Disband West Indies Cricket

In reply to hubert

You just said a lot of nothing

In reply to natty_forever

que sera, sera

In reply to KTom

there is no recognized country i.e. nation named Great Britain. Great Britain is an island shared by three countries (England, Wales and Scotland), just as Hispaniola is an island shared by two countries, (Haiti and Dominican Republic). There is a country called the United Kingdom, which comprises the three countries of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

the Olympic movement is flexible indeed, does the England football team compete at the Olympics given Great Britain competes as a group??? interesting
either way if we wanted to compete as the West Indies we could given the precedence have been set.

In reply to hawk



No, which is why Jamaica, Barbados, etc. can't compete at the Olympics if they were also to compete as the West Indies.

The logic of the matter seems to escape you. I wonder why.

In reply to sudden

Hey Suds 'pint af awda' when The Yard is written as JA di A mus' bi Capital yuh hear!

In reply to hawk

For one sport. GB does them all.

In reply to KTom



I was asking myself a similar question regarding you, I just checked at the Olympics there is no England football team but there is GB, while at the world cup there is no GB team but there is England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland

the flexibility is in allowing a GB team without a GB nation hence a West Indies team without a West Indies nation
anyway this never happen as a region we highlight our differences more than our similarities so this is pointless

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In reply to hawk

GB participates in all disciplines in the Olympics.

In reply to natty_forever

Yes but only at the Olympics, can we assume that there will be GB cricket team then?

In reply to conman

Should I take that as a compliment. Sure, coming from a ....old.
Go seek attention with and from others...I said I done, with you.
Incapable of taking a hint ?

In reply to hawk

Do not like to assume (ass of u and me). But in this case, yes.

In reply to Elsie

No problem ,Elsie. We are all novices sometimes.

Question, will West Indies be allowed in the Olympics? It's not what we want, it's what IOC wants?

In reply to FanAttick


Combine the above big four and move forward. Dot mentality is killing us.

In reply to natty_forever


not unless we have a unified west indies Olympic team, which could be allowed given the GB scenario, this has always been my desire, West Indian representation in all sports, but it is clearly not something the region seem to care for at this stage, hence no place for any type of West Indies cricket team at the Olympics, I can see the football type model being used, which is worldwide qualifying tournament based on regions with 3 to 4 teams from each region Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania etc. competing for spots and should be limited to U23 players

In reply to hawkSeems you get it now.

In reply to natty_forever

if you think I now got it, then you missed it completely, that is disappointing

SOS : Same Old shi_. 1962, referendum, let us break up the Federation. Ok, 0ne from ten equals zero. federation is dead, and 63 years later all those countries are in the same hole. no wonder, Trump refers to us as shit hole countries. Quick to exploit the divisive lines the colonial countries wedged between us, while, they themselves, having drained our sugar to the bones to develop themselves, now have their own unity to exploit the benefits of a common front. Meanwhile, dot calling dot a dot, because dot believe in his misguided head that he, with his 2.5million is on par with Thailand's 72 millions. It is like "pot telling burn pan his backside black." Dot doe not realize that he is a dot too.

So when West indies was up there, everybody wanted to associate with her. Now, she is going through her struggles, and all man and jack wants to go it alone, going back to all kinds of olfactory history about Jamaica women in the 1970's, and using track and field success as their "one from ten equals zero" excuse to leave the West Indies. When West Indies was up there, the crowds used to flood the grounds to notice them. If you noticed Champs in Jamaica this year, and even Carifta, the crowds have drastically reduced. When West Indies was at the top, we thought we were invincible. So too, the crowds overflowed the gates to view Champs. Maybe, we should start to ask, why are the crowds so vastly diminished? We did not pay attention to that when it started happening to Cricket, don't let it happen to Track and field, because if the crowd is not showing up, something is going wrong.

Truth be told, mano mano, per capita, the rest of the islands are par with Jamaica. By the share weight of its population, it would always have more athletes than the smaller dots. The Bahamas is doing extremely well with a population of just around 400,000. Grenada with a population of 110, 000 are not underproducing in comparison to Jamaica. St. Lucia, on a high after Julien Alfred, and Barbados. Trinidad, on the rebound based on the evidence of Carifta. So, Jamaica, whether on its own or otherwise would always seem to be superior than the others. But, when compared per capital, just as in GDP, after moving away from the Federation, may not be ahead of the rest in anything.

But d ‘England’ cricket team is already a combination of players from the England and Wales cricket board… Scotland on their own

In reply to Halliwell


Padner, you wrong: The England team is "a combination of players from WI, Pakistan, Ireland & South Africa." Like you forget how they poached out Ireland or wat

Some just do not get it.