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Now they get a decent friendly
I will believe it only when the Finnish team come out to warm up at the Haseley. Before then, I will not be commenting on it.
Pfister gets US$50,000 a month salary.
By Nigel Simon (Guardian).
“That level of salary is on the final path to greatness as a team to qualify for a World Cup and we have been knocked out from the top level of football, therefore we cannot justify paying the elite level coach.”
With regards to the US$50,000 salary, Roberts said it was only for World Cup qualification because when you qualify for a World Cup the benefits it can bring to T&T cannot even put that value in monetary terms.
Scounting for talent
As part of the Ministry's plans for football, Roberts also announced that a national consultation on football will be held on November 28 at the Cascadia Hotel from 9 a.m.
"Anybody who has ideas on the way forward for football in Trinidad and Tobago will be invited to present their ideas," Roberts said.
He urged those interested to send their written proposals to the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs, c/o Natasha Nunez, communication specialist, so that briefs will be received before the consultation.
The Minister said participants at the consultation will also be given five minutes to speak at the event.
The Ministry of Sport will then collate the proposals and put forward recommendations to the relevant football agencies.
Breds, yuh going off or what?? how could you say that we derived any benefit from the WC experience, when it's obviously clear that we didn't! how many tourneys did we win, how many gold cups did we play, how many second round appearances did we have? so tell me how did it benefit us when we couldn't even bag ah digicel cup??!!
same with jamaica, since they've been to france they were never the same, and the record shows, they never been to the hex since 2001 and they missed out on the caribbean cup back to back, and even been knocked out by SVG on one occasion.
and it got worst for them, they even broke the bank to bring in bora who had no answers to the problem, kinda like us and pfister. finally they got rid of boxil and brought in burrell who started ah slow and stead climb out of the rot. and it's only now JA got back into ah rythem that have them competitive well again.
well we all know T&T story, so no need to reiterate. so JA went down and we went down right after a WC, and i believe it's bc....... IMO WC are for countries who have their act together, not some financially strapped federation who can't even afford to pay their players or compete in their own regional tourneys.
after T&T and JA came back from that WC they dropped their guards considerably, maybe it's bc they thought that they made it and were unbeatable and no longer needed to work @ it any more, @ least that's what i saw with jack warner.
he took us to a world cup, not bc he wanted to lift the standard of T&T football, but rather only to have the honor of reaching ah WC, and that was our only ambition, and he broke the bank to make it happen!
tuh tell yuh the truth, i would rather have seen us go to the gold cups that we missed out on and did really well, rather than ah meaningless WC appearance.
i'm ah firm believer in continuum! spend your money, bring in ah good coach for the long haul, form ah bond with ah core of players learn ah good system well, while bleeding new blood into the fray. the USMNT is ah perfect example. they had two coaches in 13 yrs learning ah system they could play with their eyes closed.
only recently they just fired ah great coach in order to hire ah better one that could take then further, love them or hate them, they are master of progress, they don't look back, instead they are always looking ahead, pumping money into sports for it's development. and their main focus is not only the WC, but to be the best they can be in the region and beyond, and that should be our focus. BTW did you see what spalk said to night on the news, well if yuh didn't i'll tell yuh, NO MO FACKIN MONEY FOR THE MEN SENIOR NATIONAL TEAM!!!!
only bc we failed to adavance to the next round of WCQ, so yuh know when we will see money fuh football again, since that's our only source of income ? 2015 when it's time for road to russia. good luck allyuh bc i have no plans of sticking around these mad ppl no mo.
I doh care who call me waggonist... I didn't watch, listen or follow thread posts/live updates of either the Bermuda games or this one. Simply put, I knew better than to get emotionally invested in this Brazil campaign... not interested. That said, I real surprised... and disappointed at this outcome. Even doh I tune out TnT football in dis rounds I still disappointed because my support or not, we should NEVER be in this situation... never!
This is unacceptable, and precisely the wake up call both diehards and casual football fans in TnT need, to realize that we really need to clean house, break it down and start over from scratch.
I believe history will record the SOE and curfew as one of the greatest acts of desperation ever carried out by a T&T government. They are only safe because the opposition is so poor. I agree. Your post here make more sense than Rowley et al in the last 2 months. I heard Herbert Volney speaking this morning. His answer to every question was to blame the PNM for politicising everything. He then continued and blamed the PNM for whatever topic was dicussed: I Don't pay Volney too much mind, he represents everything that is wrong with T&T politics
The new DNA act? PNM only objecting for the sake of objecting. None of them are legally trained. It takes months of work by the best legal minds to construct a bill that works. Agreed.
The Anti Gang laws? The PP gave respect to PNM by including their clauses. Before that, it was perfect. It only didn't work because the police didn't understand it. The ultimate responsibility lies with the lawmakers aka politicians. This is the biggest embarassment I have seen since maybe when the last administration say that the eye in the sky was not really functioning, it was just being used like a scarecrow on the promenade. Blams has to be shared with the Govt/legal dept in the police dept and the investigators who build these cases. The rank and file Police Force not really at fault, they get their orders on who to pickup when. The crime problem was allowed to spiral under PNM. Partly true, but I honestly believe no other party would have made a significant difference. This is also a global phenomenon in developing countries over the last 10-15 years tied to many many different causes. The PNM must be complimented for some measures, no matter what effect it eventually had - the Blimp, the 360 degree radar, the OPV vessels, the anti-kidnapping laws and external help in arresting the problem in 2008 (FBI namely and the Balo Maharaj case which changed the game), community police initiatives, etc etc. They did quite a bit, but it proved not to be enough, so Volney not being fair here. Maybe he just remembers the disaster that was the Govt negotiating with the community leaders strategy?[/color]
The $60 million NEC fraud disclosed this week? Thats not my department...its the Finance Minister. If there were loopholes in procedures under the PNMs watch, we haven't had time to deal with it yet.
The thing is this. The govt have still refused to divulge the reason for the SOE that would make 1990 look like a tea party. Why the panic? Didn't they do this with the drug intel about the big seizure to an extent?? Obviously for security reasons you cant get into too much of that.
Why did no one from the govt take time to work with the protective services to explain the boundaries in which they could operate within.
I am very sure this was done to painstaking measures with the relevant legal representation. This is not the problem of the SoE, except for the argument about being in your yard vs being in the road.
Why wasn't the Santa Rosa compound prepared in advance? Very good point. But then you could argue a case for timely intervention. But still good point.
Why did the govt call the SOE when Gibbs was out of the country? Very good point again. This I think was not done right. I dont agree with the criticism with the PM leaving the country during the SoE, but I agree that the commish should have been there when this was announced.
Why didn't govt request help from other countries to ensure the big fish were caught? Good point. But one has to ask, what was the purpose of the SoE? Was it to arrest an imminent threat or to catch the big fish? Obviously you want to do both, but a lot of the talk about big fish only came about when the politics started about the police herding up young black kids like cattle. Big fish in T&T are notoriously rare - dont you all know this??? Manning once said he knew of one - his frist name was MR and his last name was BIG. Still couldn't reel him in then....
Why did the govt not request to borrow additional equipment such as choppers equipped with infra red scopes, additional drug locating equipment, mobile phone and email interception equipment? Good point again.
I have no problem with the curfew or SOE if it was conducted properly and the real criminal rings were smashed. However, I do have a problem with being lied to and fed a bucket load of govt propaganda.
This was nothing more than political kneejerking. Maybe if the 236 arrested under the Anti Gang legislation were tried and imprisoned, we could have supported it. But all I see is a lot of people who had outstanding warrants being re arrested, a load of rusty old guns are off the streets and we found a diesel scam. So here is the big disconnect - the SoE and the Anti-Gang legislation recently passed are 2 separate things, you dont need a SoE to arrest people for gangs. Just because they messed up royally on the latter means the former was a total waste of time. Use other arguments like above to do that.
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This is not a worthwhile return for removing peoples rights. Depends on who you ask. I suspect the wildly popular Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, and Ho Chi Minh will disagree with you on that...
And if the panic is over, why can't unions or political parties meet? There is absoloutely no need to deny them their rights...if fact, they should have been issued licences so they could meet inside the curfew. Agreed
But its all ok, coz now we have parang and big business can make their profits. Who wants to bet that curfew returns in March? I will take that bet! The curfew has outlived its usefullness. I agreed with it when it was implemented, but it began to see diminishing returns.
the entire exercise has been an abject failure.
The police could have made the same arrests without infringing on civil rights....The SoE continues by the way!
What the government did was make a pappyshow out of crime fighting. They had no idea what to do about the crime, despite their incessant cries of we go solve this issue within 120 days of taking office! They had no clue and so resorted to a tool that the constitution had in place to deal with dire issues of national security.
To this day the threat continues says Minister Sandy...what a joke!
There is a theory going around that the Govt are hoping that Xmas and carnival will distract the T&T public from putting heavy pressure on the govt once the SOE ends.
When you notice how the big names are no longer anywhere to be seen, you can see the way they hope people just won't bother to ask questions. Remember the days when the A.G. and Sandy were on tv every day? How do they spend their days now? Why aren't they being questioned?
If that report is to believed, out of 236 charged under the anti gang legislation, there is a 100% failure rate!
How much money has this farce cost the taxpayers?
[/quoteI don't think the entire thing was a failure. I believe Gibbs when they say they received intelligence from the detainees. I can't believe that those fellas wouldn't have been interrogated by the police. What that intelligence translates into is another matter. The number of releases are very discouraging.
Agree with u, to me that was the one big disappointing thing about the SOE and and the anti-gang bill.
But at the end of the day, I was glad the SOE and curfew was implemented for a time, I believe it was stopped at the right time as it had reached diminshing returns (at least public communication).
But I agree with the PM, even if we saved one human life from it, you can argue that i was a success, the fact that murders were cut down by a third is a good thing. Lots of contraband was found but my other disappointment is that no higher profile criminals were caught.
The way I see it, the Govt make an attempt to do something to arrest the biggest problem in our country - crime and violence.
Lots of people lambast the effort, thats their right. in this country, like any other, you will have opposition to anything you do - damn if u do and damned if you dont. At the end of the day these decisions are made by people trained in this sort of thing and privy to information that we have no idea even exists (the PM advisers).
Eagerly looking to see how the crime stats go moving into Xmas and Carnival, where traditionally its the highest for the year.
I also wonder - all these people they detain - its standard police procedure to fingerprint arrested people, the police in theory will now have a much more complete database of potential criminals, because lets face it, the majority of the people they detain (whether they were subsequently freed on technicalities or not) are people involved in some sort of illegal activity...
As we on the crime fighting issue, 2 other things I hope they sort out quickly - the current DNA bill before parliament and also the endless network of video surveillance across the nation that was implemented for the CHOGUM.
Eh trini, lemme tell yuh something. i livin in the real world, and in this world no one has ah monopoly on success save the diligent. and for the past five yrs T&T football was nothing short of abysmal!
if our federation was doing right by the football we would've never been in this position in the first place. first off, latapy would've never made it pass the hex, and had the federation hired this coach soon after our failure to reach south africa,
then my predictions would be that we would've been higher up in the fifa rankings, we more than likely would've been in the gold cup, we proabaly would've done better than our caribbean counterparts, and instead of cuba, we would've been the ones who would've been sitting this one out with honduras (an easier group if yuh ask me) rather than contending with the guyanas and the bemudas and the barbado's!
as of ah few yrs ago i had the same confidence as you, but grenada taught me a valuable lession. if yuh fail to prepare then prepare to fail, and so far, i did not see any great amount of preparation gone into this round of qualification, only if yuh want tuh consider ah fete match against india any sort of preparation.
i wish us all the best and i keepin my fingers crossed, but i would not be surprised if we don't get the desired results, and tuh tell yuh the truth these old men needs to be taught a lession, it's only my selfish desire that have me hoping for ah good result, but the fact is, we really don't deserve it!
progress comes with ah price, it's called hard work and dedication, and this campaign started off lazy and lethargic with very little hard work and dedication on the path of the federation.
BTW boss, i does mek real noise @ ah football game, and i don't route for no star boy team, seen backham before and i wasn't impressed, remember i live 30 mins from harrison NJ, and 20 mins east rutherford. all the same, good luck young warriors, hope allyuh live up tuh allyuh name on friday and twice on tuesday. positive.
Greetings guyanese baller, thanx fuh the update, it was well received. doh mind some of these fellas with they nonsense nah bro, you have ah right tuh big up your team, bc so far they have been phenomenal, and i wont mind losing to guyana, it's about time some other regional teams step and represent the confederation.QuoteQuote from: just cool on Yesterday at 06:54:39 PM
How come guyanese baller eh tune in yet boy?? i would like tuh hear from him and his prospective on the up coming game, how he rate his team and their chances. guyanese baller fall in nah bro.
Maybe they waiting until they kick we ass before celebrating unlike T&T fans and some forumites we like to count we chickens before they hatch but go ahead with that immature bullshit...
Blessings!
I didn't just come, I was asked by the forumite to rate my team and their chances, so I did. Its a forum for comments so I made mine. You made yours. No sweat I can take the criticism, like someone said above its a war but naturally I have to big up my team like you would do yours. Fair play to both of us. Trinidad has done a lot for Guyana's football so we could 'gun talk' now but will still be friends after the games.
If that funny bit is all you can find useful to quote from what I said then fair play to you but I was making the point that the goalkeeper was excellent shotstopper and good with his feet (used to be a forward) and was trying to give descriptions (from int players that would be familiar to everyone) about the style of play of the young mid-field players that TT would never have seen before. They may not play at all but at least you know about them now. We like our funny nicknames in GT.
The rest of it ...well we just have to wait and see and then talk about after the match.
Respect and blessings!
GB
tuh tell yuh the truth, it's the first time in WCQ that i'm not so sure if we will make it out the preliminary stage. we'll just have to wait and see, all i could say is "may the better team win". positive.
Blessings!
Didn't tune in earlier because I am travelling at the moment. I also don't want to say much now but having seen the last few matches played in Guyana, my only advice to forumites is to forget the past, to say that this is not the same Guyana team that you are accustomed to seeing Trinidad beat time and again. This team has a different swagger about them and the ability to match. Jackie Chan may not start (he did not start him the last match I say at home) but he will definitely have a role to play to open up Trinidad's defence if things are not going well. Its not so much about the players though, its also about the coaching - Jamal shoud be given a national award for what he has been doing. His match coaching is spot on brilliant. His substitute selections from the bench all make an impact every single game which is very very rare at this level so players are happy to come off the bench. His tactics and the way he gets them to play at a certain level and for each other is something that we have not witnessed before his arrival. Most Guyanese footballers cannot believe that he is not the TT national coach. He makes this team play out of their skin. Every player tries to make a big impact and its working. We are doing much better in attack than before. I am talking about players actually playing far better for the national team (even out of position) than they play for their club.
About the match. Well, man for man the TT players may be better and more experienced but I think the movement, pace and rhythmn of the Guyanese players will create some problems for Trinidad because they will not be accustomed to that kind of intensity from Guyana for 90+ minutes. That is what they have been doing best recently - playing their game for 90+ minutes.
I also think that Jamal will out-coach your coach not only because he is motivated to but because he now has the weapons to do so now. Most of the weapons will be 'secret-weapons' to a TT team. He now has lots of pacy players and a team that can counter-attack with real deadly pace and midfielders who can really join the attack score. We have a few players that Trinidad has certainly never seen - a small-sized player in the midfield he can use (not as good as your Latapy but at least its the best closest thing for us) whose name is "Zorro" though he is not the best player. He also has a good strong young 20 yr old defensive midfielder who can genuinely keep the ball and sit in front of the back four if he needs him to. This guy also has excellent distribution like 'Viera' and is just like a bigger version of 'Makalele' ( you know what I mean, our version). He also has two of the best local based strikers yet to join the team and if they make themselves available he will have many more weapons up front. Most of all I am confident that we have the best goalkeeper we can find at the moment who is excellent in goal and also very good with his feet (this is a goalkeeper who won the most recent half-time at a recent 'juggling'/keep-up competition by juggling more than 1000 and had to be stopped because he was already the clear winner).
I don't expect a 0-0 draw because I think both teams are not very very strong at the back and can do better defensively. Trinidad has good players and the Guyanese players know that but overall I am confident that whatever Trinidad scores, this Guyana team can out-score them. I hope that they will do that on the day.
My advice is that you should go to Guyana for the game. Guyanese are very hospitable to Trinidadians.
There is a lot of accommodation in Guyana (remember we hosted the cricket world cup) - for a start just go to these sites:
hotels - http://guyana-tourism.com/blog/?page_id=30
guest houses - http://guyana-tourism.com/blog/?page_id=62
resorts - http://guyana-tourism.com/blog/?page_id=35
For those accustomed to travelling, you will also realise that food in Guyana is widely available and ridiculously cheap.
I hope that we have a good ref who lets the game flow. Don't blink. I will speak more after the game.
Respect and blessings!
GB
