good point maxg, but if this was entirely true, then we would have played in the saudi competition!!
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If dat is really de case maxg..then why de hell we turn down ah money making opportunity and refuse tuh play in Suadi saying we did not have de best team and we doh want to get embarrassed? Nuff man coulda get match practice and Beenie would ah have an opportunity tuh blood new players?
Here is some reasons.
a. Tournament play is not the same as individual game play, and for the type of preparation necessary...besides the fact of team selection and training and injury rstriction..if yuh have the team to prepare in advance you can prepare for that type of competition...but we are preparing for the world cup...he would have to basically play with not just a B-team, but a B team with not much previous preparation, and out of it we may discover nothing...it could very well be playing for playing sake.
b. Would they be willing to take our B-team, when our A_team is hardly considered zilch...
c. Could YorkeLatapy make it, cause they probably care bout few other players
and do you really want to put him through some 3 game intensity in 3 day something - it quite possible they denied us.
d: It is better to lose and run test against a possibly full quality team with similar styles we would be opposing, and you have all your options available, and prepared, than run out a group of very good players, who are not really a team
for eg:
http://in.sports.yahoo.com/060105/137/61vav.html
