 Alright, welcome back to the Sports Max Zone. We're starting off this Tuesday edition with football. The Ray and Nephew Jamaica Premier League closed off Match Week 8 with two games at the Stadium Eastfield on Monday night. Gerard Morrisili has been working really, really hard. He has a recap for us. The final pair of encounters in Match Week 8 of the Ray and Nephew Jamaica Premier League were on the agenda on Monday. In both matches, West Kingston, rivals Arnett Gardens and Tivoli Gardens saw to close a gap on front runners Mount Pleasant, first up the jungles, who faced a Veer United unit which they had not beaten in their last three attempts. But Arnett seemed unfazed in their efforts as they looked to consolidate their second place in the standings. And after a bit of a slow start, they finally broke the resistance of Veer, Racheen Thompson firing home from close range to net his first of the season. Morris gave them a platform to express themselves in the second half, but it took another Veer mistake and a bit of luck for Jaheem Thomas to slot home his second of the season. And that's how it went in. A comfortable 2-0 win for the Xavier Gilbert coach team. Next up Tivoli vs newly promoted Trejevich with the Jerome Wade lead team aiming to shoot up the table to third spot. And it seemed like it would be a very comfortable night for the men in orange and black with goals either side of halftime first from marksman Justin Dunn who netted his seventh of the season and then Janiel Ray who scored his first of the campaign. Trejevich had other ideas however with first Tivoli Thompson giving them hope late in the second half. Then the unthinkable as substitute Romario Smith lined up a free kick in the 90th minute. Trejevich thought they had earned themselves a point but the fighting spirit of the former champs shone through. And at the end of this crazy crazy game Tivoli ended on top moving up to third spot in the table. Here's how the table is shaping up after the match week, Mount Pleasant still comfortably on top with Arnett and Tivoli leading the chasing pack and there are still only two teams without a win, Lyme Hall Academy and Mullines United. Alright so a huge win for Tivoli especially Jerome Wade's project showing extremely promising signs. So Ricardo we're going to start though, we have two matches to discuss, we'll start with Arnett versus Veer, Arnett getting that win against Veer, two goals to jump to third so a very very important win and we had coach Xavier Gilbert on set, of course he was here to discuss reggae girls business but we asked him about Arnett Gardens and he said you know this is the more difficult of the two jobs and of course he'd be very very pleased with this result also being able to keep a clean sheet. Yeah very pleased with the result I would think Xavier Gilbert especially out of the disappointment of the reggae girls not qualifying for the Conqueror Gold Cup playoffs but important three points for Arnett Gardens and as you pointed out important clean sheet for them as well propelling them into second position now only behind the defending champions Mount Pleasant. Jaheem Thomas had a good game for Arnett Gardens last night he set out to the game that he felt he could have been even better was ultimately named player of the match was heavily involved in the first goal scored the second goal a crazy type of goal by the way Mariah the second goal as we saw because multiple opportunities for Veer United to clear their lines and they were unable to do that and when the shot came in off the bar then Jaheem Thomas comfortably slotted it home there was no way he was going to miss from that. His first goal of the season incidentally came against Tivoli Gardens in a losing effort I think he will be quite happy that this goal here has come in a winning effort for Arnett Gardens his second of the Jamaica Premier League season and yeah a very important three points for Arnett and Xavier Gilbert. Yeah and of course they get close such as a top of the table because it's important if they really want a battle to win this competition they need to keep us close as they can to Mount Pleasant because they've been very very dominant Ricardo the Veer coach and I feel like if I heard this narrative again the use of the word discipline and the team losing discipline when it came to the matches you know Linvol Dixon he said that again the team started well but they lost their discipline. Talk to me about that statement. You know sometimes it can be difficult and unless you are on the training ground and seeing how teams operate and how they get along with their coaches it can be difficult sometimes to determine where the blame should lie. Now if you ask me I think it is the responsibility of coaches to ensure that the discipline is maintained throughout the course of the game. Now I find that with a lot of coaches in the Caribbean Mariah and not just in football but in various sports they will say to players they will say to teams do this and do that but that's not real coaching in my estimation real coaching is being able to design the workouts that will get the team to do the things that you want to almost as an automatic reaction to how the game is being played or the situation that you are in and for me if you are unable to do that then you are failing as the coach and can't blame the team necessarily for saying well you did not maintain your discipline for 90 minutes but what are the types of workouts that you have implemented to ensure that the team is able to operate in the way that you want them to for 90 minutes and I think that is what separates the very good to great coaches from the coaches who are generally ordinary or generally get ordinary results and I'm not saying that specifically off there in this situation I am saying that as as a general way of how I think about a coaching player coaching team relationship. Yeah well in the next picture Ricardo we had Tivoli up against Treasure Beach and I have to say Kudos to Treasure Beach for of course being 2-0 down and then showing that they belong in the JPL I was really excited because at the start of the season we spoke and we tried to analyze whether the teams that were promoted belonged and many a times truthfully when the teams make it into this top tier football part of their career they're really really struggle and they don't last for long so I was really pleased to see Treasure Beach putting up a fight and showing Tivoli Gardens that they're here to stay. Yeah terrific fight that they put up as well because you you go 2-0 down against a very good Tivoli Gardens team against a very well coached Tivoli Gardens team with Jerome Waite at the helm and they found a way to come back scoring the second the equalizer in the 90th minute with this free kick yeah pretty good free kick as well but there is something about Jerome Waite coach teams that I think people have to know Jerome Waite usually focuses on fitness and generally his teams are extremely fit and they get fitter as the campaign goes on and so what you'll find yes you might score in the 90th minute but they will have the legs to push for as long as the referee allows to get whatever it is that they need and I think that's why well that's part of why outside of the fact that they clearly have a lot of quality in their setup it's part of why I am really looking closely at this Tivoli Gardens team this season because I think Jerome Waite is an excellent coach the one thing I know he'll do with this Tivoli Gardens team he will get them fit and that will count for a lot when you get to the playoff stage of the Jamaica Premier League they've already had a good start they're in third position at the moment and they expect them to maintain that for a majority of the season and they expect them to make a really good run when they get in the playoffs I don't see this Tivoli Gardens team falling away at any point this season on the leadership of Jerome Waite yeah there was one chance in the fourth minute of added time that Tivoli missed did you see that yeah really unfortunate and at that point they thought that the game had gone they had missed the opportunity to win the game but they got another one and it was buried and there you have it Tivoli winning three two taking them to 13 points one behind Arnett Gardens on 14 and there are six behind the leaders Mount Pleasant on 19 yeah what I will say to our viewers is the excitement in the Jamaica Premier League it of course continues to build and if you are late to the party and you've missed the previous matches you need to jump on and of course you know catch all the action right here on your home of champions because you're missing out some really exciting football also if you're busy like me download the Sportsmax app you can have it with you wherever you go so let's take a quick break and when we come back we're heading across the Trinidad and Tobago to see if their football can top what we've been seeing in Jamaica let's take a break