Kelvin Jones, for­mer na­tion­al play­er and coach of Dig­i­cel T&T Pro League's Po­lice says his team's 1-1 draw against ta­ble-leader, Neal & Massy Cale­do­nia AIA on Tues­day at the Lar­ry Gomes Sta­di­um, Mal­abar was a con­fi­dence boost­er. Over­looked T&T util­i­ty play­er Noel Williams jumped off the bench as an ear­ly sub­sti­tu­tion made by Jones and lev­eled the scores 1-1 in the 45th minute af­ter Cale­do­nia's Ataullah Guer­ra had the Mor­vant/Laven­tille side in front by the 35th minute. Speak­ing af­ter the match, Jones was quite sat­is­fied with the re­sult say­ing, "They (Cale­do­nia) are more or less ahead of us in the ti­tle chase and we are quite pleased to come and pull off a draw against them. We are here to com­pete and give it our best shot at the ti­tle al­though start­ing the sea­son very late."

This sea­son Jones is equipped with a very tal­ent­ed bunch with the likes of Trent Noel, Ka­reem Young and Todd Ryan and young stand­out Ver­nell Ramirez. "We have the Trent Noel and Ka­reem Young as the ex­pe­ri­enced guys to­geth­er with the younger tal­ents be­cause we are very fo­cused on prepar­ing teams for the fu­ture," ex­plained the Po­lice coach. Williams added, "Since I came back in­to the team two match­es ago be­cause of in­jury, I find that we are per­form­ing re­al­ly well." "I scored the equalis­er and I feel good about, but I feel we should have won the game.

Po­lice isn't an un­der­dog team again and (oth­er teams) have to watch out," he added. It was the sec­ond meet­ing of the two teams, with Cale­do­nia hum­bling the law­men 3-1 ear­li­er this month af­ter the Jones coached side stunned T&TEC FC 4-1 back in De­cem­ber. Shabazz: We lack self be­lief

De­spite his team go­ing top of the ta­ble with the 1-1 draw against Po­lice on Tues­day, Ja­mal Shabazz, coach of Cale­do­nia said his play­ers didn't have the self be­lief to win the match. He added, "We were cre­at­ing the chances, but play­ers pre­ferred to pass rather than go for goal and we have to work on rec­ti­fy­ing this lack of self be­lief." "It was a hard game. They(Po­lice) played well and we were with­out five key play­ers (Ja­mal Gay, Trevin Cae­sar, Aquil Sel­by, Mic­ah Lewis and goal­keep­er Zane Cok­er all with the T&T Un­der-23s) and in these cir­cum­stances we are hap­py to get a point." Goalscor­er Guer­ra be­lieved that his side should have bagged full points say­ing, "I feel dis­ap­point­ed be­cause we played the bet­ter foot­ball. We're not sup­posed to drop points against teams like these. I should have de­liv­ered a lit­tle more," added the for­mer San Juan Jabloteh play­er. Cale­do­nia jumped to the top of the stand­ings with 19 points, just a point ahead of T&TEC, Adam's Con­struc­tion San Juan Jabloteh and W Con­nec­tion.