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Sports => Football => Topic started by: Sando on January 12, 2017, 03:06:32 PM
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Comedy central, TTFA takes center-stage.
By Inshan Mohammed.
Grab a bucket of popcorn, a pair of 3D glasses, turn on your 60-inch television, take a double-shot of babash, then kick back in your sofa and get ready to watch one of T&T's funniest comedy of the year.
The name of the movie, in case you're wondering is: “TTFA's Musical Chairs”. It's a show where you have too many cooks stirring one pot at the same time trying to finish dinner in time for their March customers (Mexico & Panama) and guess what, all they have at their disposal is a pot and a burning flame with no ingredients.
With David-John Williams cast in the lead role, he is ably supported by co-stars Joanne Salazar, Ewing Davis, Allan Warner, Richard Quan Chan, Jamaal Shabazz, Muhammad Isa, Dexter Skeene, Dr Alvin Henderson and Sharon O’Brien.
Since David John-Williams’ was elected as TTFA President two Novembers ago, T&T football has plunged headfirst into the deep unknown “where no man has gone before”, wait, it's a comedy not a science fiction. ... Anyway...
Teams are failing worse than elementary school students writing their Secondary Entrance Assessment examinations.
Let's see...
* - There are no active women's teams.
* - The Men’s U-15 team failed to get to the CONCACAF stage for the first time in 10 years.
* - The Women’s U-17 team went from reigning Caribbean champions—under the previous regime—to finishing third at CFU level and failing to qualify from the region.
* - The Women’s U-15 team went from third in CONCACAF to a group stage exit in the same competition, which included a record 22-0 defeat to the United States.
* - The Men's U-20 team is in dire need of improvement and has barely scraped through to the CFU U-20 Championship Final Round schedule for February, without even kicking a ball. They got some embarrassing results to Antigua & Barbuda and Bermuda only to be saved from a draw between Cuba and St Lucia that got them through. Ironically, the team is coached by former W Connection youth coach Brian Williams.
Then the Russell Latapy story, a football icon who was known as the “little magician” on the field is now waving his magic wand into T&T football under the current president and could do no wrong despite, his continual failure at different levels while other coaches are falling on the roadside like corn-vendors on the Solomon Hochoy Highway.
In September 2016, Latapy was unsuccessful as T&T U-17 head coach. He saw his team knocked out of the competition leaving Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Curacao (wow) and fifth place finishers Suriname (double wow) advancing to the CONCACAF Finals in Panama City, later this year. His team finished sixth with just one win against Bermuda from three group matches.
Latapy had refused any friendly games leading up to the tournament, maybe his reluctancy to spend his boss' money probably played a pivotal role in his ceaseless employment?
For his troubles, Latapy was quickly promoted to Assistant Coach of the Men’s Senior Team alongside (guess who?) Jamaal Shabazz, another recyclable in T&T football. Shabazz has suffocated the game for decades like a python strangling a wild boar in the Amazon rainforest. Former TTFA Adviser Jack Warner’s colleague, Muhammad Isa, was given the Technical Director position, while Shabazz were given an added bonus occupation as current TTFA adviser himself. Oh yeah, he is also in charge of the Elite Youth Program. Talk about a man with many caps.
Shabazz runs Morvant Caledonia United (formerly Caledonia AIA), a professional Club based in the Morvant area where he says he wants to develop local football and bring the game back to the community, mind you, the Club is littered with foreign players and have been so for many years. If I'm not mistaking only one player (Densill Theobald) hails from the community. There might be more, but nothing to brag about.
Pro League CEO Dexter Skeene has been unchallenged in his position despite the stagnancy of the T&T Pro League for over a decade, drawing no major sponsors and supporters, at least for most parts, is now head of the TTFA's Technical Committee.
I've known David John-Williams for quite some time and I can tell you he does have a passion for football, however, I do have the right to question his nonconformist selection process of certain individuals and the methodology in which things are being handled.
Furthermore, expecting any kind of success after two games with an inexperienced squad might be wanting too much, especially from a coach who does not have a successful track record. Coach Hart was already on-board for the past 3-years, and it probably would have been appropriate to help him fix the problem instead of replacing him, but then again, that's just me, like Beenie man once sang; who am I?
Anyways, after that quick commercial break we are now back to the show, thanks for tuning in. Belgium-born Tom Saintfiet was hired on a short-term contract as a replacement for former head coach Stephen Hart. What is really facetious is that Saintfiet's ultimatum from his new employers was quite forthright and predispose, “Win the next two World Cup games or you're out.”
Guess what? Latapy is still here and Saintfiet barely made it past a month, never even came close to the two World Cup games he was promised and is now on the breadline.
Saintfiet’s resignation came on January 10th. Now, no one knows for certain if Humpty Dumpty was pushed or if he genuinely resigned (lol), but he did make it clear from his Facebook page (not Ruby Tuesday, right Hart...) that: “From the first day of my unveiling, I did not get the support of the TTFA and its President; support which is needed to be able to do my job in a professional and successful way. I never got the chance to work with the players nor staff requested.”
“Perhaps I should have taken this decision right from day one of my appointment, after the President openly second guessed his own choice of employing me. But I gave him the benefit of the doubt.”
With a depleted squad, some uncommitted players and the exodus of several W Connection (former and current) players for dubious reasons, maybe this move was the turning point in Saintfiet's short-lived T&T career that broke the camel's back? I guess you'll have to do the math for me.
In a Soca Warriors Online (SWO) interview, Saintfiet was quick to highlight Stephen Hart's less than stellar 2016 record, stating that he had only won 3 games for the year. Saintifiet now finds himself in the same boat, if not worst. I'm sure it's a jab he would have liked to take back now. You see, too many cooks spoil the broth, like I always say: “You are only as good as your boss.”
Trying to pick your brain, figuring out who will be the next victim to fall into the TTFA's coaching web will definitely give you 'gray hairs’. One thing's for certain is that the power of belief and the power of thought will move reality in the direction of what we believe and conceive.
Stevie Wonder could see another hammer dropping soon on the next Soca Warriors coach after T&T's next two World Cup matches carded for late March destine for failure. Unless !!! You're Russell Latapy of course. Then again, current W Connection head coach Stuart Charles-Fevrier’s name just fell into my hat, I meant pot.
Let's see if Ms. Carolina Morace will ever show up?
WARNING - If you are a T&T football supporter and are experiencing pain from conditions such as muscle aches, toothaches, menstrual cramps, heartburn, sore throat, or headaches (including migraine) please stop taking on T&T Football and call your doctor right away.
If you are taking an over-the-counter product to self-treat, read all directions on the product package before taking any medication. If you have any questions, consult your pharmacist. If your doctor has prescribed a medication, take it as directed...
You have been warned. Senna & Salt might be another option.
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Comedy central, TTFA takes center-stage.
By Inshan Mohammed.
Let's see if Ms. Carolina Morace will ever show up?
Ent?
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Brilliant !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:rotfl:
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Comedy central, TTFA takes center-stage.
By Inshan Mohammed.
Let's see if Ms. Carolina Morace will ever show up?
Ent?
If ah had she number ah would tell she to "Run"!!
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Comedy central, TTFA takes center-stage.
By Inshan Mohammed.
Let's see if Ms. Carolina Morace will ever show up?
Ent?
If ah had she number ah would tell she to "Run"!!
Want it?
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Comedy central, TTFA takes center-stage.
By Inshan Mohammed.
With David-John Williams cast in the lead role, he is ably supported by co-stars Joanne Salazar, Ewing Davis, Allan Warner, Richard Quan Chan, Jamaal Shabazz, Muhammad Isa, Dexter Skeene and Sharon O’Brien.
Curious. How do Alvin Henderson, Bertille St Clair, Stuart Charles-Fevrier, Errol Lovell, & Jinelle James escape being named here?
They no longer members of the "Technical Committee"?
The TTFA’s Technical Committee will comprise of the following individuals:
Dexter Skeene (Chairman)
Dr. Alvin Henderson (Deputy Chairman)
Bertille St. Clair
Errol Lovell
Jinelle James
Stuart Charles-Fevrier
Muhammad Isa
SOURCE (http://www.socawarriors.net/forum/index.php?topic=65145.0)
Has the "Technical Committee" changed? If so, when?
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Palas, you asking questions, St Clair was just a name to rope in Tobago and yet Tobago is being ignored.
The new president do what he likes, is all for show.
Nice piece of wok Flex.
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Ah radda foock ah ting in a Latrine than to support these f00okcing clowns.
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Flex, this is right on time. You could not have summarized this fiasco any better. I have never seen anything like this. This man want o make AJW look like a genius.
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Flex, this is right on time. You could not have summarized this fiasco any better. I have never seen anything like this. This man want o make AJW look like a genius.
Even warner call for the man to resign!!! Ting badddd
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This is the best thread in the history of this forum :beermug:
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Flex, this is right on time. You could not have summarized this fiasco any better. I have never seen anything like this. This man want o make AJW look like a genius.
Even warner call for the man to resign!!! Ting badddd
Who eh dead, wounded. Blood on de ground.
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Palas, you asking questions, St Clair was just a name to rope in Tobago and yet Tobago is being ignored.
The new president do what he likes, is all for show.
Nice piece of wok Flex.
What's worse is St Clair ent turn up for months on end as he very ill SMDH
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Flex my brother, yuh went easy on the dictator...
What the dictator really passionate about is money and being as corrupt as possible to get that..
By any means necessary
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Comedy central, TTFA takes center-stage.
By Inshan Mohammed.
With David-John Williams cast in the lead role, he is ably supported by co-stars Joanne Salazar, Ewing Davis, Allan Warner, Richard Quan Chan, Jamaal Shabazz, Muhammad Isa, Dexter Skeene and Sharon O’Brien.
Curious. How do Alvin Henderson, Bertille St Clair, Stuart Charles-Fevrier, Errol Lovell, & Jinelle James escape being named here?
They no longer members of the "Technical Committee"?
The TTFA’s Technical Committee will comprise of the following individuals:
Dexter Skeene (Chairman)
Dr. Alvin Henderson (Deputy Chairman)
Bertille St. Clair
Errol Lovell
Jinelle James
Stuart Charles-Fevrier
Muhammad Isa
SOURCE (http://www.socawarriors.net/forum/index.php?topic=65145.0)
Has the "Technical Committee" changed? If so, when?
Bertille St Clair has taken leave from the committee for health reasons.
Dr Alvin Henderson is vice-chairman.
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When I call Henderson name de odda day, deeks and them f00cking me up.
All these Ole heads have to go.
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Shabazz has suffocated the game for decades like a python strangling a wild boar in the Amazon rainforest.
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Bertille St Clair has taken leave from the committee for health reasons.
Good on him. Wouldn't be surprised if is fuh MENTAL health reasons
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Anybody know if Hart get he money?
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Anybody know if Hart get he money?
Good question...
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Bertille St Clair has taken leave from the committee for health reasons.
Good on him. Wouldn't be surprised if is fuh MENTAL health reasons
:D
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Anyone know what happened to David Muhammad?
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Then the Russell Latapy story, a football icon who was known as the “little magician” on the field is now waving his magic wand into T&T football under the said president and could do no wrong despite his continual failure at different levels while other coaches are falling on the roadside like corn-vendors on the Solomon Hochoy Highway.
WARNING - If you are a T&T football supporter and are experiencing pain from conditions such as muscle aches, toothaches, menstrual cramps, heartburn, sore throat, or headaches (including migraine) please stop taking on T&T Football and call your doctor right away.
If you are taking an over-the-counter product to self-treat, read all directions on the product package before taking any medication. If you have any questions, consult your pharmacist. If your doctor has prescribed a medication, take it as directed...
You have been warned. Senna & Salt might be another option.
O my.... :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
I really thought DJW would have done better because he had a very decorated manifest but to make someone like Skeene and Shabaaz pull you down is really taking away from him.
I hope he wakes up.
Anyone have a copy of DJW manifesto?
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Then the Russell Latapy story, a football icon who was known as the “little magician” on the field is now waving his magic wand into T&T football under the said president and could do no wrong despite his continual failure at different levels while other coaches are falling on the roadside like corn-vendors on the Solomon Hochoy Highway.
WARNING - If you are a T&T football supporter and are experiencing pain from conditions such as muscle aches, toothaches, menstrual cramps, heartburn, sore throat, or headaches (including migraine) please stop taking on T&T Football and call your doctor right away.
If you are taking an over-the-counter product to self-treat, read all directions on the product package before taking any medication. If you have any questions, consult your pharmacist. If your doctor has prescribed a medication, take it as directed...
You have been warned. Senna & Salt might be another option.
O my.... :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
I really thought DJW would have done better because he had a very decorated manifest but to make someone like Skeene and Shabaaz pull you down is really taking away from him.
I hope he wakes up.
Anyone have a copy of DJW manifesto?
He Manifesto is somewhere between he pocket book and he debit card
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Anybody know if Hart get he money?
Hart is still being owed.
Francisco Maturana and Dennis Lawrence will make their case today.
Saintfiet was working without a contract and an agreement to be paid with match fees rather than a monthly salary.
Carolina Morace contract will run until the 2019 Women’s World Cup in France and her salary is expected to be double the amount the men's coach was making??
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Ah like this line up.
Stephan Hart - head coach
Terry Fenwick - senior assistant
Dennis Lawrewce - senior assistant
Dwight Yorke - senior assistant & under 20 head coach
Stuart Charles - under 17 head coach
We need everybody to work together.
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Good article, funny with truth.
To be honest, Hart is not the man for the job, he second guess himself and his players.
He is weak as a coach.
I hope we get someone like Fenwick.
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Good article, funny with truth.
To be honest, Hart is not the man for the job, he second guess himself and his players.
He is weak as a coach.
I hope we get someone like Fenwick.
From whence did this revelation come? When did humility and realism become a weakness? Harts run will go down in lore as an awakening of our football. You can only second guess yourself when you are not fully prepared or if some personal abuse has been inflicted on you to anchor you in mediocrity for life. Then you waste your time trying to be something you are not, over compensating and making things worse. Never really dealing with the real issue of self. For a brief spell our football was higher than we deserved. These things don't come by accident. Fenwick, as loud as he is does not have Harts record.
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Good article, funny with truth.
To be honest, Hart is not the man for the job, he second guess himself and his players.
He is weak as a coach.
I hope we get someone like Fenwick.
I could wipe my ass with what you just wrote...
Too early in the am to read this shit
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Anybody know if Hart get he money?
Hart is still being owed.
Francisco Maturana and Dennis Lawrence will make their case today.
Saintfiet was working without a contract and an agreement to be paid with match fees rather than a monthly salary.
Carolina Morace contract will run until the 2019 Women’s World Cup in France and her salary is expected to be double the amount the men's coach was making??
Ask yuh boy Andre Samuel.. he seem to have all the answers as to why we can't get a decent men's coach for a decent salary but can pay morace who's not even in qualifying twice the amount while the ttfa bawl they have no money lol
Corruption in front of people face and they still refuse to believe the dictator is a crook
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cc central, TTFA takes center-stage.
By Inshan Mohammed.
Stevie Wonder could see another hammer drop soon on the next coach after T&T's next two World Cup matches carded for late March. Unless !!! You're Russell Latapy of course. Then again, current W Connection head coach Stuart Charles-Fevrier’s name just fell into my hat, I meant pot.
Flex see this long time.
By de way, Dennis Lawrence break Tom Saintfiet record to be the fastest coach to get fired from T&T, de man eh even touch de ball and he get fired in a forceful way.
The TTFA is really run by a bunch of comedians.
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And Latapy gets another T&T coaching job, now the Under 15 men's team head coach...
:devil:
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And Latapy gets another T&T coaching job, now the Under 15 men's team head coach...
:devil:
d u15 have competitions comin up?, if he have actual time, and some games to build conditionin, he might actually be able to do someting with this......apart from d defensive frailty, we actually looked formidable against JA when he switch to dat 3-5-2 system in u17.....d mistake he make was takin off Benny when he did.
d youth system may be where he excels and I believe we could excel in 3-5-2/5-3-2 we jus have to drill it well we jus loss two WQC to teams playin 3/5 at d back wah we have to loose
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And Latapy gets another T&T coaching job, now the Under 15 men's team head coach...
:devil:
He mus-e woking for free when yuh see that.
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Where is Russell Latapy now?
I've been away for a while?
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Where is Russell Latapy now?
I've been away for a while?
Coaching Barbados national team.
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Where is Russell Latapy now?
I've been away for a while?
Coaching Barbados national team.
Thanks.
Good luck to them.
;D
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Glad you guys are finally seeing the good Jack Warner did for T&T football.
Many have tried since and all fail big time.
T&T will never see another world cup at any level.
T&T will never host another world cup.
Under Jack Warner T&T accomplished a lot, like him or not.
He did what he had to do but gave back to T&T.
This article says it all, david john williams was a big failure and now he is using Infantino to take down wallace and company.
All these guys want to run football and they do not have the resources. Wallace and company intentions is good but they are to poor to run T&T football.
Jack Warner got you adidas and some of the best sponsorship deals in the history of T&T football.
Under Jack, T&T hosted two world cups.
Jack brought top teams to T&T too play.
Jack hired some of the best coaches to coach T&T.
John Williams is the Donald Trump of T&T football, you think Jack was bad, if Infantino gets his way john williams will be ttfa president by next election.
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Glad you guys are finally seeing the good Jack Warner did for T&T football.
Many have tried since and all fail big time.
T&T will never see another world cup at any level.
T&T will never host another world cup.
Under Jack Warner T&T accomplished a lot, like him or not.
He did what he had to do but gave back to T&T.
This article says it all, david john williams was a big failure and now he is using Infantino to take down wallace and company.
All these guys want to run football and they do not have the resources. Wallace and company intentions is good but they are to poor to run T&T football.
Jack Warner got you adidas and some of the best sponsorship deals in the history of T&T football.
Under Jack, T&T hosted two world cups.
Jack brought top teams to T&T too play.
Jack hired some of the best coaches to coach T&T.
John Williams is the Donald Trump of T&T football, you think Jack was bad, if Infantino gets his way john williams will be ttfa president by next election.
Dude,I know you are entitled to your opinion. Cool. But you have the gall to talk about the "good deeds" of Jack Warner. We paying for the sins of that f--ker. Don't try to sanitize the destructive moves he made that has now left our football in a free-fall.
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Glad you guys are finally seeing the good Jack Warner did for T&T football.
Many have tried since and all fail big time.
T&T will never see another world cup at any level.
T&T will never host another world cup.
Under Jack Warner T&T accomplished a lot, like him or not.
He did what he had to do but gave back to T&T.
This article says it all, david john williams was a big failure and now he is using Infantino to take down wallace and company.
All these guys want to run football and they do not have the resources. Wallace and company intentions is good but they are to poor to run T&T football.
Jack Warner got you adidas and some of the best sponsorship deals in the history of T&T football.
Under Jack, T&T hosted two world cups.
Jack brought top teams to T&T too play.
Jack hired some of the best coaches to coach T&T.
John Williams is the Donald Trump of T&T football, you think Jack was bad, if Infantino gets his way john williams will be ttfa president by next election.
you must be a big blasted troll to try and sell jack warner to anyone here on this forum, you have to know better. the comparison between warner and DJW is like comparing hitler to napoleon bonaparte, they were both terrible administrators who used football for their own purpose.
I specifically remember post World Cup performances and how disturbing it was for true football fans to watch a team that recently came back from the World Cup struggling and losing to haiti at home with a third tier team in the caribbean cup, and a string of awful results that followed on a steady declining roller coaster ride down hill, and all this was after a world cup, and a first world cup too booth of which we have not recovered from thus far.
IMO it would have done us a world of good had we taken all that money and effort we expended to go to a world cup and directed it towards sustainable youth football development with at least four live in academies and a proper under 14 and 18 league zonal league,
uniting the pro league and super league in a two tier system with relegation and promotion and bringing football back to the communities like the Jamaica model but with sustainable foreign sponsorship like nike, puma and adidas, and jack warner had the clout and the influence to make that happen but he blew it when his focus was all about his welfare and own ambitions both financial and political.
Mr warner also did nothing for caribbean football development when he had the largest block of votes in fifa and did not use it in an advantageous manner not to mention his influence over fifa as a vice president when he could have lobbied for a total separation from concacaf and formed our own confederation seeking at least 2 1/2 spots in the world cup.
I know it’s easier said than done but if I was in jack Warner’s shoes my region and to a larger extent my country would have been in tip top shape straddled with sustainable football development to the point where 80% of countries in our region would have the respect of the football world, and a strong inter caribbean club football league, but that’s just off the top of my own silly dream oriented head.
as for fat boy williams, he wanted to replace jack on our backs by using football for his own ambitions and advancement but he was far less influential and brilliant than jack warner, but both of them did not have football no where near their thoughts.