forum.... sorry for the delay with this.... and this may be merged but i should really mention a few things before from Guyana last Friday ( 11-11-11)
The truth is i really feeling this real bad...cant even function...and i know this is the general feeling...
and this is not a technical report or a TTFF rant or who play shit or who have heart or 4-4-2 or 4-5-1 or Kenwyne in shit......we do all that right here all ready...
but i saw Just Cool response to one of my post ( below)
Quote from: Big Magician on Yesterday at 03:34:08 PM
allyuh shoulda see the Hotel the team stayed at in Guyana... think Mayaro Beach House...shameful
Breds, doh be so standoffish nah, @ least give us your take on things. after all, this is ah forum, if yuh was there and you saw things that could've contributed to these result, then please enlighten us.and Just Cool..to you and others.... not even sure what standoffish means...but as i said... just to destroyed to type.... but this is what i meant by that hotel comment...
Me and Small Mag sort out a cheap over night place to stay .. "Cara Suites".. downtown Georgetown...
now we never been to Guyana...so we get there and say " say what" it would do... to find out Bruce Anansen staying there... the man is my QPCC president..so i say well the place good enough... plus he gave us the starting team at 3pm... Small Mag send it to Flex... cause we both said its too early to post on the forum... just in case..
anyhow... we had to go the the so called " Kings Plaza"... where the team stayed to collect our tickets... so we asked a taxi man ... he said its not too far and will cost 4 US .. ok...lets go....
now allyuh could go and google it...i not on all dat.... maybe upstairs is a massive top class place with pool and ting....
but with my eyes... when the taxi stop at the place.. i thought the man went to collect something..so i still in the car... he said "this is the hotel".. i said" no man"... ""Kings Plaza"...and he said again "this is it..."... i still staying no as its a club with some floors upstairs ...even seeing the club part with the dark lights and a lady standing in the doorway... is only because i see Pfister in a lobby- like room i say "oh shit... "
so we went out... Pfister on a lap top.. in a cramped room acting as a lobby...with 2 bag of balls and water coolers around him... i shook his hand and said good luck and he nodded...
back in the car..me and Smalls watch each other " dais wey dem boys staying ??"... so hold on.. if they come downstairs...then they on the main road...serious...3 of them cant fit and lime in the lobby..so...
poolside ??...dont think it have one....cant see where... so... them confined to some rooms...
I could not see that as an environment for any focus or comfort... now i know how this argument will go... them eh deserve no nice hotel da da da and what a hotel have to do with it da da da ...
but the thing is... me and Smalls went to the gold cup in 2005... and i do remember 'THAT hotel.... and of course we know they stay at Crown plaza or Hyatt in tnt... so go ahead and argue...
next thing... we get to Providence... we always like to get there in time for the warm ups... as this reveals a lot... check this..... I swear it was Shabazz putting down markers and cones for the entire warm up session to come.... no sign of tnt coaches... ok... big deal...maybe they timing it...
out come Guyana in order and doing their warm ups in an organized fashion... still no tnt...
out come tnt.. some by some... no markers no cones...nothing... keepers doing a ting... men in 3's or 2's or 4's doing they own ting... "Barber" next to some of them here and there...
then i started to try to remember if i saw the warm ups vz Bermuda at home in tnt... i dont think so...for some strange reason we got there late that day... in time for kick off...and I was on tour for the Barbados match at home... anyhow..so i cant compare to tell if thats Pfister's style...
so lets say Guyana pull a style on we and gave us no markers and cones... could we not get a bit creative and organize something
... so i guess now is "what cones and warm up have to do with it right
".... ah swear to God we never saw the team stretch.. maybe they did in the dressing room....
normally the starting 11 would play the lil 5 a side amongst each other.... this time...was every body playing 2 man in the middle in 2 separate sections... including Pacheco and Wolfe..who was not on the 18....
AND..AND ..we went back in the dressing rooms before Guyana....
i will not go into anything on the field of play... some of you did that job all ready... i guess most of you here dont even know i am a Concacaf qualified coach with 10 years coaching ... but i dont get into that here on the forum...
let me mention also ..the Guyanese fans... ah feel shame... shame...DAT is fans... we get pelt twice...and nuff cuss ( trini scun%s)... real football atmosphere...
and i must also mention... football superstitions... of which Small Mag is king.. im just a prince...
we flew on Caribbean Airlines... but from tnt.. we walk down the tunnel ting nah..so we never saw the plane body.. is when we exit the plane in Guyana... Small Mag bawl " oh shit",,,"check what we fly on"..
I turn round to see it was an "Air Jamaica"... De man start to complain ..if he knew that, he woulda take a different plane da da da ...
15 mins in the taxi to Georgetown.. we pass a sign on the road " Caledonia"... he watch me again... Shabazz da da da ....
our drunk taxi man doing it on the road.... the driving in Guyana is the worst i ever see anywhere in the world.... and de driver ask me if we have plenty " waddaps" in tnt ??... i say what ??..waddaps..like car crash... i say yea..he say yea here too... of fu#king course...dey mad.. and i know we bad...plus he asked " Who TnT Playing ?"
so as i said... Just Cool and others...make what yous want from these "minor" observations... but our Guyana trip wont be forgotten as long as we live and beyond.
also..thanks to all that mentioned our safety and concern when we were there....