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Football / Re: Forum rearrangement ? Vote

« on: May 11, 2007, 08:46:09 AM »

If there was a poll last time they were upgrading to this new site I eh so sure the majority would have said yes.

and how you so sure about that Nastrodamus?...what your perception is based on?

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Football / Re: Forum rearrangement ? Vote

« on: May 11, 2007, 08:17:31 AM »

It is not no official poll.
Whatever the outcome of the poll, the moderators will decide what is best.

Steups....allyuh men is the greatest yes. Yuh know if the majority of the votes on the poll was for changing the site allyuh men woulda been on Flex and Tallman arse to make the change.

Official poll or not, seeing that it is a change that is going to affect all forumites, it should be considered by the mods when making their decision.

My sentiments exactly

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Football / Re: Forum rearrangement ? Vote

« on: May 11, 2007, 08:14:10 AM »

Yeh and its best we all assemble together and discuss football on one forum

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Football / Re: Ex-stars: Spend $$ on U-17s

« on: May 11, 2007, 06:54:15 AM »

“This Under-17 World Championships is more important than the senior World Cup and investment now is more important since this team is the future of Trinidad and Tobago football,” said Corneal yesterday.
he for real?

        I don't think literally that's what he meant,what i think is we should focus on this team because this is more immediate than the senior team,the Snr's are a little way off down the road.   

Yeh Coop's I agree...I think Corneal ment that we should focus a little more on the yuths because this team is more immediate than the senior team..the seniors are a little was after

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Football / Re: Wim meets de Fearless one on Saturday

« on: May 11, 2007, 06:43:34 AM »

Thaks for the announcement!..I will be tuned   

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Football / Re: Sancho on the search...Scotland linked to Dundee United.

« on: May 11, 2007, 06:40:12 AM »

I really wanted to see scotland in the Premiership division....Thought Birmingham was after him?

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What about Track & Field / Brown, Burns, Frater on show in Qatar

« on: May 11, 2007, 06:09:45 AM »

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_sports?id=161144522


Trinidad and Tobago sprint stars Darrel Brown and Marc Burns are among the Caribbean athletes who will compete at today's Qatar Super Grand Prix. Both are expected to show off their wares in the men's 100 metres dash.

Brown is coming off a season-opening 10.02 seconds win at the Jamaica International Invitational, last weekend.

Burns will run his season-opener at the Qatar meet. Also in action will be Brown's training partner and World Championship silver medallist Michael Frater.

Reigning Olympic 200m champion Shawn Crawford, of the United States, and Portugal's Olympic 100m silver medallist Francis Obikwelu are among the sprinters expected to do battle with the Caribbean trio.

Some attention will be on Nigeria's Olusoji Fasuba, who finished second in last year's Qatar 100m dash, behind banned American Olympic champion Justin Gatlin. In that run, Fasuba clocked 9.84 seconds and Gatlin equalled the 100m world record at 9.77 seconds.

In the women's 100m, Jamaica's Commonwealth Games champion Sheri Ann Brooks leads the charge against American world champions Lauryn Williams and Allyson Felix.

The women's sprint hurdles event has an impressive cadre of competitors, enhanced by four Jamaican entrants-World Championship silver and bronze medal winners Delloreen Ennis-London and Brigitte Foster-Hylton, as well as Lacena Golding-Clarke and Toni-Ann D'oyley.

The Bahamas will be represented in the women's 400m by Christine Amertil, in the women's long jump by Jackie Edwards and in the men's triple jump by Leevan Sands.
   

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Football / Re: Charles to go to the 'mountain'

« on: May 10, 2007, 09:34:09 PM »

About time!! As much as I respect and applaud Shabazz for his commitment to the Women's team, this is something he just couldn't do. Hopefully now we begin to see some progress in the women's game.

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Football / Re: FAMOUS LAST WORDS....

« on: May 10, 2007, 09:30:43 PM »

Jamaica2099..these guys just giving yuh picong...dont take it seriously.....but you have to admit you were wrong about our U-17 team

Nope! Not wrong! You will see what I mean during the U-17 World Cup which I will be watching.

Jamaica2099..I meant you were wrong about our team qualifying for the world cup....

and how do you know we will not even be better by then?...most likely this team will go through intense and proper preparation before the World Cup...dont go ahead and make predictions like before the Ja vs T&T U-17 game...
I thought you would have learned from that game

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Football / Re: Going Korea with U17 player Stephen Knox.

« on: May 10, 2007, 09:28:15 PM »

Ah have ah special feeling bout deis youth..he will go on to bigger and better things...

Knox, Paul, Molino, Samuel and O'Neil are players thay many will predict will have a very bright football future..

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Football / Re: TT Celebrity football team to play the 2006 Warriors on May 20

« on: May 10, 2007, 09:23:30 PM »

Allyuh gettin tie up wit de thin foot terror! (J.Williams)...ah bet yuh he buss de net 

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Football / Re: TT Celebrity football team to play the 2006 Warriors on May 20

« on: May 10, 2007, 09:21:20 PM »

this will be one kicksy match,ah sure de warriors go leh them score ah couple.....since when samaroo is ah celeb.lol.

Aye whappen to you  ...Samaroo is ah big Chutney celeb in Trini...even bigger than rikki Jai for some people

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Football / Re: Leslie is back....playing in PFL

« on: May 10, 2007, 09:19:15 PM »

Fitzpatrick you have alot to prove Bredda

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Football / Re: Coincidence or not..The Striking players all ketching arse

« on: May 10, 2007, 09:18:17 PM »

It's just a coincidence

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Football / Re: Forum rearrangement ? (moderators?)

« on: May 10, 2007, 09:15:17 PM »

LEAVE THE FORUM THE WAY IT IS!!.....dont try to fix something that is not broke...steupse

That is the mentality that have trini football where it is....

We reach 2 World Cup at different levels with a million people so we could continue to do the same **** we always doing right? 

If that is your campaign speech then good luck

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Football / Re: Connection adds depth to squad.

« on: May 10, 2007, 09:11:41 PM »

Very curious to see how Charles and Nelson perform this year at Connection.....I was not impressed by Fitzpatrick performence at the Digicel cup so I hope he surprises me..

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Football / Re: FAMOUS LAST WORDS....

« on: May 10, 2007, 09:09:35 PM »

Jamaica2099..these guys just giving yuh picong...dont take it seriously.....but you have to admit you were wrong about our U-17 team

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Football / Re: Forum rearrangement ? (moderators?)

« on: May 10, 2007, 05:59:02 AM »

LEAVE THE FORUM THE WAY IT IS!!.....dont try to fix something that is not broke...steupse

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Football / Re: Coincidence or not..The Striking players all ketching arse

« on: May 09, 2007, 09:29:07 PM »

Touches yuh actually forget Scotland name?

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T v Jamaica U-17 game.

« on: May 09, 2007, 04:21:45 PM »

It's funny you dont see the fans of the oppossing team after they lost...A Jamaican member on the forum predicted that T&T will loose 6-0 and I laughed at him after he said dat!...Since the T&T victory he is yet to post in the forum..

That's why I have been here from day one. The other Jamaicans figure I can deal with all the Trinis posts. Good or bad.

that response was not directed at you....it was intended for a Jamaican guy who loves to smoke and fly 

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Cricket Anyone / Re: LARA SAY

« on: May 09, 2007, 04:18:51 PM »

Weary I hoope you dont think my last response was meant to "jump on yuh"....I was only asking for you to release the source of your info....but Patterson already fixed that!....

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Cricket Anyone / Re: LARA SAY

« on: May 09, 2007, 02:59:33 PM »

The WICB eh know bout integrity, technology and somethin else I cyah remember. He like he want to talk but eh ready yet. Just spill the beans Brian spill it.

Please release the source of this infomation.....when and where did you hear him say this?...On what talk show?...Which article did you read where Lara said this?..Give us something so some popel may not think this is just rumous/gossip...Alot of people read this forum, therefore it would be wrong for them to be mislead by news that may not be true

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Football / Re: Mexico Did not make the U17 and how Jack get we to get 5 Spots

« on: May 09, 2007, 02:16:20 PM »

KND

You did  imply that Jack do we a favour

Yes he did! One team to qualify from the CFU in T&T. We got knocked out by Haiti and Jack turn around and put we back in. YES Jack! Boss move. He make one group 4 and one 5 hahahahhahah. But who cares, is CONCACAF and Jack is Lord and master.

Our youth team did not get knocked out by Haiti hence the reason why we played in the last round in JA...and Concacaf has 5 positions in the world cup this year..so obviously one grup will see three teams qualifying and another group will see two teams qualifying....Our youth team did very well to go over in Jamaica and finish third....

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Trinbago, NBA & World Basketball / Re: SPURS V SUNS

« on: May 09, 2007, 01:45:07 PM »

This will be an exciting series..I want Suns to win

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Sing, boy, sing...(Interesting article)

« on: May 09, 2007, 01:43:34 PM »

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_opinion?id=161143248

"Boy,'' which is what some people still close to him still call Machel Montano, whatever his eventual soca success, emerged from the calypso tradition, "The Letter," the song that brought him to public attention by winning him the Junior Calypso Monarch competition all of 25 years ago belongs firmly in that tradition. In keeping with that tradition, then, Mr Montano would be well advised to sing out his side of the Zen fracas as other calypsonians have done before him.

I wasn't at Zen on the night but I find the assault of which he has been accused to be totally out of character of the, well, character with whom I have had a relationship of sorts for each of those 25 years, neither Liz, his mother, nor Monty, his father, having passed on violent genes to either of their sons, Marcus or Machel so, if is anything, it has to be environmental, Machel letting on, amazingly, that he has had drinks thrown on him many times - who are those drink-throwing-on-other-people soca louts I wonder.

Still, it is all very well for Machel to hold press conferences to protest his innocence but in the good old days of calypso he would have been winning friends and influencing people with tunes in the manner of Blakie, say, whose "They Say Blakie Kill a Man'' is a wry understated putdown of rumours to that effect, the song having resonance precisely because his compatriots well know that Trinbagonians, to a man and to a woman, is a seta "they say" people.

Still, there's no gainsaying the fact that Blakie's kill-a-man song was, well again, in tune with a time when some calypsonians liked to portray themselves as "bad johns" as likely to slap you down as look at you, Sparrow, singing in his "Bad Johns'' how he "tired beat up Dewah, Spree and Magoto'' and how "Big Teddy Kingsale fraid'' he "more than he fraid the jail'' and none of them taking Sparrow on since they well knew that Sparrow couldn't beat up nobody least of all those razor-carrying bad boys of those years, the once-notorious "Fisheye'' laughing with me at the very idea.

Still again, Machel is sure to know and could well draw inspiration from the most celebrated calypso defence of aggressive action ever, Sparrow brilliantly laying out the back-to-the-wall scene in this 1960 road march contender :

"Well, they playing bad, they have me felling sad

Well, they playing beast; why they run for Police,

Ten criminals attack me outside ah Miramar....,Ten to one is murder

About ten in the night on the fifth of October......Ten to one is murder

Way down Henry Street, up by HGM Walker....Ten to one is murder...,

Well, the leader of the gang was hot like a pepper....

And every man in the gang had a white-handle razor...

They say ah push they gal from Grenada....

Well, ah back-back until ah nearly fall in the gutter...,

You could imagine my position, not a police in the area.......!

Well, ah start to sweat, Man, ah soaking wet.....

Mama, so much threat, that's a night ah can't forget.......

Ten ah them against me, and fifty spectator....

And the way dey coming up like dey want to devour...

But in the heat of the excitement, is then ah remember....

In me next pants pocket, ah forget me wedger....

Ah don't know what to do, but ah can't surrender...

They say they go cut me down as small as Pretender...

But as the crowd start to gather, ah started to shiver.......!

In the still of the night, ah was really in a fright....

Me alone against ten, ten vicious men......

Ah remember ah had a chicken at Miramar....

Well, ah said to meself: 'that's mih last supper....''

But ah get away and ah run, till ah reach Johnson corner...

They take off in me skin with big stick an' boulder.....

The fella in front was a very good pelter....

Ah hear 'potow pow,' and the crowd start to scatter.....!''

Looking back now it seems incredible that "Ten to One" did not win the road march (it was second to May-May, also Sparrow's) but it formed a permanent part of this great calypsonian's repertoire. Readers will note (and, maybe, that should be young readers, since generations already know what to note in this classic) that Sparrow never admits to firing any gunshots as he was accused of doing. He just "hear potow-pow and the crowd start to scatter'', so it was left to his great rival of the time, Lord Melody, to sing "Beware, Sparrow have a gun", "Mello" seizing the opportunity to berate Sparrow but only in picong, friendly fire, at it were, Melody in the last verse of the same song jumping to Sparrow's defence and arguing that whatever shots the "Bird" blasted were blasted in self-defence.

Another classic calypso defence was made by the late Merchant who, charged with the very serious crimes of robbery and rape, came up with "Let No Man Judge'' which, while it did not go into a step by step denial of the charges, was timed to put forward the argument that you had to be in the shoes of the wrong-doer to really know, "Let No Man Judge'' not only causing an immediate stir but the philosophy behind it, rightly or wrongly, echoing down the years. So Machel, boy, take this old man's advice and sing yuh way away, if not out of, this mess. And, if I were you, I wouldn't wait until next year but sing it now while the ting still hot.
   

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T v Jamaica U-17 game.

« on: May 09, 2007, 01:35:01 PM »

It's funny you dont see the fans of the oppossing team after they lost...A Jamaican member on the forum predicted that T&T will loose 6-0 and I laughed at him after he said dat!...Since the T&T victory he is yet to post in the forum..

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Football / Re: Congratulations thread to the T&T U-17 team.

« on: May 09, 2007, 01:31:52 PM »

Yes! I am very proud of this team...I always knew there was something special about this group of players...Congratulations to the young soca warriors! 

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Football / Re: PFL scores today.

« on: May 09, 2007, 01:30:00 PM »

Looks like Cale on a serious mission this year!

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Football / Re: Big Up Lincoln Phillips !

« on: May 09, 2007, 01:28:31 PM »

Yes Definitley have to Big Up this man!...He is doing a good job 

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Football / Re: Nadia James signed to West Texas A&M

« on: May 09, 2007, 01:23:37 PM »

I wish Ms James all the best...