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The ladies walk the yellow brick road.

As this country's senior women's footballers are finally back in action.

They'll go head-to-head with regional rivals Jamaica tomorrow night at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva.

Now, things inside the camp have been less than stable, but Co-Head Coach Damian Briggs has provided some reassurance, speaking on the team's readiness for the showdown and their World Cup campaign ahead.
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00:00when coach damien briggs joined the t t national senior women's staff as an assistant coach little
00:05did the england-based t t resident know he would be in the hot seat as co-head coach following the
00:10sudden resignation of angus eve so the question is how has he and his staff addressed the confusion
00:16amid the sudden change as a staff we've spoken about things and about putting measures and
00:24structures in place to prevent so not well just sort of limit things like that happening but
00:33i think quickly we focused our attention to the jamaica game which is the most important thing
00:37and you know as staff we we just wanted to take away that sort of noise from around the players and
00:44you know rest assured the you know the the board and and the fa they they working hard um to get
00:51things like that solved it's been almost two years since the senior women have played a competitive
00:56match and for coach briggs tomorrow's match against regional rival jamaica is the perfect litmus test
01:02it's good for us because you always want to play teams of a higher higher level because that gives
01:10you a good opportunity to sort of judge where you are and benchmarks within certain things within the
01:17team and again it's it's a great opportunity for the team that we've got now um to to go and show us
01:26you know what what they've got briggs who has coached at a number of british academies over the last 10 years
01:31is pleased with the preparation and wants to start building a legacy to be fair we we bonded and we've
01:37gelled together um again we we sat down and we had conversations staff players together and everyone's so
01:45singing from the same hymn sheet um i know the players they're excited and they all want the best
01:51to for the country we all talk about starting to create a legacy in women's football for tran
01:56tobago and and hopefully tomorrow we will go out and you know give a performance that starts to show
02:04that sort of progressiveness and that sort of unity that we've built over the last two and a half three
02:09weeks terrence clark tv6 sport
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