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Guernsey’s leading footballers cross the water tomorrow promising exciting approaches and looking to overturn a grim run of results in the Muratti.
The men have not won since 2017, while the women have to look back to 2008 for the last time they lifted the trophy.
Both have had a revamp in their approaches this year.
For the men, new joint managers in Ryan-Zico Black and Dave Merris have been in place since the end of last year, taking time to instill fresh confidence in the side.
“We want to play, we don’t want to go there and lump it and play long,” said Black, speaking on the Warm Up podcast.
“We’ll be on the front foot and the lads will be giving it everything they can to play well and get a result.”
Jersey also have new management in place.
Boss Elliott Powell pledged to take the game to Guernsey.
“Those last six matches have been decided by the odd goal, so there's room for a big dominant performance to come at some point and we just need to make sure we're on the right side of that,” he said.
It has all the making of being a great day of football at Springfield with the men’s and women’s matches being played on the same day.
“The last thing we want to do is go out and grind out a 1-0,” he said.
Guernsey’s women come into their clash hardened by more competitive matches this season thanks to the formation of Guernsey FC.
“I think we can see the confidence in the girls,” said manager Anna Gauvain.
“And in the last few games against the Jersey club sides, I think we can see the girls being more comfortable on the ball, working together more as a team and putting things into practice that we've spoken about.”
Guernsey are underdogs, she said, but they were looking for a performance and setting the side up to produce an exciting game.
Jersey’s women’s manager Chad Morris stressed that every Muratti was a brand new, standalone game.
They enter the match with experience gained from a Counties Cup campaign in England.
“We've seen them [Guernsey] play four times. We've seen footage of them and watched that another couple of times. I've spoken to the manager of Crawley who they played against, so we give them the respect they deserve,” he said.
The women’s Muratti kicks off at 10:30 and the men’s at 15:00.
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