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Football / Re: How I almost did not make it to Atlanta

« on: July 22, 2013, 03:41:28 PM »

FF you doing a boss job. Keep it up. In 5 years you will be covering us in the World Cup

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Mexico Game (20-Jul-2013).

« on: July 17, 2013, 11:39:28 AM »

You bring a smile to my face with that Stern John memory.

All those who putting Keon in th middle with Boucaud, Keon Daniel cah play in the middle without another centre mid covering for him. If he's playing he needs freedom to create.

And like palos forgetting that Theobold's carelessness led directly to goal #2 against Haiti. Despite that, i would gie him a bligh. He has a chip on his shoulder and should come out with some intensity

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Mexico Game (20-Jul-2013).

« on: July 17, 2013, 07:23:43 AM »

Touches beat me to the punch. Dwight left mid-tournament when we were rolling and made it to the semis I believe. I saw some posters refer to that team as the best T&T team ever.

Hyland is valuable because he is a physical ball winner. Boucaud is as well, but I think we benefitted from having two of these guys on the field at the same time. I think Birchall played a similar role in the World Cup, but not sure where his form or fitness is these days.

Have a sinking feeling that number 18 will be asked to the fill the role. The sad thing is that he is neither physical, nor good in possession. Seems to me like he is short of confidence and tries to play the ball off so quickly that he gives it away a lot.

Either way, we could poison this Mexico side with a strong effort and a little bit of luck.

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Honduras Game (15-Jul-2013).

« on: July 16, 2013, 08:19:40 AM »

noize,

Bouchard is actually Boucaud. He deserves a little better after the solid shift he put in last night. And putting Keon Daniel in the middle without another defensive mid is asking for trouble

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Football / Re: Post match report

« on: July 10, 2013, 12:42:33 PM »

Not only was the stadium full of blue shirts, but they were rowdy as hell. Real beatin seats and making real noise

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Football / Re: Post match report

« on: July 10, 2013, 10:46:03 AM »

Amazing how we could all watch the same game and see different things.

To me Carlos was excellent, particularly in the mid second half when we had sustained pressure and created a few chances. I thought Hyland was critical to us retaining possession, although he wasn't great connecting his through balls, and Bleeder was more than adequate.

JC doh take any of the talk personally. Yuh sound liek yuh real takin it on

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Football / Re: Brilliant First Game For Coach Stephen Hart

« on: July 09, 2013, 10:52:29 AM »

Concur with most of the statements in this thread. From an in-stadium view, KJ was beastin' last night. I didn't think that Bleeder was as bad as some have made him out to be and looked neat in possession at times.

Best game I've seen from KJ, Keon Daniel and Hyland.

And Hoyte was nice too...

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: Post ah movie thread

« on: August 07, 2012, 12:34:36 PM »

Took in Total Recall last night....Not a bad flick to watch on a boring Sunday evening. I saw that a sequel to "Taken" is coming out, that look like it will bad ass

A sequel to Taken? Yuh mean that man daughter get kidnap again? She doh need to ever leave the US again.

i think liam neeson and his wife got taken this time and the daughter is going to rescue them....not sure how that going to work

I hope not, cuz that sounding like shit. But keeping an open mind

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: Post ah movie thread

« on: August 07, 2012, 12:33:11 PM »

Saw "Dark Knight Rises"... good flick.  Still think "The Dark Knight" was much better... but this was also excellent.


Saw "Total Recall"... too bad it can't be totally recalled.  Waste ah time movie.  Had its moments, but I rate it merely enjoyable, as opposed to being good.

I thoroughly enjoy Dark Knight Rises last night... I think even more than TDK... but I haven't seen that in a while.

I thin it was better than Avengers

Boss, you thinkin just like me. I think it was better than both prior Batman movies and the Avengers, and I say this having loved all three. I liek that Batman was the focus here. TDK, while great, was more of a "Joker featuring batman" movie. I thought this one had more dire consequences, which I liked and thought Bane was a scarier proposition than Joker (not a better villain, just scarier).

But both had me on the edge of my seat. Literally

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What about Track & Field / Re: Richard Thompson 100 m run.

« on: August 07, 2012, 12:12:16 PM »

Look nah, this man was right up there with them yes.  He just hit he wall sooner than the rest..with some proper conditioning and what I feel is disclipine he had a freaking medal yes.

I eh feel Gatlin more talented than he is...just more committed.

Richard Thompson if you reading this..re-dedicate yuhself.

You can still accomplish much.steups..allyuh look at that race again, if the man had more conditioning he make that podium!~

Meh boy already have 2 silver medals at the olympics partner. He already has accomplished VERY much. If you meant much more, then I echo that sentiment.

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Olympic Discussion / Re: 2012 Olympic Football Thread.

« on: July 29, 2012, 09:52:16 AM »

Neymar just sex a man with a header yes. Damn

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Trinbago, NBA & World Basketball / Re: NBA Trades

« on: July 16, 2012, 02:29:11 PM »

STAT and Melo are both black holes on the floor. Add in a PG that needs the ball in his hands and that is a recipe for disaster. The Knicks played their best ball when it was Lin, Shumpert, Tyson and Fields getting most of the run. I don't care if ppl make the argument that their opposition was weak, they were losing to those same caliber teams before that.

Melo is a phenomenal talent, but just CANNOT play in a team environment. That shit works in college, but in the pros, one man eh beating yuh. The only man who can play without the ball in NY is Chandler. If I were them, I lining up a trade of Melo for Kidd-Gilchrist plus a couple first round picks, which from Charlotte could potentially be lottery picks.

Imagine a line-up of Lin, Schumpert, Kidd-Gilchrist, Stat and Chandler. Plenty more potential than the current crop and yuh have potential franchise players in future draft picks. Bring back D'Antoni too.

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Football / Re: UEFA Euro 2012 Thread.

« on: June 27, 2012, 10:50:35 AM »

i curious to know what balotelli told him after scoring...hart was trying to psych ppl out but he did not like he was trying to save crap.

on another note Bakes, what u think about milner?  England doesnt have any better options?

Dred you musse miss the post where I was wondering how the hell he still starting fuh England.  De man slow and lacking for skills... no way you could convince me he starting ahead of Walcott... limitations in Theo's game and all.  Theo need steady run... unfair to expect that youth to produce the minute he steps in the pitch, which is precisely how they've been using him his whole career (both Arsenal and England).  At least there is better quality around him on the club... what is Capello and Roy story? 

I think Milner provides experience and toughness to a City team that has more than its share of prima donnas... but Englad full ah players like that in midfield already... he surplus to requirement.  It tells the tale the fact that his replacement was Jordan Henderson in that match.  That's what English fans have to look forward to... lol.

yeah i didnt understand why walcott wasnt starting ahead of milner, i assumed they saw walcott as being more effective coming on a sub.  Milner is real pull stones.

I believe the reason why Hodgson played Milner is because he felt that Johnson needed the defensive help more than England needed an attacking option.

I think that's also why he played Ashley Young as well.  Both Walcott & Chamberlain are young players not known for their defensive attributes and England needed numbers in midfield to help when Italy had the ball.  As was seen by the stats, Italy had significantly more of the ball than England which made that help even more important.

Just a guess on my part.

Chamberlain showed a decent work rate in the first game in terms of tracking back.

But by having players that didn't want to hold onto the ball he was essentially ceding possesion to Italy and therefore inflating that stat.

England had no cutting edge whatsoever and are deservedly out of the tourney.

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Football / Re: UEFA Euro 2012 Thread.

« on: June 26, 2012, 01:32:35 PM »

i curious to know what balotelli told him after scoring...hart was trying to psych ppl out but he did not like he was trying to save crap.

on another note Bakes, what u think about milner?  England doesnt have any better options?

Dred you musse miss the post where I was wondering how the hell he still starting fuh England.  De man slow and lacking for skills... no way you could convince me he starting ahead of Walcott... limitations in Theo's game and all.  Theo need steady run... unfair to expect that youth to produce the minute he steps in the pitch, which is precisely how they've been using him his whole career (both Arsenal and England).  At least there is better quality around him on the club... what is Capello and Roy story? 

I think Milner provides experience and toughness to a City team that has more than its share of prima donnas... but Englad full ah players like that in midfield already... he surplus to requirement.  It tells the tale the fact that his replacement was Jordan Henderson in that match.  That's what English fans have to look forward to... lol.

Chamberlain showed more in his brief stint than Milner and Young put together.

Chamberlain and Walcott at least want to possess the ball.

England full of grafters

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Football / Re: Manchester City Thread- Blue Moon has risen!

« on: May 14, 2012, 01:19:22 PM »

"Everybody expected City to win, but they did it against 10 men for half an hour and with five extra minutes to help them", Ferguson conceded afterwards

LOL     

Sour grapes?

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Football / Re: Manchester City Thread- Blue Moon has risen!

« on: May 14, 2012, 07:17:39 AM »

EPL for Sale  just 1 Billion.   

Name one team that win trophies without buying players, whether for $1 or $1 Billion.

they overdo d fackin thing and are part reason why the transfer market so frigged up..dey cant carve a history so i guess they hadda buy one..they still not makin a note in CL next year

What is overdo?

When teams like Manchester United and Real Madrid was cherry picking whichever players they wanted to it wasn't overdo then?

Boom. Co-flickin-sign. People act like Man U didn't used to do the same thing. So iz only now that they don't have the most ammo to buy players that the market outta wack?

They helped create this monster. Let them keep searching for bargains now

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Football / Re: FC Barcelona v Real Madrid • 21 April 2012

« on: April 23, 2012, 01:02:00 PM »

I love Marcelo, but Coentrao is a man defend with heart and responsibility boy. Kudos to the whole Madrid defense in this one and that includes the midfielders and forwards who were tracking back and pressing. Barca had no space to execute. Their only goal was real scrappy.

Bayern is pressure though. I wonder if we need Marcelo attacking instincts in that one

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Football / Re: CHELSEA FOREVER! - Home of the Champions!

« on: April 05, 2012, 01:41:53 PM »

Barca will hit Chelsea 12

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Football / Re: CHELSEA FOREVER! - Home of the Champions!

« on: April 05, 2012, 12:48:41 PM »

EPL actually getting worse in my opinion.

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Football / Re: La Liga Season 2011-2012

« on: February 13, 2012, 12:08:48 PM »

Just read Ronaldo has scored 119 goals out of 122 matches for Madrid, compared to 118 out of 292 matches for ManU. That's incredible.

And I think that was before the hat trick

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: 2012 SOCA THREAD

« on: February 01, 2012, 11:19:26 AM »

Benjai winnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn with dat one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Football / Re: National footballer's fiancee and beauty queen brutally assaulted

« on: February 01, 2012, 09:18:01 AM »

Dred, this is so disturbing iz not funny. I couldn't even finish reading the article yesterday, I had to log off. We have to find a way to show that this type of behavior is unacceptable in our society. Unless the attacker is mentally ill, there is no way that anybody should even fathom doing something like this.

I'z hardly cuss, but this is pure fackery. Bring the FBI in here.

And Sam, I doh mean to be rude, but that last comment was in poor taste in light of the subject matter.

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Football / Re: La Liga Season 2011-2012

« on: January 26, 2012, 09:42:41 AM »

I don't mean to sound like a stuck record but, we beatin dat this year. Every single game Barca seeing more stress. Now they resorting to theatrics, on their own field no less.

Pressure in Champions League. Boom

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Football / Re: La Liga Season 2011-2012

« on: January 20, 2012, 09:20:59 AM »

If a man stepped on his hand while he was pipsin' a ting on the beach you really feel he was reactin so? BIG STEUPS

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General Discussion / Re: Rowley: T&T doesn't bow to anyone ...Kamla wrong to kiss Indian president's foot

« on: January 19, 2012, 04:34:15 PM »

Steups... Rowley learn to shut to fack up sometimes nah.  Kamla kiss de woman foot in her personal capacity... what de ass.

LOL.

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Football / Re: Journals of a Trini footballer in India.

« on: January 19, 2012, 11:53:30 AM »

Goodluck Densil....keep working hard on the field and try to take away as much as you can from the experience.

Like we may need to learn a thing or two from the Indian pro league, 5-10,000 in the stands...

That's good that they get that many people but....
5000-10,000 people in India sounds like a lot but that is like 50-100 people in a country over 1 BILLION

You missing the main point that crowds of 5-10 thousand per game can support a league whereas 50-100 cannot. The fact that the country's population is very large isn't that relevant here

Yuh really think that a country's population being very large isn't relevant here

A country that's 1000 times more populated than T&T doesn't matter that they get crowds 100 times bigger?

For every 6 people on Earth better than 1 live in India -

Sorry but you're not being logical, it is relevant.

You are right. What I really meant was that your point - a country that's 1000 times more populated than T&T doesn't matter that they get crowds 100 times bigger - is irrelevant. 

What's relevant is that they have a profitable league and Trinidad doesn't. The population could have been a million times larger than Trinidad's, but if they pulling big enough crowds (10K+), that's all that matters. The fact that football has only penetrated a small portion of the Indian market is actually a positive rather than a negative as you alluded to - which is why Nike willingly sposnors a "lesser" football league. In the end people care about the bottom line. The Indian population and market support a professional football league, even if it is a second or thrid tier sport over there.

You are arguing about the relative popularity of football in Trinidad vs India. Investors, Nike included really only care about the absolutes.

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Football / Re: La Liga Season 2011-2012

« on: January 19, 2012, 11:41:06 AM »

Allyuh doh study it. Madrid beating dat this year. Mourinho just not gonna tip his hand as the Cop del Rey is essentially a relegation prize. He waiting for the big games - La Liga return and Champions League. At this point he is still experimenting.

When he unleashes the Ronaldo - Di Maria - Kaka - Ozil - Benzema - Higuan combination it go be real trouble.

Each game has been closer in my opinion. The pattern and results have been similar, but Barca getting more and more stressed man. No denying that.

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Football / Re: Journals of a Trini footballer in India.

« on: January 18, 2012, 04:04:53 PM »

Goodluck Densil....keep working hard on the field and try to take away as much as you can from the experience.

Like we may need to learn a thing or two from the Indian pro league, 5-10,000 in the stands...

That's good that they get that many people but....
5000-10,000 people in India sounds like a lot but that is like 50-100 people in a country over 1 BILLION

You missing the main point that crowds of 5-10 thousand per game can support a league whereas 50-100 cannot. The fact that the country's population is very large isn't that relevant here

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Football / Re: Saudis chase Stoke star Jones

« on: January 18, 2012, 01:54:02 PM »

The paper he can make in the middle east will probably dwarf his current salary, and that is saying something.

KJ already played significant top flight ball, so cyah fault d man for looking after the finances from here on out.

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Football / Re: Journals of a Trini footballer in India.

« on: January 18, 2012, 01:50:16 PM »

Respect to a man making a living and coming out of his difficult situation.

Don't hate on the man's decisions.