It’s another exciting challenge for our women’s team when we come up against premiers of the past four seasons, Burleigh Bears, at Pizzey Park on Sunday at 3.45pm in the South-East Queensland division one women’s competition.
Our team has been improving weekly since they have come together in pre-season training and we get a couple of girls back this week to give us a bit more size in the forwards, which will be important against such an established team.
CJ Sims returns to the front row after missing our last match, a 48-8 loss against Wests, and Serena Martin, who came off very early in that game, is right to play as well.
It was fantastic to see the girls celebrate the round two 34-8 victory against Toowoomba in our second match and even in the losses to Easts and Wests we have shown some really good form in patches.
That’s the key for us moving forward, we just have to be more consistent over the entire game and that will come with more hard work and more time together as many of the girls have had limited experience playing rugby league.
Halfback Tarryn Aiken is proving to be an exciting prospect and Jessika Elliston has been going really well in the second row. Jessika won our players’ player in the last match after an outstanding performance.
The positivity in the squad has really been pleasing and we just have to maintain the self-belief that we have the ability to regularly compete well at this level and that we will keep improving.
It’s a credit to the girls that there is a really strong and positive team culture and no one is letting their head drop, everyone turning up for training, wanting to learn and get better. That’s important too; we have to make sure what we are doing is sustainable for a long period as we are setting the platform for future women’s team to represent the Tweed Seagulls.
We want to maintain a positive attitude with how we play when we have the ball. Our goal is to be entertaining and utilise the skillsets of the players we have. The fundamental skills of all players have certainly improved a lot over the months together.
We welcome Jessica Vannucci into the side this week. Jessica has been forced to miss the first three games because she has been overseas working but she is a versatile player which will be handy for us off the bench and worked really hard in the pre-season, typical of many of her teammates and it’s good to see her get an opportunity.
Hopefully some of the Seagulls regulars at Piggabeen will head north to Pizzey Park to cheer the girls on after our Intrust Super Trust team finishes on Sunday and others who have been great supporters of our women’s team are there before kick-off to give them encouragement.
We know it will be a tough challenge against the Bears, who have narrowly beaten South (16-12) and Easts (12-10) on top of thrashing Toowoomba, but that’s just another step in the progression of our team.
Thanks for your support.
Kelvin Wright
Coach, Gold Coast Airport Tweed Seagulls women’s team
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