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Football / Re: Skeene dwells on positives over Jabloteh pullout
« on: July 03, 2012, 10:10:20 PM »
MLS had 2 teams in Florida....Tampa and Miami. Then they had None. It happens

But the PFL needs to look at the league as a business. If they get some proper academies they could get a few players being transferred to foreign teams to offset their budget.

More money needs to be pumped into the league.

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: ite car talk time again
« on: June 27, 2012, 09:06:43 AM »
Allyuh have real bank we, my car is over 30 years old.

Wah yu talking bout, Queen selling nuff books....Ask Dutty, he have about 10 copies by now

Wah yuh driving......horse and carriage  :o

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Football / Re: Angus Eve is new North East Stars head coach .
« on: June 27, 2012, 09:04:02 AM »
Good to see North East Stars making moves and talking about it  :beermug:

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Good to see Cato doing well in MLS. Being his age is an added bonus because he's in a professional environment day in and day out. Hopefully more of our players step up so they don't have to consider the US College system which sets them too far behind the other young professional footballers

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Football / Re: USA still doesn't get football; their loss
« on: June 18, 2012, 10:43:59 AM »
I wouldn't say that advertising, or lack thereof, has anything to do with that.....that's just plain old ignorance! I don't mean to make sweeping generalisations, but Americans are some of the most ignorant people I've ever met.....ignorant of world geography, ignorant of world politics, ignorant of most things unrelated to the USA....I call it ignorance, but it may just as well be apathy...who knows..

If yuh go outside right now and put yuh ear to the ground, that faint rumbling sound yuh hearin is TT, Bakes and the ghost of John Wayne ridin fuh yuh

 :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

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Football / Re: Tell me why should I support anything football in T&T?
« on: June 18, 2012, 10:33:55 AM »
Trinimassive, i have family in jamaica, so i does go regular. now if you want to talk about kingston and st andrew they have lousy beaches compared with the rest of the island, and yet still those beaches would make marracas look like ah mangrove.

you talking bout length and width of sand and kinda thing, come on son give me a break, whether the shore long or it short ppl don't business with that, they want clean blue water and lilly white sand something they don't get in the northern hemisphare and JA have nuff ah dat.

now have you ever considered that when you went there the place was just hit with a hurricane and would take time to recover?, you could say what yuh want , i iz an hoinest fella and i don't like to put ppl down to prop my position up, and by your handle "trini massive" it sounds like you have an agenda.

next thing yuh go tell meh, is that barbados have more crime than trinidad.

See...Ah thought so.  Ah was asking WHEN?

I was there last year....11/11/11 how ah remember the date? It was a wedding that this gyul invite meh to that had to be on that day ah guess because the bride and groom must be needed ah day they could remember easy?

Then ah was there in 2010 and then ah was there in 2009 twice....etc. I ent making up ah damn thing.
I set up base in Sav La Mar (which remind me of San Fernando), in Negril, in Montego Bay and  Kingston different times because ah know people in all those places. And from there I would venture out to Ocho Rios, Black River, Dunns river falls etc. Ah been around the whole island it very nice and scenic...ah like Montego Bay the best though as it have the right mix and it's own airport.

Now what you describe to me is like ah gyul that dress up nice, look pretty pretty with plenty make up but on closer obsevation ent all dat but yuh still go hit it since it's fun. All that white sand business is laughable....it rough and course in plenty parts.
That same pretty gyul when you go inside she literally yuh sinking...easy easy. On many occasions I say leh me go in the water like in maracas beach yuh could walk in and is like ah slope yuh walking down, well your pretty gyul in plenty parts of it yuh better have protection before going in because yuh could dead.....I walking in cool cool and as ah get in is one massive hole kinda thing...as say WDMC is this.  Is ah massive drop. Even on the shore in Negril parts of it was like that. Yes the sand white, if yuh like white thing and the surroundings pretty, the atmosphere nice, some parts wild but no padna dem beach only pretty on the outside that is why most ah de tourist does just sunbathe.
I could describe at length the beaches because I hit all ah dem numerous times, and yes yuh could have fun but to say if yuh went purely for the beach and really observe "nature" itself, it damage but still pretty. Which makes sense because it get hit with plenty hurricaines so that is to be expected. It not obvious but I observe and like deeper into things. I tell the people that from there the same thing and they agree that the beaches aint quite the same but still beautiful.
By the way none of it stop meh from going there many times and ah always manage to have fun regardless...but I say it as I see it.

I aint on no agenda like yuh mention eh padna, me and my Trinimassive handle on this site longer than you, longer than many here.
So doh Just Come with all this setta talk when I telling you first hand knowledge of what I observe...Just be Cool ok

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Football / Re: USA still doesn't get football; their loss
« on: June 18, 2012, 07:10:02 AM »
LOL you still like name calling  ::)....when you start off like that yuh think yuh sound more intelligent than the writer you're criticizing?

What you say changes nothing. Majority of the US don't GET IT.

Yuh could jump high, jump low, talk bout yuh nannyhole...it changes nothing.

I could easily bet you $10,000 that I could walk into any Starbucks, any Books-A-Million, any Walmart at random and ask 100 people about EURO 2012 and who are the teams, ask them to name 5 players from the US soccer team (their national team) that played Guatemala and would be lucky to find 10 people out of 100 who could answer those questions. THAT is what the writer getting at. They not that interested. PERIOD.

No matter what ESPN showing all day all night means nothing. ESPN showed strong man tournaments and other crappy programming and I couldn't name one so called strong man neither could most of the US.

The writer may have brought up all kinda unnecessary "facts" but he was never talking about the US team or their exploits but about Americans in general and there is no real argument that the masses aren't interested.

So quit with your name calling because I could come up with names too but what would that prove  ???

I sound no less "intelligent" than you did by your ridiculously presumptive statement about people's understanding of the article.  You insist on focusing on the very minor point that most Americans don't follow football, while conveniently ignoring the larger point made in the article that interest in the sport is diminishing almost to the point of it being non-existent.

The author said NOTHING of "the majority of the US don't get it"... he said "USA still doesn’t get football" direct quote.  You might want to familiarize yourself with either English, or a good reading comprehension book before you start questioning people's understanding.

You could walk into any Hi-Lo, ScotiaBank or rum shop and ask 100 people to name 5 players from the Soca Warrior team that lost to Guyana in the qualifiers and you would struggle to find the same 10 to answer correctly.  So I'm not sure what this nonsense survey of yours would prove, except that Trinis must not "get" football either.

ESPN's increase broadcast reflects growing interest in the sport... quite the contrary to what is stated in the article.  But then again, it's clear that you self eh understand what's stated in the article, so no surprise that point is lost on you.

No one has suggested that the writer was talking about the US team and its exploits.  Yuh sure yuh read the comments here... and understand them?

Try yuh best and come up with names if yuh want... they might actually make more sense than the shit yuh posting right now.

STEUPS. You just like to argue yes.

You say something & figure is lawyer time, "I saying something and I sticking to it EVERYTIME REGARDLESS"

Actually, you could ask any 100 Trinis to name 5 Pro League teams and you would struggle. I know this because I actually did a survey in 2010 concerning North East. Obviously, it was a shock to me that Trinis (even those wearing EPL and La Liga football shirts) didn't know the names of the (at that time) 10 professional clubs.

Well unlike Americans who most of them don't get football and not interested, most of T&T just not interested in the Pro League PERIOD.

But like ah say in another thread, T&T doh properly advertise anything.

Last week I had at least 6 people ask me where Trinidad was, one ask if it in Africa, another ask if it was Trinidad in Colorado (despite having an obvious accent, which is why they asked in the first place) the other 4 just had no clue.

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Football / Re: USA still doesn't get football; their loss
« on: June 18, 2012, 06:28:18 AM »
LOL you still like name calling  ::)....when you start off like that yuh think yuh sound more intelligent than the writer you're criticizing?

What you say changes nothing. Majority of the US don't GET IT.

Yuh could jump high, jump low, talk bout yuh nannyhole...it changes nothing.

I could easily bet you $10,000 that I could walk into any Starbucks, any Books-A-Million, any Walmart at random and ask 100 people about EURO 2012 and who are the teams, ask them to name 5 players from the US soccer team (their national team) that played Guatemala and would be lucky to find 10 people out of 100 who could answer those questions. THAT is what the writer getting at. They not that interested. PERIOD.

No matter what ESPN showing all day all night means nothing. ESPN showed strong man tournaments and other crappy programming and I couldn't name one so called strong man neither could most of the US.

The writer may have brought up all kinda unnecessary "facts" but he was never talking about the US team or their exploits but about Americans in general and there is no real argument that the masses aren't interested.

So quit with your name calling because I could come up with names too but what would that prove  ???

I sound no less "intelligent" than you did by your ridiculously presumptive statement about people's understanding of the article.  You insist on focusing on the very minor point that most Americans don't follow football, while conveniently ignoring the larger point made in the article that interest in the sport is diminishing almost to the point of it being non-existent.

The author said NOTHING of "the majority of the US don't get it"... he said "USA still doesn’t get football" direct quote.  You might want to familiarize yourself with either English, or a good reading comprehension book before you start questioning people's understanding.

You could walk into any Hi-Lo, ScotiaBank or rum shop and ask 100 people to name 5 players from the Soca Warrior team that lost to Guyana in the qualifiers and you would struggle to find the same 10 to answer correctly.  So I'm not sure what this nonsense survey of yours would prove, except that Trinis must not "get" football either.

ESPN's increase broadcast reflects growing interest in the sport... quite the contrary to what is stated in the article.  But then again, it's clear that you self eh understand what's stated in the article, so no surprise that point is lost on you.

No one has suggested that the writer was talking about the US team and its exploits.  Yuh sure yuh read the comments here... and understand them?

Try yuh best and come up with names if yuh want... they might actually make more sense than the shit yuh posting right now.

STEUPS. You just like to argue yes.

You say something & figure is lawyer time, "I saying something and I sticking to it EVERYTIME REGARDLESS"

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Football / Re: 2011/12 Pro League & Foreign Based player movements.
« on: June 18, 2012, 06:18:58 AM »
Daneil Cyrus to W Connection.


W connection just grabbing up everyone

They need to...they taking the CONCACAF champions league serious  :beermug:

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Football / Re: Tell me why should I support anything football in T&T?
« on: June 18, 2012, 06:17:18 AM »
Trinimassive, ah don't want to change the subject or veer off the topic, but you said that T&T have better beaches than jamaiaca?? :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:  what ah fackin big fat stinkin lie!!  as a matter of fact, i traveled the caribbean and been to quite ah few beach destinations, and from my experience jamaica had the best beaches i've ever seen.

ocho rios, montego bay, and negril being the best beach i've ever seen in my life, better than anything in barbados, anything in the virgin island, st marteen, bahamas, even hawaii, so please stop lying and giving ppl the wrong inpression.

i got your point though, and you are right about JA in some respects, they do push their product better than we do, but the truth is, their music and their culture is way more marketable than ours, and they were not spoiled like us who have tip top resources, so what ever they had, they had to make it work.  do you blame them.

Just cool when LAST yuh went Jamaica....HONESTLY ???

Just on logic if yuh think a country that's been hit by quite a few hurricanes could possibly have better beaches than a country that is virtually untouched like T&T ah wish ah had swamp land in Jamaica to sell yuh.

But seriously HONESTY? When last yuh been there? I've been to all the beaches yuh mention numerous times over the last few years and they are NOT better than our beaches. They are more marketable, but not better. The sand sucks, some parts is like they added sand or something. It not smooth and flat, I could post  pictures but me ent studying you. You could find whatever photoshop pictures yuh want I have real photos and NO they not better.  The hurricanes damage the beaches and the shores not even level. Parts of it high and low. Now it not a disaster of course but to someone who really know beaches they rather ordinary.

The resorts are very nice, I've stayed at the RIU, at I've stayed at Sandals, and Hilton and they were great accomodations but the shores in the back of the hotels were NOT nice. First off I find the shores real small not in length but width they had too much beach chairs but the stay was always nice. The Sandals in Montego Bay nice, the island that you need to take ah boat to stay over there is beautiful but when we talk purely about beaches even where there were no hotels, they just wasn't that great. Nice, but not the best. So I curious as to when you talking about? That must be years and years ago, old man lol.

Jamaica markets their products well. But if you say they were the best in the Caribbean ah could only SHM. 

Obviously it's nice enough that i've been back many times but it wasn't for the beaches as much as the atmosphere and the friends that I have there and went with. Not only the society more open and welcoming but so to were the girls/friends I was with. But that is ah whole other story lol. But as far as beaches yuh say  is ah fackin big fat stinkin lie so wah ah go tell yuh...you have your version and experience.

It's obvious that everybody have they own standards, and my standards and your standards may be different :-\

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Football / Re: USA still doesn't get football; their loss
« on: June 17, 2012, 04:07:27 PM »
Hmmm I'm wondering if the problem is critical thinking or what it could be. :-\

The writer is NOT saying that the US is not a good team, he is NOT saying that thousands do not go to games, he not saying they don't beat T&T regularly and most other teams in CONCACAF, that they do not make the World Cup every 4 years....

It is safe to deduce that he is saying that MOST of the USA do not understand the game, do not appreciate the game, do not have that passion that over a billion across the world experience and frankly couldn't care less.

Unless you live in a big city MOST of the USA couldn't care less about football, soccer, futbol, fusebol, succer, and all the different pronounciations that they say.  They have little knowledge of the World Cup, even less knowledge of Euro 2012, even lesser knowledge of club football, and most never heard of CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, UEFA, etc. Those are for the die hards.

Again he NOT saying dey not good, dey can't play, dey crowds suck......so raise the level of comprehension nah.

I could safely say that 90% of people i've met have no clue of the above, but being a country of 300 million if that 90% was to hold true that could mean 30 million follow the game and fill the stands.
But that still leaves it at 90% who couldn't care less which is MOST.

GET IT NOW lol.

Side note: Ah sure there are those that will still come and reveal the amount of density that exists  :laugh:

You have to be one deluded nannyhole to suggest that you and the writer are the only ones who "get" the article.  The article is shit.. full stop.  The laundry list of things that are misleading, presumptive, speculative... and just plain WRONG in this article, is too long to fully address in any great detail, but let's try to list them:

1. "(Football) is to be found near the bottom of every list of major league sporting events"
- 'every list' chronicling what?  Measured by what... TV ratings? Viewership? Attendance? Participation?  What exactly?

2. ESPN coverage rights "has more to do with finance than with any real desire to bring the sport to the masses."
- Really?  The writer sat in on the media strategy sessions to know this?  Assuming he's correct, everything is about "finance"... can the writer name one network or media outlet that broadcasts any sporting event out of a disregard of 'finance', and in favor of a greater desire to 'bring the sport to the masses'?  As I said, a factoid misleadingly used in pursuit of his particular agenda.  In fact it undermines his argument en toto.  If there's money to be made from the broadcasts then that suggests a certain  popularity of the sport, sufficient to justify ESPN's substantial investment in it.  Hardly supportive of his "dying sport" argument.

3. What does having Alexi Lalas in studio have to do with a desire to "bring the sport to the masses" or lack thereof?

4. "[E]ver since the 1994 World Cup was staged in that country, [football] was on its death bed, receiving a little life support."
- I won't even touch on the poor grammar... but even focusing on the substance... what planet does this fool live on?  The 1994 World Cup gave birth to the MLS, which, think what you will of the League, continues to grow and thrive, adding 4 (5?) teams in the past 3 years.  In it's 16 years in existence the League has survived contraction, and now is struggling to contain growth. The League secured its first broadcast contract within the last 5-6 years, and viewership and attendance are at an all-time high. 

ESPN now has Saturday and Sunday morning broadcasts of live EPL games, a development which took place in just the past 5 years.  ESPN has also added occasional live broadcasts on Mondays and Tuesdays, and on ESPN Desportes as well.  Fox Soccer channels numbers have been so incredible in that same period that even the regular FOX channel has begun live broadcasts of occasional games, and for the first time, every single EPL game was simulcasted on the League's final game day.  Suffice to say this would not be done with a sport that isn't already popular, or which is suffering declining popularity.

Not sure what the off-target cracks at American football and basketball have to do with anything... or the side bar discussion on race for that matter.  I get that the author is shooting for a bit of sarcasm perhaps, but he fails miserably in the process.  When the line between sarcasm and reality is blurred beyond recognition then focus becomes lost, as one is forced to devote entirely too much effort trying to distinguish one from the other... or worse, guessing which statements belongs where.

LOL you still like name calling  ::)....when you start off like that yuh think yuh sound more intelligent than the writer you're criticizing?

What you say changes nothing. Majority of the US don't GET IT.

Yuh could jump high, jump low, talk bout yuh nannyhole...it changes nothing.

I could easily bet you $10,000 that I could walk into any Starbucks, any Books-A-Million, any Walmart at random and ask 100 people about EURO 2012 and who are the teams, ask them to name 5 players from the US soccer team (their national team) that played Guatemala and would be lucky to find 10 people out of 100 who could answer those questions. THAT is what the writer getting at. They not that interested. PERIOD.

No matter what ESPN showing all day all night means nothing. ESPN showed strong man tournaments and other crappy programming and I couldn't name one so called strong man neither could most of the US.

The writer may have brought up all kinda unnecessary "facts" but he was never talking about the US team or their exploits but about Americans in general and there is no real argument that the masses aren't interested.

So quit with your name calling because I could come up with names too but what would that prove  ???

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Football / Re: Tell me why should I support anything football in T&T?
« on: June 17, 2012, 03:05:15 PM »
All ah what Sam say there are valid points.

VB yuh point out #5 but yuh have to realize that the reason reality tv is so popular now is because people like to know what going on, yuh could say they fass, nosey. The bottom line is the more people reveal is the more they get people interested.

Not just reality tv but look at facebook and twitter, the reason dey poplular is because people putting they business out there for others to know them better and follow them intimately.  Yuh cyah be hiding stuff that is not interesting to the masses.

Even in music the ones that sing about their life are generally more popular, even if they making up stuff they didn't do. It's an important component of what makes humans interested in other humans.

Jamaica advertise they country every single day on tv in the US so the people go. I've been Jamaica many times and honestly their beaches is no where near as good as the beaches in T&T. But they get people interested, they expose themselves and they are rewarded. We doh have one advertisement on tv but want tourist to come to the country. We bearly talk about we self. If yuh ask ah question or look in ah direction too long yuh is ah macco lol. We do not as a people generate interest and seem clueless as  to how to change that.
We're not a very open society and that is why men like Jack Warner could make mass...we under the radar, we do things under the radar, and as we say....we like it so
But as I digress......

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Football / Re: USA still doesn't get football; their loss
« on: June 17, 2012, 02:39:59 PM »
Hmmm I'm wondering if the problem is critical thinking or what it could be. :-\

The writer is NOT saying that the US is not a good team, he is NOT saying that thousands do not go to games, he not saying they don't beat T&T regularly and most other teams in CONCACAF, that they do not make the World Cup every 4 years....

It is safe to deduce that he is saying that MOST of the USA do not understand the game, do not appreciate the game, do not have that passion that over a billion across the world experience and frankly couldn't care less.

Unless you live in a big city MOST of the USA couldn't care less about football, soccer, futbol, fusebol, succer, and all the different pronounciations that they say.  They have little knowledge of the World Cup, even less knowledge of Euro 2012, even lesser knowledge of club football, and most never heard of CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, UEFA, etc. Those are for the die hards.

Again he NOT saying dey not good, dey can't play, dey crowds suck......so raise the level of comprehension nah.

I could safely say that 90% of people i've met have no clue of the above, but being a country of 300 million if that 90% was to hold true that could mean 30 million follow the game and fill the stands.
But that still leaves it at 90% who couldn't care less which is MOST.

GET IT NOW lol.

Side note: Ah sure there are those that will still come and reveal the amount of density that exists  :laugh:

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Football / Re: Angus Eve is new North East Stars head coach .
« on: June 17, 2012, 02:07:27 PM »
This is a good move by Eve. He needs more experience and he will be in a position to not only gain that experience but once he performs well in time he will get his opportunity again.
Anton Corneal needs to do that same. The national teams is no place to gain experience Anton and the rest need to be plying their trade in at least the Pro League or higher.

As for Coop's I don't think he is entirely off the mark. Sancho and the rest, including Football Supporter as far as I know still hasn't given any real explaination as to why they are no longer with North East Stars, if they did it was really under the radar. In fact I don't know about anybody else but how I found out FS was not with North East was not from his words but Tallman.  FS here everyday and it take Tallman for me to even know he wasn't there, but who knows maybe he made an press release like what they did with Stern.  Cause when Stern talked about the club they came out in full force with all kinda press release.

And is not like they "have to" discuss anything with the public, but if you showing that you're different from the TTFF and all the other people who think they don't have to be transparent with the public then you need to be transparent. If they can't discuss the happenings of dey club who is to say if they were in charge of the TTFF or any other entity they would discuss fraud, or any misappropriations of funds, etc. Stern stated the organization is/was (maybe was since there seems to be some sort of changing of the guards)  run unprofessionally and I wouldn't doubt that there's something to that.
Nothing against FS or any of them but it kinda suspicious that they been so "quiet" about the dealings of their former club.
Who know maybe the bacchanal would generate more interest in the club because the losses ent really helping much.

But back to Eve good luck, learn the game yuh have potential  :beermug:

Why FS, Sancho or anybody have to be "transparent" about their PRIVATE employment situation??  Do you come and post about when you leave your job?  The man posted on behalf of his employer while in their employ... sure it would have been nice had he made a post saying "Just for the record..." but so what if he didn't.  It is beyond foolish to even bring up transparency as it relates to the TTFF in this context.
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FS you self eh helping the situation with that suing talk... unless yuh have money throw away behind some lawyer I suggest you ease that talk. Flex and dem, and not even Coop's have anything to worry about.


I most certainly would have posted info about the happenings at the club I was at and if I left I would also post that info. That is normal in England and all over the world to give account to the "public" when you're in football. After all you depend on the public for support (maybe that is partially why the support sucks in T&T; the people don't feel part of the team).  They do it in England all the time.

Additionally if you're being transparent, you're being transparent. Why should someone feel comfortable with Sancho, Jeffries, and others feeling that they don't need to inform the public about happenings at the club or anything else; but feel comfortable with them in a positon with the TTFF where that mentality already exists. It builds confidence to inform the public so that if they were in charge and was accused of any a coverup and wrong doings the public could say nah man that is not them we woulda hear something bout that already.
The problem in T&T is that no one feels accountable to anyone. From government to the child walking the street.

I am not bashing Sancho or anyone else; it really is simple, it's a relationship they have with the public....just like any other relationship, as it develops you want to feel like the person you're in a relationship with is keeping you informed of what's going on so if you hear anything untoward, you could confidently say that is NOT him or her, he/she ent like that because I woulda know bout it.

Ok, so if what you say is true, then the club has the first responsibility to its supporters and the public? After all, administrators come and go, but the club remains, and thats who the fans support. So why are you so adamanat that myself, Sancho and Jeffers need to be transparent? Isn't it the responsibility of the club to inform its supporters? And if the club made a statement, perhaps there would be a response? Also, if you, the public, want information, why haven't you contacted Mr Mahabir as I haven't been forthcoming?

I agree 100% that the club should be more transparent. The reason I put the onus on you and Sancho is simple really.
I expect that level of unprofessionalism from most of the clubs and their administrators in T&T.  I believe that since Sancho, you and others who have been exposed to more professional environments would not do as they do in T&T but be the difference.
Stern openly spoke out about it, as some would view that as unprofessional but when you've experienced a truly professional environment it's hard to accept less so that's why I made mention of it. It's nothing personal I just felt you'll could be the example of how things should be done  :beermug:

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Football / Re: Angus Eve is new North East Stars head coach .
« on: June 17, 2012, 09:52:58 AM »
This is a good move by Eve. He needs more experience and he will be in a position to not only gain that experience but once he performs well in time he will get his opportunity again.
Anton Corneal needs to do that same. The national teams is no place to gain experience Anton and the rest need to be plying their trade in at least the Pro League or higher.

As for Coop's I don't think he is entirely off the mark. Sancho and the rest, including Football Supporter as far as I know still hasn't given any real explaination as to why they are no longer with North East Stars, if they did it was really under the radar. In fact I don't know about anybody else but how I found out FS was not with North East was not from his words but Tallman.  FS here everyday and it take Tallman for me to even know he wasn't there, but who knows maybe he made an press release like what they did with Stern.  Cause when Stern talked about the club they came out in full force with all kinda press release.

And is not like they "have to" discuss anything with the public, but if you showing that you're different from the TTFF and all the other people who think they don't have to be transparent with the public then you need to be transparent. If they can't discuss the happenings of dey club who is to say if they were in charge of the TTFF or any other entity they would discuss fraud, or any misappropriations of funds, etc. Stern stated the organization is/was (maybe was since there seems to be some sort of changing of the guards)  run unprofessionally and I wouldn't doubt that there's something to that.
Nothing against FS or any of them but it kinda suspicious that they been so "quiet" about the dealings of their former club.
Who know maybe the bacchanal would generate more interest in the club because the losses ent really helping much.

But back to Eve good luck, learn the game yuh have potential  :beermug:

I hear what you're saying, an understand your points. However, there are certain instances where releasing information is unwise. As you will note, we were never shy in making press statements, even when the news wasn't always positive. In my personal situation, I negotiated to be released from my contract in February as I was disillusioned with the direction the club was taking and the decisions being made. There are no hard feelings on my part and I was not forced out of the club.  :beermug:

It's good that you understand what i'm saying. It's all part of helping the game grow in T&T. Good or bad it's good to get the public involved so they feel they have a vested interest in that or any other club. Every bit helps!!!
As for your personal situation it is good that you have no hard feelings and weren't forced out. Maybe something could be learned/gained from that situation which would help improve things on both sides in the future  :beermug:

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Football / Re: Angus Eve is new North East Stars head coach .
« on: June 17, 2012, 09:45:20 AM »
This is a good move by Eve. He needs more experience and he will be in a position to not only gain that experience but once he performs well in time he will get his opportunity again.
Anton Corneal needs to do that same. The national teams is no place to gain experience Anton and the rest need to be plying their trade in at least the Pro League or higher.

As for Coop's I don't think he is entirely off the mark. Sancho and the rest, including Football Supporter as far as I know still hasn't given any real explaination as to why they are no longer with North East Stars, if they did it was really under the radar. In fact I don't know about anybody else but how I found out FS was not with North East was not from his words but Tallman.  FS here everyday and it take Tallman for me to even know he wasn't there, but who knows maybe he made an press release like what they did with Stern.  Cause when Stern talked about the club they came out in full force with all kinda press release.

And is not like they "have to" discuss anything with the public, but if you showing that you're different from the TTFF and all the other people who think they don't have to be transparent with the public then you need to be transparent. If they can't discuss the happenings of dey club who is to say if they were in charge of the TTFF or any other entity they would discuss fraud, or any misappropriations of funds, etc. Stern stated the organization is/was (maybe was since there seems to be some sort of changing of the guards)  run unprofessionally and I wouldn't doubt that there's something to that.
Nothing against FS or any of them but it kinda suspicious that they been so "quiet" about the dealings of their former club.
Who know maybe the bacchanal would generate more interest in the club because the losses ent really helping much.

But back to Eve good luck, learn the game yuh have potential  :beermug:

Why FS, Sancho or anybody have to be "transparent" about their PRIVATE employment situation??  Do you come and post about when you leave your job?  The man posted on behalf of his employer while in their employ... sure it would have been nice had he made a post saying "Just for the record..." but so what if he didn't.  It is beyond foolish to even bring up transparency as it relates to the TTFF in this context.
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FS you self eh helping the situation with that suing talk... unless yuh have money throw away behind some lawyer I suggest you ease that talk. Flex and dem, and not even Coop's have anything to worry about.


I most certainly would have posted info about the happenings at the club I was at and if I left I would also post that info. That is normal in England and all over the world to give account to the "public" when you're in football. After all you depend on the public for support (maybe that is partially why the support sucks in T&T; the people don't feel part of the team).  They do it in England all the time.

Additionally if you're being transparent, you're being transparent. Why should someone feel comfortable with Sancho, Jeffries, and others feeling that they don't need to inform the public about happenings at the club or anything else; but feel comfortable with them in a positon with the TTFF where that mentality already exists. It builds confidence to inform the public so that if they were in charge and was accused of any a coverup and wrong doings the public could say nah man that is not them we woulda hear something bout that already.
The problem in T&T is that no one feels accountable to anyone. From government to the child walking the street.

I am not bashing Sancho or anyone else; it really is simple, it's a relationship they have with the public....just like any other relationship, as it develops you want to feel like the person you're in a relationship with is keeping you informed of what's going on so if you hear anything untoward, you could confidently say that is NOT him or her, he/she ent like that because I woulda know bout it.

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Football / Re: USA still doesn't get football; their loss
« on: June 17, 2012, 09:05:12 AM »
The writer mentioned that the USA still doesn't GET football

Yuh could have a ping pong tournament in chinatown with thousands in attendance and show it on ESPN and the masses still NOT GET it.

He is making a fair enough premise. The article isn't perfect but he said enough to get his point across.

He mentioned having Lalas as an "expert" which really is laughable.

It's a sport where a team could play excellent football but not score a goal, where they may even lose and get all the plaudits, where the main striker could play the best game of his life but miss a one on one with a keeper and his team lorse even though they controlled 75% possession.
The people that GET football will say wow good game. Yuh think the American public at large would really truly GET that ??? No they wouldn't because the game didnt have a single goal scored but the stadium could still be ram pack with people.
Most of the world that GET it will look at football as art being created, but to most Americans it's like paint drying and that is just plain boring to them.

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Football / Re: Players I expected big from but never live up.
« on: June 15, 2012, 11:39:01 AM »
latapy played for Porto, you cannopt get bigger than that.

the man play pro until he was like 37 in scotland, and was a key player.

how much bigger you want him to be.



Latas played for Porto and then took a stop backwards to play with Boavista - good club  but that is like leaving Man U and going to Tottenham or Villa.

Then at 30 years old and still on top of his game the man went to HIBS IN THE SCOTTISH SECOND DIVISION. How the hell he end up there is a crying shame. A man who good bamboozle the best in the world and he go to Hibs???????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  ??? ???

Latas was a drinker and a smoker, not one problem but 2 problems for anyone who wants to play at the highest level. 
Villa promised Yorke they would take Latas if Dwight stayed with them but I doh blame Dwight...he ride out on to bigger things and Villa drop they interest in Latas.
Latas had all the talent in the world but lacked the discipline that Dwight had, the work ethic to train and keep super fit. Dwight at Man U was always praised for being the fittest player at the club bar none.
Some of Latas teammates use to say Latas would show up for training smelling like alcohol.
He enjoyed himself and lived up to his potential, I think he achieved what he could have. Had he not been the happy drinker, smoker that he was he wouldn't have been happy and it probably would have showed in his performances. In Scotland he was able to live and play like he wanted.
He was as talented as the come though, brilliant football brain.

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Football / Re: Angus Eve is new North East Stars head coach .
« on: June 13, 2012, 06:30:05 PM »
This is a good move by Eve. He needs more experience and he will be in a position to not only gain that experience but once he performs well in time he will get his opportunity again.
Anton Corneal needs to do that same. The national teams is no place to gain experience Anton and the rest need to be plying their trade in at least the Pro League or higher.

As for Coop's I don't think he is entirely off the mark. Sancho and the rest, including Football Supporter as far as I know still hasn't given any real explaination as to why they are no longer with North East Stars, if they did it was really under the radar. In fact I don't know about anybody else but how I found out FS was not with North East was not from his words but Tallman.  FS here everyday and it take Tallman for me to even know he wasn't there, but who knows maybe he made an press release like what they did with Stern.  Cause when Stern talked about the club they came out in full force with all kinda press release.

And is not like they "have to" discuss anything with the public, but if you showing that you're different from the TTFF and all the other people who think they don't have to be transparent with the public then you need to be transparent. If they can't discuss the happenings of dey club who is to say if they were in charge of the TTFF or any other entity they would discuss fraud, or any misappropriations of funds, etc. Stern stated the organization is/was (maybe was since there seems to be some sort of changing of the guards)  run unprofessionally and I wouldn't doubt that there's something to that.
Nothing against FS or any of them but it kinda suspicious that they been so "quiet" about the dealings of their former club.
Who know maybe the bacchanal would generate more interest in the club because the losses ent really helping much.

But back to Eve good luck, learn the game yuh have potential  :beermug:

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Football / Re: 2012 International Friendlies.
« on: June 09, 2012, 11:10:34 PM »
That's wasn't Brazil A squad though, was it?

Brazil Olympic Team

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Football / Re: Thread for the (CFU) Club Championship 2012.
« on: June 05, 2012, 11:34:40 PM »
Well for sure the T&T teams cyah mess this up. At least one team will be in the group stages  :beermug:

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Enjoy yuh Vietball  :beermug:

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Football / Re: Dwight Yorke - Motivational speaker for hire
« on: April 21, 2012, 04:21:30 PM »
Jack Horner book Dwight fuh the TTFF nah....they could use the talkin

Better yet Dwight might as well spend ah few months in T&T and try to help get at least the clubs on track. They need guidance.

Educate them on what is necessary for success. How much time to put in training, sleeping, eating healthy...all that stuff. Ah find the players in T&T real clueless and always appear unprepared.  Same for the coaches.

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Football / Re: Study says soccer is like sex for fans
« on: April 19, 2012, 02:47:22 PM »
That study wouldn't have those results in Trinidad and Tobago...matter of fact no where in the Caribbean

In T&T if it aint the real ting it ain't the real ting. Cyah substitute....no pun intended lol

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Football / Re: Palos outta de hospital...
« on: April 19, 2012, 01:05:54 PM »
Get well soon Palos

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Football / Re: W Connection’s Zaine Pierre set for Genoa trial
« on: April 19, 2012, 01:04:57 PM »
You notice they never say how much money they get.

It's nice that they can sell players but how do they build a team when the best players have to be sold.

VB

They are a selling team, and if that motivates the teams in T&T to produce better players then I guess for now that would have to work.

At least with this team he going to it's in a top league so hopefully he aint being treated like "Animal"

Interesting that he isn't much younger than S. Winchester and travel less but get a contract. Winchester still globetrotting.

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Football / Re: Introduction And Thank You
« on: April 16, 2012, 06:02:08 PM »
Welcome  :beermug:

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Football / Re: Ex-national footballers screen Under-20 possibles.
« on: April 16, 2012, 05:33:28 PM »
Ex-national footballers assess U-20 talent.
By: Shaun Fuentes (TTFF).


We’ve had open screening for the past two weeks and then for the upcoming sessions we will be looking at the last group of Under 17 national players and then combine them with the new players we have selected from this new bunch towards selecting a pool of about 35 players to go into full scale preparation.”

In terms of what McComie and his fellow coaches are looking at from the players, he explained “We are looking at their application to the training and their off the ball movement.

T&T will enter the Caribbean leg of qualification from July 23-31 in a group hosted by St Vincent/Grenadines along with Suriname and Guyana.

The winner of the four preliminary groups and the best second placed team will advance to the final CFU round in Jamaica from November 3-11, 2012. The CONCACAF final round takes place in Puebla, Mexico from February 18-March 2, 2013.

The Caribbean will have five berths in the final 12-nation round from which four will qualify for the FIFA Under 20 World Cup in Turkey. Mexico, Canada and USA are automatic qualifiers to the CONCACAF final round.


There should have already been a pool of 35 players playing together. It's almost May and they have the Caribbean leg of qualification in July. Provided they move on to Jamaica then qualify for Mexico, that's less than a year.
Our players aren't good enough to be put together in such a short space of time and expected to perform at their best. Even if they qualify for the World Cup this is not ideal preparation. Teams like Mexico could get away with that but we really need teams that are consistently in training or else it's a waste of time.
Not about being negative but it's about being realistic.

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Football / Re: Trinis in Action (April 5-9, 2012)
« on: April 07, 2012, 01:15:34 PM »
When u c this thread it confirms it have a Trini everywhere.

When u c this thread it confirms we players treated like animal  :-\

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