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What about Track & Field / Re: Why is the Caribbean So Strong in Sprint Events?

« on: August 22, 2009, 12:43:23 PM »

It was said due to the development of the Gluteus Maximus(Bam Bam) in the African Athlete they have a clear advantage in the sprinting department. I don't know this as fact so don't quote me on it. So strength in the background is essential to faster running.

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What about Track & Field / Re: The Caribbean is full of Usain Bolts

« on: August 22, 2009, 11:36:30 AM »

I don't know about it having endless Usain Bolts because the Athletics World (100m) has probably never seen that exceptional talent anywhere. JAmaica will continue to produce as long as they have a continuous programme in place. Programmes are just to facilitate talent. If the hard work is there Talent will prevail. But what I have seen is that many Talented individuals have fallen away due to unwillingness to work for success.

In my Sport which I have spent considerable years working with many a person, the greater talent normally don't push on because it all came easy , the ones with not much keep pushing because they knew how to persevere.

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What about Track & Field / Respect the Man

« on: August 16, 2009, 07:59:20 AM »

I decided to copy this onto a new topic.

I have been looking on with great interest as to the motivation of some people on the Athletics forum for a couple years and I'm flabagasted as to the reasoning (for some of you) to fight a point with AB as to your belief on the sport. Ato has and for a good part of his life committed himself to this sport professionally and have raced with the best of his era in Athletics for something like 10yrs or more. It baffles me as to what right each of you have as to continually fight and bicker with Ato over his sentiments or knowledgable insight into the sport. We should all be honoured that this guy takes the time to answer us here and educate(not all) some of us.

He sees the sport differently to most of us here as he sees the bigger picture, we see the narrow view(only Trinidad and Tobago's athletes). Please let's give him the respect that is deserved, if only for the fact that he has lifted the T&T flag for many a year on the world stage. Lets remember the joy this son of Trinidad brought to us all when he stepped on the medal podium to receive his Gold aand Bronze medals.

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Football / Re: D Touches Match Report T&T vs El Salvador UPDATED!!!

« on: August 13, 2009, 08:18:34 AM »

Thanks for the report Touches. I was looking at the game through a poor feed so couldn't really see the plays that great. I would see the ball in the centre and then in less than 2 seconds I saw the opposition in the box ponging Ince. Individually it seem the guys were moving and giving some beat and ting but the system was lacking as usual. They didn't play with any cohesion, too many leaks. The worst was when Yorke stand outside the box pointing at somebody while looking at the El Salvadorian rounding he and the box to take a shot. I think that was the one where Ince sit on the ball.
The referee was the worst thing on the field I feel. That fella made some of the most retarded decisions out there. As long as a man get touch he raising he hand. Shoulder to shoulder he calling and all. He even made the call against Spann(did he get a yellow on that play?) when he play the ball and the El Salvador player jes throw down heself

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Football / Re: Jack knocks minister's request for tickets

« on: August 13, 2009, 07:53:34 AM »

Now you see how these fellas is real in the gutter. Then Warner go tell the Minister he can't just give it to he people. All Warner needed to say is he don't have any authority over the Minister's allocation of tickets. He thought they were for all parliamentarians.

Warner can't say that he doesn't have any authority over the allocation of tickets. According to Warner, he was the one who was making calls and aplogising to the politicians on both sides of the divide who shouldve received tickets, but strangely never got any.

Warner can be wrong and strong - but there's definitely egg on Hunt's face this morning (then again, when isn't there?).
How the hell can you play a match in POS and not invite the Mayor of POS? - not wonder they spell his last name with a "C" instead of an "H"

True. Then again, as the others say,'anything warner say you have to take it with a grain of salt because he is chain up King' .

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General Discussion / Re: MP WARNER

« on: August 13, 2009, 07:30:42 AM »

Warner sending the man to Centrre Of Excellence for road filling. Since when that is he constituency's office location? I thought that was for Football.
Da woman wrapping the doubles had mih mouth watering.

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Football / Re: Jack knocks minister's request for tickets

« on: August 13, 2009, 07:05:33 AM »

Now you see how these fellas is real in the gutter. Then Warner go tell the Minister he can't just give it to he people. All Warner needed to say is he don't have any authority over the Minister's allocation of tickets. He thought they were for all parliamentarians.

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Football / Re: Zamora & Samuel to get T&T passports this week.

« on: August 04, 2009, 07:11:25 AM »

STEUPS !!!!!!!! and you have to wait 18 months to get a passport home........... pluss 4 months for them to process it.

Dat eh nuting! In the great old U S A I get mine in about 4hrs.

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General Discussion / Re: Jihad in Trinidad and Tobago, July 27, 1990

« on: July 27, 2009, 07:55:39 PM »

18 years to the day today.

19yrs ago

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General Discussion / Re: Will U vote PNm Again

« on: July 21, 2009, 08:16:29 AM »

It's not enough to sit back and "fear the indians" and hope the Government butter your bread.

Your reason for affiliation look very suspect

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Football / Re: Wigan confirm Scotland bid

« on: July 16, 2009, 05:23:23 AM »

Just saw it on sky sports news, so is it safe tuh say he signed?

on another note, scotty need tuh step up on his communication skills, BC he sound like ah real country bookie, i could barely understand ah word and i'm from the same country as him.

ayway congrats tough guy! hope yuh do well. make that money.

Nah man he really improve from a few yrs ago .am atleast he keeping it real ,with no fresh water accent .

Tuh tell yuh the truth, yuh doh need no accent tuh articulate your views, but ah fella could @ least sharpen up on his vocab especially when you're in the media spot light on a weekly basis.

the man talking like ah wallafield farmer, plus he's gobbling up his words. look how KJ does do his interviews, clean audiable and no UK accent.

BTW, what do you have against ah fresh water accent?! i most definatly have one, and that's BC i like doing it,#1, and #2 i was so exausted with ppl asking me to repeat my self when i came here, that i decided tuh speak like the romans.

sound like you were gobling up your words

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: Post ah movie thread

« on: July 13, 2009, 03:27:09 PM »

Saw transformers on Saturday, had a blast. I saw in IMAX. well papa this movie have to be the most action packed I   have seen. You got to go with the action because it was all out war.In my estimation the storyline was good, the action good just the same. The show was so enjoyed that the audience eh move for 2-3mins after it fnished.I enjoyed this flick. The action can become a bit exhausting but it was real war so it understandable. I saw some people thought the the camera work was too fast. I didn't have a problem with it though.

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Other Sports / Re: 2009 Wimbledon.

« on: June 30, 2009, 09:01:18 PM »

Chris could take she conservative so and so and ride south, I recall when Serena and Venus were just coming out before either had won a slam, she had made some borderline racists statements with respect to their potential as athletes, after that I examined everything she said with a find tooth comb, so what if Steffi never grunted...she is essentially likening grunting to taunting and quite frankly as I see them as mutually exclusive.  Rock so eh Chris

Barataria when did you hear Chris Evert say anything racist? I have never in my lifetime hear anything of that nature from Evert. Evert have been as congratulatory of Venus and Serena as anyone could be. She has taken time to give them encouragement. She even coach's a player out of TnT at her academy.

Pass, ah wish it was easy to dig dat one out of the archives and perhaps she came full circle after dem girls (Serena/Venus) destroy everybody on their way to glory, but she did, many years ago, maybe she was of that ilk and has been re-born, we can all mend our bad habits/mindsets/prejudices, if true in her case well done, but I vividly recall the statement she made re-Venus/Serena, just not easy to pull that one from the archives for you, sorry
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Okay I hear yuh.

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Other Sports / Re: 2009 Wimbledon.

« on: June 30, 2009, 03:09:15 PM »

Chris could take she conservative so and so and ride south, I recall when Serena and Venus were just coming out before either had won a slam, she had made some borderline racists statements with respect to their potential as athletes, after that I examined everything she said with a find tooth comb, so what if Steffi never grunted...she is essentially likening grunting to taunting and quite frankly as I see them as mutually exclusive.  Rock so eh Chris
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Barataria when did you hear Chris Evert say anything racist? I have never in my lifetime hear anything of that nature from Evert. Evert have been as congratulatory of Venus and Serena as anyone could be. She has taken time to give them encouragement. She even coach's a player out of TnT at her academy.

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Football / Re: GolTV Outage on Comcast?

« on: June 22, 2009, 09:41:06 AM »

I got it.

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Other Sports / Re: 2009 Wimbledon.

« on: June 21, 2009, 10:24:23 AM »

men like verdasco and del potro must be thinking "i might have a chance this year".

They eh stand a chance at Wimbledon. This could be Andy Murray or even Djokovic's chance. But the lone man at the top Federer will be a tuff nut to crack.

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Football / Re: T&T go down in Mexico but still in the race.

« on: June 11, 2009, 06:57:55 AM »

I like the idea of ushering the opponents out the box, that was done at its best last night. They didn't commit highly unnecessary tackles to give away free kicks. I applaud the defense on that. But they will have to understand man marking a little better as they allowed to many green shirts freedom in the centre.

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Football / Re: T&T vs Mexico performance.

« on: June 11, 2009, 06:37:34 AM »

Aguirre said it right, there was always two unmarked green shirts. I never understand our inability to mark opponents. The team did hold up a lot better but they got to learn to play for each other. There isn't any follow up on passes at all as still the players resorted to stand and wait for the ball. I am not any natural Footballer but I feel for professional footballers these fellas play like they still in the savannah when coming to understanding tactical awareness. Even when we use to play in the Savannah man use to make they lil run off the ball on the wing and we use to look good.  

The players seem oblivious to basic play and running off the ball which is what I would think is something simple to get. Put yourself in spaces to help your teammate and play for each other. Obviouly this doesn't come easy to our players as team work is so appalling sometimes I am embarrassed to see the crazy ideas being implemented by them. That is why the boom kick becomes part and parcel at times.

That was the bad.

The good things I saw last night was that the guys paced themselves and didn't run into the ground, they held their own and didn't become too flustered by the occasion. You could tell that was intentional as everyone was really conserving energy last night. That was a good tactical ploy as we are known to be really feeling the thin air effect whenever we go to the azteca. I remember they having to rest players for days when they return to their clubs from the Azteca. Decent job by the technical staff. With some more time they will begin looking better.

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Mexico Game (10-Jun-2009).

« on: June 10, 2009, 09:22:51 PM »

According to sprangalang: A bankrupcy of ideas.

At this time I don't blame the players. TTFF you definitely need a revamping. We need new blood in the Administration. It's a merry go round these administrators on. Enjoying champaign and the good life and doing almost nothing for the development and management of talent. Anyone with such a dismal record for continuity should never be President for something like 16yrs strong unopposed.

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Mexico Game (10-Jun-2009).

« on: June 10, 2009, 08:30:42 PM »

Allyuh see how dah ting was wining in the stands. Wine Wine Wine in dey arse.

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Mexico Game (10-Jun-2009).

« on: June 10, 2009, 08:18:34 PM »

I find yorke real back passing tonight. We controling the pace of the game good, we just have to defend much better. They're not playing lathagic they just pacing themelves.

Aye, Aye. We SCORE.

1 - 1

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Mexico Game (10-Jun-2009).

« on: June 10, 2009, 08:01:06 PM »

CAn someone please tell me who is no.9. He CLUELESS!!!!!!!!!!!

Keon.

Tank you.

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Mexico Game (10-Jun-2009).

« on: June 10, 2009, 07:58:58 PM »

CAn someone please tell me who is no.9. He CLUELESS!!!!!!!!!!!

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Mexico Game (10-Jun-2009).

« on: June 10, 2009, 07:57:18 PM »

We doing the right thing in slowing the pace of the game to our liking because we cyar run dong no seta ball in Azteca.

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Mexico Game (10-Jun-2009).

« on: June 10, 2009, 07:53:51 PM »

Who is no.9? He is ah waste ah time right now

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Football / Re: Warner is de best !

« on: June 10, 2009, 12:17:51 PM »

MAckie leh we doh start with the government again nah. We discuss these topics over the years enough already.

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Cricket Anyone / Re: Lara urges Uganda to jump on the twenty 20 bandwagon

« on: June 09, 2009, 06:01:52 PM »

This is a nice Public Relation scheme for the Trinidad And Tobago Government. Hope more of this will be done in the future. Sporting hearoes or icons is one of the better ways to promote a nation.

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: Post ah movie thread

« on: June 09, 2009, 01:54:38 PM »

The events surrounding this film are conflicting but I enjoyed it for pure entertainiment. Just was a very good flick. Got wind of this movie at Best Buy, they used it for the Magnolia display section to advertise their Tv's and equipment. Their displays were so stunning i was compelled to ask the attendant what movie it was.

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: Let's talk Audio/Visual

« on: June 09, 2009, 10:45:57 AM »

This weekend I watched U-571 and was in 'audio utopia'. Talk about being engulf into a movie well Papa you will get your ears filled with the sound effects. Anyone thinking they're going to enjoy this without a good sound system is missing out on alot of terrific sound effects. I was basically licking my chops on juicy sound effects in this.

This is a little elaboration on my experience.http://www.moviesforguys.com/action/reviews/u571.shtml

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: Post ah movie thread

« on: June 09, 2009, 10:36:41 AM »

Anyone saw U-571? http://www.bakeru.edu/faculty/adaugherty/film/u571.html