Just Cool-
I think that you are right in that Roberts is the long will be our most promising striker. I feel he will be de first to play in Spain. Really like de way he does play. However Scotty is on fire... no doubt. So the selection goes to him.
However the blatant problem with the National Team has never been our Strikers.... Leonson, Latas, Stern, Yorke, Glenn..... what is our main problem, no we had apt men to fill that slot, but.... defense and Mids are the problem right?.... How much game we does play on de defensive? I think that Roberts could fill in as a winger or attacking midfielder... and at Concacaf level this yute will do well. I agree that he will be good for starting but not as a striker... not when KJ and Scotty lighting up goalies.... (btw) we need to also how much goals KJ does score from pouncing on assist. If we have no one to give him an assist then we just above average....
But Good debate on your end....
Breds , as a fella who watching T&T football for yrs, i've seen us play excellent football against more than worthy opponents and fell short BC we couldn't finish or had no finishers.
when we fell to the USA in 89 i went and got cable TV just to watch that game, it was ah huge mistake BC i couldn't sleep for ah few days after that! yuh want to know one of the reasons for us not advancing ?
we didn't have a finisher, ah fella who could run with the ball and create opportunities, of course there are other reasons, but the main reason was we didn't have ah finisher.
now i used to go home to trini quiet and watch meh games @ least once every few yrs, but of late i kinda cool off from travelling to watch we lose to JA.
i used to wonder why we can't beat these teams in concacaf and we have such great players, i soon came to the realization that we didn't have proficient goal scorers, then came stern john! ah man who has the instinct of ah ronaldo , pele, maradona, ah zidan, had it not been for that fella, we would've never had the recognition we attained in concacaf over the yrs.
and i wiil go as far as too say that if he was old enough to play in 89 , then we would've been to the WC twice.
now here we are agian and fellas telling me that we should give ah chance to ah fella i've seen play on ah few occasions just BC he's scoring goals, but they fail to realise what level of competition he's up against.
scotty is no doubt ah good player, but does he score under tremendous pressure, does he split defences, does he torture defenders ? is he mobile , is he unmarkable? well here goes, NOOO!!!
do you remember daryl roberts, the man who torture them bermudans till dey tongue was hanging out their head? then he hustled and helped out in defence, plus winning ball and running right back in attack? he made it easy for stern to come in and score to put us through to the semi's.
i saw scotty in the first game live and 2 games later on TV, he was @ best mediocre, immobile, slow, no defensive play, the defenders had him in their back pockets like what they did to yorke and lewis in 89.
i have ah feeling that pancho doh like DR and has made it quite clear that he don't, the fact that he could select wolf and tausantt before ah top flight striker who score is a mystery bordering on the abominable. ah hope latas could be the vioce of reasoning to a self oppiniated joker.