthe CWG wasn't good and so were the last legs of the IRB.
The selectors are not quitters they just posses one thing that's lacking in that union-Intergrity,Fire all of them including that assustant coach who never shows to work,what use is he drawing a free salary?resign like the rest out of principal,he's not helping his club either!
Mitch and fresh new technical bench and players should check in.Dubai and George will be a flop so start typing their letters!
3 wisemen? Hahaha! Good title... Methinks we need to ask more of anyone involved in the game. One meeting and then: "no official clarification from the KRU" and "no selection criteria for players". So what in high heavens were they there for? What job did they take up? Sorry, not good enough! Poor!!
take up a union job and then ask "the union" for clarification. what am i missing?
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