Beaten Joe Public return from Grenada tour

Joe Public could not come away with desired impressive results but technical director Ron La Forest was still pleased with his team’s effort on their weekend tour of Grenada.

The Eastern Lions went down 2-0 to Grenada’s Under-23 team last Friday and then lost 2-1 to St Andrew’s Parish on Sunday. Joe Public fell  to goals by Chris Charles in the ninth minute and Kerry Bristow in the 41st in Friday’s encountner. Despite the loss, coach Ron La Forest wasn’t worried as he described the affair as just the right sort of warm-up for his club ahead of the 2003 Professional League season.

St Anthony’s College captain and National Under-23 defender Julius James, Under-23 midfielder Densil Theobald and former national Under-17 midfielder Ochieng Abosi, who skippered Joe Public in the match, were among those in the starting team. “It’s a young team in training and although they were lacking in penetration, it was a nice team effort,” said La Forest. “The build-up was slow and we allowed them (Grenada) too much time with the ball. The second half was more fast paced and better played. The team was a little too laid back and for Sunday’s match when we hoped to have that urgency and penetrative passes that we had in the second half of Friday’s match,” he added. Alvin Beharry was Public’s lone scorer in their defeat to the Parish champions.