Short of proclaiming it in flashing neon lights at the top of Main Street, the intention was clear.
Ottis Gibson flagged it with his censure of the “senior players” after the quarter-final exit from the World Cup last month.
His observation that the results for the previous 10 years had been “pretty much the same and we’ve had the same players” was straightforward enough.
There was certainly nothing ambiguous in his pointed comment that “we need some senior guys who have the hunger and the desire.”
Head coaches don’t choose the most prominent global stage for such strong words without expecting consequent action. Yet, the West Indies being the West Indies and aware of the experience of some of his predecessors, Gibson might well have prepared
