 All right, the heat of Jamaican's cowboy football is wrapping up as the second round in both the Manning and the Costa Cops are approaching. The Costa Cops second round, which is a knockout phase consisting of 16 two-legged ties, will begin on Saturday. Let's see the matchups. Irwin versus St. Elizabeth Technical, BB Colt, the 2021 Ben France, well 2019 Ben France's Cup Champions play, Paul Bogo Moranbe played the reigning Ben France's Cup Champions, Glen Muir, Taki versus Cedric Titus, first leg live on SportsMax Plus. You have to download the SportsMax app for that, so get downloading. The Contra College, they barely made it in as a best third-place team. They have the defending champions, Clarenin College said Mary High versus Garvin Marseille, who won the the Costa Cops title in 2021. Black River versus Cornwall College, McGraw versus Edwin Allen, the 2021 Ben France's Cup Champions, Edwin Allen, Veer Technical versus Froome, William Nim versus Central, who lost in last year's final Central, Christiana versus Racise Portentonia versus the Manning School, Ocho Reyes versus Happy Grove. That game will also be on SportsMax Plus, Belair versus Myle Gully, Horace Clark, versus Dintill Technical, Dintill Technical, the best team not to win the Costa Cops in the last decade, and Monroe College versus Manchester High, the two M's coming face to face. Now on the flip side, the Manning Cup will wrap up their first-round encounters on Saturday, before starting the second round of the competition on Tuesday. The Manning Cup second round is also a knockout round with eight two-legged times. Here's a look at the teams who have already confirmed a spot in round two. So from Group A, Kingston College and Heidel are safe, Jamaica College safe in Zone B, Highly Salasis safe in C, Stats and Excelsior safe in 4, Mona and St. Catherine, they are through in Zone E, St. George's College and Campion they are through in Zone F, and Wilmas and San Diego through in Zone C. Four spots are left to be filled, that's the second team, second place teams from Zones B and C, plus the two best third place teams still to be determined. Now joining us to break down some of the teams we will see in the second round is head coach of William Nibb High School, so he has a horse in the race and football analyst Dwight Jeremiah. Well he fought hard for three points that he thought he should have had, but because of a yellow card that he thought he didn't have, he didn't get the three points, but his team is in the second round. If you know you know, if you don't I'm sorry. Dwight Jeremiah, who are you doing this afternoon? I'm doing well, should have been at training, but yeah, I have an able assistant, so I'm there, but there's a lot of sugar and water as you just mentioned, but the clear thing is that we didn't get a yellow card, alright? 16 second round matches in the Dacosta Cup, well I don't want to say home and away, two legged ties. Which of the match-ups catches your fancy? Well in short because there's a lot of good match-ups there, I mean I looked at it this year and I said wow, 32 teams and some really good teams in there. I had a look at the Irwin Stets match-up, I felt that would have been a close one and one that you could keep your eyes on and that one played today, the three of the games were played today, Irwin playing Stets today at Irwin and also you had B.B. Koch, they played Paul Bogle at Stets and you had Glenmere, who went to York over to play Morant Bay. Stets not only won that one, they thought it would have been close and it was, so that one is still I think up for grabs and when you look at the other two that were played today, Glenmere, they won their game three goes to nil and the other game saw B.B. Koch winning over Paul Bogle two goes to nil. So yeah, those happened today, I felt that one would have been close. Racise Christian, I think will be close as well from what I saw of these two teams in pre-season and earlier in the season, I suspect that's going to be a good one. The Monro Manchester game, that one I think will be will be another good game to see. Clarendon Descartes, I felt you know Clarendon, they're the standard bearers so they say the quality is a little less to see from them but so high were Clarendon that you still haven't gotten too much close to them. So I expect that they should run away with that one but I feel that the Stets one would have been close and that one ended up being close today. Oh my God, Edwin Allen is another good one I think to watch. I notice you haven't said anything about William Nimm versus Central which I think is a really good round of 32 clash. Central in the final last year, William Nimm with their usual defensive quality coached by one Dwight Jeremiah but I won't put you on the spot. Clarendon College though Dwight Jeremiah, I'm usually not this nice but I'm in a really good mood today, good for you. But Clarendon College, are they overwhelming favorites because that's what I'm hearing on the street that this team will not be beaten this season? Well I saw them in the opening games, a game I was on commentary but they're normally naturally slow starters but they were still good, much better than their opponents on the day and they they got, I thought Edwin Allen you know can be physical and difficult to play against and over two legs omen away they brushed them aside so that's speaking a lot about Clarendon. Like I said I don't think they're as formidable as they were last season but as I said before such was their standard that they're still a stretch and yes I feel if you're going to win this they're the team to beat but no for me I would want to hope that on any given day you can beat the best of teams and yes I wouldn't agree with you that they're they're not going to defeat because maybe I'd want to be that team to beat them but I think yes they're kinks in the armors and the armory of Clarendon and I think they can be breached. Remember you have to get through, you have to get through central first Dwight. What are you asking about Clarendon and I'm just giving you my perspective on it but yeah central is going to be difficult I did play them in preseason but that's a long time ago so we would have changed they would have changed so I'm expecting a really good match up between ourselves and then it was a stalemate in preseason but you know I suspect both of us would have been much better equipped to cause damage to each other this time around so yeah it's going to be a really tough tie and I'm giving myself up for that one. Yeah I'm sure you are it can be so difficult sometimes to track the teams in the Dacosta Cup because you're talking about so many parishes and I mean a team that wasn't on the radar last season could suddenly be on the radar clearly Clarendon College the team to beat. Talk to me about two other teams that you have seen this season or that you know about who you think could go deep in this competition and maybe even challenge for the title. I'll tell you what Dintil is always going to be dare-a-dare about they did their pre-season in our parish spent a long time here didn't play against them but they're always a formidable team when it gets to the busy end of the season and you suspect that they'll be there at least into the the semifinals and when you get there anything can happen. Glenmure who did well last season and really just had a bad day and and fell out like myself at the quarterfinals stage is a team that you suspect could cause some damage and could really go all the way but they showed in the regular round they were beaten by Olaaba at one stage held by Central as well so I think a lot of the teams have not been as consistent as you think they should be if they're going to really topple Clarendon this season but those are the main protagonists I feel Stets say this is their year but I think they haven't really gotten into gear and it may have a well for them so may say that's a good sign because it means there's a lot of room for improvement but I think the Glenmure the Clarendon teams Edwin Allen these are teams that are going to be there about Dintil really feel like they've invested a lot over the years and should do well Manchester was quite good last year and and I and they've really they're unbeaten perfect record for them winning all their games in their zone so nothing new though nothing new that's true that's true so really now it's when really you you set the cats among the pigeon and you're going to see who are really the the real the real teams because you have disparities in the groups and the zones as you said over different parishes you have some really weak teams in some zones and they can really give you a false impression of what teams are really made of but in this round of 32 I think you're going to really see I mean really for me as a coach it's one of the if not the most difficult round because no other there's not over another two rounds of game that 16 teams will be eliminated and that's how difficult it will be yeah you spoke about Manchester High Donovan Dukie is back second coming at Manchester High they've never won the Dacosta Cup and clearly this is something they desperately want can Dukie help make the difference for this Manchester High team well what you get from Dukie what I've seen over the years I mean he's going to be organised very difficult to beat sometimes you wonder though if that is the expense of the attacking side of it and and you feel if they're going to do it they would have to be able to to beat the likes of I mentioned Clarendon and Dintill the Edwin Allens and the Garver Marseille or Glenmure as well you feel like I think they might come up short again this season but I think they'll be there about in the semi-finals quarter finals semi-finals because he will organise them well he will make them difficult to beat but when you get to this stage the goals will win the championship so you need to be able to score yeah I don't know how much of the Urban Area Manning Cup you have seen but any thoughts on what is happening this side of the land of wood and water I look at it and I think you know the main teams that you expect to go through have gone through in the in the group stages if anything surprised me a little bit Kinston College I mean Vassarana is a good friend of mine and there was a big press release when he was appointed and they were saying that they lost a lot of players there was an exodus of players a lot of youth players were involved um on the 16 or 16 year old but they came out of what was considered to be the group of debt and they've topped that group um quite easily in the end if anything you felt Charlize Smith who probably retained 80 percent of their team last year and and Calabar with with price you expected to have been more dominant in that group and and even Heidel who have a lot of Premier League experience in their team I felt Kinston College did well there Jamaica College despite being dot points you expected that they were going to be strong in that one so when I look across the group I think the main teams that should go through have gone through it's really going to come down to the round at 16 now to see who is really going to set the thing alive yeah very much the case that Jeremiah always a pleasure speaking with you we are going to allow you to get back to training now because we know you need to put in the work because centrally somewhere in the land and in the land of wood and water putting in some work getting ready for your William Neve team we'll give a good account of ourselves tomorrow I cannot show you of that I have no I will be playing against Central tomorrow and it won't be involved at all it's time around let's leave that there um but thanks very much Dwight Jeremiah by the way um Mariah Lance would know this I don't know if you know this but William Neve is the alma mater for the great Usain St. Diabold I know that oh I'm sorry we said that a million times on the show oh I'm sorry my apologies