Digicel today announced it is paying to support an experienced sports psychologist joining the West Indies cricket team for the current England tour.

David Scott, who has worked with the team for brief intervals since the Pakistan tour in 2005, will now join the Windies on a full-time basis beginning his service tomorrow, Thursday, May 17th. Full Story

Too bad this gesture was too late to help Lara. But yu never know, keeping his options open.

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

Ask Digicel what happened to the money for the youth cricket. This PR won't work with me.

In reply to Chrissy senility.........u are losing it....get a check up......This is obviously something good for our cricket, but all u care about is special interests.........is sad that yuh semester done......u just chatting crap......

Why is Digicel making personnel decisions for West Indies Cricket? Shouldn't the WICB be hiring and firing personnel. This socalled team sponsor has way too much clout for my liking.

Wesley

In reply to hewesleyb

Shhh - ignoramuses like Jala are on di board. :lol:

Digicell can give money but why should they sponsor a personnell?? Soon they might even sponsor couple of selectors...

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

Digicel is indeed the best thing that happened in West Indies cricket in a long time!!

Someone please remind me how this goes...

"Digicell is the best thing to happen to West Indies in a long time"



Please put that statement in the same place along with this next one..

" Chris Gayle is the best spinner in the West Indies"

Cynics, Critics, Pessimists, negative thinkers.


So many on this board like to look at the glass as being half full.

In reply to hewesleyb
I didn't see anywhere in the article that Digicel MADE the decision to hire, far less picked out who to hire for this position. It says they sponsored the psychologist which I take to mean, they have decided to pay the wages of whomever the WICB determined was appropriate for the position.

Even if Digicel told the WICB....hey....we know a good sports psychologist and we're recommending X person and doh worry...we'll take care of all expenses concerning this person, it's still up to the WICB to accept or decline that offer.

Perhaps WICB in it's wisdom could have said....thank you Digicel but what we REALLY need right now is say...a strength & conditioning coach..more so than a psychologist and would you be willing to sponsor that individual in a like manner, it would be different.

In reply to hewesleyb and Chrissy

You have both gone off the deep edge. There is not implication in the article that Digicel made the personnel decision. The only things that we can reasonably infer are that WICB didn't prioritize the need for a team psychologist, or that the funding wasn't there and Digicel stepped up.

Acknowledging a positive step or even being quiet when they do something positive really burn y'all so.

C&W and Digicel same difference. Y'all develop these allegiences as if any of them putting any food on your table.

In reply to WMD

How is Trescothick doing?

In reply to hewesleyb Do u think the the Borad could have made the request/appointment and Digcel simply paid the bill?

In reply to hewesleyb

The article says funding, not hiring

On a lighter note, I can see one of those sessions now!

" You are getting sleepy"............"Digicel is the best thing to happen to Windies cricket"

dem need to hire ah brain surgeon

men stupid 2 bad

In reply to Chrissy

I guess Chrissy is concerned that the Digicel sponsored psychologist will hypnotize the players with C&W PE's into denouncing C&W and WIPA.

Look Digicel, C&W any team sponsor pay to have their company logo on the team uniform. If WICB got a fair price for that then Digicel should have no say in team composition. I am not against a psychologist its just not healthy to have the socalled team sponsor financing individual positions. What next the decide the composition of the team/support staff?

Wesley

Great move by Digicel. Truly the best thing to happen to WI cricket in a long, long time :D

The WI has already hired a strentgh and conditioning coach.
As for the cricket development money, how do you think the many recent A team tours were funded.

GWAN DIGICEL!! :lol:

I dont care who is doing the "sponsoring" of this psychologist.All I know is,this is just what this team needs.I seems to remember Jamaica winning the double,with the help of a rookie psychologist;with all their "stars" missing for most of the season.

In reply to Larr Pullo

It's the least Digicel could do after ripping off the WICB.

_r

In reply to hewesleyb

I guess if they sleep with the dogs, vermin they will catch.

In reply to Admin

There are two separate issues here. The hiring of a psychologist is a very positive move. I have advocated for that on this MB for a long time. The separate issue is what Digicell finances. Although I think it is a good thing for immediate results to have a psychologist, I think it is also important that the Board take a lon-term view and adequately fund and organize the lower levels. We need discipline and commitment to be developed at age 15 rather than age 25. Can both be financed at the same time? I hope so.

In reply to Cameron Thank you Cameron.
I am by no means a fan of Digicell but that is indeed another thread.Your comments IMO are in line with my own in this instance.

In reply to primedog Are you really surprised at the 2 suspects going off the deep end? Did you see the thread yesterday by POINt wrt Finlay being chairman of the Tour committee?

These are teh same people claiming that they are the only ones posting accurate info and stats.

:lol: :lol:

In reply to hewesleyb

where in that article did you read that Digicel are making personnel decisions?


just read the rest of the thread and I see you've been put in your place already, nevermind answering me then.

You mean the players are so broken-up by Brian’s leaving that they now need fulltime psychiatric care to try and put them together? :lol:

In reply to Trex ... well David Moore clared that up on KLAs Sports Radio the other day. He said it did not come out the way he had intended. He meant the best option on tour.

In reply to natty_forever

He's lying then. The clip I heard, he said that Gayle when on form is the best spinner in the region.

He went on further to state that there may be young spinners in the region that they could look at but he didn't think that this Tour was the best place to blood young players.

According to him they should be blooded through the A team matches!! I can see why he went on KLAS to clear it up though...cos RJR have the clip of the interview

In reply to jamgirl ... I know what he said the first time ... but said the second time (during an interview with Fos) that it did not come out as he intended. Only telling wha' a hear. A waan believe him, cause that first statement mus' and bound fi did wrong.

bennet King was a fraud, he boy moore is a fraud, dis "cykoligist" is a fraud, seems this is what we like ..a bunch of cheap(make that expensive) tricksters and frauds, who will tell us what we supposedly want to hear. What we need is Roger Harper to return to the helm with the powers that were given to BK and the backing of the board to enforce discipline...

Whatever the circumstances, it is good that the WI finally have a sports psychologist on board....

di board and di selectors need a psychologist
di board lining dey pockets and di free loaders on di selection panel most of whom are other wise unemployable are still using gut feelings and body language to select we team

Well for years I have advocated that the WICB EMPLOY THE SERVICES
OF A SPORTS PSYCHOLOGISTS FOR THE TEAM .

My hope is that this is a permanent move , and not a once in a while move by the WICB .

In reply to carl0002


I guess now that the team, and those responsible for our present dispicable performance; espeacially the selectors; and all the other saboteurs; can be officially and undisputably considered a bunch of pathetic losers; and that we now have sunk to new level of almost unparalleled mediocrity; we can deduce that Lara had to be crazy to succeed in spite of such circumstances!!! He was definately not 'normal'.
I guess that mediocrity, like misery, needs comfort.