Martin Odegaard completes move to Real

[Dunny]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30927958

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smi8jvNixL8

[Dunny]

Unuh tell me. I suppose you guys think the Norwegian FA had anything to do with his development!1

[Gamma]

was it his high school where he played extra curricular football or a professional set up?

[Assasin]

Dunny how old is he again???

If him day yard, Coach woulda tell him fi come back a school fi two more year so them can win DCup or Manning Cup.

How much 16 year old you see a get 10 minutes inna NPL? Alvas Powell wasn't even on Portmore bench, yet him coulda get minutes a Portland Timbers.

Mi brethren son a big balla fi Georges a few years back and they were Manning cup champ two years in a row. Him get scholarship go a UWI. He was 17 at the time with subject fi kill, but all now mi nuh see him a run out fi no NPL team. I can guess the only reason him not playing Manning Cup anymore is because a him parents.

[Dunny]

Dunny how old is he again???

If him day yard, Coach woulda tell him fi come back a school fi two more year so them can win DCup or Manning Cup.

How much 16 year old you see a get 10 minutes inna NPL? Alvas Powell wasn't even on Portmore bench, yet him coulda get minutes a Portland Timbers.

Mi brethren son a big balla fi Georges a few years back and they were Manning cup champ two years in a row. Him get scholarship go a UWI. He was 17 at the time with subject fi kill, but all now mi nuh see him a run out fi no NPL team. I can guess the only reason him not playing Manning Cup anymore is because a him parents.

I want you all to stop yapping on about JFF not developing players. Where in the World you see national association developing young players, the main job of the JFF is to look after the various national age group and senior teams. Ultimately football clubs, academic institutions and sport academies are the ones who develop young players. I have been hearing talent in abundance, how many players that are U17 and playing in RSPL. Why are Jamaican clubs not developing young players? Why should they be different from the rest of the World? The main problem in Jamaica is participation at grassroots level and the quality of coaching, also because there are not enough football role models who have achieved anything of note on the world stage parents are reluctant to push their kids into professional football. Jamaica's issues go deeper than just the JFF, the real love for the game is just not there.

[Dunny]

Dunny how old is he again???

If him day yard, Coach woulda tell him fi come back a school fi two more year so them can win DCup or Manning Cup.

How much 16 year old you see a get 10 minutes inna NPL? Alvas Powell wasn't even on Portmore bench, yet him coulda get minutes a Portland Timbers.

Mi brethren son a big balla fi Georges a few years back and they were Manning cup champ two years in a row. Him get scholarship go a UWI. He was 17 at the time with subject fi kill, but all now mi nuh see him a run out fi no NPL team. I can guess the only reason him not playing Manning Cup anymore is because a him parents.

Nothing wrong with playing Manning Cup Boss, the schoolboy season last about 3 months, players have another 9 months in the year to train and develop with their clubs. The Manning Cup can only enhance the young players development.

[Gamma]

Dunny i see you are COMPLETELY missing my point. we are at cross purposes. you are talking to persons who want to do away with manning cup ...i am saying manning cup by itself CANNOT prepare kids for this level and this was exposed really badly.

poor technique and poor tactics and execution. a one month camp just before the tourney is not going to cure that ... at all! cannot make up for what they have missed for 6 months of the year for the previous 5 years. it just cannot.

[Dunny]

Dunny i see you are COMPLETELY missing my point. we are at cross purposes. you are talking to persons who want to do away with manning cup ...i am saying manning cup by itself CANNOT prepare kids for this level and this was exposed really badly.

poor technique and poor tactics and execution. a one month camp just before the tourney is not going to cure that ... at all! cannot make up for what they have missed for 6 months of the year for the previous 5 years. it just cannot.

I totally understand and agree with the point you are making, however we need to try and find a solution to our failures. That is why I am asking what are these young players doing with their time outside of the schoolboy season?

[Assasin]

Dunny who is yapping about the JFF. If you read my post I said the JFF is limited. What is lacking is the overall will and plan for development. OK look at the UK, they are trying to get more young English players in their league. In the US each team has to sign draft picks and have an academy.

What we are saying is the soccer stakeholders have to do a better job and get the talented kids more involved. Look at the team that went to the last world cup, how many are playing at a decent level??

I don't know if you realize that Gamma and myself join you in saying the U20 coaching staff did a pretty bad job. We said they should have done better. What we believe is, like normal football playing country, the best young talent must be given a chance to play at higher level than the regular players their age. We believe more can be done to get these talent out before 20 rather than at 25.