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Cricket Anyone / Re: Brian Lara Stadium
« on: April 09, 2017, 05:36:21 AM »
 A reliable source tell mih that hardly any international matches will be played here because it not going to pass ICC standards.
The thing to costly to maintain for dat.

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Football / Re: Trinis in Action (April 7-9, 2017)
« on: April 09, 2017, 05:32:27 AM »
Bethlehem Steel Sound like a Jewish steelband name

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Football / Re: FORUM...our BROTHER needs HELP NOW.
« on: March 31, 2017, 11:59:39 AM »
Allyuh men hartless de man going to take dis as de hardest thing that ever happen to him

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Football / Re: PLAYING NICE ?? The TnT Myth
« on: March 25, 2017, 06:43:02 AM »

 Anyhow yuh win it nice.

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Football / Re: RIP Weary (Joann Charles)
« on: March 25, 2017, 06:41:49 AM »
 Took me a little while to decide what tribute to write here.
 Over the years Weary and I would occasionally clash over various subjects and what stood out was her unwavering support for people she liked and her steadfastness of belief, whatever that was.

I got many loud steups responses from her.

I will miss her unique brand of expressions and the frustrations she created.

RIP Joann AKA Weary.
I am sure  football and life is a paradise where you are now.

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Football / Re: A blast from the past
« on: October 28, 2016, 05:37:37 AM »

 

Football in the Savannah





Author: Courtenay Bartholomew




Date Published: 2010-12-08




Source: Trinidad Express


Last week we were totally shocked when Trinidad and Tobago's "Soca Warriors" were beaten by Grenada.

This was certainly impossible in days of yore.

And so, to reminisce. Indeed, just as the Savannah's greenery was studded with several hundreds of spectators for the cricket season on Saturdays and Sundays, so were the grounds and the Grand Stand filled with excited fans for the football season.

After work all roads led to the Savannah and the games started promptly at 4.30 p.m.

Today the national football team is almost exclusively Afro-Trinidadian but this was not so in days gone by.

It was quite a cosmopolitan team largely composed of upper, middle, and lower-middle class players — Maple, Colts, Malvern, Sporting Club, Casuals, Shamrock and Notre Dame.

As for the ethnic divide, it was a mini-world war when, say, Maple played against the white Casuals. "Parks," a popular town crier, always attended the matches when Casuals was playing and would walk around the grounds challengingly waving several one dollar notes in his hand while shouting: "Who's against the white boys?" Bets were always taken.

That was the tolerant atmosphere and portrait of Trinidad at the time.

In those days many of the first class cricketers were also great footballers, for example, Jeffery Stollmeyer (right wing), Gerry Gomez (inside left), Joey Gonsalves (goalkeeper), Prior Jones (centre half), Andy Ganteaume (right wing), etc.

Andy received a national award this year, which, in my opinion, was at least 20 years late, but better late than never. In fact, he was perhaps an even better footballer than a cricketer.

His best position was at right wing but he and I still joke about his "lethal left''.

Most interestingly, in those days "short pants" St Mary's and Queen's Royal Colleges played in the first division league against the "big boys" and indeed gave an extremely good account of themselves.

In fact, there were several occasions when a St Mary's player was selected to represent North versus South and even to represent Trinidad and Tobago while still in college.

For example, Joey Gonsalves (debatably a greater goalkeeper than Lincoln "Tiger" Phillips), Gene Thomas, Hilton Clarke and "Nip" Charles on the right wing, who sometimes scored directly into the far side of the goal from a corner.

Among the great players from South were Ahamad Charles, John "Bull" Sutherland, Ken Galt, etc, but the gifted exponent of that art was the legendary "Babsie" Daniel, who, when a corner was awarded for him to kick, the crowd would shout: "Penalty. Penalty."

But how could one ever forget that historic occasion when QRC whipped the senior club Maple. At halftime the score was already 3-0, and while coming out of the Grand Stand for the second half, Hugh Walke of QRC tauntingly said to the Maple team: "Maple, Maple! What's wrong? You boys are not giving us a fight at all."

QRC won that match 5-0. To this day, my friend Tim Joseph, Maple's goalkeeper at the time, is still getting "fatigue" about that.

In those days, a CIC/QRC intercol game, like a North-South game, attracted thousands of fans and was one of the most exciting events in the football calendar.


How could one also forget that other historic occasion when Ken Laughlin, the popular sports commentator, announced on the radio the frontline team selected to represent T&T against Jamaica? It was the full Malvern forward line — "Putty" Lewis, Phil Douglin, "Squeakie" Hinds, Fedo Blake and Lio Lynch. Trinidad and Tobago won 6-0!

To add a personal touch, there was also at that time a Civil Service Football League in the Savannah, a contest among the many Civil Service departments. In fact, Customs had such a wide array of sportsmen that they fielded an A side and a lesser talented B side. The A side had at least six players, including "Squeakie" Hinds, who were national players.

Prior Jones, Trinidad's fast bowler, was the captain of Customs A and "Coach" Oxley for Customs B.

One year in a game between Customs A and Customs B, I was at right back for the B side and Ali Clarke, formerly of QRC, was left back.

The great Geoff Chambers of Maple, eventually the national coach, was at left wing for the A side.

Now, as a youngster I used to admire and study his footwork and he was therefore well-marked.

At halftime Customs B had already scored 2 goals against the great A side.

At the start of the second half, Prior Jones at centre-half, recognising his problem, shouted: "Geoff, move to right wing" whereupon "Coach" Oxley in the goal immediately shouted "Barts, move to left back."

There was an uproar from the small crowd and just as QRC once surprised Maple with a 5-0 victory, the relatively talentless Customs B beat the great Customs A 4-0 thanks to centre forward William Ince.

The recently retired comptroller of Customs Stanley Niles would remember.

He was on the B team.

J B Fernandez had great sales after the match.

But the point I wish to make is that in those days even Customs B could have beaten Grenada!

• Prof Courtenay Bartholomew is UWI's first Trinidadian professor of medicine and director of the Medical Research Centre
submitted: Thu, 2010-12-09 18:04 — ttfh
















 

 

 
 




 

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What about Track & Field / Re: If T&T win a medal I'll change my name to
« on: August 19, 2016, 10:20:20 PM »
 
 For some reason ah reading this an NANI WINE come into mih mind. Narine ryme wid nani wine.
 Maybe is jus how dem atlete wining on we.

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Cricket Anyone / Re: Wicb hires spin coach to help Narine two years ago
« on: January 30, 2016, 02:38:27 AM »
Is it coincidence that less than a year after the Wicb hired Mustaq Ahmed to help our guys including Narine he suddenly starts getting called ?.I mean he played for years always passing every testing now suddenly he started failing and being banned .
Ive alwys had a hunch that his hiring had some prt to play in it .
Never thought about this , good point

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Football / Re: I respect Stephen Hart but.......
« on: January 10, 2016, 12:03:46 PM »

The players showed no intensity, slow slow football against a team like Haiti. The first 5 mins they run hard and had Haiti on the back foot after that is like savannah football.

Winchester and earlier Joevin looked like the only players with some intent.

This side getting real licks form the big names if that is the way the going to play.

Hart will get frustrated an pack up

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 So old people ent people too ?

Don't know if is d up bringing or the culture, but some people who born in a certain era never mentally leave dat era, and are often prone to sticking to outdated ideas and procedure even when they clearing no longer work, I would have no problem with older folks in this country running things IF......IF they were naturally progressive in their thinkin and mindset but I don't know if is culture or what but we seem to get stuck at a certain age and a certain decade.....some frustrate progress jus to try an stay relevant rather continue the process of learnin to stay relevant.... tell me that team dat get rob in '74 wha happen to dem in 78.... 82...onwards

In this country nostalgia does stall progress not help it, yuh does see it day in day out.

again, is d culture

Good talk....

Them fellas head real hard.

Them still feel Archie or David could be de same player today like he was in de 70s, so they getting tie up.

Football change and de game to, on and off de field.

Them talking about glory days, but back in the days, management was f00ck up to.

Look at Lincoln, he was from that era, and what did he do when he was TD for 7 years,,,, nothing much.

Gally, too, he took he team to Siparia de day we had to play USA while USA was resting and preparing for us, Gally, make Jack fool him and take de team for a f00cking parade on de SAME DAY.. !!! Them men look bun after 5 mins.

I eh taking away nothing from them when they was players, in them era they was GREAT, ...

But without money and knowledge of today technology, you cant do one f00ck.



This is what this forum brings out. Opinions based on nothing more than surface information.
I know Selby personally for quite some time and he may be to some of you considered "old" but he  has sharp mind, he is a gentleman, he has a well known and established anti corruption stance.

What is wrong in being involved in football for many years. You forget your history and doomed to repeat it.
Our new Prime Minister is Selby's age if not older and we are happy to have him run our biggest Association.

Selby is also a successful businessman (not broke as some people think). Don't base his position on Jack robbing the man of a legitimate investment he made in football.
 Above all he is a patriot.

Some information that may not be common knowledge is that his deceased wife was a national hero and a wonderful woman who I had the honour to know personally as well. Her name... Angela Burke Brown . Rest in Peace Angela

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 So old people ent people too ?

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs USA Game (17-Nov-2015)
« on: November 18, 2015, 10:36:10 AM »

 USA had the better of the game , more chances.

 Will be a small miracle to go to the states and come back with a point
wah game u watch?? And Ppl hard to please yes. 4 pts from d two games is very good. Team was good today, can play better yet buy encouraging signs... On to the next game, let's win that and get closer to the hex

Reality check son.
This is not the HEX when the real football start.

Whilst this team showing a lot more promise than recent vintage.

This team need to improve to another level to qualify for the WC.

Costa Rica
Mexico
USA
Panama
Jamaica

Big teams to overcome, we have to win most of our home games.
The performance last night did not give me the confidence that we could do that.

See this too often to get carried away by it.

An why yuh ent fight with Sam instead?

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs USA Game (17-Nov-2015)
« on: November 17, 2015, 07:48:58 PM »

 USA had the better of the game , more chances.

 Will be a small miracle to go to the states and come back with a point

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Cricket Anyone / Re: SL vs WI,2nd ODI, Colombo, Nov. 4, 2015
« on: November 04, 2015, 02:46:17 AM »

 Like u an me alone on dis board ?

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Cricket Anyone / Re: 2ND Test: SL vs WI, Colombo, Oct. 22, 2015
« on: October 26, 2015, 05:37:22 AM »


 We lorse as expected.

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Football / Re: When is the next TTFA elections for President?
« on: October 23, 2015, 10:35:56 AM »
A next broke conny who go be begging for money and cant even send a text.



 No breds Selby ent broke. Is true Jack shaft him with the TV rights back in the 80's but he aint broke.

Selby is a good man and unlike the rest of pretenders is an ex footballer, I wish him well

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Panama Game (8-Oct-2015)
« on: October 08, 2015, 07:13:51 PM »
anyone know what station flow 99 is?? been asking and no one answering.. >:(

Flow is the cable provider. The info channel is 99

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Cricket Anyone / Re: Adios Chanders
« on: May 26, 2015, 05:18:49 AM »

 Good decision.
Not because I did not want him to break Lara's record but because of his recent performances.
He should have left when he was on top or announced his retirement during or before the last Kiwi game.

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General Discussion / Re: Highways and Roadways in T&T Thread.
« on: April 22, 2015, 07:14:22 PM »
Many European countries automatically increase tax on petrol (gas) each year in their budget.

Fixed it for you.

 This has to be a real gradual thing (removing the subsidy). I remember the last time diesel was increased by 10% everything in Trinidad went up by 10 to 15%.
The distributers and manufacturers claimed a knock on effect from an increased cost in transport and passed it on to the public.

Now we have a little more competition in the marklet place but there are still big commodity controllers.

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General Discussion / Re: Highways and Roadways in T&T Thread.
« on: April 22, 2015, 01:46:27 AM »

 A rail system is for now the only solution.

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General Discussion / Re: We can complete $7.4bn highway.
« on: April 15, 2015, 07:23:02 PM »
 This is a stupid move. Most contracts will allow the client to terminate the contract when the contractor files for bankruptcy.

The quality of the product will start to deteriorate as the contractor tries to maximise on margins eventually leaving a mess that the client will have no recourse from. No liquidated damages will be applicable if they are legally bankrupt.

They should rethink this and break the project up into packages and go back out to tender.

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General Discussion / Re: Positive vibes, good news thread!
« on: April 03, 2015, 08:02:47 AM »
HOME SWEET HOME
By RICHARDSON DHALAI Friday, April 3 2015

PEOPLE who could not walk, the blind, deaf and others with varying disabilities filled a section of the Southern Academy for the Performing Arts (SAPA) where emotions ran high yesterday, as they received keys from government to home sweet homes, specially outfitted for them.

Over 100 differently-abled persons – representing collectively more than 900 years of waiting for government houses – were specially invited to the ceremony which was a continuation of government’s pledge to hand out 100 homes to new owners weekly, under its housing programme.

Prime Minister Kamla Persad- Bissessar, who was the chief celebrant on the occasion, had to navigate through a throng of wheelchairs to hand out keys, even having to walk some distance from the main venue to paraplegic Marcus Ganesh whose physical condition made it impossible for him to leave the vehicle which brought him to the ceremony.

With his eight-year-old daughter by his side in the car , Ganesh in a barely audible voice said, “I feel happy, I feel wonderful...it put a smile on my daughter’s face, on everyone’s face. When people figure the doors closed, God finds a way to open it for you. I went through some terrible things but God is good,” he continued as his daughter, who was peering over his shoulder in the car, held out hope that he would be on his feet again one day.

“My daddy will walk again,” she exclaimed.

Ganesh and the other recipients waited for an accumulated period of 908 years for a place to call their own. And for most recipients, the emotional relief was too much to bear. Corinne Lois Conyette, held onto Persad-Bissessar’s hand as she wept on being presented the keys to her home by the Prime Minister.

In between sobs, Conyette thanked the Prime Minister as well as the HDC saying she waited over a decade for the opportunity to have her own home. “I couldn’t believe it when they came to me and said I had qualified for a house,” she said. “I thought I was forgotten.”

Most of the recipients who were confined to wheelchairs, were visually impaired, blind or deaf were presented with their keys by Persad-Bissessar who, together with Housing Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal, left their places on the podium and presented each person with keys to their new homes.

Ganesh, 33, was shot during a robbery at his St Helena home in August 2012 and was left paralysed from the neck down. Two armed bandits stormed his house while Ganesh was with his wife Karen and daughter Emily, and announced a hold-up. The thieves robbed the family of three cellphones and $30.

Police said the two men kept demanding more money and when Ganesh told them that was all the money they had, he was shot twice in the chest. Since he was unable to use a wheelchair yesterday to access the ceremonial site under several tents in the SAPA car park area, Persad-Bissessar made her way to the vehicle which had brought him to the function and presented him with his keys while daughter Emily and wife Karen, 29, looked on.

Another man, paraplegic Felix Jones was also so overcome with emotion that he remained transfixed, staring for several moments at the keys he had just received.

In her address, Persad-Bissessar recalled that when her administration assumed government in 2010, there was “very little support for persons with disabilities.”

“My dream is to create a disability inclusive and sensitive Trinidad and Tobago,” she said adding that Cabinet had mandated that five percent of all HDC homes be allocated to differently-abled persons as well as senior citizens.

In a video presentation produced by the HDC, a number of homes were shown under construction while several others were undergoing remedial work including the construction of remedial ramps leading to the units to accommodate the differently abled.

The Prime Minister also revealed that the HDC would hold a lottery or random draw on April 15 for applicants who were on the HDC’s database. While she did not state how many persons would be selected, the HDC has a database of approximately 200,000.

Also addressing the function, Moonilal said 5,670 citizens had received keys to new homes while a further 7,548 affordable homes would come onto the market over the next two years.

 
 

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General Discussion / Re: MILLION DOLLAR MEN
« on: March 30, 2015, 02:29:37 AM »

 This is just a small number of millionaires created in the last 4 1/2 yrs.

 Every Ministry give out contracts for much more than they were worth, Life sport, NGC, HDC, WASA, TTEC and the list goes on and on.

 I am surprised we doh have 250,000 millionaires in TT now !!

 But is the multi millionaires we should focus on, The men with 6 mansions, the man with a mall in Holland, The spoil rice man etc.

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 After my initial knee jerk. I was just wondering if there is more to this than we think.

 Did Rowley really teach at Roxborough Secondary ?

 Is it possible that she is talking about another woman?

Could it be smoke and mirrors with the first lady ?

 They keep saying that Rowley has to clear up the allegations or rumours even after this lady came forward and refuted everything.

 I think there is more to this.


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Makes no sense firing her. They used her for the last bit of usefulness she had because even if she go back up as a candidate they know they not winning any Tobago seats.

I tend to agree... firing her will serve what purpose? Especially with the entire cabal soon to follow her on the unemployment line.

If she is picked to run again it will be like nobody running.

I was holding out hope that there was a sliver of decency left in this PP government but this is just pure evil.

The end is near and the dollars will start to disappear

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Cricket Anyone / Re: Dwayne Bravo quits Test cricket
« on: February 03, 2015, 07:04:52 AM »

 I was in the oval before xmas and men was saying that with the type of injuries he carrying all the time, his body ent going to stand up to test cricket anymore.

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Football / Re: Breaking News: Brent Sancho is the new Minister of Sport
« on: February 02, 2015, 09:54:17 PM »
 
 My take on this is that this PP government has lost credibility and as such are grasping at straws.
 I doubt very much if Sancho even has a clue of what awaits him.

 I did not want to say this but this particular appointment reeks of the white house becoming the great house.

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CUT ASS.

 No CARNAGE. BODY PARTS LEFT ALL OVER THE FIELD

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Cricket Anyone / Re: What would your ODI team be for the WC
« on: January 28, 2015, 11:13:24 AM »

 mih pardner jerry (he ha one short foot buh he could bat)

 De Indian fella from caroni (he does hit de winball far far)

 Jamesy (he come of retirement this year an bat 2 inns fuh Spartax sports from Mon Dievo)

 Old Singh (if he doh carry any puncheon to down under)

Young Singh( if he doh carry any puncheon fuh Old Singh)

Mih one and only keeper.... One eye Rielly

Mih bowlers now

Lanks ( He really cyar bowl but he tall tall)

Bertsie (he fadder have money)

De doubles man by Number One Woodbrook place (Ah really doh know if he does play cricket, but he doubles does taste too good to leave him behind)

Ah go carry Bakes ( he cussing people with a modum of decency now, he could sledge the aussies and dey ent goh understand)

Sexy Sandra ( she does want to play with all de boys, so she does always get pick)

Clive LLoyd ( He goh like to be on this team because it is a team for the future )

I eh bound fuh no damn reserves. Non ah dem fellas or lady going down dey to hurt dey self unless Old Singh geh hold of ah bottle ah puncheon rum.

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General Discussion / Re: 2015 crime situation in T&T.
« on: January 22, 2015, 01:35:01 AM »
This is real incredible. A man on wheelchair creating havoc. And police can't find him. He is being helped.

...yeah, by police ineptitude.  Police know everything about him, including how he like he tomato choka... everything except where to find him.

Lately the police is mantra is that they cannot do anything without the public coming forward.
So the population who is at risk is also at fault.

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