I'm not blaming the players. Far from it.
Then yuh need to re-title this budding shit thread.
The lawsuit is of "worth" primarily to the players (with a remote secondary interest to the public). To question the worth of the lawsuit is to question the decision of the players to pursue it. If yuh "not blaming the players"... then why are you questioning whether they should have pursued it?
I sure nobody wanted the fallout we seeing now... and the fallout isn't the result of the lawsuit, the fallout is the result of Jack Warner and the TTFF's small-mindedness.
I think that by saying he is not blaming the blaming the players he is acknowledging that it was not a bad decision based on what was known at the time.
Not many could have predicted the exact course of subsequent events and so he is asking whether the players would have made the same decision knowing what they know now.
Good thread IMO especially since it points out the magnitude of what has been lost.
Most on here feel that some players haven't played for a couple games and will be back and we on the road to success after a pit stop. Man still bragging to Jamaicans that we tie them with a "B squad" and a "C squad" when in fact that is the squad.
We take a detour and we will not have anything resembling our most successful team again until we build one from scratch, which is a long process.
To ask ifit was worth is, is to suggest the blacklisted players are at fault for the detriment of the football.
It is not the same. If you decide to go out the road to get something necessary but end up in a accident you don't blame yourself for the original decision because there is no way to predict what would have happened. You could very easily question whether it was worth it, after the fact, though.
I would say that it was worth it though. The players have to look out for themselves. There are a couple players who have had bad breaks since the WC and the TTFF situation has not helped but who is to say if things would have been different with their pro careers.
For most of them that trip to the WC was IT since they can't bank on the TTFF keeping them competitive for 2010. The way our federation moves even if they didn't sue there would be something to mash up the team, plus multiple coaching changes, scandals and reneging onpayments so they have to take care of themselves.