Boost­ed by his team's win in the First Cit­i­zens Cup fi­nal over De­fence Force, bmo­bile Joe Pub­lic mid­field­er Trent Noel says his team is keen to de­fend its five ti­tles won last year un­der coach Derek King. Noel hit the post in reg­u­la­tion time, which end­ed 1-1. He al­so hit the cross-bar in the penal­ty-kicks as his team won 3-0 in the shoot-out to reg­is­ter its first ever lien on the ti­tle. This af­ter los­ing in the 2008 fi­nal against W Con­nec­tion and last year ver­sus De­fence Force. Speak­ing dur­ing his team's cel­e­bra­tions Noel shout­ed, "This is one ti­tle, and we still have five to de­fend."

Last sea­son's five ti­tle haul in­clud­ed the Dig­i­cel Pro League Cham­pi­onship, Big Six, FA Tro­phy, Toy­ota Clas­sic and Dig­i­cel Pro Bowl. Noel's com­ments were echoed by coach Derek King who said his team is keen on de­fend­ing its tro­phies won last year. "We want to de­fend our ti­tles and qual­i­fy for the Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons' League again. "With the ex­pe­ri­ence we gained this sea­son in Con­ca­caf tour­na­ment, we can say that next time it will be a great show, " added King who picked up the Coach of the Tour­na­ment award af­ter the win over De­fence Force.

Re­flect­ing on the per­for­mance against De­fence Force, King said, "It was an out­stand­ing Fi­nal. "Both teams didn't re­al­ly give away any­thing. But at the end of the day we put down the foot­ball and play. "One mis­take cost us a goal but we re­al­ly showed a fight and I want to thank the play­ers, the staff Ralph Nel­son, Ra­jesh Latchoo...David Prince...the en­tire man­age­ment team. "It was re­al­ly out­stand­ing," he con­tin­ued. "This was a clash of the top two clubs in the Pro League. Our prepa­ra­tion dur­ing the week was work­ing on our op­po­nents and on Sat­ur­day we showed ex­cel­lent ball move­ment and per­son­al­ly I think we should have come away with a 3-1 win.