Quoted:
"You totally missed my point here. I never used it as an excuse. Why would I, when even Stevie Wonder would've noticed our team is just poor right now.
One or two flops can happen anywhere, but doing such things on purpose will never be okay for me. It's frustrating, you know. When it comes to volley, Poland is a country with highest organizational standards. Both CEV's and FIVB's requirements towards us grow more and more, often reaching the level of ridiculous. And yet when we go abroad and something's not right, we can't even complain because no one gives a shit. Not getting quality meal at the hotel (and that was just us, the French had a whole different menu) means having to look for some restaurant on your own, and that means wasting both time and energy. And having to pay extra in order to get some decent beds to sleep is just absurd."
I understand that it is frustrating but you can not compare the standards what you have to achieve when you want to organize let's say the Finals of the European Championship or when you have a weekends match in the World League group stages. As to the World League teams are qualified based on their Volleyball performance and financial background not by the quality of their organisation skills and quality.
I agree though that there should be a standard which has to be met and if it does not then there should be consequences towards that country's federation, but if the standards are poorly set and no retorsion applied when those standars are not met then obviously nobody will give a sh*t to please everybody. France has not applied since years to organize any big event's finals as far as I know. Max qualification rounds... So you are not comparing the same things to each other.
And I do not know why you say it was on purpose, just because somebody has the idea that they did it deliberately to cause hard time for the Polish players... We should hear the other team's opinions who will play or played in France during this World League for example the Bulgarian team. Who I am sure had the same conditions and still they hammered down the French team with their young squad 3:2 and 3:0. Maybe those players expectations are not that high to await gourmet dinner and a 10star luxury hotel...
The hotel's obviously planning a meal to spend the least on a portion as they get head quota from the organizer so they get better profit. If the hotel get intructions about the wishes of the French team then they might have cooked them that. I think there is room for negotiation concerning the meals and if the wishes are too extreem then they have to pay the extra cost. That is normal I think.
The beds... Well I am sure not much hotel has 2meter long beds in every room specially 2 beds of such in each room. I don't think that was on prupose either, max they did not take that into consideration.
Ah an I did not lose the point totally as you have just started your comment with :
"The French have their own little way of winning matches, I see"
So you think this was the reason they won.
And of course FIVB doing nothing. I realize it's not that uncommon, but this doesn't automatically make it any less embarrassing. And I wouldn't expect such difficulties in France, to be honest.
