Devonshire Cougars captain Kwame Steede has urged his team-mates to give coach Devarr Boyles the send off he deserves by lifting the Premier Division title.

Boyles, who led Cougars to victory in the Martonmere Cup earlier this season, leaves his post at Devonshire Rec. at the end of the campaign to become Bermuda Football Association's youth director.

Cougars are one point behind league leaders Dandy Town with six games remaining and Steede is confident they can rediscover their early season swagger and do the double for Boyles, who only joined the club at the start of the season.

"I'm happy for him in regards to getting the job," said Steede, who has recently returned from injury. "He's ambitious and we want to send him out on a high.

"He always told us that if anything came up that was worthwhile he would move on.

"We already knew that and we wish him the best going forward.

"Winning the Martonmere and the league will be good for him – it would be good for any coach.

"Any coach would be happy to come to a team and within their first year win trophies. We just need to do what we need to do to get back on track."

Midfielder Steede believes Cougars' recent slump has been down to the absence of key players through injury such as Domico Coddington and Omar Butterfield.

"We will stick to our motto of one game at a time and at the end we will be where we deserve, whether it be at the top or anywhere else.

"We're in a bad nick right now with injuries but we have to work hard. We were injury-struck at a time when we were on form but now everyone is getting back and it can only get better," he said.

"We will approach the rest of the season as we did the first part of the season. It will always be one game at a time. The performances have been getting better and we just need to get out of the slump we are in."

Boyles, who won the league title and FA Cup with Hornets in 2004, has dismissed any talk of his team being under increased pressure since his appointment as youth director yesterday.

"If I felt indicators from the players that pressure was manifested in some way, either subconsciously or physically, then I'd find away of reducing it," said Boyles. "I don't see that, but based on the last two matches we have been knocked out of all the remaining cup competitions.

"We're in a losing cycle but our last two performances have been much better. If you perform well enough then the results aren't close behind."

He added: "The club are happy for me. When I first took the job at Devonshire Rec. "I told them that I'm ambitious and if something comes along then I have to follow my ambition and I always tell my players to do the same."