I am willing to offer constructive critiques about players. I raise my hands on that. Have done it on the forum and face to face. However, we have to be careful not to place the consequences of our deficient system at the feet of the individual players or on where their growth stalls.
These players are optimizing their outcomes in a f*cked up system. It is not that they are f*cking up their outcomes in an optimized system.
this is a classic example as to why we continue to lose out to the tops teams in the region, it’s because the lads are as soft as bird shite, and the reason for that is because in the modern black world experience we are flooded with these anti establishment ideals that offer tons of excuses for failure and push the narrative that “we are victims of a failed system” that is why we can’t excel, so we have to sell drugs to survive, or car jack, or partake in some illicit activity, all because it’s not our fault. well sorry I don’t buy into that.
I remembered just before Steve hart was fired some of his players were breaking camp, it was just around that time that the teams started nose diving even losing out on three chances to make it to the copa america centennial with a string of loses giving the fat boss the fuel to fire SH. then players like jovin, bateau and the rest of the first team were ducking their duty to rep the country and in the end we lost out on a spot to the gold cup to haiti.
I say all this to say that in today’s world there are too many bloody excuses for failure. I would like to know what is the difference between the era of latapy, Clint marcel, Leonson lewis and Dwight yorke to name a few, as compared with the lads today?
Those guy didn’t have good gear or even a ride to go to games but instead took public transportation or walked to venues, some even borrowed a friend’s tugs on match day, in fact some of them would be lucky to have even owned a ball, and if they did they would have cherished it with care, yet they put in the work and excel these kids that have everything at their disposal but could barely make a proper splitting pass.
I am friends with a few guys that went to high school with latapy, and they said latapy lived with a ball at his feet even more so than his school books. at breaks he would be practicing doing drills working on his first touch doing keep ups and everything imaginable, I also heard this about dwight where he would spend hours practicing and this is not rocket science, because the lads who didn’t put in the work never went anywhere with football.
the same system Jamal and company came up with is the same lazy shabby system that produced Dwight and russell, in fact Jamal and company had a pro league that paid them to play football where they had access to better coaching as well as better facilities to excel. so I’m not buying into to that fancy talk about systems and situations, the bottom line is that these guys don’t give a damn about excellence, they do the bare minimum and are surprised when they fail. how do you expect to do the very least and expect to be successful? that’s ludicrous.
