So Terry Fenwick claims he'll bring the pride back to playing for T&T and our results will improve if he's made coach seeing that he's guaranteeing qualification to the Gold Cup and World Cup
Let's look at the evidence.
Terry Fenwick's supporters say look at how he works with T&T players and has success with them.
Well it's true that he works with T&T players. But what is this success peeps talkin about?
He's worked with Jabloteh only, which certainly up to a couple years ago was one of 2 dominant clubs in T&T football. Their roster comprised of 99% T&T players.
In addition, many Jabloteh players have gone on to other clubs and a significant number of National team players have played for Jabloteh under Fenwick at one time or the other.
So if one is to gauge "success" by being tops in the T&T Pro League and number of players on the National team, I guess Fenwick is "successful".
But let's examine further.
When Jabloteh comes up against foreign opposition in the CONCACAF Champions League...even in their heyday....how did they fare? Has Jabloteh ever made it to the final rounds of that CL? As a matter of fact, the other dominant local team over the past 5 - 10 years, W Connection, has made more strides in that arena than Jabloteh ever has. Even relative newcomer Joe Public, with a Bajan coach, has done better than Jabloteh ever has under Fenwick in that competition.
If I'm not mistaken (and I frequently am), the best Jabloteh has ever done when playing foreign competition is when they played Chicago Fire and buss dey tail 3-1 or something in T&T with Cornell Glen running riot. And even then, Fenwick was just an assistant to Head Coach Ricky Hill. Of course, Jabloteh come and get dey ass wax in Chicago in de return leg. But these things happen.
So if its accurate that Jabloteh has had little or no success outside of T&T, and Jabloteh under Fenwick at their peak was a de facto T&T national team (local based anyway), why would anyone think that T&T would have any success under Fenwick?
I not sayin Fenwick not better than Latapy, or that he's not even the right guy for the job at this time, but to me he just talks a good game. He's yet to produce the results on it. Unless yuh satisfied with results at the Pro League level....2 years ago when CLICO had money.