I cyar understand this point about having Bertille steam and going on BSC success.
Bertie steam had we collecting 4 from Mexico, and lorsing to Canada. We even play some friendly games with Canada under Bertie and lorse or draw.
Under Porters we beat Canada for the first time in HISTORY 2-0 and 4-0.
We were lucky against Mexico in the Crawford, but we match them stride for stride, outplayed them and should have won in the oval. Even after Angus do shit. Yorke coulda bury the game when he get a 1 on 1 in the final minutes of the game and throw away.
Porters tightened up the defence and we were decent on corners and free kicks. We only get a serious cutarse vs CostaRica away and then it fell apart.
Realistically when we played JA on Ash Wed we should more than cut they tail. For all who saw the game Stern was purgin since then and missing and Yorke who scored a hatrick against Arsenal 3 days before was also moving like an abortionist. Tyrone marshall also scored a fluke goal that he would never replicate for the rest of his playing career.
Then The TTFF panick, setta simmy dimmy and the team get unsettled and the shit start.
Porters did a real good job with the team. and while we didnt like the style of play that TT was playing i.e the long ball it was effective.
I talked to him once in fitness center gym in Deigo.....he say he was playing a style of ball based on the strength of the players available.
Yorke and Stern was trap and screen long ball men and that is what suited them given their style of play. The long ball he said also unsettled most concacaf teams who are generally not good in the air and Lawrence and Dog were our threats in the back to keep things tight.
We have not evolved much since then......that was a BOSS team, now we have nearly the same team with some sub-standard additions.
two exceptions being Birchall and Whitley.
Porters was good, Simoes was good, Stuart Charles had the side playing real good and his record was not bad.....why they fire him?
Its not the coaches......the players in TT just shitty on the international stage. Individually on a foreign team e.g a club a single TT player deficiency is covered or hidden based on the talent, work ethic and good habits of his foreign team mates. Collectively our lack of ability is glaring and we continue to see it game after game.
