THE Beerwah Bulldogs A Grade side continues to blitz the local competition and remain undefeated with just six weeks to the finals.
The squad’s latest victims were the Caboolture Snakes who were beaten 20-12 in Saturday night’s Indigenous Round clash at Beerwah.
It wasn’t all one way traffic though, with the Doggies having to scramble after going into halftime down 10-0.
Coach Brett Hill said it was a frustrating game, but was pleased to see the squad dig deep with four unanswered second half tries.
“We gave away a few too many penalties, the discipline wasn’t very good and if you give the team too much ball, they are going to score against you eventually,” he said.
“I think some frustration crept in and we were better in the second half, and ended up scoring four tries, with Daniel Marjanovic scoring a double.”
Brett has out the undefeated season to date was down to the team’s close friendships and an insatiable drive to succeed for each other after coming short in the 2022 grand final.
“We’ve got really good camaraderie, they are just all really good mates so they are really putting in for each other every week, they don’t want to let each other down,” he said. “Losing the grand final last year burnt them a bit, and it’s still in the back of their mind so they want to do one better this year, they put a lot of high expectations on themselves.”
The squad has also benefitted from fewer injuries so far this year.
“This year we haven’t had quite as many injuries this year, last year we were lucky to be training at all with the amount of injuries we had,” he said.
“Kai Busiko broke his cheek bone last week so he needs to visit a specialist now, I’m not sure if we will be back for the finals, but he will be missed.
“Jamie Hill broke his nose too but he’s my son so I’ll make him play. He’ll be fine to play in the finals, he doesn’t have a choice.”
Brett added that despite the squad’s success, there was still scope to improve.
“We have a really strong defence line, so a lot of teams really struggle to score tries against us,” he said.
“We are still a bit scratchy on our attack, our defence is really good but when we do click in our attack, then look out.”