Unfortunately Pellers is a voom kick specialist. However, the good he has done should be duplicated and we try to move the women's program forward
could we have matched the Koreans in the midfield
We will never know. They never tried. Maybe because they were playing within their limitations and if so then I guess no but we never put de ball down on de carpet and as de age old saying goes let de ball do the work.
Pellerud not known for lettin de ball do de work.
The main characteristics of his teams are hard work, physicality, fight, and organization.
He did a great job with the Canadian womens team to get them to the point where they were consistently competitive. But they couldn't get to the next level with the top teams in the women's game because they were deficient technically. So the CSA replaced him with someone who's mandate is to get them to that next level.
In that respect, he's a very good coach for T&T because our women will learn the basics and discipline needed to compete. Baby steps before we could start to run. Pellerud good for that.
The only disappointing thing to me is that from the reports, the girls just didn't have it yesterday. That means that what was supposed to be one of Pellerud's strengths was not evident in the team. And it has me wondering about the psychological make up of our sports TEAMS.
Certainly our individual sportsmen & women can do it. They've shown it on numerous occasions in the past. But our sports teams are something else. We consistently fail at the big stage.
November 19th 1990 is the most famous
But what about all the others? The WCQ against Jamaica at the HCS in 93 when we lost despite dominating the match for 89 out of the 90 minutes.
We've hosted the mens and now womens youth U17 world cup. Cannot get out of the first round. Up till last week, we had never won a match at a single world cup at any level despite 12 previous attempts.
Our cricket team surpassed all expectations by making the final of the CL tournament last year. In the final we had the Aussie team lil bit for 7 wickets down. We collapse in the bowling and then got blown out while batting to basically snatch defeat from victory.
This year the cricket team playin at home against Guyana and choose that day to play the worst game of T20 cricket they've ever played. Even with all that they came to the last over needing 9 runs with 3 wickets in hand.....certainly not impossible in T20 cricket. Hit the first ball for 4 and then lose by 5 runs.
Even our WCQ team in 2006 played the first match of the playoff AT HOME against Bahrain and struggled whole match eventually snatching a late equalizer to save more blushes before going on away from home and completing the business.
Yesterday, the girls needing a win to move onto the 2nd round from all reports didn't play with the energy they showed in previous games and we lose. Nothing wrong with losing, but there seems to be some sort of psychological block where our sports teams are concerned when it comes to THE BIG MOMENT...especially AT HOME.