It’s the same old story: No cohesiveness, wrong selection of players and lack of leadership were just some of the terms used to describe Jamaica’s latest World Cup qualification debacle as the Boyz crashed 0-2 to Honduras on Tuesday night in Tegucigalpa.

Dr Dean Weatherly, a former national youth coach and current man in charge of Montego Bay United and Harbour View assistant coach Harold Thomas, did the post mortem of the Theodore Whitmore-led Reggae Boyz.

“There was no real cohesiveness between the players. I don’t know what the coaching staff had asked them to do. If it was a win, win situation, I thought they would have a more mature approach,” said Weatherly.

“Sometimes what a coach tells you to do, you as the professionals are on the field and football is a dynamic system, it’s not necessarily pen and pencil or blackboard Xs and Os that will pull through. You the player sometimes will have to take the bull by the horn, and deal with the situation. Apart from Donovan (Ricketts), I didn’t see anybody in the outfield taking command of the situation, saying ‘let’s deal with it’,” he added.

“Theodore was that type of player. So I don’t know if he never saw himself in anybody of all the players that he looked at. You are out there feeling it, and coaches understand that sometimes. Sometimes you are coaching and you can’t see what is wrong. I didn’t see any leader on the field. Nobody out there showed leadership,” Weatherly emphasised.

Meanwhile, Thomas said it was painful to watch the game and said probably the pressure got to the players.

“Over the years we have depended a lot on our wingbacks coming forward and the fact that we have two inexperienced wingbacks, especially Alvas Powell who is very young, very talented but young and inexperienced (and that) affected us last night (Tuesday),” he pointed out.

The man who helped guide Harbour View to their fourth title this year, identified a few changes from the last US game that should not have been made.

“The problem is, even though we lost the game against the United States, we had some positives coming out of that game with the performance of ‘Teddy’ Johnson and Jermaine Hue.

“We dropped Jermaine (Hue) in last night’s game for what reason I don’t know. I think this game was more suited to him than the last two he played in. In addition to that, the zone that Teddy was allowed to operate in with three forwards certainly never played into his talents,” Thomas noted.

“When our three forwards went forward, none of them, especially the wingers, came back to help the midfield, and the Hondurans launched most of their attacks from the wide midfield areas which pulled Alvas especially and created a lot of space behind us,” he added.

“Jermaine (Hue) would have been a better option in one of the midfield (positions) and I also think that the formation of 4-4-2 would have served us greater there. I would not have gone for Ryan Johnson when you look at the ammunition that we had on the bench. I thought Mattocks would have been a better option if we could keep him in the middle of the field rather than dragging him to the flanks. I would have started Jermaine Hue, Darren Mattocks and kept Teddy in that midfield role,” said Thomas.

“Our energy level was definitely down and we weren’t as sharp as the last two games and that was probably as a result of the three games in eight days. Looking at that, a greater rotation might have helped there. We had players in the pool that had not played and at that point that would have been a good idea if the recovery wasn’t there.”

Thomas did find some positives in the defeat in the performance of Rodolph Austin who he thought proved that he could play a lone central role, allowing more creative midfielders on the park.

“Austin was a lot more aggressive, which showed that we could have used him in that anchor role. I think the changes were misguided and there is no way we could bring on a central midfielder (Damian Williams) in the game when we were behind the eight ball and looking goals with so much attacking firepower on the bench.

“Also, having seen the minutes that he (Jermaine Beckford) has got in the campaign so far, it would have been nice to have somebody, a real speed ball like Jeremy Lynch, not because he is a Harbour View player, but the Hondurans were far from their best and when they lost the ball they were there for the counter-attacks,” he reiterated.