We need to give this lad one more chance to get the cobwebs out (maybe through friendlies). After all, this is the first time he's played with us in about five or six years and the stakes were much higher than at the club level.
This is it. This is his first game in 6 yrs. No warm up games and he get to start over Marvin who the coach has seen more than Warner. Now if Latas had done that we would have never hear the end of it. But I giving the coach the benefit of doubt here. He is boxed in a corner by circumstances beyond his control. And you say "through friendly". When that go be. Time for friendlies done. Season start and Warner whey down quito quite. Otto go bring him for friendly? The game yesterday served as a friendly also. If jack had arranged real fiendly in the off season, Otto would have had time to evaluate Warner and Hyland. He would have been able to staighten them out so that they would have performed better yesterday. On paper, this side look good. On grass is ketch-arse
The worrying thing is that most of our Caribbean opponents now realise that, especially as we got knocked out of the last Caribbean Cup and missed the last two Gold Cups!
No one in the region believes that we are better than them anymore regardless of who we bring back and how good our team may look on paper!
Until we start beating these other Caribbean teams convincingly on the field like how Ecuador drubbed Jamaica on Friday then they will continue to believe that T&T is quite beatable and ent no big team in the region anymore!!
We have a lot of work to do if we are to restore our previous reputation as a football power in the region but it will have to be done on the field with some convincing victories and not just on paper by bringing back top players.
