Dear Sir,

Absolute rubbish, disgusting, shameful, this is how we should describe the performance that was put on by our so-called national cricket team against Guyana.

They all looked like a bunch of schoolboys who have never held a cricket bat, yet they will come back here when the season starts and hit the ball all over the place.

Could one say it was a case of stage fright? The answer is no. They lacked application, concentration and the will to win.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Bermuda has been coached to learn not to win.

If some do not believe that, then take a good look at their past performances. They do the same things over and over again, so the coach says we are all going to keep doing what we are doing until we get it right, instead of going another route and our cricket will always be that way.

How can you expect a bunch of old roosters to crow louder when the bell rings to pick up a piece of corn off the ground, or expect the same from a bunch of hens when they can't even lay an egg. I, for one, know that quite a lot of top class cricketers around the world are very surprised knowing the reputation we have and what they have seen here over the years.

We do have a lot of work to do when it comes to this game, and number one is to forget these old men - they can't be coached, their days are gone.

Bermuda now have to go forward and put every bit of energy in all the young players that want to play a part in the sport, and the schools are first and a must.

If we can't produce at least three good cricket teams in the next five years, then it is game time for cricket on this Island. I am not saying surrender but by the financial part maybe nil, because up until now only the Under-19 squad are paying back some fruit, because looking back at the other side of the coin has been a waste. So scrap that bad side of the coin along with the heads that are controlling the cheque book.

I will use the phrase: 'Let's get new blood at the head of the BCB. It is well overdue. To all the clubs, at the next AGM, let's put the hands of the clock on the 12 and the six, meaning let's go straight forward.

Last but not least, I have to go along with Mr. Aaron Adams in his letter to the Sports Mailbox, dated Friday, February 8, 2008, in which he stated that if preparations are poor, you get poor results.

Aaron, they realise nothing about nothing. I doubt if they ever did. If they keep on this track that they are on, they will not get nine bad results out of ten, they will get the whole ten. It is only lack of interest. One should have seen that when they were getting ready for the 20/20, one week's training or a little more. It's like saying if they do well we can take some of the credit, but if they lose and perform badly, let them, the players, take the bulk of the blame for their failure.

That is what is wrong at the top. Our preparations started from the inception of the coaching saga. During the first visit by the South African cricketer Daryll Cullinan to the island around six years ago, he wanted to come here and coach. He would have liked to take the young cricketers from 11 to 15 for a period of six years.

I am not going to quote his price, but I know for a fact it was lower than present but we did not want him. And the man was serious about the coaching role.

I personally felt, along with a few past and present cricketers, that he was the man for the job. By now Bermuda would be home, being a top class cricket team to contend with, along with young players right behind them coming in.

In this case, no-one would be able to slack off, if not their spot would be taken by players in line to come up like Rodney Trott, Jones, Fubler, the left hander, Maybury, the young man from Somerset. It only shows some people can only see their first finger. And guess who was in the chair at the BCB?

GEORGE BREMAR

PS - Dictatorship and personal feelings have to be drowned.