As usual I does normally respond a couple days after the scene cool down...say wha ah hadda say in one and buss it....just my nature. Forgive me for the length, but ah hadda vent
I intentionally did not go to the game, simply because I didn't think we would have performed well against Bermuda, and I have made it my personal decision to not
openly support THIS particular NT team, because in my opinion it is not truly a national team, but a high profile club team made up by Mr Warner and his cohorts. I was always against going along with this youthful experiment and paying my hard earned dollars ($300 a pop ?) to see an unworthy experiment against less than mediocre opposition, which somehow seemed to fool the uninformed public (inc some forumites) into a false sense of security. A total disrespect for the people of T&T.
If you follow all the threads leading up to this game, you will realise that no one expected us to lose against Bermuda. There were some cautious remarks by some, alluding to the fact that we should not count our chickens before they hatch....but generally the talk was how much goals we woiulda put on Bermuda...whilst Jamaica get they embarrassment on de side.
I stayed quiet when everyone else was lambassing RF and Lionpaw a few threads ago, after the Jamaica loss, and also about the predictions for the first set of qualifiers, for fear that I would be ridiculed by some poster who feels that he has the right, simply because he on the forum longer than me. I was even a bit adventurous, and found relief when apparently no one took notice of my post saying that I was in agreement with RF's predictions that Jam stood a better chance of making it to the Hex than TT.
Now I see this thread sparking real emotions...the same emotions I was talking about when I said that there is a difference between wanting your team to win, and objectively considering the realistic chances of the team winning.
Palos, started the thread, obviously reacting to the hurt he now feels. Men taking him to task for not putting his support where they think it should go, but I sure is no malice intented, is just that...a reaction to the hurt. I sure Palos go be jumping if (yes,
if) we beat Bermuda and move on to the next stage. But we hadda understand each other's pain. The pain that supposed to be directed at the TTFF.
Some even saying to blame the players. I remember calling for a 'supportive' strike against the NT games a couple years ago, right after the blacklist. Some say yes, but most say no back then...why...cause that is not the way to show support...de pen mightier than the sword etc...plus all of us like to go to the games anyway...is a nice lime. More recently there was a call to wear black T-shirts for a cause. I doh need to rehash the talk about the hot sun etc...all in all that didn't come off as planned. Could it be that forumites chickened out ? One set of badjohn talk on the forum, biting each other and when is time for action we is mouse/mice...whatever.
Now here the talk this morning...maybe this loss will help get rid of Jack.
It didn't in the past, and by itself, certainly will not in the forseeable future. So all yuh could forget about that...again, wishful thinking.
If WE doh start the revolution, then WE might as well join up with Jack and at least make back some of the money we spent out of it....then it wouldn't hurt too much when we team loss.
Thinking about it too...if I owned a company that is selling a product...a product that regardless of the wrapping, people still blindly paying top dollars for, plus ah getting sponsorship from all over the place...including the GOTT at times (because is in their interest to move the product as well), then why would I change that ? Remember is not the GOTT company...IS MINE. I could do what the hell I want and to hell with who vex. I making the money....ticket or leave it. I know allyuh will still be there at whatever grounds the experiment on show at in allyuh red jersey. I go stay home and use mih
sword pen until ah see change.
