Use our West Indian talent

THE EDITOR: Please publish the following which I consider to be of great interest to the West Indies as a whole.

In your daily news of March 11 on page 57, there was this article that stated ‘Woolmer wants advisory job’. To me that is the biggest joke of this “World Cup” year, apart from us not qualifying for the top six. Why the hell do we need a foreign advisory or coach, to end up at the bottom of the table in the next four years? At age eighty (80), I might be forgetful, which I doubt, but in the days of Headly, Roach, Stollmeyer, Gomez, Weekes, Worrel, Walcott, Lloyd, Richards, Haynes, Greenidge, Hall and Griffith, just to name a few, did we have any coach or advisor? If I am wrong, please call me at my telephone number and give me a piece of your mind. If the WICB collected too many yankee dollars from the present tour and need to throw it away, why not choose from the above mentioned names? I almost forgot to mention Phil Simmons in my anger. All our players possess a “God-given” gift which no one can teach us.

E THOMAS
Barataria
674-9717