I am a socawarrior fan, like many on this forum, who invests plenty emotional capital following the gut-wrenching rollercoaster fortunes and tragedies of my team. I get tremendous pleasure seeing the socawarriors do well and I accept when we lose fair and square to a better team. I feel that the highlight of our team, in recent times, was when Beenhakker (Beenie) summoned Latas from Scotland to help turn around the fortunes and it succeeded. Beenie understood defense as the pillar of one's strategy before you can fantasize about all the glamour of attack and made a tremendous turnaround with what was a porous defense, that was distracting us from launching our attacking raids. We spent alot of time compensating for our defensive weaknesses, with our best aggressive & attacking midfield and striker formations sacrificed for conservative ones.
It was sad to see what happened in Nashville on wednesday. I can't help but notice a sickness coming back with full force. Hopelessness with the wingbacks, a position that if weak, would automatically be a God-send for the opponents like the USA, Costa Rica and other teams that rely heavily on the wing attack. More painful is the realization that the shortage of confident, fast, sharp wingbacks is exacerbated by unpatriotic sabotage in the form of the blacklist, that is a career-destroying, evil vendatta against wingbacks like Cyd Gray, Avery John and who knows why, the sidelining of Silvio Spann and Nigel Daniel both of whom could easily do better. No offense to Akile Edwards, but the youth looked so unsure of himself and just out of it and I am not quite sure what it is that he has that makes him the ONLY!!!! player who gets selected for that position.
Latas, you are my hero. Please see to it that you do not slip into the blackmailing claws of Jackula and his bamceelickers and perpetuate the distasteful persecution of Avery, Gray, Sancho, Colin Samuel and others. Please focus on selecting speedy wingbacks, as this has been our achilles heel for years until we found Gray. Makan Hislop is NOT a wingback. You have to have blazin' speed to deal defensively with the likes of Lennon, Theo Walcott and such players as we painfully learned in Germany 2006.
Btw, Good job by Dennis Lawrence and Keyeno. Need 2 fellas (and a pool of substitutes) on dey side to protect the wings. So Latas and Matas, please bring in Avery and Gray to help groom the next generation just like Ian Bishop, Ambrose, Walsh, Holding and Roberts would have tried to support the new WI fast bowlers lacking confidence.
Matas, thanks for experimenting with local Pro League talent, but please tighten' up the defense and understand our historical weakness. If yuh doh understan', let Latas show you please.
