Academy update

[Mosiah]

Okay. What are you getting at?

[Karl]

Okay. What are you getting at?

Seeking info...for self!
I have some thoughts and the answer may or may not fit!

[Karl]

btw - Siccko: You're not advancing my cause... move the academy!
...but, Good 'story'!

Punchy lines/points!
Makes for piquing interest!
Loaded with facts!
Demands opinion making or at the very least some musings!
Good!

[Mosiah]

Move it where, Karl? GC Foster has lost Dr. Dawes. Do we move it to UTech and add to the vision of making it our sports university?

[Karl]

Move it where, Karl? GC Foster has lost Dr. Dawes. Do we move it to UTech and add to the vision of making it our sports university?

Question - Siccko says the present location has an additional 22 acres! -(btw - Among other things is it on the side of a mountain? ...needing extensive 'hollowing out' and creation of support water supply system? ...restraining walls to catch balls from disappearing? ...etc?) -

How many acres Utech has for expansion and input of fields, etc?

How many acres is GC Foster sited on and how many acres would be available for expansion and input of fields, etc?

Cost to operate along with Utech...you know when cost sharing is taken into consideation? Cost to operate along with GC Foster...when cost sharing is taken into consideration?

How would sharing of lecturers, ancillory staff, gyms, cafeterias, boarding facilities, rest-rooms, classrooms, librariers, lecture-theatre/audio-visual rooms (review of tapes - games, individual player within game, review of technical ability of players and planning corrective and or enhancing exercises and actual mechanics, etc.), health facilities to work along with trainer and physio, etc. ...fit at either place? ...again, impact on operating costs?

Would JFF administrative offices be moved to the Academy? If so, would that mean an additional floor at the present headquarters be rented/leased to offset costs...some costs? ...would it make for better operations if such siting of administrative offices were at present location or UTech or GC Foster?

[Mosiah]

Question - Siccko says the present location has an additional 22 acres! -(btw - Among other things is it on the side of a mountain? ...needing extensive 'hollowing out' and creation of support water supply system? ...restraining walls to catch balls from disappearing? ...etc?) -

That is a goddam LIE, Karl, and you know it! Side of which mountain? GODDAM LIE! Which field at Munro requires a restraining wall to catch balls from disappearing? At least at Munro there is a chance of retrieving your ball. Try that at GC Foster!

How many acres Utech has for expansion and input of fields, etc?

How many acres is GC Foster sited on and how many acres would be available for expansion and input of fields, etc?

You tell us! Go and find out how much is available for expansion at these two colleges. I can't wait to hear it!

Cost to operate along with Utech...you know when cost sharing is taken into consideation? Cost to operate along with GC Foster...when cost sharing is taken into consideration?

How would sharing of lecturers, ancillory staff, gyms, cafeterias, boarding facilities, rest-rooms, classrooms, librariers, lecture-theatre/audio-visual rooms (review of tapes - games, individual player within game, review of technical ability of players and planning corrective and or enhancing exercises and actual mechanics, etc.), health facilities to work along with trainer and physio, etc. ...fit at either place? ...again, impact on operating costs?

I see nothing but problems if you start to share everything with these institutions.

Would JFF administrative offices be moved to the Academy? If so, would that mean an additional floor at the present headquarters be rented/leased to offset costs...some costs? ...would it make for better operations if such siting of administrative offices were at present location or UTech or GC Foster?

The JFF offices need not go anywhere. Who came up with that dumb idea!?!?

[Karl]

Academy in limbo
JFF executives give differing views after tour

PAUL A REID, Observer Writer
reidp@jamaicaobserver.com

Wednesday, December 12, 2007


Carvel Stewart, Chairman of the committee overseeing the construction of the JFF academy in Malvern (centre) makes a point during a tour by members of the JFF's executive yesterday. Also in picture (from left) are 2nd vice-president Bruce Gaynor, youth coach Patrick 'Jackie' Walters, former JFF boss Lincoln Sutherland, JFF first vice-president Dale Spencer, technical committee head, Howard McIntosh, and contractor Lovel Smith. (Photo: Paul Reid)

MALVERN, St Elizabeth - There were varying opinions among senior members of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) following yesterday's tour of the academy and training centre located in Malvern.

While some members of the tour party gave tacit approval to the FIFA-funded project being completed at the present site, there were strident opposing voices.

JFF's first vice-president, Dale Spencer, said the tour gave them "more information with which we can make a more educated contribution to the discussion when it comes up".

The most strident opposition came from former JFF president Lincoln 'Happy' Sutherland, who expressed "strong reservations", saying the facility was more fitting for a "boot camp" than an academy.

He cited the distance of the facility from the two major cities in the island: "four hours from Kinston and two-and-a-half hours from Montego Bay".

Chairman of the JFF's Technical Committee, Howard McIntosh, said he was "quite concerned (as) there are good points and bad points, but there are some fundamental things that need to be addressed".

The JFF will meet on December 22, at which time the academy will be discussed. Those present on yesterday's tour will be asked to give their views and a decision taken on whether or not to relocate the academy.

All three JFF vice-presidents Spencer, Bruce Gaynor and Raymond Anderson were present yesterday, as were treasurer Gary Sinclair; Academy Chairman Carvel Stewart; contractor Lovel Smith and St Elizabeth and St James FA's bosses Courtney Brown and Orville Powell.

The inspection came in the wake of announcements by the JFF that the site of the academy was still in question.

http://www.reggaeboyzsc.com/articles...231&category=1

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The Academy - some thoughts and questions

http://www.reggaeboyzsc.com/editoria...val=the&id=102

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GC Foster College and the Football Academy

http://www.reggaeboyzsc.com/views.aspx?val=the&id=191


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Munro College vs. GC Foster College

http://www.reggaeboyzsc.com/views.aspx?val=the&id=190

[Sickko]

You are a despicable excuse for a human being...at your age you should be setting an example for people my age to look up to but you continue to prostitute yourself for any and every one...