as coach of the relegated club.

"Who knows, the club might want to get rid of me or I might want to pack it in,'' said Adams this week, without disclosing much about his future in the game at the senior level.

Adams also coaches BAA's minor division team and has made it clear he wants to continue helping with the youngsters.

"If I had to make a decision at this time I don't want anything to do with senior football, but that's because it's been a frustrating year,'' said Adams.

"So rather than make an irrational decision I'll give it some time and in a few weeks if I still feel the same I'll inform the club for them to look elsewhere. It's a thankless job.'' The former player has spent nine years in that capacity, five with Port Royal and the last four with BAA.

But the job is no longer as enjoyable as it used to be, and that is not just because he failed to keep the club from sliding back into the Second Division.

"The commitment and dedication of the players is not there, not just at BAA but most clubs in general,'' he said.

"The players turn up for training when they feel like it and disappear when they feel like it. It's been a very difficult and frustrating season.

"It's very easy when things go wrong that players want to blame the coaches rather than look at themselves first. It's too easy to blame the coaches, but I think all the coaches in Bermuda are coaching for the love of the game and all you're doing is getting a whole lot of flak.'' Adams said the players have to shoulder the blame for what has gone wrong in the game.

"The players don't take care of themselves physically like they should,'' he said. "There are too many players out there drinking, there are too many players in Bermuda who are smoking and everyone knows it.

"There are a bunch of players at every club in Bermuda and people are blind if they are not admitting it. That affects the game and coaches have to deal with all these problems and it's very frustrating.'' BAA began the season with great expectations after picking up two of the Island's best young players in Meshach Wade and Dwayne (Streaker) Adams among their many signings.

Both missed important matches for the club because of their involvement with the Under-23 team and Wade missed the second half of the season because of his arrest in Miami on the Bermuda team's return from Jamaica and subsequent two-year suspension imposed by the BFA.

Despite the disappointments, Adams said there were some bright spots in BAA's season, even though few of the club's signings lived up to expectations.

He singled out Adams, Tito Smith and Vincent Chaves for special mention, "but not many more than that'', he said with regret.

"Streaker's involvement with the Pan-Am team meant he missed a few games, but then it didn't hurt us that bad because I thought Paul Hayward did great when he replaced him.

"Our biggest miss was Meshach, he missed three-quarters of the season. The guy is the best player in Bermuda and he kept the team together when he was here. He was the one who BAA was supposed to be built around.'' Adams looked back on the season and pointed to a few games where vital points were lost late in games.

"BAA were leading North Village 2-1 with six minutes to go and we lost the game,'' said Adams of one match.

"BAA were beating Devonshire Cougars in the second game 1-0 with 30 seconds to go and they equalised. We were drawing 1-1 with Boulevard in the first game and with two minutes to go we gave up a goal.

"BAA were leading 1-0 against Dandy Town in the first game with two minutes to go and we gave up a goal. So I can look at four games where the players failed to hold on for two minutes and gave up four points, at least.'' There was an incident involving substitute 'keeper Hayward on Sunday against new champions Boulevard that made Adams particularly concerned about the state of the game.

"After Boulevard scored their fourth goal fans from behind the goal ran onto the field and pushed Paul Hayward down and poured beer on his face,'' said Adams of the vital match at St. David's.

"I'm disgusted that it wasn't reported. It's things like that that are creeping into the game that are pushing people who are really concerned about the game away. I don't don't know if I want to be involved in that.'' Added Adams: "I can also understand if any coach gets out because I know what they go through.

"I don't think the average fan out there realises how much time it takes someone to commit to coaching,'' said Adams.

"When the team wins it's good players but when the team loses it's the coach's fault.

"The game is not enjoyable like it used to be. I think the game of football has changed, the players have changed and players today are not as committed and dedicated.'' JOHNNY ADAMS -- "The game is not enjoyable like it used to be. I think the game of football has changed, the players have changed and players today are not as committed and dedicated.''