We often do best when we are motivated and engaged.

No question that he eats human flesh though.

Anyway, back to Bermuda football, which could use a bit of his bite.

Ditto!

It is obvious that without regular competitive matches we are going to struggle against a decent professional team, with significant incentive to do well ( playing for contracts , etc )…

When our coaches have limited access to players such as Jonte Smith ( who was impressive ), Reggie Lambe, Zico Lewis ( very promising ) , Nahki Wells , Dale Eve, etc, and don’t have a strong local base, we are going to find it tough to compete internationally.

One massive area that needs to be addressed is the development of good defenders. We apparently have to convert forwards to defenders – Nusum, Laverock, Ming , Burgess readily come to mind and this indicates / suggests that our club coaches are not spending the right amount of time working on this aspect of our game. It was once the strength of our football – Joe Trott – Richard Calderon – Wolly Baxter – Lance Brown – Lorenzo Symonds – Woodgate Simmons – Frankie Brewster – Johnny Nusum – Dennis Brown – Alan Philpott – Larry Simmons amongst others competed for 4 national team spots in the seventies / early eighties. They were all really good defenders and as a group, arguably the best this country has ever produced…

Overall, it was a reasonably good outing and I look forward to watching this team play in the Island Games.

Good game though, and some of the Bermudian team could be pretty useful if they added some body mass.

Arnold West – G Keeper

Woodgate Simmons/ Wolly Baxter – E Lambert – – Joe Trott – Frankie Brewster – Defenders

George Brangman – R Calderon – D Seymour – MF

Gumbo Bean – Bumla Bell – Mel Bean / Andre Amory – Forwards

I also feel that we need to get behind OUR teams and stop all the critisim they are representing us and deserve our respect and support.

Some of the Bermuda team
[1] Mama’s spoiled boys
[2] lack of rel dedication
[3] unruly ,dont listnen or respect the Coach
[4] worry more about ace boys than the commitment to the game
[5] worry about a puff
[6] just plain ouright desrespectful
[7] don’t understand desipline
[8] don’t know the Game because they think they know it all
[9] become frustrated Quick [ spoiled brats ]
[10] Selfish as hell

I should know because one of the Bermuda Players is my Nephew and another one is my second Cousin.
Were lucky the score was’nt 15 – 0

By most accounts our boys came out and did their best against a much stronger team. Our Bermuda national teams have played against much stronger teams from abroad for decades and it gives them an opportunity to compete at a much higher level which can only be good for their development. We have lost some of these matches by scores in the double figures or close to it, but so what! Surely they benefit from the experience, and maybe we might have one or two of our own players who go on to bigger and better things.

I would like to say congratulations to our boys for giving their all. I just wish that we had more supporters turning out for their matches – lack of support is the reason why we’ve lost out on having the Hogges bringing better quality opposition to or shores.

I personally don’t expect us to match up with everyone physically. Most of our players, if not all, only play football part time however the showing tonight was embarrassing.