Jus cool, respectively you talking some sh!t dey.
De overall post good eh, but I don't see how you could say that members on the board had no clue how bad our football was going and de direction we was heading.
I remember specifically the sentiment being a broken clock is still right twice a day and that our qualification was a flash in de pan.
However, many members expected WC qualification to kick start a bright new era. OH how we was wrong. 
respectfully again, I hear where you coming from but you miss the whole vibe of the board.
As for Controversial/TI... it is a damn shame how cynical he has become. Doh matter his views and how you feel about them, he was always ah strong patriot and back the football always. It is just a sign and an indication of what the administration has done since the WC.
Hold on FF, i think yuh missed the point.
now i don't mean every single member, in that respect i was just generalizing, it's like saying trinis love fete, we all know that this statement does not hold true for maybe 40% of the population if not more, but it mean that a huge portion of the populace would fit this description.
all i'm saying was that man bawlin now bc of the state of the football, and finding all kinda fault after six yrs of share bullsh!t!!
from the federation to the bad results to the changing of coaches like undies, to the ministry to the sport company and the technical inability of the players ect, but during and before the WC man was singing ah different tune, not everybody, but the majority found no fault in we football bc we was not doing too bad, and if ah man who had the balls to only mention how shakey the football was, some members would literally want tuh fly his head.
i remember taking shots @ latas and yorke when i first came on board, and it was like i stone down ah marabunta nest, yuh talk bout cuss i collect, some even thought that i was ah yardie in disguise bc they couldn't understand why i could dare to criticize their demigods.
You an all have to admit that it's not until we lost to bermuda that "some" of the unsuspecting started taking stock of how poor our football might be. before that the issue was the jacklist and not having our best players available as the reason for our bad showing.
when jack slowly started lifting the ban on our WC players and we still started goin down hill in spite of having some of our best players back, from international competitive games to the CCL when jablotee, connection and joe public was in contention,
it was then fellas started to feel like there was no future for our football bc of the poor showing of our pro league, the cry was, there was no one amongst the youth to replace yorke and latas.
yet still there were some members who attribute our poor showing to coaching and blamed maturana heavily (not that he didn't deserve it) but they missed the point of youth development (which had a greater right to be blamed).
i eh trying to disguise what i said before or dress the sh!t up to make it sound good, instead all i'm doing is trying to convey that although some of the members were critical of the state of our youth development even back then,
most of them was flag waving and even dissing members from other countries and telling them how their football will never rise, they had no clue as to what made a successful footballing organization whether club or country, and youth development was not in their vocabulary, which is the key,
that's the biggest mistake jack and the TTFF made, or else they could have gotten away with murder, providing that jack didn't get caught in that FIFA sting operation.
breds, if yuh don't believe me, and of course you don't have too, doesn't mean i will respect you less, since yuhs one of the bredders i real rate on this board, so will understand if you don't, but try to remember, after the WC we had like about 200 members @ one time posting every day.
then after the black list it went down to about 150, then after we got booted out the gold cup in 09 and failed to qualify for the WC in south africa, we dwindled to about 100 members posting on ah regular (this is ah rough estimate now, don't hold me to it),
then we got booted from the gold cup in 2011 we went down to about 85 members on the regular, and when we lost to guyana, well that was the icing, no mo glory, and the WC hopes went crashing down,
is the players the coach and jack all got the blame (jack deservingly so), and we dwindled to about 40/50 members on a regular, now today if we get 20 man posting on ah daily we have plenty,
some thread goin on for months fuss de board ded, but through it all, very few men whose missing in action was blaming youth development as the culprit.
i don't want to say they were glory hunters, or waggonist far be it from me, i'm not here to judge, but i could tell yuh this, most of them still don't understand why our football fell so drastically, and most of them would not finger youth development as the main contributing factor,
only ah few did, and i think contro/TI might be one of the many who did not consider youth development as the problem. positive.
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