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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: 2020 Calypsoes
« on: January 27, 2020, 01:23:22 AM »
Aaron Duncan - Caught Up (Official Music Video) "2020 Soca" [HD]

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/VuaWE2SwxOs" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/VuaWE2SwxOs</a>

Very impressive. A real original, fresh sound with a respectful nod to the past. This youth has bright future.

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Football / Re: Nigel Myers Thread
« on: January 08, 2020, 12:32:10 PM »
Congrats on your appontment Tallman. Represent!

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Football / Re: Shahdon Winchester Thread
« on: December 22, 2019, 02:18:02 PM »
Very sad that such a young and talented person is taken from us. RIP and condolences to family and friends

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Dennis Lawrence isn't exactly a "local coach"

Certainly not any more "local" than SH was

ALL coaches have their preferences....bias some might say.

De same Beenie kept Latas on the bench until the very last game when we were already out in the world cup

Ranjitsingh didn't play under SH either.  Different circumstances I know....but still the fact remains.



Beenhakker and Hart were regarded as successful coaches. If you achieve success, you are given leeway to bench and play favourites.

But if you are approaching 'worst coach ever' status at breakneck speed the way Lawrence is/has then you have will have a hell of a time justifying inclusions/exclusions/strategy.


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Football / Re: The Jack Warner Thread.
« on: November 27, 2019, 06:57:04 PM »
Lol As much as Jack is a corrupt individual he is right...Anguilla should have been a task for Green machine or El Dorado. Even Trinity could beat Anguilla

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Football / Re: TTFA News Thread.
« on: November 27, 2019, 06:50:54 PM »
There is cause for optimism...cautious optimism....going forward. The congratulatory note to Aubrey David was a nice touch.

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"mate I suggest you go back and watch TT vs. mexico 4th game of the last hex, we drilled a first team mexico who actually threw every thing at us, and their coach juan carlos osario was going ape on the side lines yelling at the top of his lungs, and when the referee blew the final whistle osario was relieved that he actually came away with all the points and you could see a huge weight lifted off his shoulders that his team didn’t concede.

"I was at the stadium that night and saw how the team played and those guy were good as any team in concacaf, in fact I thought we were victims of a scheme when we had a goal disallowed by the Jamaican referee and linesman and I actually believe had we not been the victim of a scheme we could ha 3 beaten them.

after the team flopped out the hex I noticed that the players didn’t want to play anymore, I think it was in part that they didn’t want to help DJW look good and wanted him gone, believe me mate those guys could play better football than what we saw in the last two years, just like jovin said, he didn’t want to play anymore for a coach who didn’t respect him. I believe with a good South american coach we could climb up the ranks and become a contender again."




I agree with everything you have just said. I made the point earlier that the core of this team played in two world cups. They were the beneficiaries of of a strong development program. Their predecessors, a very talented team U-17 included Keon Daniel (who was highly regarded as a youth player), Hyland, Matthew Bartholemew, Guerra and Lester Peltier received poor preparation and lost out to Jamaica in CONCACAF qualifying.


After that the TTFF committed to better preparing the next youth team. They started by sending them to the Dallas Cup, then CFU tournaments at U-14 level, then quality international friendlies. They gradually built them into the 2007 and 2009 youth World Cup teams. Their success was the result of years of hard work, dedication and support.


Do we have good players that have been handicapped by poor coaching? Absolutely. But when these guys get injured, or need someone to step up, or when they are gone from the scene who have we developed and nurtured as their replacements?


Not only have TTFA abdicated the responsibility of development, they also committed to a coach who does nor have an eye on the future. Lawrence has not effectively incorporated successors into his teams. He is risk averse and over-reliant only on established players. With awful results. We now 'experimenting' with Dre Fortune, Aikim Andrews and Woo Ling...but these guys were part of a 2013 team that was one win away from WC qualifying. Six years ago, and only now these fellas smelling the senior team?

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It can if we substitute "optimal" for "best".

Optimal can be a dangerous word.  If we seek optimal results, with a benchmark of being competitive in the next Gold cup quarter final, how much  money are you willing to redirect from development needs to pay for the calibre of coach we need to hit that benchmark?

None. There's an optimal GC budget and an optimal development package. Side by side. Whatever coach fits within that parameter. The coach to fit the suit, not the suit to fit the coach.

Asylum, define optimal

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If Hart doesn’t want it and can’t leave Halifax... it will have to be Nakhid or Fenwick... I’m not convinced with eve

Outside of them, we will have to search for a coach and weigh it from there, I have a list but you never know who ttfa will pull out of their hat..

We have to see how Wallace operates... whoever it is, needs to have a full list of our players, and try out all of the ones that are not on the radar and they haven’t seen live... we have tremendous depth but it takes time to find it and scout it and try them out..



Ok I could get down with that. Some people will run down our players for having no talent, then bawl for a big name coach. It takes years of hard work to develop a decent player. A national team coach only works with the final product.  They can't convert lead to gold.

Eve, Fenwick and coaches like Streete, Dada etc, have had good results with youth development, precisely (IMO) the direction we need to go. These guys are calculated risk takers. They are not shy to drop non-performers and put hungry players to the test. Fenwick used to have boys fresh from SSLF with mothers milk still on their face running rings around hardback pro-league players. Playing in the 2008-2009 superleague against grown men helped gel the 2009 world cup squad together, as well as develop the quality of. the bench. If I recall they came from last place and went on to win the superleague championship. 

Our core players are decent, but they can't win by themselves. We have a large number of players who are very unexposed or falling off the radar. This calls for revamping the TTMNT and tackling the likes of Jamaica, El Salvador, Haiti etc, before we move on to Mexico, the U.S. Costa Rica et al. We don't need Wenger or Sir Alex at this stage.

To put things in perspective, our unused subs during the 0-0 against Sweden in 2006 were as follows: Kenwyne Jones, Evans Wise, Kelvin Jack, Marvin Andrews and Russel Latapy. That's how strong we were. That is bench strength.

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It can if we substitute "optimal" for "best".

Optimal can be a dangerous word.  If we seek optimal results, with a benchmark of being competitive in the next Gold cup quarter final, how much  money are you willing to redirect from development needs to pay for the calibre of coach we need to hit that benchmark?




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Is not like we qualifying for 2022 WC

And is not like we qualifying for the next Gold Cup either

So no sense in looking to break bank further to hire a "name" coach


In the overall scheme of things, the Mens National Football team is NOT A PRIORITY AT THIS TIME

Instead.....focus on getting Pro League or whatever it's called and clubs that compete there functional, competitive, and administratively competent.   

Identify and then develop young talent countrywide....and the country includes BOTH islands.....to feed into those Pro League teams

Hire a local coach and staff who have the communication, management, and technical skills to work with young players to form a nucleus or core of the National team going forward

Play that core as much as possible and that becomes your Mens National team for future Gold Cups and World Cups.




Agreed. People calling for big coach...we can barely even pay for local coaches, how we going to pay for that? The federation and by extension football itself is in crisis. At this point asset allocation is critically important. Wallace has to perform very delicate economic triage to bring the FA back towards health.  Whatever little money we scrape together would yield far greater dividends if we rebuilt from the ground up.

Blowing operational budget on a 'big' coach with the general calibre of our current core and bench players is folly. We barely made it to Germany on the strength of one of the greatest teams in our history. There are no short cuts. TTFA must simply roll up its sleeves and begin  producing players that are competitive in CONCACAF.   



TT never lacked money, those debts are nothing in comparison to what is wasted and gambled and siphoned in TT... the govt should do a bail out and the rest will have to be handled by the ttfa ...

We need a great coach and we shouldn’t give up on the wc ... why?

Why can’t we do both, develop and try to qualify?

At this stage the greatest challenge facing T&T football is a failure to consistently deliver a CONCACAF contender on the field at any age/gender group. We can't even deliver a CFU contender. This is not a coaching issue. Its a deeper reflection of management (in)competence, low morale, almost non-existent ethical standards, and poor organizational planning. These are issues related to asset allocation choices and not issues a national coach can resolve.

Hart was a great coach for us. But he took a side whose core players (Cyrus, Molino, Hyland, Curtis Gonzalez, Bateau, Miekeil Williams, Aubrey David) who had already been to one or two youth world cups. Who will replace Joevin Jones, Molino, and Hyland in the midfield? If Cyrus, Williams, Bateau etc are flawed, which young players are better? Name the next generation team capable of beating a USMNT or running with Mexico...in Mexico. Then tell me how your coach of choice can realistically repeat Hart's success with that lack of depth. 

We all wish we could hire the best coach while simultaneously building the best developmental program in CONCACAF. But at this point, can our our finances allow us to do either, far less both?

Yes TTFA should incorporate solid PLANs for both long and short term successes. But spending money to execute those plans is a whole other story.
 

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Is not like we qualifying for 2022 WC

And is not like we qualifying for the next Gold Cup either

So no sense in looking to break bank further to hire a "name" coach


In the overall scheme of things, the Mens National Football team is NOT A PRIORITY AT THIS TIME

Instead.....focus on getting Pro League or whatever it's called and clubs that compete there functional, competitive, and administratively competent.   

Identify and then develop young talent countrywide....and the country includes BOTH islands.....to feed into those Pro League teams

Hire a local coach and staff who have the communication, management, and technical skills to work with young players to form a nucleus or core of the National team going forward

Play that core as much as possible and that becomes your Mens National team for future Gold Cups and World Cups.




Agreed. People calling for big coach...we can barely even pay for local coaches, how we going to pay for that? The federation and by extension football itself is in crisis. At this point asset allocation is critically important. Wallace has to perform very delicate economic triage to bring the FA back towards health.  Whatever little money we scrape together would yield far greater dividends if we rebuilt from the ground up.

Blowing operational budget on a 'big' coach with the general calibre of our current core and bench players is folly. We barely made it to Germany on the strength of one of the greatest teams in our history. There are no short cuts. TTFA must simply roll up its sleeves and begin  producing players that are competitive in CONCACAF.   


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Football / Re: Favorite T&T players Thread
« on: November 24, 2019, 08:16:16 PM »
Camara David

He play LookLoy

He play de Super League

He play Justin Latapy George

He playin DJW

DAT is a playa

Lol

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Football / Re: Favorite T&T players Thread
« on: November 24, 2019, 08:15:23 PM »
Latapy

Stern

Molino

***Honourable mention to Dwight Yorke and that performance he put down in Germany 2006.***

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Football / Re: TTFA Presidency Polls; The countdown to election begins.
« on: November 24, 2019, 08:07:25 PM »
De fatman gone, Hallelujah Jesus.  Don't let the door smack you on the way out. If you need help packing let me know.

At last,  a long needed show of integrity from the football fraternity

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Football / Re: Thread for T&T vs Honduras Games (10-Oct & 17-Nov-2019)
« on: November 18, 2019, 12:44:32 AM »
Anyone with an ounce of personal integrity would step aside as head of a national federation, or as head coach in shame after this debacle. But I hear these men talking as though they are just getting started setting up things for the future, and its us the fans who are short sighted and selfish. AFAIC, Lawrence's heroics in 2005 have been superceded by his shambolic failures as a coach and a sense that he is entitled to carry on as usual regardless of performance/results. Its depressing to imagine where football will be in 4 years under a re-elected DJW tenureship.

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Football / Re: Thread for Mexico vs T&T (02-Oct-2019)
« on: October 04, 2019, 03:36:02 PM »
Allyuh could jump on Cyrus and Marvin all allyuh want. We had no quality on the midfield. Judah is a breath of fresh air, but he had no service from the middle.  He will be ineffective in the future if this does not change.  Hart was right when he said we lack players with speed, ball control and who can  simultaneously dribble. So go ahead pong Cyrus and Marvin, if that making allyuh feel better.

Good post. You could see that Cyrus looked exhausted from early in the game. IMO he never lived up to early expectations after back to back youth world cups. But this doesn't mean he is 'shit'. And he alone was not solely responsible for our dismal play and conceding serious real estate to Mexico, especially in the 1st half.   

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Football / Re: Thread for Mexico vs T&T (02-Oct-2019)
« on: October 02, 2019, 09:00:11 PM »
Wham to allyuh? So far Cyrus is Man of the Match: he's been involved with all de goals.

Lol.

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Football / Re: Thread for Mexico vs T&T (02-Oct-2019)
« on: October 02, 2019, 08:58:26 PM »
Lets see how much the coach has progressed since the 6-0 rinsing we get from America in June. And how long DJW and his cronies can continue to keep up the shameless lie that 'we are making progress'.

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Football / Re: Thread for Mexico vs T&T (02-Oct-2019)
« on: October 02, 2019, 08:30:09 PM »
God. Help. Us.


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Even St Vincent winin on we now. Another richly deserved low, and the bottom still nowhere in sight.

Let dem wine. Thing is ... as a preparatory exercise the friendly was of more direct value to SVG than to TTO. SVG has fewer foreign-based players. Ultimately, when we compare what their squad versus Nicaragua looks like versus ours against Martinique, we'll see that our squad is the one with the marked difference. The friendly served differing ends for both nations.

With eight plus uncapped players nobody expected a great victory. However we find ourselves in a position where a Vincy coach feels empowered to defecate on the head of the federation. Again, richly deserved, but does not bode well for the future. You pointed out that when T&T U-15s were moved to another group to facilitate Jamaica's absence it appeared officials didn't even bother to go through the proper channels. There is a certain loss of respect that negatively reflects , and can sow discord

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Even St Vincent winin on we now. Another richly deserved low, and the bottom still nowhere in sight. 

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DL fall for the bait. DJW took a player who scored the most important goal in TT football history, and is turning him into one of the worst coaches the national team has ever had.

Blame DJW for many things, but how is he "turning [DL] into one of the worst coaches the NT has ever had?

By giving DL a job that he is not ready for.  And saying that he is doing a good job. Remember DJW comments after the gold cup.

Well, to be fair, DJW didn't want to give him the job originally ... for reasons that had nothing to do with his readiness to assume the responsibility. (Of course, his preferred choice is intimately part of this process).

Anybody feel Fenwick was going to lose as many matches and as unconvincingly as we have been witnessing?


not without loss of life...and he would do a better job scouting, selecting, and motivating the next generation of players

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Football / Re: U-15 Men's Football Team Thread
« on: August 09, 2019, 10:52:21 PM »
"T&T Coach Fevrier expressed his thoughts on the match to TTFA Media, “I am hoping that we could continue the work we have started, we obviously need a continuous strength and conditioning program for these boys and we also need to continue playing international games similar to the level we played today”


you had them youths for almost two years and you only now realize they need conditioning? most of these kids play like empty shells...no heart and no spine. the fact that they have no conditioning is 100% your fault. start picking players with a backbone


dais d whole ting it is clear dat dem boys was small for what, 13-15yrs olds hence my 1990 question......I remember when I enter school in 1990 we were fairly well built, then remember hittin form3 and d new form1s seemed, to us anyway, unusually small and was wondering where all dem 1st year chirren come from.........I use 1990 as a reference point, because to my mind form 1 to 3 children from then to this day seem unusually small....den again perception is hell of ting......d Godineau Bridge used to seem massive til ah see it from d outside.

for real they were nashy. noticed that during the costa rica game. the worst physical attribute imo was not size but the lazy and lethargic way they played. and i rarely throw blame at youth players. i watched guyana and haiti u-15s play like their lives depended on it, in sharp contrast to this lot. fevrier seems to be selecting and producing practice champs instead of game players. a size difference becomes exponentially worse when coupled with anemic, near comatose play.

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Football / Re: U-15 Men's Football Team Thread
« on: August 08, 2019, 01:04:44 AM »
"T&T Coach Fevrier expressed his thoughts on the match to TTFA Media, “I am hoping that we could continue the work we have started, we obviously need a continuous strength and conditioning program for these boys and we also need to continue playing international games similar to the level we played today”


you had them youths for almost two years and you only now realize they need conditioning? most of these kids play like empty shells...no heart and no spine. the fact that they have no conditioning is 100% your fault. start picking players with a backbone

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Football / Re: U-15 Men's Football Team Thread
« on: August 04, 2019, 11:54:49 PM »
Interesting decision by Fevrier to switch groups. Might have been beneficial to coaching staff and players to review the recent games against Mexico and Panama, then put strategies into place with a view to improving individual and team performance. That way a coach can put themselves to the test, and really drill down into how well each player can follow instruction, learn, and adapt under pressure.  But what do I know.

Portugal deal with the Bajans rough. We good to hold a 4+

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Football / Re: Dennis Lawrence Thread
« on: July 29, 2019, 06:01:05 PM »
May 31 2018. Lol. Barely over a year ago

https://wired868.com/2018/05/31/browne-trinidad-and-tobago-football-in-shambles-and-lacks-proper-vision-and-transparency/



The Veteran Footballers Federation of Trinidad and Tobago laments the squashed opportunity of qualifying for the FIFA WC 2018, based on poor administrative decisions with respect to coaching appointments


The membership judgement on the poor administration, poor management, no accountability or transparency, generating enormous debt, and outright incompetent lawlessness of the TTFA will be eventually decided on the eve of the start of the FIFA World Cup, which will hopefully provide the removal of the discarded era of the Football Administration “Onemanism” and herald the adherence to the dictates of the new TTFA Constitution, eventually passed in July 2015—long championed by the Veteran Footballers Foundation of Trinidad and Tobago (VFFOTT).

Fascinating....

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Football / Re: U-15 Men's Football Team Thread
« on: July 25, 2019, 07:07:54 AM »
"Mean­while, Car­los Subero's 59th-minute strike earned Venezuela a 1-0 vic­to­ry over T&T on Tues­day at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in an­oth­er prac­tice match be­tween the teams."

good work, much better result.

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Football / Re: As­cen­sion Foot­ball League Thread
« on: July 23, 2019, 07:00:05 PM »
So is this a new tiered league or a tournament?

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Football / Re: Dennis Lawrence Thread
« on: July 23, 2019, 06:56:05 PM »
Sometimes people do the wrong thing for the right reasons. Trying to add legitimacy to the smelly, toxic mess that is the TTFF will only help diminish your own standing

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