THE Glasshouse Lions senior team is determined to keep fighting with pride in 2023 following last season’s return to the Sunshine Coast competition after years without fielding a team.
New players have joined the squad, which underwent an intensive pre-season training and have been working hard to gel in the first two games of the season.
Glasshouse Lions player Kyle Bullard said the team has been playing positively, despite two losses to open the new season.
“We’re spending some time right now just being able to gel and learning how we play, obviously coming from different clubs it has been hard to get everything together,” he said.
“The last couple of games we’ve played some pretty high-quality teams and, although they’ve been hard games and we haven’t won a game yet, we are seeing improvements and are excited to play Caloundra at home this week.”
Coming back into the Divison 4 league proved challenging for the team last year, but players are feeling better suited to the gruelling challenges ahead, Kyle added.
“We’ve 100 per cent been focusing on conditioning, it’s been a lot about running, and being able to run a full game out,” he said.
“We’ve also been doing some match simulation stuff to gear us up for upcoming games against good sides, as well.”
Kyle said although the team has many original players from last season, they have gained several younger players from the North Coast Jets, who have invaluable premiership experience.
“Some North Shore Jets players, who were in the Division 4 premiership last year, decided to come play with us which has been great, and a few other players from all over have joined too,” he said.
“We’ve had a new group of talent come in, which has been fantastic having the new boys on the field with us. They have definitely added some depth to our team and I think it’s going to be a good season.”
Following this week’s bye, Kyle said the team have been training harder than usual in their preparation for this weekend’s Caloundra clash.
The match, their second home game of the season, is scheduled for May 5 at 7:30pm.