 Yeah massive championship weekend coming up and a historic first beckons for one school on friday as a new champion will be crowned in the issa manning cup football competition monahai will be contesting their first ever manning cup final while heidel will be taking part in the urban area showpiece for the second time the match is set for the national stadium in kingston and heidel's head coach devan anderson is imploring fans to come out and witness the spectacle we are back in manning cup this feeling is a very excited feeling for us you know we want to be the champion that's why i am that's why we are here as someone said before part one team part one team out with manning cup is concerned the top two teams here they will be a festival tomorrow just come out plan to enjoy yourself meanwhile monahai's technical director craig bottler says his team is eager for the clash but when i played manning cup final in 1984 and it has never left my mind and for the boys this is something that will remain with them for the rest of their lives so they're very excited about it they're very determined to come through and they're very unified it's a very exciting thing manning cup has done a lot in terms of opening up the eyes of jamaica to whatever it is that you're doing and these boys have been playing it playing a brand of football that i don't believe it has been seen before and they're very excited about ensuring that in winning they'll be able to continue that sharing that brand with the country to make the country a better national team the one and only craig bottler now the walker cup final will also be contested on friday that's the urban area knockout and it will proceed the manning cup final starting with a pre game show at 2 30 p.m local time that's 3 30 ect and jamaica college will take on sedanja technical in that match with us to preview the manning cup final is our in-house football analyst and self-proclaimed prediction guru leje williams um and leje you know what at the start of the season is someone had said to you that on championship day in the urban area you would have sedanja technical and jamaica college in one final and then you would have heidel and mona in another final you would say yes what you would probably think that the manning cup final would be jacian stats and mona heidel would be in the walker cup final it's not the case and a first time champion will be crowned let's start with the manning cup because it's the big one mona versus heidel yeah that's a huge matchup uh i'm expecting a lot from it i know a lot of people would be disappointed maybe some jamaica college fans said andro technical fans even some kingston college fans that they won't be seeing their team in the final but i do think especially after the semifinal round was was drawn i do think that these are the two best teams left in the competition from that point onwards so i'm expecting a really good game i think that in the case of heidel you know at the start of the season a lot of people are really high on them and then as the first round faded and into the round of 16 and people are saying that oh maybe not so much maybe they're a little dark horse but i think their quality has told all throughout the competition they have i'm glad that rudall speed came on the show beforehand because he has a lot of players that are playing for this heidel team he mentioned kianny jackson rinaldo barry too i've come on the show previously and stated that i think that he's a top three player in the competition in urban era football i would like to upgrade him to a top two and he's definitely not number two rinaldo barry i think he's absolutely fantastic and oh mario henry they have talent really out of their ears and i think they have a very steady hand that's leading them as well in devan anderson and i think that their system has evolved and they're playing really well right now and in the case of mona we know before you get to mona i want to stay on on heidel a little bit here because remember at the start of the campaign they spanked kingston college came out of the same first round group and following that spanking there was an appeal and they were adopt three points kingston college got those points from that game but resulting from that as well was the fact that they lost about three players that they would have been looking to help them through this campaign how much do you think that would have impacted them and maybe even slowed their progress because although they continue to do well they weren't as emphatic as you rightly pointed out as many expected them to be so how much do you think that that decision where they lost about three quality players impacted them and slowed their progress i think it impacted them a lot actually because i remember doing a match with them and calabar earlier in the season and i saw that their system going into now the latter stage of the competition has changed greatly they didn't have an out and out strike anymore so they started playing more of a false nine and the number 10 and then after that so i think that they've changed a lot and i think what they've changed to i have to give props again to their coach devan anderson because he changed to a system that could accommodate firstly all of their best players and have all of his best players doing what they're best at if you look at someone like omari henry for example you have him running in the channels he's probably one of the fastest players in the competition you have ronaldo barrett playing in at the base of a midfield and at the same time he has players around him always to play those short passes and also have been strikers to running behind in those channels as well so i think his profiling of his team and his tactics have been relatively spot on so far this season and i think they've been fantastic yeah ronaldo barrett is a fantastic player to watch by the way um for heidel let's talk about mona now shall we yeah mona extremely talented team they returned i think in double digits players from a team that went to the semifinals last year and i i came into the season thinking that they were one of the three favorites for the competition you know the other two favorites who were playing the walk up final of course and they are the survivors so i do think that they're extremely talented squad and they've proven that they they're really outclassing judges i think in the semifinal and i i think above all they're extremely fit team and they have a lot of grit and determination to them in addition to the all the boundless um quality that they have as well as well as great coaching obviously so i think that this matchup i think these two teams dovetail against each other really well and then i think he can go either way really because of i think what each team does well goes against the other teams weakness so i think that we could see this game going either way yeah you spoke about mona and you gave us a lot of the good qualities of the team any area as they get ready for this big final on the weekend that you can pinpoint at the top of your head that they need to improve on very quickly um i think i think i would they would they're probably a transition defense you know the the player very open style and against heidel a team that is not shy about getting the ball from back to front really quickly with balls over the top so i think that would be their weakness and of course temperament as well they're a very aggressive team they feed off emotion a lot and i think that if they're in a situation and they're leading or they're behind that i don't want it to be a case where they'll lose discipline whether tactically or just in general play so i think that would be their weakness but i'm hoping that that will be in check for the game on friday yeah craig has been somebody that has been in the headlines where football is concerned and phoenix academy leger a win for mona come this weekend what will it mean for this phoenix academy well you know i'm actually really glad you asked that question because i know i have friends that have been in phoenix academy or were in phoenix academy from the leon bailey days coming up so i and i've known about the phoenix academy all this time and you know throughout the years people always said because you know craig isn't a very popular person in jamaican football circles he knows that everyone knows that as well isn't a very loved person yeah he is very popular he was one of the persons when i just moved to jamaica i heard a lot about yeah but for good reason i know he produced one of the the greatest exports in jamaican football history and you know people instead of giving him credit for that people like to use that with a stick to beat him with you know saying you're only produce leon bailey you've never been able to win any titles in the unders level since he said that he can create all of these players why not performing at unders level or schoolboy level well now he's coming to schoolboy football and in only his third season at a team that never made the semifinals before he accomplished that a team that never made the final before he accomplished that and he accomplished that not only just by taking up some great players it's players that are in his academy all of these players play the craig butler way so i think every all of the credit has to go to craig butler because of what he's been able to develop the culture tactically and enough to feel how these players behave as well so i think win or lose on friday all the credit has to go to him just because of what he's done with his program and generally what he's done for football in jamaica yeah quick one how badly will mona want to avoid a penalty shootout on friday well i mean the the miss what three or four penalties three or four in a row yeah so that well the thing is with mona players and i know that they they won't show that they're lacking confidence but if you have several players missing penalties naturally it's going to be on your psyche so i think they'll want to avoid it especially because heidel has won a penalty shootout already just to even get into the final so they'll want to avoid that but our feeling is going to be a high scoring game i'm not sure if it's going to go to final if a penalty shootout in 25 seconds the j jamaica college versus san angio technical jc won three manning cop finals against them 2017 19 and 2022 it's the walker cup this time can stats turn it around i know they would love to i heard a lot of stats fans and even some people who are close to the team saying that they are most glad that jamaica college went into the walker cup with them so they could beat them this time well i'm not going to give a outright prediction for the manning cop final because i'm unsure right now but for the walker cup the prediction guru is here guys and i'm going to say that jamaica college will bring on their fourth walker cup title on friday early you can watch that sports max you can go to the stadium or you can do both of them can catch it by the way you can watch it on sports max to be specific it starts with a pre-game show at 230 so this prediction guru is a convenient one he decides when he wants to make a prediction and by the way you want to predict the manning cop final too i want you to predict everything that's what the guru does and tell me and by the way ladies and gentlemen while i give him a second to think about his prediction he got the champions cup wrong um because he said clarin and college um and he got he said clarin and college would win everything so there you go he got that wrong but anyhow it's your time i'm going to go to mona i think they'll come from behind i'm giving you the extra points i think they'll need it i think mona will come from behind win the manning cop and i think jamaica college by hooker by crook will win the walker cup those are my predictions from thank you so much you know yeah hooker crook a most jamaican term right across the caribbean wherever you are stay with us on the other side of this break