Grange Hill High boots 'unruly players'

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Friday, November 10, 2006
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<P class=StoryText align=justify>FROME, Westmoreland - Grange Hill High School of Westmoreland on Wednesday suspended three members of their daCosta Cup football team from further participation in the school's sporting programmes.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The trio - defenders Marvin Jones, Khrishna Williams and midfielder George Brown - were among four players from the school who were red-carded in their Inter-Zone game against Ocho Rios High at Drax Hall on November 1, where the referee issued a rash of red cards as players exchanged blows in a hot-tempered affair.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The fourth player, Ryan Gayle, who was also sent off by referee Desmond Ranger, was not banned from the school's sports programme, and although he has served his one-match suspension for his red card, is yet to take the field for his school.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Five players, including Ocho Rios High's Rodane Higgins as well as Grange Hill's coach Linval 'Palla' Wilson, were all also sent off in the second half of the game that Ocho Rios went on to win 4-0.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Reports reaching the Jamaica Observer are that Ocho Rios was leading 1-0 when Higgings allegedly punched a Grange Hill player and was in turn attacked by two members of the Grange Hill team resulting in the sending off of all three.<P class=StoryText align=justify>And as the situation festered, two other Grange Hill players and their coach Wilson were sent off.
The decision by the western Westmoreland school to suspend the boys from the sports programme did not sit well with Wilson who said he took the decision to walk away from the programme.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Wilson, a former national central defender said: "I was not aware of any meeting and I would have wanted to be there to hear what was being said."<P class=StoryText align=justify>Former national midfielder Patrick 'Ninja' Graham, who is a member of the staff at Grange Hill, has taken over the team since and was the man in charge when the team lost 0-1 to Frome Technical on Wednesday.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Sportsmaster of Grange Hill Errol Stewart said the school had done their own investigations into the incident and was "forced to take the steps". He said the school would never stand for that kind of behavior by students representing them and was sending a message.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Stewart noted that their investigations revealed the three boys were in serious breach and one had also verbally abused the referee after he was sent off and swore at him. Another of the boys he said had left his position far away from the initial fracas to assault an Ocho Rios High player.

[Mosiah]

RE: Grange Hill High boots 'unruly players'

<DIV>Good! I think. But the school administrators should have spoken to the coach, and in fact, since he was sent off himself, take possible sanctions against him as well.</DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV>That would have been the best thing to do, but this might work just fine as well!</DIV>

[Karl]

RE: Grange Hill High boots 'unruly players'

Mosiah (11/10/2006)<DIV>Good! I think. But the school administrators should have spoken to the coach, and in fact, since he was sent off himself, take possible sanctions against him as well.</DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV>That would have been the best thing to do, but this might work just fine as well!</DIV>

Agree!

[TDowl]

RE: Grange Hill High boots 'unruly players'

"school administrators should have spoken to the coach" Are you getting soft or you are a Diplomat? If they did then it would be fitting to speak to the players first too, nuh suh? Now dem know they are not bigger than the game, Lazie nuh de right Leadership move dat?:

[Mosiah]

RE: Grange Hill High boots 'unruly players'

Speak to them too, of course. Then kick them!

[Sickko]

RE: Grange Hill High boots 'unruly players'

I think Grange Hill and Ocho Rios High should get the award for the biggest let down this past DCup season.



Grange Hill dominated a zone that included Petersfield, last year's semi-finalists Mannings and Godfrey Stewart High but faltered at the end, losing their last two games and just managed to qualify for the I-zone as the second placed team.



In the I-Zone they imploded against Ocho Rios, lost 4-0 and got four red cards, then beat Herbert Morrison without the four top players and gave Frome a good run for their money on Wednesday, also without the suspended players and after hearing earlier in the day that their coach was sacked.



Just think if they had won or drawn one of their last two games, won the zone and played in the Ben Francis KO and had not imploded against Ochie.



Then there is Ocho Rios now- beat G Hill 4-0, led Frome twice at Frome and came away with a 2-2 draw then all they had to do was beat last placed Herbert Morrison on their own home turf and they are in the quarterfinals for the first time in over a decade.



However they had to come from behind to earn a draw against Herbert Morrison and were dumped out.



It is funny as when they led Frome at Frome, the coach was shouting from the bench that no good football was being played in western jamaica and it was pure soft teams that Frome beat up on to get this far.



Maybe his emotions got the better of him as he might have forgotten that Frome beat Clarendon to win the Ben Francis while he beat one team 16-0 in his zone.



He might also be forgetting that no team from his zone has ever been to the semi-finals of either Ben Francis or DCup and their one trip to the quarters was the furthest any team from Zone D ever went.