Given Beenie's statement that it is all up to us...... what is he really saying to our athletes?
Athletes no longer go into a preseason camp or a training camp to get in shape; today they must arrive in shape. Maintaining a level of fitness is the individual player's responsibility.
From those professionals who are on trial in the U.K. one can say withe the exception of Marvin Andrews and to a lesser degree Dennis Lawerance, most of our foreign based professionals are having sub par performances. No one is really lighting a spark for their team nor are they consistently performing at a level to make any kind of consistent impact. As it is there are men right now fighting tuh make teams.
I have read from previous postings that one of the issue is that most of these players are 'warming up' the bench for the most part and then when they do get a call for national duty, we expect them to perform miracles. The fact is that there is a reason why they are on the bench; if they are marginal players at best, what magical transformation do we expect from them? Or should we?
Would these players be better off at home on a pro league under the trainging of Beenhakker? What we do is we create a national side and play tem in teh league and against foreign teams.
Or as Beenhakker puts it : the responsibility for fitness and performance squarely lies with the player's responsibility. Implement a rule: yuh eh match fit fuh national duty yuh eh play. What we need to see is a consistency of high performince from those who claim tuh be professionals.
Imagine if we had consistently played at the level we did when we defeated Panama or when we played Mexico? What if those performances were carried over to the Gold Cup? Well that is gone now but the point is we need that level of consistency as oppose to consistent tata.
A critical statement is that we too as a national team cyar rely on POTENTIAL; we have tuh get RESULTS from all of our players
