[Palos, I can't believe that you can't see the mess that Beenhakker did today...
Secondly I knew about this board well before Beenhakker. I only joined later.
But anyway...
Breds...I eh sayin beenie above criticism yuh know. But honestly....when yuh lose....yuh go get second guess everytime. Jes like when yuh get a unexpected result, yuh get praised as a genius. Dat go with the territory.
I see nothing wrong with Beenie tactics at the outset of this game other than starting Jack in front of Hislop. I am a Jack supporter but that move made absolutely no sense to me whatsoever. Jack did not cost us the game....matter of fact, he helped to keep us in it....but I still did not agree with that move. Shows how much I as a FAN know.
Just up to the warm up games....our defence was pretty weak. Yes....the opposition had they had more clinical finishing could have made us pay more dearly than we did....but our defence performed much better than we even we expected. How much a we was cringin in de first 20 minutes of each game expectin we to concede some dotish goal?
This myth that we have all this offensive firepower is just that...A MYTH. Latas came on at a time when he was able to perform at his maximum....nobody marked him....he had and created space, and once he could do that....openings became apparent offensively for our team. Even then, the most we could manage were half chances. Our REALISTIC chances of results in this tournament was to play exactly how we played....conservatively...deny the opposition as much space and possible and hope to cacth them on nthe break or something. Those tactics NEARLY worked to perfection. Matter of fact....they worked about as best as we could hope for. I not bein pessimistic or not "believin in meh players"....but dat is jes de facts.
We played above ourselves in this tournament and every player and member of the technical staff deserve a lot of praise fro that. We may have been beaten....but by no means were we disgraced. Does the defeat hurt? Of course it does...any defeat hurts. But most of us knew our limitations and many here had said we would be satisfied if we were competitive and gave a good account of ourselves. Well in my opinion, we did that and more. The fact that we still had a chance to progress to the 2nd rounds with one match to go is full testament to the efforts of EVERYONE ON THE TEAM.
I won't forget that....I not goin to allow no negativity to overshadow that and I will always be thankful for the pride and honour my team gave to me....especially when strangers from other countries would come up to me and congratulate me....me who had nothing to do with the performance of the team....on my team and state how much they RESPECT what we have accomplished.
And man want to come on here and talk tata. Nah sah....talk allyuh talk...but our team has done us proud....even the one's who sufferin from de verbal diarrhea.
