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Football / Re: Pro League game scrapped as refs forget to show up
« on: November 08, 2012, 03:16:18 PM »
man this shit is weak
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Hey my name is Jason Akal. I live in the USA but always dreamed to play for my country. Who would I have to talk to in order for me to get more information? Me and my brother want to come down, tryout out and help TT go back to the world cup!!!I'm in the same boat man I live in Oklahoma. And it's pretty hard trying to find info online
Today is F.A. Trophy final day. It is supposedly the oldest and most sought after trophy in T&T. Certainly, in most other countries the F.A. cup/trophy is the biggest prize.well said sir. its a damn shame this forum has better ideas than the people who are actually runnin shit
But you wouldn't think that here. Todays Guardian had a feature on page A74, todays Express (normally quite good with coverage) had nothing. It did have a full page preview of tomorrows premier league matches! Haven't seen Newsday, so can't comment on their coverage.
The thing is, if the press don't get behind football and excite the people, no one will come. In England, newspapers give over whole sections to the FA Cup final. You would think here, at least papers would give a page.
I'm sure if a newspaper did a feature they could obtain sponsorship via advertising for the section.
If I was an editor, this is what I would do:
Contact both clubs to obtain list of sponsors and key supporters.
Produce a 4 page pull out listing both squads plus facts about the teams etc
Get comments from celebrity fans (NES have JW & Ria Ramnarine, sure JAB have some too)
Get voxpop from citizens of Grande & San Juan
I would then approach sponsors to pay, say $1,000 each to wish team well and place an ad: JAB - Blink (not sure who else) NES - Japs Fried Chicken, DIRECTV, Carib, MaltaCarib, Toyota, Sports & Games, Lotto, Cher-Mere, Haagen Dazs, McCain, Ocean Spray
The paper makes money and the sport gets the coverage it needs.
Instead, the back page of Guardian has a large picture of winning cricket captains and the Express has a full back page covering West Indies defeat vs Sri Lanka.
I understand that there is an opinion that ProLeague etc is not big here, but how can it be without the support of the media. One feeds the other. The FA Trophy is one day a year, surely cricket can be moved for one day?
Carnival, fetes and concerts are marketed superbly. Yes, they make big money, but football could host an event that breaks even at least. A new mindset is needed from Govt down to the ProLeague clubs, including the supporters, media and TTFF and administrators.
Today should be the biggest day in the domestic football calendar, but instead its not even mentioned in the Express!
hope this is not de precursor to steroids.dumb shit.
Latapy making the local players look like they are bunch of shithounds, latas also damaging his reputation with the people that love him as a player, including myself.
the local based have alot more skill and potential than the scoreline suggests, coaching has always been a major problem in tt and its funny bc all you have to do is install a coach who is green or doesnt have the resume and you expose our football program to much scrutiny.
on the other hand i am 100% sure if we had a quality coach who has the resume and credentials behind his name, he would do 1000% more with this crop of talented local based players.
Latas do the noble thing and step down.