Preparations is just a crutch that the administration, coaches, and fans use to explain our short comings as a team.
West ham has lost quite a few games and they have fired their manager. They will hire a new manager. If they end up wining a few games in a row does that mean that they are better prepared.
Pardew has had the side for over a year
A new manager will have the side for weeks, is it preparations.
Back in Oct 15 I saw this side play barbados. they looked good on the day and performed well.
lets assume they had been training for at least 4 weeks.
That means they had been in training since Sep 15th, We are in the first week of December.
That is a total of 10 weeks that this team has been under the coaching of williams, corneal and Wim.
in addition you are talking about Talent players here,
You are talking about athletic players here
You are toalking about motivated players here, (everyman on that squad wants to be the next big playing in foreign and make a piece of money)
You are talking about fit players, each playing is playing under a top club in Trinidad and they have been training for the whole season.
We are talking about players who have distinguished themselves amoung their peers and are national level players.
This is not some shit side of neighborhood players,
These are hand selected, good players.
The job of the Coach Williams is to take these players and get them past the likes of Dominacan Republic, St Kitts and Jamaica.
He was not able to do it.
And if he aint able to do it in 12 weeks 12 months would not make a difference.
If it was Mexico, USA and Cananda we could understand but the teams we played we should be able to get past.
If we play against a team and they run the socks off of we and buss we ass, the solution is not that we need more time to train to get fit. the solution is how to set up a game plan to neutralize the added fitness of the next team.
Using the excuse that the team did not prepare fully, did not play enough practice match did not go on enough tours, did not gel, could not get players release from club, did not have proper non muddy fields to train on, etc etc
is nothing but excuse.
As long as we keep making excuse we will never get on to the real problem.
Which is how do we win within the current environment that is Trinidad and Tobago football.
In Holland " which is below sea level" the ground in the winter time is always wet and muddy, Most teams have artificial turf in domes so the weather can be less of a factor. hence they are able to train unaffected year round.
We bring a man from Holland to tell we that muddy fields and lack of nets is affecting the "Team preparation" As a solution we are suggested to get Artificial fields.
Another solution would be to spread some sand and gravel before laying top soil when we build a field so we could have proper drainage.
Or maybe use screw pegs, play foot to foot passes and chip the ball over mud puddles.
Either way you can sit and blame poor facilities for you poor preparions and performance or you can get about the business of wining based on the hand that you were dealt.
Ah fed up of the lack of preparations excuse.
sometimes we win sometimes we lose and the preparations is the same.