 Yeah, and yesterday it was the champions' cup, yeah, and the champions were out in all their glory, and the semifinalists have been decided in the All-Ireland Schoolboy football knockout, the quarterfinal matches took place on Tuesday across three separate venues with all eight teams involved. And those match-ups definitely lived up to expectations with all four encounters providing numerous thrills. Let's take a look. Yeah, you can see on the left, Kingston College defeating Dintill Technical by three goals to two, Glenmure 1-0 over Mona, and then on the right, Clarendon College in a thriller, 3-1 over St. George's College, and Heidel 4-2 over Garver-Maceo. So next week, Tuesday, is when the semifinals were contested, Kingston College versus Glenmure, and Clarendon College versus Heidel. With us on set to review these match-ups from yesterday's, our in-house football analyst, LeJay Williams. And LeJay, first of all, you know I have to start here. There is nowhere else I can start. You were 50-50 with the predictions yesterday, which is not great, but it's also not bad. So, congratulations on your 50%. There are many universities across the world where that is a pass. Well, first of all, Ricardo, I'd like to debunk what you're saying about 50%. It was actually higher than that. What was it? Was it 75? No, let me, I brought a surprise. Okay. I brought a surprise. This isn't for Mariah, because I know Mariah always had faith in me. Yes. This is for you and people who are stopping me in the road and saying, I'm not no guru, and I need to stop with the predictions. Producer, play this clip for me, please. Oh, dear. Let's go prediction guru. By the way, Niccolò Tamsandani has been doing a fabulous job with these predictions. I called him the cricket prediction guru, but if you can't get these right, LeJay, I'm going to have to call him in next week to predict football as well. So, go ahead. Usually, I would say no pressure, but there really is no pressure in these. I never feel that. I'm going to Glenn Muir. I'm going to go for a Glenn Muir win. Kingston College Dintil. Well, it's hard to get better against Kingston College nowadays, but I'm also going for a Dintil win. Jordan College versus St. George's. I'm going for a Klein and College win, but that's a stylistic battle for the ages as well. I'm looking forward to that a lot. Garvin myself, Heidel, I think that's going to be a really close encounter as well. That's one that I'm not too sure about, but I would lean towards Heidel for that one. All you had to say, LeJay, is that it was 75%. It was this close, and I even said it as a betting man. I'm disappointed in myself because I know I should not bet against Kingston College, but there it is. Yeah, Ricardo. I'm really happy for you. You know why? Because Ricardo has been tarnishing you on the show. Thank you, Maya. And the promo even says that you're stupid. I can't believe that. I can't believe that at all. I'm so happy. And you even left. You were not supposed to be on set today, and you left your home and you came just to be with us. So thank you, LeJay. Thank you. You're welcome, Maya. The viewers at home, you're welcome as well. Ricardo, over to you. You know, one thing I've learned in this business, it's always important to have proof, you know, because people will just say anything, and it will always sound true. But anyhow, congratulations, LeJay, on your 75%. By the way, Nicolette Amchandani got about 110% over the last time that he predicted anything. But let's talk about the football. What a day we had yesterday. I want to start with Clarendon College versus St. George's College. For me, one of the best games I have seen this season, is it the best game you have seen this season? Yeah, most definitely. I said it was going to be a stylistic battle for the ages, and I definitely think it was. Both teams came out, they have similar ideals, and both teams came out with those ideals, and they pursued them in the right ways. The press was good from both teams. George's tried to sit off a bit, but as soon as Clarendon College came over the halfway line, they were on them like white and rice, and I think that they had a really good game plan, and it was executed basically perfectly, up until the 85th minute. Clarendon College, I think that they were good as well. George's stifled a lot of what they wanted to accomplish, but Clarendon College, they remind me of a club team almost. I think that they're more organized than most club teams in Jamaica, even. So I think they were really excellent, some of the things that they wanted to accomplish. Yes, St. George's did an excellent job defending them, but we still saw the Clarendon College quality shine through, and I think by a quite a distance, actually, I think this is the best game I've seen this season so far. Yeah, before I get to Clarendon College, I want to get your thoughts on how disappointed St. George's College would be because of how good they were and still ended up losing. Well, I spoke to their coach Neville Bell after the game, and he was disappointed. He said it's a really rough one to lose because he feels this is the best his team has played all season, and I agree with him. This is the best I've seen St. George's, and I've watched a lot of St. George's. I watched him the most during pre-season also. But one thing that I know that he's pleased with is how much his big players stepped up in this game. So we talk about Brian Burkett while we say maybe he doesn't step up in certain moments. He was absolutely superb in my eyes. Zabir Taylor, he's a diminutive player, yes, but he showed so much technical quality as well. I think he was fantastic as well. Adrian Reed had a really good game also, defensively and offensively, marshalling, and that's what I wanted from him going into the semifinal and the Champions Cup as well. So I think the positive he can take from this game and the team can take from this game is the fact that going now into the Manning Cup semifinals, they look like they're in a much better place to take on more than whoever else they may play in the final. Yeah, for sure. And for Claremont College, what sets them apart because they were put to the test by St. George's College last night, but the way they withstood the SDGC pressure, especially in the second half, was almost remarkable. There was a point where I think SDGC got about six or seven corners in the space of seven or eight minutes. Like they were just there, and there was an opportunity for Mathias Pence as well, where he slammed the ball into the chest of Cahim Dixon from Point Blanc Range. Well done by Cahim Dixon to take that hit, by the way. But somehow they withstood all of that CC and then when they got their opportunities, they pounced. Yeah, because it's quality, but I think most importantly, continuity. So many of their players have been around the program for three years. I spoke on commentary yesterday that 14 of their winning team that won the Olivia Shield and the Dacasta Cup last season returned. Usually in Manning Cup or Dacasta Cup, when a player is on the bench one year, he's going to come in and start the next. You have players who were on the bench last year for CC that are still on the bench. Unfortunate for them, yes. But that just goes to show the quality that they have throughout the squad. Cahim Dixon has stepped up in a big way this season. Now 40 goal contributions in 17 games. That is obscene. Malachi Douglas, absolutely brilliant. They have brilliant players. I mentioned QP. I mentioned Barrett, who I thought was the actual man of the match yesterday. So much quality all across the field. And when it comes on to tactics, it's second nature to them now because of that continuity and the fluidity that they show in attack and in defense at times as well. I think it's quite staggering. That's why I say that their setup is up there in terms of the best setups in the island, whether it be a schoolboy or a professional setup. I think it's brilliant. Yeah, and Lige, the only one that you got wrong was the Kingston College match. Why did you bet against Kingston College after what you saw from them this season? Well, I just thought that Dintil had enough quality because I mentioned on the show before that I think Dintil is not that I think that they can out-coach anyone or I just think that they had the quality to get the better of Kingston College and I still think that they do because I think Tyrese Go, Giovanni Affleck, Shamari Hutchinson, I think all of those players, Shamir Hutchinson, I think all of those players have the quality to break down Kingston College. I just didn't show it consistently enough for my liking yesterday. But all my props have to go to Kingston College. This isn't to say a lot of Kingston College supporters have been saying that I'm down on the team and I've been so vocal in my support for them or saying that they're good enough. But I think yesterday they showed enough quality for me to see that they are good enough to be here. I think their striker is quite fantastic daily. I think he had a really good game. Robert Sow at the back, I think, who was there last year. He adds that experience in the back line and I think what they demanded of Sow was actually a man marking job and Tyrese Go. And I think he did really well. He was really focused on that job. He scored two penalties as well. And I think Kingston College, when it comes to having a winning mentality and the heart of a champion, you can't discount those things in sports and they have it in abundance. I don't want to take anything away from Kingston College, right? But how much of yesterday's victory was KC being good as opposed to dental technical self-destructing. And they had the better start. That's where I was going with this. I mean, yes, dental did self-destruct. But in terms of, I think if dental were outright the better team as I expected them to be, I think the second half would have been much more of a breeze. I think they would have come back into the game much sooner. But even in the second half, I don't think dental were that... But they did come back into the game. I don't think they created enough. They didn't create. It's not like, say for instance, when we saw a St. George's when the scores were even against Clarendon, they were hammering on the door, playing well. They were sustaining pressure. Dental just... They didn't seem like they had a clue a lot of times what to do. Players not picking up the right positions at times. So I do think that dental imploded, yes. But credit has to be given to Kingston College for one, taking advantage of those implosions. And then, even if you look at the balance of play in the second half, Kingston College should have scored three, four more goals if not for bad decision-making. So I do think that the credit in this game has to go to Kingston College. How much did dental technical miss the likes of Tamish Richardson, Tayamba Chin, who was out of the starting lineup at the last minute because he was originally set to play? And the different changes that they had to make because of the injuries in their setup? I do think that they missed those players, but just judging off how dental played especially, the mistakes that they made, I don't think you would have made that big of a difference if they were missing different things in terms of build-up. Because in football, in my eyes, I'm sure in many coaches' eyes as well, build-up, how your build-up is the most important thing. And even in the second half, dental started to give more players to the build-up in order to try and get KC out, which didn't work. But I do think that their build-up was efficient enough, but in the final third they just weren't good enough and then they made defensive mistakes. They lapsed and I didn't like the attitude as well as I saw from the dental players. From around minute 60, I saw a lot of players arguing. You would have seen it as well, Ricardo, as you were commenting, players arguing off the ball. It just didn't seem like they were sure that they were supposed to win. It's like how we saw Clarendon when they buttoned down and even though St. George's were on top of them, they buttoned down and they knew what to do. It didn't seem like that for the dental and it doesn't bode well for their semifinal against Glenmure in the Dacasta Cup coming up. After the match, O'Neill Thompson attached the dental, spoke about that. He said that, you know, in discipline after scoring the first goal, but the fact that he used the word in discipline, I was wondering, but now I think it goes... It speaks to what you're telling me because I was not there, unfortunately, that he felt as if in discipline after scoring the first goal is one of the reasons why dental didn't emerge as winners. Yeah, I think so. In discipline, not only in that sense, but also in terms of a tactical sense. Defensively, as I said, every goal that they conceded was a mistake of their own, whether it be Atcha Hutchinson not coming out well enough for the second goal, for the first goal, the first penalty that was conceded, it was a poor giveaway from Redison, I believe, in their back line. So, yeah, I just think that dental weren't good enough on the day. They'll have a lot of things to fix if they want to get to the Dacasta Cup final. Yeah, for sure. Of course, the Dacasta Cup semifinals overplayed on Saturday at two separate venues. The Manning Cup semifinals will be played on Friday, and the Champions Cup semifinals will be played next week Tuesday. And guess what? I'm going to give Mr. Lejay Williams something else to replay in another week or so. Can you give us the graphic again, please, so we can have a look at the semifinal matchups and for the 75% prediction guru to tell us what will happen in the last four of this competition. I'm giving him the opportunity to be as good as Nikhil Otamchandani at this prediction. Why are we comparing him to Nikhil? Because Nikhil is now the standard. It's the same reason why we compare all West Indies batsmen to Brian Lara and Viv Richards. Okay, let's say good luck. Let's go. Well, first of all, Ricardo, you're saying 75%. 75% prediction guru doesn't quite roll after time. Give me a three-quarter instead, you know? I feel like that's much better. But for one side of the draw, I see Clarenan getting through. Clarenan will be to the final because I said that Clarenan are winning every single trophy this year. And on the other side of the draw, I said it last time that you should not bet against KC. Are you going to bet against them? But once my mind is dug in, I think the law of averages dictates that Glenmure will get the better of them next week, Tuesday, and it's going to be all Clarenan affair in the Champions Cup final, as it will be in the Dacosta Cup final, as well, by the way. It's going to be Clarenan College versus Glenmure in the Champions Cup final, with Cici winning that game. But I'll save that for another time. Yeah, he's given us some bonus by saying that they will make it to the Dacosta Cup final as well. Let's see if he's as good as Nikhil. All right, we'll take a break. We'll come back with more on the Swordsman Zone. Stay with us.