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Clash of the Giants: John D/Mucurapo Class of '78 reunion dat argues in favour of bringing back de Technical schools.
But while Mucurapo are still among the elite of schools football, the John D golden era turned to brass as long ago as 1986 when the post-secondary, Technical Institutes were voted out of the schools league, because it was claimed, they held an unfair advantage.
For Cumberbatch and company, it's an injustice that has persisted for too long.
"We have been bombarded over the years by a lot of the players and friends of the teams to do something like this," Cumberbatch says.
"It has always been a sore point with many of us, with the Technical Institutes being excluded from the Colleges League and we believe that minimised the pool that the national team could have used to select players.
"You talking about the Alan Andersons, Clayton Morrises, Russell Latapys, Leonson Lewis; players like these have used that stage-the Technical Institutes-to really advance and look what they have contributed to the nation!"
Greene shares the John D view.
"We recognise the long-term effect of not having the younger players reach their full potential," he says. "We think stopping somebody playing football at 17 years from the era of the Colleges football is wasted talent. We think that something like this could bring to the realisation of the powers that be in the Colleges football fraternity and even the national fraternity to let the younger ones stay the extra year or two to develop themselves so that you could see them a bit more and look at their potential."
Cumberbatch contends that, "players who play soccer only actually fully mature between the age of 17 and 19. So Technical institutes are a necessity as far as I am concerned in the development of soccer in the country."
Few feel more passionately about the subject than Morris.
A qualified John D graduate and one of his country's most respected players ever, Morris is living testimony to Cumberbatch's argument.
Emphatically Morris says, two years can make a big difference in the progress of a young player. Especially when it comes to bridging the gap between junior and senior football.
"If you look at our present national team, we solely depending on the foreign-based players and that shouldn't be. We should be able to have players here falling into the national team and maintaining that level."
He uses self-reference to strengthen his case.
'If you look at the national team, you can't identify somebody to play a sweeper up to now. I retire since '92 and up to now, you can't say that player is a sweeper, or this man is a general controlling the midfield. So there is a gap."
The John D men do not feel the Pro League youth league adequately fills the void.
But the shortcomings, these men argue also, are not just technical.