 Inside the last 18 minutes of the Sports Max on for this Wednesday football is where we turn to a head of Jamaica's upcoming Nations League battles with Honduras on Friday and Haiti on Tuesday members of the JFF led by General Secretary Dennis Chung gave an update on the organization's departmental improvements over the past year. These improvements ranged from financial human resource and general program development. But it is the latter which would be the most intriguing to fans of the sport. Assistant manager John Wall who is in charge of player development lamented the need for change in how players are developed island wide. We want to expand our development more onto the ground trying to reach players on an everyday basis as much as we can. Because as far as I concern, every day that ends with a why you can train and every month of the year you can train and compete. Whereas in Jamaica, I'm not going to wrestle the elephant at all. The school system is here and it's going to be here. School boy, school girl. But what happens to the 12 year old who might be a little bit late developed? And she's a girl. Is she supposed to play against 19 year olds? I think we have to look ourselves deep into reflection mirror. What are we doing with the kids? Well, also spoke on the Federation thinking beyond the next World Cup cycle. My concern is more not to qualify for the World Cup. My concern is how are we going to look at 2027? How are we going to look now that the girls did such a great World Cup? I'm always thinking ahead and looking at the future. That's my and playing that smart part is really important. Whatever we do with what we have, we need to maximize it. Because the talent is one thing. The work is a complete different thing. Yeah, positive signs from the JFF. Will the positivity spread onto the pitch? I guess that's the question that would ask Chapel. Yeah, listen, it's important what John Wall is speaking about because development for the future of the football program, not just in Jamaica, but right across the region is important. And so he makes a very important point. It is interesting that he spoke about schoolboy football and the fact that schoolboy football or schoolgirls football, for that matter, is very much here and is really in many ways the developmental platform for many of our youth players. You asked the question at the top of the showlines whether that should actually be the case. In my opinion, systems will differ. And you have to find the system that works best for you. I think in the Caribbean context, definitely in the Jamaican context, the schoolboy football system is important. If you look at track and field, schools track and field has been an important aspect of the development of that sport and the quality that comes through. And it is effective. So my thought process is that we need to figure out the reasons why that is the case and figure out how we make the schoolboy football product effective in also turning out high quality football talent as well. So I think the point Wall was making, though, is that as far as the football is concerned, it doesn't have the age group strata in the same way that the track and field has, because you have class four, class three, class two and class one for girls. And in the boys class three, two and one. And he was saying a 12 year old in football doesn't have this strata of going through the different developmental stages as that person would have if he or she were a track and field athlete. But not so much because you have you 14 football, you have you 16 football. You 14 is what in my day, they called Pepsi, you 16, they called Coles. And I know, but I guess I guess I guess he referenced a girl. Yes, in making it. Well, the girl does not have that right. The girls do not have that. So the girls have one age football program is completely underdeveloped. Yes. And nowhere compares with the boys. True. But part of the reason for that is because when the schoolgirls competition started, you just did not have the numbers to have them across age groups. And so you started with essentially one age group. But I think if the numbers grow, then the program in terms of the competition can also grow. Yes. One of the other things was said, and I heard that narrative from Hal Grimson, the head coach of the reggae boys, when he first arrived for his first press conference. And it was a very, very important point. What happens after the World Cup cycle? Because we've seen in the case of the Jamaica reggae boys qualifying for France in 98 and Trinidad and Tobago qualifying for the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany. Both football structures haven't really benefited from the highs that they achieved in 98 and 2006. And it speaks to an infrastructural problem or deficiency where, you know, administrators focus on trying to qualify for World Cups without developing the base. So I think John Wall touched on a serious issue there that has to be tackled by not only the JFF, but all football federations in the region. Yeah, yeah, for sure. I agree totally, Lance. Break time. Back with more after this on the zone.