Quote:Most people acknowledge that great Cappo as Lloyd was ....... and some may differ and say Cappo to a great WI team .............
He has been perceived post Cappo days as somewhat of a 'soup drinker'
understatement misses the size of the damage LLoyd inflicks by joining up the current negative flow, by not providing a proper alternative.
when Lloyd was about to retire..or just after he wrote a whole long article proposing what was then and likely still is a very progressive view for the future of west indies cricket. also Lloyd did not go to RSA/Rhodesia despite being offered great loot for those days..a million gold Kruggers, while espousing a progressive No! to the offer.
forgive me if I expected much more from Lloyd as cricket administrator. Lloyd was also Packer man which was a progressive place to be. now Lloyd is the absolute opposite of all that. LLoyd is so deep into bureaucracy the form of admin that is strangling global social life currently, far west indian society and the cricket I am stunned. if anyone at all had the gravitas, reputation etc to pull west indies cricket in a positive alternate direction it was Lloyd.
I am not talking socialist..nothing like that..just bringing the admin into line with a positive nationalism that really looked after the cricket first...that stayed true to their principle for being..the cricket. that is all that could be credibly expected from him with based on what he actually did as cricketer during his time. and I am sure I am not alone in this...that most west indians expected that that is the positive role Lloyd would have played post on field career.
he has done the opposite and that does notcsit well with me at all about the man. he is like a child now in a mans world...ridiculous. and it is choice as far as I see..not any personal degeneration of the man physically or emotionally. he has chosen to be a soup drinker of the worst sort. it is humiliating
LLoyd comes in as chairman of selectors and actually carries out Skameron's silly vendetta against Pollard and Bravo that surely cost some of the remaining cohesion around the west indian game. Lloyd appoints Holder as captain a player whose place was and is not even sure..clearly not qualified for the job, would have to grow into the job relative to any real ability he might have to lead the side.
by that Lloyd would have done better to re-appoint Sammy whose level we are certain of as well as his hard trying most times. but Sammy himself is in the team while Pollard and Bravo are dropped.
well there is no mystery to the damage all that caused and will continue to cause in he cricket. Lloyd should have stood up to that, refused to do it, stated a clear disgust with that sort of thing. but he agreed with it, stood by it, defended it and exposed that that is what he believed in, that that is the way our cricket can and must be administered...
well...understatement wont cut it...understating the real negative Lloyd has become in the mix of things. if Lloyd had become chairman he would have been as big a disaster as Skameron .. minus the egomania but as doddering and avuncular as hell
