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Guillen: Selectors, management must answer

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2735 days ago
20180123

The se­lec­tors and man­age­ment of the T&T Red Force team have a lot to an­swer for, con­cern­ing the T&T Red Force’s dis­mal per­for­mances in the just con­clud­ed Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Dig­i­cel PCL crick­et se­ries.

T&T Red Force start­ed well and at one point were sec­ond in the stand­ings be­fore a string of de­feats left them at the bot­tom of the pack for the first time in the four-year his­to­ry of the PCL. One of the more suc­cess­ful man­agers on the do­mes­tic scene Jef­frey Guillen who man­ages Queen’s Park said, “Every year, the pres­i­dent of the T&T Crick­et Board, Az­im Bas­sarath calls for an en­quiry and then shuf­fles the same play­ers. I am ea­ger­ly await­ing to hear what he is go­ing to say this time around.”

Guillen who is al­so a di­rec­tor on SPORTT said, “I think that the se­lec­tors and the man­age­ment have a lot to an­swer be­cause the best play­ers were not se­lect­ed to play for the coun­try. I think the se­lec­tion process needs to be looked at as we went wrong in this re­gard. I think they went wrong in terms of the struc­ture used to see play­ers el­i­gi­ble for se­lec­tion. The tri­al match­es that were held to me were of no use and they need to look at this while analysing who got to play in the coun­try. We’re pay­ing play­ers now and their per­for­mances are worst. I won­der where has all the pro­fes­sion­al­ism in the crick­et gone. We need bet­ter play­ers play­ing for the Red Force. Back in the days of Deryck Mur­ray, Char­lie Davis, Bryan Davis and Bernard Julien, they made no mon­ey play­ing for their coun­try, yet they were thor­ough­ly pro­fes­sion­al and went out there and gave of their best for their coun­try.”

Guillen added he is await­ing word on what is the next move by the board in deal­ing with the poor per­for­mances. “As a spec­ta­tor I am to­tal­ly dis­sat­i­fied with this team and I think that they se­ri­ous­ly needs to look at the se­lec­tion pan­el.”

FI­NAL 2017-18 STAND­INGS

FRAN­CHIS­ES*M*W*L*D*T*PTS

1. Guyana Jaguars*10*7*0*2*1*166.8

2. Bar­ba­dos Pride*10*3*2*5*0*114.4

3. Lee­wards Hur­ri­canes*10*2*4*4*0*94.8

4. Ja­maica Scor­pi­ons*10*3*4*3*0*93.6

5. Wind­wards Vol­ca­noes*10*2*4*3*1*85.6

6. T&T Red Force*10*2*5*3*0*82.4


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