Na­tion­al women's foot­ball coach Ken­wyne Jones will be hop­ing for a re­ac­tion from his charges on Tues­day when his team takes on the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic in the sec­ond of two in­ter­na­tion­al friend­ly match­es in San­to Domin­go in the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic.

In the first game on Fri­day, the home team de­liv­ered a lethal blow in the last minute of the game to pull off a 2-1 tri­umph, but Jones who was con­firmed as the full-time coach of the women's team on the same day, ex­pect­ed to con­test the World Cup qual­i­fiers in Feb­ru­ary next year, told the me­dia via a vir­tu­al press brief­ing that he wants to see a re­ac­tion from the play­ers from the train­ing pitch, and not based on what hap­pened in the game.

Jones has been at­tempt­ing to stamp his phi­los­o­phy and struc­ture on the squad, which is still stashed with a blend of young and ex­pe­ri­enced play­ers.

"At the pre-match press con­fer­ence, I said the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic was the per­fect matchup to give us a test at this present time. The cur­rent in­di­ca­tion by the squad is that they did not give us any prob­lem that we did not fore­see, I just thought it was a ba­sic lack of dis­ci­pline with­in our struc­ture that fa­cil­i­tat­ed the de­feat.

"But I am glad it hap­pened now be­cause this is the point where you have to iron out a lot of stuff and gain the con­sis­ten­cy need­ed for the up­com­ing qual­i­fiers and we do have a lot of time to work on that and get it right.

"First of all, I would like to see a re­ac­tion from the team but not as far as the game but as far as to­day's (Sun­day's) train­ing ses­sion. We had a lot of analy­sis done, a lot of team meet­ings were held to dis­cuss the things we didn't do cor­rect­ly that we were sup­posed to.

"I am look­ing for­ward to the game, I def­i­nite­ly want to see a re­ac­tion from the team, in terms of be­ing tac­ti­cal­ly dis­ci­plined in the way we set out our busi­ness. That is the most im­por­tant thing.

"The good thing is that we have an­oth­er game against the same op­po­nent to put things right," Jones ex­plained.

The T&T women's team is in Group F of the qual­i­fiers, com­pris­ing Guyana, Nicaragua, Do­mini­ca and the Turks and Caicos Is­lands, a group that Jones con­sid­ers to be man­age­able. How­ev­er, his biggest task to date will be to lay down a struc­ture of play that all play­ers will be aware of in time for the qual­i­fiers.

Ac­cord­ing to the for­mer na­tion­al strik­er, turn coach, "At this point in time, we are about 65 to 70 per cent there, but it is im­por­tant that the core group of them un­der­stand the phi­los­o­phy and struc­ture of our tac­ti­cal plan go­ing for­ward. The oth­ers are go­ing to come along and pos­si­bly in the near fu­ture, we will work with them as well be­cause this is not a sprint it's a marathon."

Team cap­tain Karyn Forbes said both she and her team were dis­ap­point­ed with the re­sult last Fri­day, but they have to stay pos­i­tive mov­ing for­ward, say­ing: "We have to learn from this ex­pe­ri­ence as this is how the game is, some­times you win and some­times you lose.

"We have a lot of new play­ers and be­cause of that some things might be repet­i­tive, but as we move for­ward we will have the right squad and with the right squad we will be able to get things down pact, but right now every­thing is a learn­ing ex­pe­ri­ence."

Forbes was al­so high in praise for the con­fir­ma­tion of Jones as their full-time coach, say­ing they can learn a lot from his wealth of knowl­edge and the team will now, not have to learn dif­fer­ent philoso­phies.