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General Discussion / Could it be.

« on: November 01, 2012, 11:58:46 PM »

Are they the reason for our collapse in social and moral standards??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faVL62gploY&feature=related

i don't know bout allyuh , but i saw trinidad when the worst thing that would happen to ah fella is ah buss head or two bull pestle tuh back, now is gun shots for trivial bull sh!t.

is it bc of our proximity to venezuela that's causing all the gun crimes rubbing off on us? we all know that they are responsible for more than half of the fire arms on our streets, so why not put most the blame on them.
http://www.youtube.com/user/vice?v=i2uoMlBvp2k

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General Discussion / Put your money where your mouth iz , loud mouths!

« on: November 01, 2012, 10:21:52 PM »

Lets cut to the chase, i have $1,500 USD to squander and i taking bets on the election, off course my money iz on obama. all who feel obama will not repeat then step up to the plate, lets  cast lots! 

we could do this privately or openly. very confidential if so desire, i will not divulge my opponents identity if they desire anonymity. PM me or respond on the thread it really don't matter to me, no horse sh!t serious business pls.

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General Discussion / No gas no where!!

« on: November 01, 2012, 10:05:46 PM »

To all the NYC members, anyone knows where there's a station that's selling gas? been looking since yesterday and could not find one single station, finally i gave up and decided to keep my little quarter tank of gas. 

i spoke to ah fella who told me that he got gas in queens, he said it's near rosevelt island in long island city, he also told me of a hess gas station in elmhurst. the thing is, i don't know elmhurst nor long island city. are there any members who live in queens and may be familiar with these gas stations??

need gas bad, if anyone knows of any where that may have juice please holla back.   thanx.

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Football / Will he ever play again??

« on: October 30, 2012, 08:13:30 AM »

 check out this real devastating injury.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR3N21Snnpg

will he ever play football again??

what allyuh think?

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General Discussion / This is why i cyar live in trinidad!

« on: September 04, 2012, 11:14:18 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhyCGgdB1ys

me eh lying, if that was me i wasn't taking dat forkin slap nah, that would have been a hell of a fight, dat cocks@cker woulda had tuh shoot me right dey, bc is real fight woulda take place, and if ah ever get ah hold of he tool i would waste he mdacnt!

ah know police does do bullsh!t here as well, but ah never see police punkin big man like that here in america, and i should know bc i fight wid police here , cuss dem stink, argue wid them on the streets and in court, ah even call dem woss ting than idiot, and all they did was walk away or shake their head, but they never jester wid no lashing thing, yuh mad sah, ah kill yuh mdcnt if yuh pull dat sh!t on me!

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General Discussion / Atheism, science or cult?

« on: July 10, 2012, 05:26:27 PM »

With all this scientific talk going on around the place here, i think it would be ah good idea to put the atheistic community to a test as to proving their beliefs. it's also clear to say that atheism is unscientific bc they have not been able to prove that there is nothing out side of our selves, and they are just as hopeful as the theistic adherents.

the fact that they could conclude on the notion that god is ah myth without proving it scientifically, shows a total disregard for science, since science is in the proof and discovery business, and until now, no burden of proof has been put on their heads, and this is ah clear kick in the face of the real scientific community.

IMO atheism is a religion in itself, and though they have no churches nor public congregations, they have the basic premiss of a religion. it's been thousands of yrs and they still can't come up with iron clad evidence that there nothing out side of us, yet they get to masquerade and tout themselves as being part and parcel of the scientific community, when there's actually no scientific basis for atheism.

with all the scientific knowledge attained over the course of our existence, we still have not been able to stain the surface of the knowledge waiting to be discovered in this vast universe, let alone scrape it! we are so soooooo far from understanding how our own planet works, and even further away from from understanding our galaxy, so why are these ppl making such elaborate claims as "there is no higher power"?

it's mind boggling to see fellas who claim to be great proponents of science, like prof francis crick, richard dawkins (especially him) and stephen gould make definite claims and negate the existence of a higher power, when there's no such evidence conclusively to make this claim!

now i could understand if these fellas proclaim that organized religion is outside of the scientific reality, and they take a stand against it, i could also understand the position of an agnostic, claiming ignorance until further proof (which IMO is much much more of a scientific stance), but to claim out right that there's nothing but time, space and matter is purely unscientific!

The hypocrisy is very great in this respect in the atheistic community, and they are doing exactly the same as their theistic counterparts, maybe even worst, bc to negate is much more conclusive that to include.

i believe it's time that true science hold the atheist community to a scientific standard, and since the basis of science is proof and discovery, i think is time the burden of proof be placed on the heads of the atheistic community! like, where's is your proof that there's only time space and matter??

(true trini, please let us deal with this thing sensibly. in other words, hold the emotional responses and stick to the subject, this is not about religion, just science)

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General Discussion / Was king tut european?

« on: June 20, 2012, 05:06:19 AM »

Was going through the net yesterday and accidentally ran into this info, had no idea that such a test was carried out. what do yuhs think, is it valid?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHzOUNt4fhg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vg2BMkEjR0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiLvtDL2IBs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_40fJhhZzds&feature=fvwrel

i was never sure about the egyptians to tell yuh the truth. a lot of black americans try to claim ancient agypt bc of their lost culture and wanting to belong to something great.

they also had the need to dubunk the white propaganda that blacks had no great history and existed as primitive ppl foraging and hunting up till modern times under basic conditions.

as for me, i never got on that wagon, instead i always opted for the facts, and in the case of egypt, the jury stiil out.

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Football / Franklin oliverre dies of stroke.

« on: June 15, 2012, 01:06:06 AM »

By Wayne Bowman wayne.bowman@trinidadexpress.com

Story Created: Jun 14, 2012 at 10:50 PM ECT

Story Updated: Jun 14, 2012 at 10:50 PM ECT

Ace tenor pannist and former manager of the Phase II Pan Groove Steel Orchestra and the National Steel Orchestra, Franklyn Ollivierre, on Wednesday succumbed to complications resulting from a stroke.

Ollivierre was a founding member of Phase II alongside Len "Boogsie" Sharpe whom he considered a mentor.

Ollivierre himself mentored many young people who passed through the band as well as youth from Laventille where Ollivierre grew up and Diamond Vale where he was living at the time of his death.

The pannist was in 2010 presented with an award by Pan Trinbago for being the longest serving player in the National Panorama Championships. A multifaceted individual, Ollivierre during his lifetime played with the Highlanders Steel Orchestra and worked in the Government Services at the Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Works.

Members of Phase II and of the steelpan fraternity as a whole were devastated as news of Ollivierre's death got out. It is reported that Sharpe is especially grief-stricken. Comments were posted in quick succession on the band's Facebook page.

Funeral arrangements are to be announced.



Franklin was an ex malvern stalwart and played for them for many yrs during the seventies and early eighties. those who knew him well may not agree with me, but he was ah good man, a good footballer and had a good heart.

was an inspiration for most yutes in my old neighborhood, and he loved his country , the football and the culture, especially pan.

he did loads for pan. matter of fact, he was the man who got neal and massy involded in the production of pan, we lost a great cultural icon folks.

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Football / Bad choice by balotelli.

« on: June 10, 2012, 03:09:17 PM »

I firmly believe that balotelli made a the wrong decision by choosing to represent italy. from here on in any thing that goes wrong with italy balotelli would get the blame.

that kinda scapegoat business does always follow the lone blackman, he always have to be ten times better than the rest in order to be well accepted and seen as an asset.

IMO balo shoulda forget international football, or chose to rep ghana, bc these mdnt racist white boys will never give him a moments rest. just look how fat boy bob lee, lalas and wonalda have ah serious hard on for the bredder.

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Football / Too much wasted talent.

« on: June 09, 2012, 07:27:57 AM »

When i watched guyana , grenada and ATB playing on the big stage and tootsing down the place ( while some fellas commending them for playing ah crock pot ah sh!t) when we should've been there representing the region along with JAMDOWN, it does really hurt my core!!!

last gold cup instead of seeing our guys donning the colors, i had to watch cuba , grenada and guadeloupe tek level sting from the spanish and the lone gringo, does anyone else have a problem with that??!!

i know it's a redundant subject, but one i just can't seem to ignore. since we've been to that WC, we have never been the same again, it's like the intention was just to prove that we could make a WC and then call it ah day, mission accomplished! no development, no new agenda, no improvement and no continuity, just bachannal, mayhem, blacklist and serious embarrassment.

look how much careers was shattered of these promising young players bc of one mans greed and spite. these yutes never knew what hit them, they just found themselves in the middle of a fued, with no opportunity to be seen in our confederation tournaments bc of the selfish fellas surrounding the sport. man like molino, guerra, jaggy, tinto, marvin phillips, S. winshester and many more who if they had the proper system and coaching to highlight their obvious potential could have landed better contracts, and the saddest part of it all, no body in the whole of trinbago including the football fraternity has a problem with this except the members on this site.

so much doggone talent just wasting away on these two islands, and no one seems to care, the the sickening part is that all they need to do is invest some money in the sport and hire the right ppl to develop and guide the players, and that they can't even do.   how fackin sad and sickening is that ??!!!!!

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General Discussion / the indian experience.

« on: April 17, 2012, 06:50:52 PM »

nice documentary about indians in the diaspora, guess where?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=Hg1RsH6VWMk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIpqtYRUlHI&feature=relmfu

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General Discussion / A wonderful documentary about our past.

« on: April 17, 2012, 10:04:42 AM »

This is ah nice view, @ least IMO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o58rjIEYy8o&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhlNEXhPmRM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVoF78eX3CE&feature=relmfu

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General Discussion / Maloney man shot dead

« on: April 17, 2012, 08:06:58 AM »

Maloney man shot dead

Story Created: Apr 16, 2012 at 10:53 PM ECT

Story Updated: Apr 16, 2012 at 10:53 PM ECT

The murder toll has increased by one after a 33-year-old Maloney man was gunned down when he went to visit his girlfriend at her home on Sunday night.

Jason "Otti" Scotland, of Building Nine, Maloney Gardens, D'Abadie, was fatally shot when he went to check his girlfriend at neighbouring Building 12.

According to police, shortly after 9 p.m., several loud explosions were heard outside Building 12 and Scotland, who was a well-known shooter in the area, was found in a pool of blood.

He was rushed to the Arima District Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

Police believe the incident may have been gang-related and they were hoping to solve several shooting incidents in the Maloney community involving Scotland.

Up to last night the Express's murder toll stood at 112 while the Homicide Bureau's figure was 108. (AS)
 

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Football / How many (New York League)

« on: April 16, 2012, 02:25:30 AM »

New york based members play in the league @ fulton and clermont st/ brooklyn tech high school ground?

i passed there yesterday in my car and saw a game going on. wanted to stop and watch, but didn't have the luxury too, but what little i saw when i stopped @ the light, it looked like great fun, heard ah few trini accents as well, hence the question.

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Football / Don't make me laugh!

« on: March 28, 2012, 05:05:33 PM »

Ah few yrs ago i went to a footballing nation for a couple of days, while i was there i got tickets to take in a club game, so naturally i attended. folks,

when i was half a mile away i heard the roar of the crowd, it was music for sore ears, i was about ten minutes late due to traffic so i got there not long after KO. let me tell alllyuh, the place was electric and packed with ppl for a week day. ppl were there from all different walks of life, the rich and the poor all gathered together to watch their favorite teams go @ it.

now i've been to the garden to watch the knicks and the rangers, been to yankee and shea stadium, even been to tampa bay to watch the buccaneers, but i've never seen or heard such vociferousness and i've never seen ppl take a sport so seriously, it's almost like i was in ah big temple where ppl was there to pay homage to an idol of some sort, that's how serious the vibe was.

now my point here is, "FOOTBALLING NATION", these ppl were apparently very serious about their football, and i believe that if any turkey came there to snatch their football away, they would fight like hell to get it back!

not for one second did i believe that if some chump tried to deny them of the best footballing experience, those ppl would take it laying down, but rather, the impression i got, is of a ppl who would throw rocks and set things on fire, both the rich and the poor alike. this is what i call a footballing nation.

fast forwarding to last yr 2011, i went to the stadium (HSC) to watch ah cup semifinal double header, joe public vs calidonia AIA, and defense force vs W. connection. it was right after carnival so there were still visitors on the island, and lemme tell allyuh, it was ghost town, the only thing was missing was the big rolls of hay blowing round, but the place was as desolate as a desert.

if the stadium had 500 ppl it would've been a lot. now could you imagine an FA cup semifinal @ wembly attracting only 10,000 ppl ??   now that would be a travesty of epic proportions, now wouldn't it. and these ppl in T&T want tuh call themselves a football nation, don't make me laugh!

i guess it's bc of that "FLUKE" yes i said it! the "FLUKE" of a World cup that gave them illusions of grandeur! how could you claim footballing nation status when your only yute development program is the SSFL, ah seasonal school league that last only three months? please,  don't make me laugh.

how could these ppl seriously call this a footballing nation when they've been without a pro league until recently, and the one they have is run like a corner parlor ? a pro league with very little sponsors and incentives, one that go on long arse breaks, and sometimes could be out of action between games two weeks @ a time, how could this be a pro league when there are no home team grounds for teams to attract a neighborhood/ area fan base, no team sport shops, and no spectatorship, a league where most of the teams play @ snail pace and players lack basic skills, like trapping, passin and simple fitness, and no one is phased or have any plans of changing this? and they want to be recognize as a footballing nation. don't make me laugh

How could you be a footballing nation when you don't have one solitary youth academy?? not one! when places who take football seriously have them dime a dozen! the youth can't trapp, pass or kick a ball properly, these things are basics, and is learned @ a tender age so it becomes 2nd nature., how could we be a footballing nation under these circumstances.  don't make me laugh!


last but not least. how could we allow ah few ppl to over run our football for sooooo long! man get rich, and his pardners in crime were well on their way tuh getting rich. these men trample on football and made a killing, while doing zilch for football, and we the ppl just stood idly by and allow this, and we want tuh call ourselves a footballing nation.

well ppl in footballing nations, folks who live for football don't stand by and watch vultures eat away @ the core of their football, NO WAY! they stand up, they protest, they bring ppl to account, they let their voices be heard!

not once , we as ah ppl who claim to love football, even us here in the SWO stood up and be counted! we talk, we run we mout, we even pecong jamaica, while jamiaca is doing more than us for their football, but other than that we do nothing but "talk", about our displeasure, about the federation, about jack, about anil, about all who we could put we mouth on,

but who here ever said enough is enough and meant it, with the intentions of making our voices be heard.

who am i kidding, these ppl won't even stand up for their players being attacked by a bunch of spanish in their own home turf, let alone stand up against football injustices from their own ppl, so don't make me laugh! bc we eh have shyte to do with football!

i just want allyuh tuh understand what a footballing nation look like, and tuh let allyuh know that we eh no footballing nation! as FF said the other day, "we're just a nation that like to watch pretty football" and not necessarily a footballing nation.  so don't make me laugh!

fack a petition, we need to mobilize!

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Football / Three gunned down in HSC parking lot.

« on: March 25, 2012, 02:59:04 AM »

Imagine three men gone tuh take in ah game @ the stadium and pick up corn after the game following an argument during the game on friday night.

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/Two_men_shot_dead-144124205.html

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Football / What ah ting.

« on: March 03, 2012, 04:13:03 PM »

What ah difference ah ah season makes. just look @ how the "trinis" in action thread just stay so and dry up like ah prune eh. ah guess when yuh not doing so well, trinis especially, does find ways tuh disassociate themselves wid yuh. 

ah bet if we was still in the running for ah WC place and was still contenders in the WCQ and our boys was doing well  for their clubs scoring left right, the threads would not only be front and center, but it would probably would've been generating pages of celebratory gestures and jubilant comments.

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General Discussion / Take blade!

« on: February 22, 2012, 09:13:27 AM »

Ah man peltin chop on ah man, seems like it's on the saddle road maraval to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=yJImyhOyk64

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General Discussion / Crime will never dun in T&T until..............

« on: February 01, 2012, 08:49:17 PM »

Crime will never dun in T&T until the ppl that matter start's caring.

those ppl that i'm referring to are politicians, administrators, the ministry of education, school principles, the affluent and ppl with special skills acquired outside of T&T in the develop world.

one of my major concerns in T&T is the state of the ghetto/ low income neighborhoods. in EDR, sealots and laventille for example, there are little to no social programs for the youths in these areas.

these neighborhoods are almost in the same condition that the british left them after independence, run down with galvanized fences and dog shyte on the bumpy pot hole ridden roadway. rubbish heaps on every other corner, and young men limin on street corners with nothing to do.

i've notice ah pattern there in T&T where ppl with loads of money don't ever give back to the communities that patronize them, it's almost like the business community is filled with parasites who only suck the life out of the economy, but barely give to any social programs to maintain a proper standard on the island.

it's ah well known fact that if any society is to maintain ah high standard, and create ah level of excellence, the private sector must take some financial responsibility, and support neighborhood outreach and social programs.

but here in trinbago, it have filthy rich folks running around like normal, and not involving in any philanthropic endeavors, but they complain the most about crime and the fall out of crime, when they are the least affected by criminal activity on the island.

it's ah well know fact that poverty and lack of skills and opportunity breeds crime, and until these rich men start involving themselves in setting up community educational and sporting programs for these young up and coming babies, crime eh goin no where fast in T&T.







PS: there's no place to play football or cricket in these communities in the ghetto. no football fields or cricket grounds, proper basketball or tennis courts, instead ppl play basketball on the corner with ah backboard and ah ring on ah lamppost, and football on the streets with ah make shift small goalpost, and if they do have ah football field in their community, its ah big ole dirt field with no plumbing or not even a changing room.. 

this is shameful for the 21st century T&T.

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General Discussion / Remember this.

« on: January 22, 2012, 06:27:53 PM »

We've never been able to replicate this after 35 yrs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=73JPTcAZN64

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Football / 2012 Caribbean Cup Thread (round 2).

« on: January 19, 2012, 01:52:25 PM »

Didn't mean to make ah whole thread for this, but i needed to know who's hosting the next degicel cup finals?   thanx.

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General Discussion / Caught out of position.

« on: January 06, 2012, 05:31:23 AM »

Apparently it's not only footballers who makes you pay when you get caught out of position.
http://animal.discovery.com/videos/killer-clips-lion-at-night.html

this fella gives ah new meaning to the phrase "caught napping". 

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Football / Near sightedness.

« on: November 16, 2011, 07:49:22 AM »

The nearsightedness that is trinbago fooball, that had true red white and black T&T football fans pukeing their guts out for the past twenty yrs has to be addressed, pronto!

if true football lovers intend to see any improvement in the countries football, then i suggest they make the ultimate sacrifice with their time and money and by any mean necessary stop these clueless monsters from stagnating our football any further than they have to.

the time for complaining and belly aching has passed it's sell by date period, now it's time for drastic measures, and if we are not prepared to make that move, then i suggest allyuh stop complaining and take what ever allyuh get and STFU!

since friday i've read ppl on the forum sighing and crying bout the defeat to guyana, and i'm here shaking my head in disbelief saying to myself, "where were these ppl the past 20 yrs"?

1989 was not the first time that T&T football has let down the fans, no sir!! i've seen T&T football in it's worst state, just like westindies cricket. i don't know how many of yuhs remember when the west indies banned their best cricketers back in the late seventies early eighties?

we had ah second string team consisting of players like wayne daniel, vandon holder, and sheldon gomes just to name ah few, while all our best cricketers were plying their trade in an austrlian league called kerry parker cricket.

this was ah real sad time in WI cricket, and i could remember as ah lil yute asking, "why ppl does always find ways tuh fack up ah good thing?" well that kinda remind me of T&T football, when arthur suite came in and formed ah league of his own, that's bc for some reason the football powers that was @ the time could not come to the table and agree on football runnings.

this was just one of the many incidents that plagued T&T football, and we have never been able to shake that stubbornness till today. unfortunately, that was not the end of the controversy that seem to gravitate towards T&T football in continuum. remember folks, i grew up in ah footballing community, where some of the best footballers on the island lived in my area so i know bout all the ins and outs of T&T football from the haiti fall out till now.

i've seen T&T coaches leave out players who were definitely national team material, coaches like roderick warner and alvin corneal were the norm in T&T, these fellas never even took ah trip to tobago tuh see what kinda talent they had there, and i'm pretty sure that yorke was the norm in tobago @ and before that time, and GOD alone knows how many great players the wold missed out on back in those days bc these fellas didn't really care bout excellence but frenism and nepotism.

that world cup that we went to is ah clear indication that if we take football seriously and have proper preparation we could compete with the best of them, so for the life of me why can't we have ppl who could visualize this and make it a reality ??!!

this quick fix BS is the worst thing for football in any country. i read otto's post game report on yesterday's game, and i will have to totally agree 100%! now if ah foreigner who's been only on our shores off and on for ah few months can identify our failures and short comings and gave an analysis on the problem, then why couldn't all these "so called" football brains detect this yrs ago and find ah way to fix it?

imagine the few foreign coaches who came here to work in our recent past has identified the inadequacies in our domestic league, but no one is willing tuh address these potholes and fix them, but they expect tip top results when our boys don the uniform.

these are not sane ppl we dealing with here folks, there's no way they could be!!!   

i'm gonna end here by saying, if we want tuh put ah stop to all the bad results we've been getting, then we need to spend money! time! and maximum effort if we expect to avoid these pit falls in the future. we cannot end the program when we fail to make it to ah big tourney, and restart it when another tourney rolls around.

 right now IMO we have to maintain some kind of continuum, with these boys. if they decide on ah new coach (which i'm totally against) then lets spend more money on ah better coach who will come on board not just to qualify for ah tourney, but fuh the development of football on the island. and last but not least, we need to play football with our best players in every fifa window, bc that and only that will bring us out this rot, and of course it will take lots of money and hard work!

but if the visionless like anil and CO keep penny pinching on sports , especially football, then this thing will lay dormant for another two yrs till another big tourney rolls around where we will suffer the same consequences, it's almost ah guarantee.

the bottom line iz, T&T football need fixing "properly", and right away!

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Football / playing for pride.

« on: November 13, 2011, 09:45:28 PM »

Where and when exactly did this term derive? was it before or after the fact, or should it be before and not after the fact.

i know one things for sure, when i see any latin american team take to the field, those guy are out there not for the sake of money, recognition, female affection, or props, but to put their country on the world map by playing for nothing but 100% pure unadulterated PRIDE!!

i don't know who remembers the last game of the WC when we played paraguay?  those guys had nothing to play for, but they were not about to be put to shame by ah bunch of concacaf whiping boys.

bad enough that they had to lose to two european light weights, but to finish last in ah group of underachievers was not their way of ending their campaign so they left every thing on that field except their clothes that day, and came out with ah win.

i remember watching mexico in the yrs gone by and wishing we were as good, and it's not that we weren't, it's just that mexico cared more, not just the players nor the fans, but their administrative body, the clubs, their culture, their whole way of life. like anton said it best of the guyanese work ethic and pride, they work and  live by that pride, it's who they are.

i too have seen it amongst the mexican, guatemalans and Ecuadorians and their work ethic here in NYC, and i have tuh tell you ppl, it's bonkers! these men work like slaves, literally, and there's no shame in their game. they don't claim to hate it or that it's beneath them , they just do it and to the best of their ability to preserve themselves and their family.

that kind of passion and pride is foreign to trinbagonians. we are the total opposite, we do it for selfish individual reasons, recognition, financial gratification, but never for pride or country.

i remember going to redbull arena this past june for the jamaica honduras gold cup game, it was also ah double header with i think guatemala and grenada. anyway the stadium was packed to capacity with guatemalan spanish from the first game, and the honduran fans for the 2nd game, and let me tell allyuh something, it was ah very intimidating atmosphere folks.

i thought that these ppl were going to jump us, bc we were black and could easily be mistaken for jamaicans, that's bc jamaica was bussing that arse and the fans were hyper, talk about unrest!

they were throwing missiles @ the refs, jumping up and down on those flimsy metal floors which i though was going to cave in under all that weight, that stadium was in an uproar. it was almost as if they were prisoners and the team was playing for their release, and i thought to my self, you would never see trinis behaving like this, they would be too worried about what ppl would think of them rather than be concern for the support of the team.

equally the governing body in T&T, the players and the public lack that pride in the football, like someone mentioned earlier, we are not ah footballing nation, we just like to watch football. truer words have never been spoken on this forum.

i can't help but reminisce on that day back in june @ redbulls arena, i must admit that ah part of me was jealous, kinda wishing that we were there. i also wished @ that point that i were honduran so i could've felt the joy and passion they felt of watching their team compete on the highest level knowing that they are one of the regional power houses with their football intact and going places.

after watching T&T sink into a football depression by losing out twice to grenada and getting kicked out the gold cup, grinding out ah nail biting result to bermuda last camapaign, and now being booted out of the WC by guyana, it's safe to say that there's no such thing as playing for pride in T&T's football, before or after the fact.

pride starts with the culture of the ppl, and it trickles on down to the administration, the players and the fans, and lets face it folks, there's no pride in T&T football, not from the fans, the players and certainly not from the governing body. 

the only thing resembling pride in T&T football is on flex site, with the handful of true T&T supporters.

BTW, i would like to see the name soca warriors taken down and tucked away in the attic until further notice. these boy are in no wise warriors, plus it's ah mockry to the true fans.
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Football / Please leave Anton alone!!

« on: November 13, 2011, 08:53:01 PM »

I'm truly tired of hearin ppl on this forum up in arms about anton corneal, and personally think it's unwarranted and totally unfair! i could understand ppl doggin his dad bc alvin is ah piece of work, but this bredder has been nothing less than a faithful servant to T&T football.

i heard someone said that anton was ah blight to our team and all his coaching endeavours failed to bare fruit, that might be true since he's not been very successful as a head coach, but this man has all the credentials to be an assistant coach and is not a failure in that department. he's had stints with WIM, beenhakker and pancho as their assistant and has been very successful in that regard, so what's the problem?

as ah matter of fact , i remember pancho's failure started when latas became his assistant, with him losing out on the gold cup and getting trashed in the hex, and according to my inside TTFF sources, pancho accused latas of underminding him for the job of head coach and decided to hand in his resignation, and god knows what else he did in order to ensure pancho's failure.

i've notice something really rotten in T&T's football. every last local football guru has ah big grinding stone in his back yard, from gally to angus eve, and we just witnessed that on friday when one of our native sons did us in bc he himself had the biggest grinding stone of them all.

i know one thing to be true, these footballers we have here in T&T is never going to play to their full potential despite all the out cries in the media or other wise, and i attribute that to the examples that were set by the old boy football fraternity in T&T who have ah blatant disregard for football excellence.

i'm just truly sorry for anton, bc he's always getting set up by this federation for failure, and just when he thinks he's in good, here come ah wave of sh!t tuh throw him off into the deep end of nothingness.

keep yuh head boy anton and doh mind these jealous mdfkrs, bc the only thing i see yuh do is bring in the best players we have into the fray, something latapy failed tuh do in his 18 month tenure of utta sh!t selections.     one comes to mind lindon chubby andrews, what dah fack was he thinking.

and allyuh have the nerve tuh dog anton.

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Football / why fire otto?

« on: November 12, 2011, 02:19:00 PM »

PPl, i sincerely hope the TTFF not thinking like most of yuh on here. i've said it, and will continue to say that Otto pfister is not the one to be blamed! come on ppl, we all know who the culprit is. so before we start throwing ppl under the bus, lets calm down and approach this thing in ah rational manner both objective and comprehensively.

First off, this is not the end of the world, there's still plenty of football left to be played, and our fifa ranking needs to be fixed, after all it's what have us in this predicament in the first place, bc had we done better than cuba or jamaica in our previous friendlies and competitive matches, we would've been sitting this one out instead of contending with the likes of GY, bim, bermuda.

this was only possible bc we went the cheap route and hired clueless latas who just destroyed our ranking instead of going with a proven stalwart.

So we lost ah crucial game, say what, lets view this as ah lesson to all involved, but don't get silly folks. now is not the time to talk about firing the coach, the poor man has only been in charge for five games, and one silly meaningless friendly, IMO merely not enough time to gauge his potential.

just look @ kilnsman forinstance, he's having ah torrid time with the USMNT and even though it's not competitive games, fact remains he's still conceding. which goes to show, yuh just can't put ah team together in ah short space of time and expect them to compete on ah high level.

So we fire the coach and look for ah cheaper option, well lets examine that shall we. we hired WIM right after the WC in germany ah cheaper option, and that didn't work out.

 then we went with an even cheaper option, pancho, well we all knew he was ah total watse, then we went with latas, an even cheaper option, and our fifa ranking plummeted to an all time low, so there ppl, look where penny pinching and back squeezing got us, we lost out on two gold cups and ah trip to SA2010 all in the name of budgeting.

the bottom line, football ain't cheap folks and good results come with ah price. so where do we go from here? try and save ah few dollars by going back to the same fruitless inadequate routine of hiring small time coaches who our players won't respect and work for, just to fill the void until qualifying comes around again, to then turn around and hire ah big name coach just to take us to the WC,

or do we spend the money and build ah proper program, that could possibly see us avoiding these pit falls in the future, i say keep otto, and have him build ah chemistry with these boys, he's good enough and they're good enough. why throw out the baby with the TTFF.



mods, i was really trying to reply to the thread that socapro started about pfister, my intention was not to start ah new thread but something went wrong and i didn't want to retype. you cant merge if you like.                  positive.       

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Football / Is it the worst thing?

« on: August 03, 2011, 08:34:02 PM »

that ever happened to our football, going to the world cup?

i kinda want tuh think so, bc since we went to that tournament nothing eh go right with T&T football. not one player landed a good contract after the WC, the best players got black listed, beenhakker bounced, infighting between the federation and the ministry of sports caused ah whole lot of anxiety to the hard core fans with threats of suspending the football.

we eh win the regional tourney in the last 5 yrs, as ah matter of fact jack took ah holiday from caring for the senior team to advance his political career. he brought in two clueless coaches to save money for his political campaign, as ah result we missed out on the gold cup twice in succession, and private investors lose faith in the federation and stop backin the football, jack warner just had ah field day with the fans and the the football showing us who is boss.

now i don't know bout allyuh, but i would gladly give up the last WC experience just to see our football build and head in the right direction instead the negative experiences over this past five yrs of total neglect that our football has suffered all @ the expense of going to a world cup.

i'd much rather be in jamaica's position, they missed out on the hex bc their football was weakened, but they took time and build slowly, now they are a force to reckon with, they won two regional tourneys back to back and reached the quarter final of the gold cup, beating some big teams in the process.

now every body want tuh play them, and they have money in their coffers to subsidize their travel expenses, i even saw on fifa .com that they have a game with china on the 10th. tuh tell yuh the truth, and ah hate to admit it, but i'm truly jealous of them, ah hope they show camps and his imps how tuh run ah federation

IMO jack warner orchestrated this whole WC journey so he could raise money for his own personal use. this WC was about jack's coffers and never for the advancement of T&T football , BC since then the man eh do nothing right by the mens senior team, which lead me to believe that this WC was ah curse rather than ah blessing.

i truly hope that fifa finds camps guilty of accepting bribes, him and his subordinates and ban them for life, just remove the whole org and set up new elections. (ah guess ah just grasping @ straws here) it's never bad tuh dream though.

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Football / Will Pfister stay??

« on: August 01, 2011, 02:22:20 PM »

Judging from all the madness that took place in the past few months, from warner being banned from football to the TTFF declaring bankruptcy (unofficially that iz) to the cancellation of the only friendly that we manged to musta up this yr, would it be enough to push the new coach over the edge which may lead to his resignation?

i'm gettin a weird feeling that this is an imminent possibility, and the next four yrs could be the lowest point football could get in our country's history.

we all know that jack wanrer is the kinda man who would sink ah ship if he cant get tuh be the captain thereoff, and we've seen this before, many times before!

we also know dat ollie camps is ah total and utter waste of semen, same goes for most of that old crew that rally behind his federation of chaos.

will this coach stay and deal with this dysfunctional crew, or would he be smart enough to realize that he's found himself smack in the middle of the "little shop of horrors".

this man has been appointed coach since february / march and no serious friendly has taken place, i sense trouble here folks, and we all know the TTFF is proficient in fackin up ah good thing.

what allyuh think? would he stay , or would he leave before the yrs end?



PS: methinks he's gone in the next few weeks, that's my prediction, what's yours?

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Football / Darrly roberts scored today.

« on: February 20, 2011, 09:35:30 PM »

Could anyone post the goal/ highlites.

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General Discussion / Modern human hybrids

« on: January 18, 2011, 02:26:57 AM »

Just when you think it couldn't get no mo controversial. how bizarre.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gztX9fWPEvQ&feature=channel