new delhi hockey india today described the governments decision to exclude its four key support staff including a coach from the asian gamesbound contingent as distraction leaving its high performance director roelant oltmans in a state of shock indias national game also had to face the brunt of the governments decision to prune down the indian contingent for the incheon asian games to 679 from 942 after mens team coach jude felix and scientific advisor matthew david eyles and womens side physiotherapist gaurav mehra and video analyst amutha prakash were not cleared for the september 19 to october 4 quadrennial event even though the move didnt go down well with oltmans he said both the mens and womens teams are focussed to deliver the goods despite the absence of the specialists i am shocked in 30 years of my professional career i havent encountered such a scenario it is impossible to manage a team without people in specific roles oltmans said on the sidelines of sendingoff ceremony for the teams held at hi secretary narinder batras residence here today we were supposed to leave tomorrow but we still dont know when we are flying because we havent got our tickets yet these are all distracting us and throwing our plans haywire our main focus now is to stay away from all these distractions and make sure that we perform to the level which we are capable of and if we do so we have a fair chance the legendary dutchman said indian mens teams chief coach terry walsh is also disturbed and surprised by the lastminute problems i just heard about some of these possible issues seems somewhat farfetched to me i cant control any of that so leave it to the people who can he said well this makes me really disturbed we still dont know as to which day we leave and it is really important thats actually is quite critical its another of those issues which we cant control but we are working around it is somewhat surprising that these things are happening at this stage of preparation walsh said we have got plans but things get changed we dont get too bothered by it we just have to deal with the situation put in front of us