The recent appointment of well-known Trinidadian banker Bruce Aanensen as Chief Executive Officer of the West Indies Cricket Board has caused some raised eyebrows throughout the region.

In fact right here on CaribbeanCricket.com's Doghouse, it has been dubbed the "Trinidadisation" of the WICB -- clearly symbolic of the reaction in some quarters in the wider region to Aanensen's appointment.
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In defence of Trinisularity in the first part and then wishing for Insularity to go away in the second part.

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Nice article, but nothing that people didn't already know.

The writer is correct. There is too much insularity in the WICBandits composition.

Is because of them come from too many island/territory.

So we must move with despatch to greatly reduce insularity by replacing all those bumshites and muddies with Trinis. With everyone hailing from T&T, there will be very little insularity, if any at all.

And BTW, we must examine the horns to mek sure there are no Shamaicans or dotties in the boat either....dem go only cause insularity.

And when we finish with the Bandits themselves, we must fix the selection panel, which is riven with malignant insularity.

What else account for selection of Dwayne Shit, Devon Shit, Darren Powerless, Shamwell to the WC 2007 squad,and the omission of Darren Ganga?

I say insularity has to go!!!! And old leatherface Gordhorse must move quickly to stamp it out in the manner I suggest....

...complete Trinidaisation. Is the only way to go.

Oh gosh, 2 posts each for 3 of the big four. All's well then

In reply to crapaud

Not yet.

We (Trinis) have not yet completely rid WI cricket of insularity.

But we are making steady and good prgoress in the right direction....soon we accelerate the pace of change.

In reply to redbaron "I say insularity has to go!!!!

...complete Trinidaisation. Is the only way to go."


OXYMORON, MORON!!
:lol:

In reply to googley

Thanks for pointing out spelling error, cunumunu.

I've done the necessary editing to ensure 100% truth.

:evil:

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

I am oing an investigation to get to the bottom

of this.

In reply to Yadi

And when yuh get to bottom, stay there.

....is the right place for shi...well...yuh know...

:roll:

He who never leaves his country
Is full of prejudices.

Carlo Goldon - Italian playwright
1707 - 1793

In reply to Komando
Ah guess daz why he is known as an Italian playwright. :?

In reply to imusic

:lol:

But that far too subtle for dullard.

They never get it..ent?

:lol: :lol:

What is amazing about this whole insularity thing, is I doan feel dem vibes. I want the West Indies to win, regardless of who plays. I may joke around bout everbody, and I stress joke around, but ultimately we all compose the West Indies and I hope the best for the West Indies, hence the best for all of us. so i can really respond to a thread like this, because i have transcended that milleniums ago.

In reply to WICFan

After th survey, I will submit my findings.

In reply to redbaron

Instead of being part of the solution yuh are a major part of the stench.

Stupidity has never been more soundly endoresed.

In reply to Yadi

...nuh bodder to submit findings...when yuh go to bottom, is only shit yuh find anyway..

...jess flush findings...is all...

:roll:

In reply to buds

Fool, the only way to completely eliminate insularity is to completey Trinidadise WI cricket...

...oops...mek that "Trinidadise Trinidad cricket"....I have to practice what I preach...it can't be "WI" cricket any more...that is a leftover from the bad old days of insularity when Shamaicans, bumshites, muddies and dotties were frigging up the cricket.

We on the right track to remove ALL insularity....no Shamaicans in the mix....

In reply to redbaron

Yardies had dey chance-dey had 5 or 6 players on de team ,dey send overage players to ah youth tournament, dey use dey position to fatten dey pockets vis CWC 2007 and TV rights etc etc.

Bajans had dey chance-dey squander money, dey sell out to Digicel in what is obviousle a shady under de table deal, dey bring een ah PE teacher, and paying dem millions even tho little or no progress has been made. Dey pappyshow Chanderpaul, dey promote scab labour.

All dis time, Trini stay in de back and jes wacth. Now dey bring een ah Trini to clean up de mess, he hiring people that he TRUST, even so after ah Bajan accept de job knowqing de conditions, then try to change it after.

Seeing that TnT obviously has the best structure RIGHT NOW in de caribbean, why not give TnT officials a chance. I never no uproar like dis when Bajans and Shamaicans did dominating key WICB positions.

Meh other point is this. Dey must leave Dinas outta dey Trinidadisation talk. Dinas was elected by the players. And I am sure he will continue to be elected. He has nothing to do with the WICB. And honest people must admit that since Gordon took up the job, the relationship between the WIPA and the WICB has improved tremously.

Now all who doh like wha going on, could refer to this

So wait Tobago eh have no say in this?

Might be a better thing for all the administrators to be Trinidadians. Maybe that is a way for them to get along adn get the work done better than the crop a jokers we have now.

In reply to rikiniki

When dem did shitting up we circket, yuh never hear anything about "Shamaicanise" or "bumshiteise".

As soon as is our turn...after they fail repeatedly...is "Trinidadise".

I say right on...no problem. Trinidadise to the hilt...100%.

They had their chances...we let them take first shies...and they fugg up no end.

Now we are going to straighten things out and take Trinidadised cricket ever forward, ever upward.

I expect them to be unhappy...they not used to forward progress....they don't want we cricket to improve. But we moving on and up regardless, and they could like it or lump it, we nuh give a shit.

Who nuh like the ride, jump overboard....because if yuh mutiny, we hanging yuh from yardarm.

Ask Robber Liarwaithe if allyuh nuh sure...

:evil: :evil: :evil:

In reply to Tagwa1Can you tell us how he defended "Trinsularity"?

To the contrary, he made the case why this appointment cannot be seen as insular, given the fact that the President was not involved in the process and the obvious qualification of the appointee. Further he showed by an analysis of the origins of the present Board leadership, how the idea of "Trinidadization" is absurd. It is amazing how we can read the same text and get opposite meanings.

footnote: this article/study/research was commissioned by the one and only LARR
:lol:

In reply to Cameron

No need to get defensive...Trinidadisation is fine....nothing to defend.

We very proud of it and intend to take it to the max. We regret we did not do it long ago, for if we did, our cricket would not have sunk to the low point that it did before the turnaround we started.

I personally commit myself to the total Trinidadisation of our cricket, to the point where I propose that it be renamed "Trinidadised Cricket" instead.

Full speed ahead, then, regardless of squeaking noises of protest that can and should be ignored.

In reply to Patrickcity

PC...you still have all dem Kung Fu movies yuh de borrow when yuh wuh boycotting.....dat was not milleniums ago.....hahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaa

In reply to redbaron ... well frankly you cudn't a do it before 2006, you all had nuthin to show to suggest that you cud turn this around before 2006. Memba first win in how many years.

Since some of you individuals worry about "the trinidadization" of west indies cricket. Then you should encourage those individual who you believe can do better job to apply and step up to the plate instead of sitting down and bickering. The other territorial boards could take a page out of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board along with Barbados and West Indies Cricket would be better as a result.

In reply to Narper

Narps I got over 200 Kung fu movies boy. I still watch them. I am truly a West Indian, I ain got no time to worry bout who from ehre and who from there. I too smart fuh dem foolishness.

In reply to Patrickcity

Look, Narps jes trying to highlight de fact that yuh didnt support de bhai. :lol:

In reply to redbaron

I laughing but I think that yu fugging serious.

One likkle wif of a Dung heap win and Trini Tek Ova.

Since yu all tek ova, spend the oil money or rather get Manning to spend it.

In reply to iceberghas

They already did, and all they did was to gobble up everything on the plate, lick the plate clean, leave nothing for those who put food on the plate and then break the plate....dem fugging shamaicans and bumshites teefs.

Never again!!!!! Never again must they be allowed to severely damage our cricket like that.

The Trinidadisation of our cricket must be total and permanent to ensure that those worthless teefs never get their greedy grubby hands on it again to bleed it like they did in the past.

:evil: :evil:

In reply to Tagwa1

Yuh does think???? :shock: :?

Well well...I always knew you does stink.....but think... :? :?

...mih still not sure bout dat....

:lol:

Change WINDIES to TRINDIES.

In reply to Kurt

Very good suggestion for name change...

...let's discuss it with the top people, in pecking order...

...DiBoss...then Dinas...then old leatherface Gordhorse...then the next WI captain Darren Ganga.

There, that covers all...once they agree, is so. We nuh need to talk to non-entities...dem just accept whatever we decide.

...da is how Trinidaisation work.

:lol:

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

The O' Yadi Factor report .... you decide.

i aint bodda tuh read da article but I would say I all fuh insularity.....I am Bajan dat is part of dis ting dat people call da west indies....I only care bout BIM

Is this the same guy allyuh were cussing last year on his bit about....

Lawd wey the archives?Why the 180 now?Damn!

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

Hmmm. Well let's see what has happened - the players seemed to better treated and they have contracts. Barring the selection of the team, the organization appears to be more accountable and transparent. If that what Trinidadianization is doing, I am all for it.

For too long, these guys could not give a crap about the future of the game and were corrupt as hell. And it showed on the field.

Trinidad is the only place where the game is moving forward in Caribbean. There is an active league and the youth program is starting to produce results.

The Caribbean can only benefit from that experience and know-how, and we need to get over this arbitrary sense of regionalism.

In reply to OVAL291

My sentiments exactly...except, of course, I only care about T&T.

Insularity is NOT a problem....or, to be more accurate, OUR (T&T) insularity is not a problem...is a good thing for WI cricket.

It's the insularity of OTHERS that causing the problems. That's why we Trinis must Trinidadise WI cricket so that there will exist only OUR insularity, which, of course, is not a problem.

I'm sure that the Shamaicans and Bumshites will agree.

When their insularity ruled, WI cricket suffered terribly, but they never complained about their insularity then. For them, insularity was a good thing, so I know that they will support our dominant insularity now.

Now let's all get behind the Trinidadisation of WI cricket and stop wasting time discussing it.

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com
A long and tedious article made worse by the nonsense re the selection of Dwayne Smith. How does a selection panel of 1 bajan, 1 trini, 1 antiguan, 1 guyanese and 1 aussie demonstrate insularity in the selection of a bajan player - particularly when the only official comments re selection indicate it was the bajan who was sketical?

If you have a problem with the selectors, ok, but these unjustified and nonsense alegations only demonsttrate that Daniel Singh is just another jackass with an opinion.

In reply to natty_forever

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I think the Trinis have won the league only once in 20 years( statistically a historical minnow) and it amybe another 20 years before they win again.

They are traditional beating sticks for Bim and I suspect Ja too, but they must have made some progress or the others declined why they have some measure of success in winning some knockout titles.

I am not sure if Trinidadisation of WI cricket is the way to go but to keep the peace for now, maybe its not the worst thing. They caused so much trouble and its no surprise WI cricket fell to its lowest when they are in charge.

Everything go in cycles so in the next 3 years WI should be rid of some key Trini personnel so our cricket will move forward.

ne of Jamaiac`s biggest legacy is CWC 2007 and this should help rebuild WI cricket. WI should benefit from this Ja legacy for decades to come.

I don't believe the issue is the appointment of Aanensen and the fact that he's Trinidadian. IMO, it's part of a larger pattern that *should* be questioned, discussed and fleshed out in the open. This notion that we should somehow trust the WICB to be fair/above-board doesn't really make much sense to me.

It's this sitting back and not questioning everything that landed us in this budup in the first place so I think Singh needs to be careful about placing blind trust in an organisation that hasn't earned it.

I'll have more to say in my response to his column on the front page this weekend.

_ryan

In reply to Admin

The man was quite specific in saying that questioning Aanensen's appointment purely on the basis of him being Trinidadianis unfair to the parties concerned.

It's fact that some people are questioning and/or finding fault with the appointment on that basis.

It's also fact that the Anensen was the #2 choice in the original selection process, and, that being so, is a natural choice once the first choice decided to back out at the last minute, so there is nothing "Trinidaised" about his appointment.

When he was passed over, was there any protest about "Bajanise" surrounding the original appointee?

I saw nothing in Daniel's admonition that can be interpreted as telling people to trust the WICBandits or not discuss the appointment on any other grounds.

His admonition was about "purely on the basis of him being Trinidadian", and that cannot be faulted.

To label that admonition as a call for "blind trust" is to either fail to comprehend what the man said, or trying to mislead peeps here about what the man said.

As far as the entire piece concern, my view is that is an exercise in futility.

Insularity was, is and ever will be an integral and necessary part of WI cricket. WI cricket exists with it, because of it, in spite of it and for it. We can discuss it from now till doomsday, it make no difference.

Insularity alive and well, as demonstrated by the reaction of non-Trinis to the "Trinidadisation", as they so insularly (if I invent word, is because it necessary) put it, of WI cricket.

Bear in mind that those same people had no problem of insularity when Jamiaca and then Barbados dominated the corridors of power and influence in WI cricket during the many years that were the decline period of WI cricket - on and off the field.

I am all for insularity...if that's what it is. Let's try our insularity for a while...we tried theirs and look where it got us. And let's not worry or bitch about insularity...our cricket needs it and thrives on it.

And in any case, we are NEVER insular....it's always other people who are.

Reminds one of racism, doesn't it? And not by accident, either.

Three cheers for insularity...the best part of WI cricket.

In reply to redbaron ... FCUK INSULARITY ... however, three Cheers to Trinidadisation!!!

In reply to natty_forever

...insularity...Trinidadisation...is all de same to me.

Bring it on....as long as is we insularity, mih nuh mind...

...i cyah stand other people insularity...dem so facting...

...insular.

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In reply to redbaron ... is wha' you vex with me fah. :D

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed ogre is king!! I don't see what the fuss is all about if the WICB is made up of all Trindiandadians. This is the same tiny island (Trindiandad) that readily supports touring Indian teams over the WINDIES that they are now professing to adore. Does anyone truly think that by merely replacing one incompetent buffoon with an equally ill-equipped Trindiandadian will suddenly make a weak WINDIES team strong?? The fact of the matter is that the standard of cricket in the Caribbean is at an all time low, so allow the Trindiandadians to preside over mediocrity. Afterall, they are the masters of the art!

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

Get rid of insularity =

The long winded article is not needed.....Old News.