Let's move on with the fellas who show up, trying their best and give them the support
De ting is....we have to be careful with that too.
Yes...they show up. But who's to say they any more committed than the oens who currently getting flak?
The ones who showin up now have few other options so it easy to show up in a sense.
Is when you have options is when you go see how things go.
And I still maintain......leadership comes from the top and the players not blind.
Case in point....players get sanction for not coming to camp, not making deyself available for the Nicaragua tour, and for showin up late etc.
Yet.....the assistant coach get to miss the camp AND tour and only now showin up with the team.
Not blamin Latas.....but optics nah
This struck a chord with me to really try to be objective and to try to see this from a player's perspective. I realize as fans we want to see our best players at all times representing TNT no matter what the circumstances. However players are also humans not robots who blindly jump to a patriotic call of duty.
Consider the road that some of these players had to take to make it out of TNT to play professionally abroad. There had to be some degree of commitment and motivation to get to that level. Now consider what they experience once they are call to duty for country? You have administrators who appear to be self aggrandizing , self serving and self seeking only to benefit themselves.
When administrators allegedly work in ways to undermine the coach or to pit players aganist a coach how does this teach loyalty? Commitment? Patriotism? When an administrator appears to be acting to benefit the team yet publicially undermines a coach by giving him an ultimatum how does this teach commitment to players? Why would a player want to commit to another coach if he knows that the coach may not be in for the long haul?
In many regards. What we may be seeing from these dissident players could be a byproduct of the administration who are entrusted to guide and steer our program for the common good however that has not always been the case. Suffice to say commitment starts from the top and if those in charge are not committed to the cause- National pride - love of country - then why should the foot soldiers blindly follow? How many of us may even consider wantiNg to follow the directions of one who was part of a coup in ones country? How many are looking at coaches and seeing one show up just prior to the most important games ?
See in trying to be impartial I think we ought to look at the head of the fish to see what is rotten in the state of our beloved football. We have had too corrupt a legacy of corrupt administrators who profited off the backs of players yet we tend to ignore and continue to support these rouges yet we expect players to be professional 'suck it up" and play for country despite all that is swirling around them.
This is a different perspective but in retrospect I think I am willing to see the players perspective and I am trying to understand what would make players chose to joy ride fete play pick up games yet not want to toil for their country?