Devonshire Cougars and PHC Zebras will both be looking for their first wins of the season when they meet in the Premier Division tomorrow night at Devonshire Recreation Club.

Cougars are joint bottom with Hamilton Parish after three straight defeats while PHC are just ahead of them on two points.

Kwame Steede, the Cougars coach, acknowledged after Sunday’s loss to Dandy Town Hornets that it will be a season of rebuilding for the club.

“We need to re-establish ourselves with our youngsters, that’s our main goal for this season,” Steede said after his team’s 4-0 loss to Town.

Steede is in his first season as coach after replacing Andrew Bascome and he recognises the tough task ahead of him after losing nine players in the summer, including Drewonde Bascome and Philip Parsons to North Village, Dominique Williams and Raymond Beach to Hornets and Derrick Brangman to BAA Wanderers.

“This is a rebuilding season for Cougars,” he said. “If we can place somewhere in the middle of the table by the end of the season, this will be considered a good season for us.”

Cougars have scored just two goals in three games while conceding ten.

Their only success so far was a 2-1 win over Town in the Dudley Eve Trophy, only to miss out the semi-finals by the drawing of lots after the three teams in group B finished level on three points and with identical goal differences.

PHC topped group A with two victories to advance to the semi-finals next weekend when they will meet Town. However, their focus is on tomorrow’s game as they must turn things around in the league where they are still without a win after drawing at home with Boulevard last weekend.

In Friday’s opening match at 7pm, Wolves meet X-Roads in the First Division.

n Somerset Eagles have been drawn against Butterfield & Vallis of the Corona League in the preliminary round of the FA Cup.

Four matches are scheduled for the weekend of November 6, with First Division sides Wolves and St David’s meeting on the Friday night at Devonshire Recreation Club before Eagles and Butterfield & Vallis play at White Hill Field on Sunday, November 8. The two other matches will see Young Men’s Social Club hosting Paget at PHC Field and X-Roads at home to Flanagan’s Onions at Garrison Field.

St George’s and BAA have byes and will join the ten Premier Division teams in the draw for the first round which is scheduled for mid-January.