Last night it hit me, if my boy Marc Purcell didn't start the site back in the late 90s with a few of us blogging from the earlies and Flex and Tallman didn't take it over, our football fraternity worldwide would be in the darkness for info and foootball in general in TT.
If socawarriors.net did not exist, there would be a lack of insightful info on our football and football players. Because the ttff/ttfa would not have had a message board as this, nor would they have built a database and core support like what has been done here.
There hasn't been another rival to sw.net, I believe some tried but it never panned out. It takes passion, love and dedication to maintain this site and also loyalty from the supporters to be here. Whether men hate one another or not or can't get along at times, we are all here for football and football related news, hopefully.
I can say it is truly a community and without the board, many of us would not know one another or have met each other. It served as a catalyst, a necessary catalyst for change and to progress national football. I believe the TTFA needs to incorporate us into their framework finally. TT football cannot go on selfish and isolated, or it will collapse even further. The plight needs to come to an end and it begins here.
If the board didn't exist, the change that has happened over the last 5 years probably would not have come about. Whether people acknowledge it or not, we are the voice of TT football worldwide. There is a strong power in community and working together, I hope the members on here can someday come together for the greater good of our football and to a greater extent our nation.
Everything happens for a reason and at the root of it is God, he inspired guys like Marc, Flex and Tallman to start something, something necessary, something that was needed to fuel change and bring about a sense of community again.
Some may even say, sw.net is insignificant and someone else would have come up with the idea, but that would be taking it for granted. Sometimes people forget the importance of freedom of speech and expression and the power of knowledge and information in this world we live in.
Could you imagine if sw.net did not exist?
