So how has this team improved since DL taking over at the coaching helm?
Any takers?
We're not bad, but I have not seen any improvement in any area. I have not seen any meaningful unearthing of new faces. Our forwards are hardly scoring. It looks as though DL is trying to impose a style on the team, but I don't know exactly what it is.
Played: 19, Wins: 5, Losses: 10, Draws: 4
remember dennis was thrown into a qualifying situation in the middle of a campaign....not only that but there were disgruntled players in the mix who didn't like the coaches disciplinary actions particularly against mikel williams and kevin molino who subsequently threatened never to play for TT again.
there were also some salary issues and federation fall out from the firing of mr hart and all this happened in the middle of a qualifying campaign.
i do agree dennis needs to help his situation by putting more wins on the board, but how could he accomplish that when players who can actual score or help score either turn up lame or unable to travel for the games (levi garcia, kevin ,molino, jovin jones, atulla guerra,neval hackshaw), when critical pieces of your puzzle is missing then it makes it even more difficult to get positive results.
another thing to consider is that how many of these games were played at home? the federation have no money and players have to play away games from now until whenever simply because we can't afford to host due to financial restrains.
do fans really expect us to travel all the way across the globe and compete well vs teams playing at home in their back yard? the only reason why we beat UAE is because they were also travelling away to play this friendly.
now we're off to play IRAN in IRAN next month, do we realistically expect a positive result playing against a team that recently returned from the WC and did relatively well against two great world beaters?
no most likely we will lose, and i think the point of this exercise should be to lose well because sometimes there's no dishonor in losing, but rather lose with purpose should be the goal, and if we get something from this game, then that's gravy, but there should be absolutely no expectations from the fans what so ever.
i am also willing to wager that we will also be without quite a few of our best players, including jovin jones and levi garcia come next month.
these guys are not serious, and until these players get the gist that playing for your country is a huge honor in the footballing world, then we will always compete badly and losing will be part and parcel of the trinidad and tobago footballing experience.