 Back on the sports rank zone and we continue with football, the schoolboy season may be over in Jamaica but that does not mean that the fun is. And after what was an extremely eventful and quality filled season, we have enlisted the services of our in-house football analyst, Mr. so-called prediction guru himself, Lijer Williams, to come up with his team of the season. I'm sure he'll do a much better job at this than he did at predicting the scores for the campaign. So let's get right into the meat of the matter then, Lijer. Before we get to the teams though, we want to have a look at pretty much a short list for the different positions. Where do we start at the goalkeeping position? Yeah, that's where we're starting from back to front. It's important to build a solid defence, isn't it? Yeah, of course. And here I have Raul Renton from Jamaica College. They dropped out early but I think there are a few standout players. You know, Antoine Gooden from Glenmure not influential in a couple of penalty shootouts, Tajari Lee as well, his penalty exploits. Had a rough start to the season but he came on and I have to give a special mention to late Murray from St. Jago. They dropped out early but you know, late Murray gave us one of the best moments of the seasons and probably the best moment of my commentary career so far. So, you know, as a Spanish town national myself, you know, one fat jet, bigger per-self late Murray. Yeah, how about before we even move on from the goalkeeping position, the St. George's goalkeeper who had Dejean Davis who had a terrific game I remember in the quarter-final round against Jamaica College and who by all accounts had a pretty good season, how much did you consider him for a spot at least on the short list? I did consider him but I think that, you know, he was swapping out with the other goalkeeper a lot so he wasn't the nail down number one for most of the season so that came into my thinking as well. And I have to say it, I'll put the caveat out right now. The list, all of these decisions are mine. Though I thought sports mark zone. I thought Lige Williams, you get me? And if you have a problem with anything that I say, you know where to find me, you get me? So that's the thinking for the rest of these unpicks. I'm happy you said that. I was going to see it at some point in this discussion but I'm glad you beat me to it. So let's get to the centre-backs now, shall we? Yeah, this was a really, this is the longest short list. I'm a lot of quality in these positions. You know, Nashaan Bolt, Malakai Sterling who coming into the season, I thought was going to be one of the best players this season. I think he was, you know, while he was in the competition, Alex Xavier Gooden can't leave him out. Michael Forbes, I think he was spectacular in his first schoolboy season. Rabina Gordon came back, was an all-manning player last year, came back and delivered the goods again. Mona's top goalscorer from centre-back. Robert Seaw, I thought he was shaky last year, but this season I think he improved greatly. And Anil Hadley, I just think that for the role that he had to do in that Glenmure team, defending wide-challenged channels and the set pieces and just everything that he has to do on ball and off ball, I couldn't leave him out of this centre-back list. All right, let's look at the left-backs and then the right-backs, shall we? Yeah, I think for the full-backs, you know, this... Yeah, so we're looking at the best left-backs of 2023, LeJ. Yeah, and I think that there weren't a lot of good, let me not say good full-backs, but you know, there aren't any many stunning performances from full-back this season. So these short lists will be rather short, you know, Brandon Wallace, Livingston who played left wing-back for Stats and Tahir Lawrence, so I think had a pretty good season. But I don't think that there was a... There definitely wasn't a huge amount of good full-backs, good performing full-backs this season for me. Yeah, the right-backs. So I think the right-back list should be rather short as well. Three players are Ramon Francis. I think he, similar to Anil Hadley, he had a big role in that Glenmure team, Atiba Green. Now, he was a stand-out player for me, really good. Foreclimbing and college switching from left-back to right-back this season had to do a lot. And I think Tariq Jones for Jamaica College, Anson here in that Waka Cup winning team, he had to invert, he had to do a lot of midfield duties along with his full-back duties. So I think he was pretty good as well. Yeah, and let's get into the midfield now, the best central midfielders for 2023. And this is the toughest part for me. You know, I came here yesterday and I was speaking about how integral these defensive midfielders are. These are all more so the defensive type of midfielders who can't get forward also. But, you know, Thea and Kewpie have spoke about his performance in the Olivia Shield. Ronaldo Barrett, who I said is the best player in the Manning Cup this past season. The one green from Kingston College came from Wolmers and he really went on leaps and bounds as the season went on. Jason White, my goodness, what a player also, similar to Kewpie, but even bigger in stature. He calls himself Busquets, I actually think he's more Rajee. Adrian Reed Jr., he really stepped up this season as well for saying George is their captain and Nikoi Gale. I think he was extremely impressive also. Yeah, high quality is that one. Let's look at the attacking midfielders now. Yeah, similar quality there. I think Dylan John, Jamaica Colleges, top goals for this season, 15 goals, a lot of assists as well. Denzel Mackenzie, 11 goals, I think, and 20 plus assists. He was fantastic this season. Kyle Gordon, we saw how mercurial he can be in those big situations. Tyrese Gao, 20 goals this season, over 20 goals this season. Malakai Douglas, he can't leave him out of any list. The best player in the Costa Cop last season, and then Keanu Jackson from Heidel, I think definitely deserves a spot on this list. He was really good for them as well. Yeah, and then the wingers and followed by the strikers. Yeah, and the wingers, similar to Fullback, I think because the rise of three back formations and just different systems. Usah Heidel get to the final, playing with a midfield diamond. So not too many wingers, but I had to shoehorn in Amariah Henry because he's not an out-and-out striker for Heidel. Does a lot in the channel, so I think it would be unfair to put him there, but aside from that, I think Christopher Hall, no surprise that he's there, of course. Romarian Thomas, coming from a central midfield position last year, to the wing this season has been impressive. And Tajan Cummings, I think, was pretty good for Glenmere down the stretch. Yeah, very much the case. So there you go. The shortlist for the different positions on Lige Williams, team of the schoolboy football season. We are going to go to a break, and when we return, he'll be revealing the actual team of the season. We'll be back. Yeah, Lige Williams is about to name his team on the schoolboy football season across all competitions, and I'm sure he had some difficult decisions to make in arriving at the final 11. Lige, let's start by getting what your formation is for this LW-11. Yeah, you know how to put my coaches at the end. I'm not a basic person, I'm not a basic analyst. I'll go with a 4-2-3-1, which will morph into a 3-2-5. You know, you shouldn't have to say those things, right? Yeah, no, but I've let people know, you know, especially you, especially you, Ricardena. It's going to 4-2-3-1, we'll morph into a 3-2-5 in attack, and we'll defend in a 4-4-2. All right, let's get the team revealed then. Shall we? Lige's schoolboy football team of the season. Here is the 11. Yeah, and you know, Antoine Gooden in goal, it was a tough choice, but I think, you know, his exploits, I think he's decent with his feet. Antoine Gooden, the Glenmure goalkeeper. Yeah, he had some good penalty shootout moments as well. Atiba Green, no-brainer for me, right, but personally. Clarendon College. Michael Forbes of Heidel, you know, he was under the radar for a lot of the season, but I think his ball carrying, his ball playing as well. I think he was fantastic. Nashan Bolt, I think, you know, he's, that goes without saying, best centre-back this season. I know for left-back, as I was mentioning, there weren't a lot of left-backs that really caught my eye, so I was kind of stuck between playing a centre-back there, which I ended up doing, it was either going to be O'Neill Headley of Glenmure and Rabina Gordon, but I think Rabina Gordon is goal-scoring exploits and his versatility. I think I'll put him at left-back, and I think he can defend the channels a bit better, so I'll put him at left-back. Central midfield, now this is a tough, tough area. You know, I stated that Ronaldo Barrett is the best player in Manning Cup, I stick by that. So he went in, and then for that, it was either between Jason White and Cupid. And this is not me saying that Jason White is better than Cupid, or the other way around, but I just think based on the season that they had, and when they came up against each other, I think that Jason White got the edge on those occasions. So I'm going to give it to Jason White, but Cupid, you know, you're brilliant, you're brilliant. And this is an area where you would also have someone like Adrian Reed from St. George's College, you would have been left out as well. The competition was extremely fierce. Then we'll talk about Kyle Gordon in attacking midfield, I cheated a bit here as well, because I mentioned that there weren't a lot of wingers for me, so I put Cole on the right, Kyle Gordon at the top, and then on the left, because I know he can do it. He's a Craig Butler coach, after all, I know he has versatility. I put Denzel McKenzie on the left, 30 plus goal contributions. So I'm going to put him on the left there. So you're playing a few out of position here? Yeah, but you know, in terms of the formation required, there's a lot of fluidity in the front line. We have a Kaim Dixon who, my approximation to him in the world game would be someone like Agabihazus, for example, can do it all, can help out, can help out with the overloads on the wings. So I think that if we have a left-sided space of Kaim Dixon, Denzel McKenzie and Kyle Gordon, who likes to drift out there as well, I think we'll get the right combinations with Holland and Tiba Green holding it on the right-hand side. And then of course, you know, the two centrals, Jason White and of course, Ronaldo Baird, good luck getting by that. So I know that there are players that were left out. The team could be different, but after days and hours of thinking, this is a team that I came up with. Yeah, and of course, whenever you do things like this, you are always going to have those questions, what about this player, what about that player? I guess the one player for me that I would probably throw in there, and it's because I was so impressed with him. Every time I saw him at this campaign and 20 goals, most of which came from the middle of the park, Tyrese Gull, of Denzel Technical, he doesn't make your cut. Yeah, because you know, the thing is with Denzel, as we saw, Ricardo, we did there. But it's not Denzel, we're talking about his Tyrese Gull. I'm making a point about their system and why I think that attributed it. I think he was given too much of a free role. And we saw that when they came up against better opposition that wasn't even the best in the Manning Cup, it wasn't even the best in the Dacasta Cup. It's easy to lock those players down, because yes, he takes a lot of responsibility, Tyrese Gull, because he's a fantastic player. And I will give it to you that his ball striking is second to none in this competition. But I think he, because of that free role, he has a tendency to ghost out of games. Yes, he can impact them at the flip of a coin so quickly, but I still think I would want a little bit more impact in terms of what I would want from an essential attacking midfield position. But let me ask you this, though. Given better quality players around him, don't you suspect, given his quality, that he would be able to make the type of impact that you are talking about? Because when you look at that Dintil team, now, I can't say personally that having seen Dintil a few times, that I was overly impressed, especially with the quality that he had working with. But if you drop him around players from Clarendon College, around players from Glenmure, around players from St. George's College, are you looking at a completely different level of production from him? You know, actually, I don't think so. The reason being, because I think some players thrive in environments where they are allowed to be free. If he were to go to a Glenmure, or hypothetically speaking, of course, go to a Clarendon, where he has to be a part, as opposed to being the whole. Because we saw, you have to think about it, Giovanni Affleck is a young player. Young players tend to improve year on year. Giovanni Affleck didn't look as good as he looked last season. And that's a Dintil number 20 by the way, Stryker. Although he had supposedly a top, top creator behind him. And I think because Tyris Goh, he played a bit too individualistic for my liking. And I understand why, because he's that good. But in terms of what I would want from that position, in terms of Kyle Gordon, Kyle Gordon doesn't need to score or assist to be the best player in the park. Tyris Goh has to be involved in a goal for that to happen. And I think that's not enough for me, but he was definitely in consideration. All right, that's how we leave that. That is Lige's team on the Scoupboy football season. I'm sure we'll be seeing a few other teams around the place. Yeah, let's see yours. Let's hear what you think about Lige's. I'm excited to hear what you think. The prediction guru, coming up with this team of the season. Let's take a bit more to come on the Sports Bank Zone, including the class moment nominations during Interactive. You'll want to see some of those. Tough decision this week, I think.