After a miserable 2017 schoolboy football season where they became the first team to have the ignominy of failing to even begin the defence of the Super Cup title, Wolmer’s are back.

Wolmer’s failed to get out of the first round of the ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup last year, and with that, they lost the chance to defend the Super Cup they won the year before. It was a painful exit for the school that was on a high after winning the prized knockout title in spectacular fashion the year before.

Fast forward to the 2018 schoolboy football season and the boys clad in maroon and gold are a different outfit. So much so that their new head coach, and a former Wolmer’s Boys’ player, Alex Thomas is telling one and all to expect great things from his team this season.

“Expect great things, we will keep working one game at a time and keep building the squad. We are right where we want to be right now,” he told the Jamaica Observer.

Those were the sentiments of Thomas after his charges had seen off Group G rivals Holy Trinity by a 2-1 score line for the second time this season.

The game, which was played at the Bell Chung Oval on Friday, saw former prep school football star Revaldo Mitchell give Wolmer’s the lead in the first minute of added time at the end of the first half.

Holy Trinity’s talisman and one of the best strikers in the Manning Cup, Phillon Lawrence, increased his tally to 10 with a magnificent volley to draw his team level in the 67th minute, to the delight of the partisan fans.

The goal lifted the home team who went at it leather and thing for the next few minutes, hitting the cross bar three times in the process, but somehow failing to find the back of the net.

Wolmer’s rode their luck before scoring a second through Cleon Haynes who nodded home from close range from a corner kick in the 73rd minute. It would prove to be the decisive strike as Wolmer’s made it six wins and a draw from seven games.

“This game today was very tough but the main objective was to get three points, but if we couldn’t get three points we would have to take one point and still lead the group.

“I praise my boys, I take my hat off to them, they showed workmanlike attitude, character, fight. (Holy) Trinity put us on the back foot and we withstood the pressure and we came out victorious in the end.

“This is the kind of game that we want to play. A tough game where we get to find out just who we are. We didn’t come off the field winning 7-0 or 8-0 and not seeing any mistakes. We saw our mistakes and we will learn from them, but we also showed that we were up for the fight and that is very important,” said a determined Thomas.

Having assumed pole position in the group, the next objective is to ensure that they go on to win the group and book a spot in the ISSA Champions Cup which has replaced the Super Cup.

“Right now they are upbeat but we as coaches always keep them together and manage them very well. We will enjoy the moment but tomorrow we go back to the drawing board, it’s work day tomorrow.

“I am very confident to finish the rest of the round on maximum points (from the remaining games) but we have to keep the boys together, keep them level headed and keep them focused on the next phase,” Thomas ended.

After Friday’s set of matches Wolmer’s now lead the group by four with 19 points, Holy Trinity remain in second on 15, while Edith Dalton James have consolidated third spot with a win over Jose Marti that took them up to 10 points.

Waterford are fourth with six points, Pembroke Hall 5th with five points whole Jose Marti continue to languish at the bottom of the group with a solitary point from seven games.