Now the reason man griping that the forum is shit is really because nuttin going on and we just passing comments at news that not really worthy of attention.
As such I have decided to stimulate a discussion pertaining to our Senior team and its youth policy or lack thereof.
All our coaches have used young players on the national team, however Simoes, Fevrier and to a lesser extent Beenie were the ones doing it more than our other local coaches.
The problem with young players is that you will have to pass tru a phase when yuh side will collect licks. It is a learning process, but the TT senior team never afforded many young players the opportunity to showcase themselves. The coach is always under pressure for a good result, which is why we kept on recycling the same old players over and over with limited success.
The only two old players I am glad we called back are Yorke and Latapy, but had we been serious with exposing our younger players......when Yorke and Latapy went missing we might have had more options today.
I am glad we put certain players out to pasture amidst public outcry, and there are a few more I would like to add to the list. But we cannot do so because the coaches in charge have not given the youngsters a chance.
Which is why when men finally get their chance it comes when they are past they prime, or in the later stages of 20.....look at Cyd, he is thutty two. In fact watch we whole squad only Spann,Birchall and Theobold under 25.
May I share with you an excerpt from one of the better coaches in the world today.
'But when you have a youth policy, the final step is to make room for the players growing behind. Without that you cannot have a youth policy.
'A lot of people have good young players and at some stage they all arrive at the door. If you do not open the door for them they stay behind it.
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The rest of the article can be read here
SoccernetIs our team a closed door team?
After the WC lets tell a few of them thanks for the memories and start afresh with a fairly new slate.
