FOLLOWING Guyana’s most recent defeat which caused them to crash out of the NACRA Caribbean Senior Men’s 15s Championship on Saturday in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana head coach Theodore Henry told Chronicle Sport that a number of factors contributed to their demise with arrogance at the top of the list.

Having defeated Trinidad consecutively in the past two years, Henry said, “I thought the guys were too overconfident while Trinidad, on the other hand, played a good game and did exactly what needed to be done.”
He stated that Guyana’s fitness was good but the game could have gone a different way if the players were not overconfident.
“A few times I even had to stop the warm-up because I saw it. I spoke to them trying to get their minds in the right place but at the end of the day it’s the team who go out on the pitch and execute the game plan,” he said.
“We decided that we would play a loose ball game since that was our strength. However, that did not work in our favour so we had to make a switch.”
The head coach told Chronicle Sport that there are a few external factors that contributed to Guyana’s outcome. The first was the field; according to him, it was not suitable for hosting an international match and secondly, the officiating was quite poor.
The head referee was a Mexican while the assistant referees were Trinidadian and Barbadian. Henry, however, did not want to elaborate on the refereeing aspect of the showdown which ended 20-0.
He disclosed that it was in the second half when the third try was scored that Guyana’s chances of a victory looked daunting and it was hard to recover from that point.
When asked, ‘Where do Guyana go from here’, he said they will begin focusing on regaining their sevens title which was lost in Canada even though the sevens tournament is in November.