While admitting that their practice sessions are a bit behind schedule, Head Coach of reigning champions St. George’s Winston Maynard told this newspaper that they are still confident of successfully defending their title when they face Lodge in the final of the Milo / Petra Organisation Schools Football Competition tomorrow, at the Ministry of Education ground on Carifesta Avenue.
Maynard, who was speaking shortly before the commencement of a training session disclosed that at the point
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in which the briefing was being conducted they still have some amount of work to put in, but was convinced that with the skill level of the players and their understanding of what is at stake, the intensity will increase.
“The guys are very skilled and they know what they have to do and I have every confidence that they will buckle down to the task and come out victorious,” Maynard told this newspaper.
He added that all of the players know what their individual responsibility is and he expects them to display discipline which according to him will be required for them to retain their crown.
“Judging from the feedback we’ve received, there are two to three players who we will have to watch closely, but the boys know who they are and we will construct a plan that will be able to combat their strength, while aiming to execute ours at the same time,” Maynard revealed.
He pointed out that they will not be going into the game over confident and have discussed the seriousness of the game and the opponents they will be facing and the guys have expressed no fear and will be going all out to prove that last year’s win was no fluke, but rather one that was deserving of a team that was better than all the rest.