For those who keep harping about the love of the game must be more than the love for money and then throw brickbats at Shah Rukh... I know you guys are an ignorant lot when in comes to SRK coz you chose to close your eyes and ears to whatever good stuff he says and does... but in IPL, he's the most passionate owner when it comes to cricket. I mean, I can't believe you guys think that the corporates who own the other teams care more about cricket than money. You must be mad.
Some of the stuff he has to do to turn the tide around is just common sense, but there must be limitations in terms of contractual agreements, goodwill, and promised future deals that have stopped him from executing the needed actions right away. There are several things I would like to suggest to him for next year though:
1. Remain behind the scene and push another face to be the front for KR. The media loves to tear him apart and the controversies created and centered around him is not good for the team
2. Transfer ownership of KR to another company... name on paper is someone else... but with him being the majority shareholder. Isn't this what he did with RC Ent? And look at how successful it's becoming as opposed to Dreamz. I think RC Ent should remain as a company for pure TV/movie entertainment while another (new) company should focus on the sports aspect. KR is big enough now to occupy a company on its own and spawn other peripheral business deals connected to sports.
3. Weed out the strategists. One thing I agree with Kabir Khan in CDI is: there can be only one bully in the team. Too many bullies will lead to chaos. Picking up from the 2nd suggestion, instead of having many strategists organizing all sorts of things, the company can handle the tasks, leaving the sports people to concentrate on what they do best, that is... play a game they're good at.
4. Scout and people KR with Indian players instead of foreign ones. This will increase the Indian fans loyalty as KR has suffered an image loss in IPL 2. So, even if they won't root for the team, they'll root for their favourite players. That said, I wish this 'ban' on Pakistan players will be lifted up come IPL 3. I bet they're being sorely missed by everyone, esp the Pakistani cricket fans.
5. With new faces in the management, good fresh players (more Indian ones!) esp those who won't remind fans of this year's disastrous performance, less of Shah Rukh and his quotes in the front pages of sports/entertainment/all-sorts-of news (I know they're entertaining. I love them too. But they can be reserved at least until AFTER the team has succeeded to get to the semis)... people will forget the IPL 2 result (humans have very selective memory) and start to cheer for KR again in IPL 3 with new hope in their hearts.
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