Wallabies see bright side

MUDGEERABA are taking Premier League positives where they can as they look to put their horror start to the season behind them.

Having fallen 6-0 (Coomera), 3-2 (Broadbeach) and 10-0 (Palm Beach) in their opening three games, the reigning wooden spooners were plunged into further despair with a 6-0 defeat away to Surfers Paradise on Friday.

Teddy Watson, Bruno Rodriguez and Hayden Sumner all bagged doubles for Apollo, who host Maroochydore in Round 4 of the FFA Cup on Saturday.

Mudgeeraba coach Jamie Boelen said it was not all doom and gloom. “For my boys, I’m drawing on the positives. We’re a brand new side, we’re five or six games in playing together,” he said. “The first half against Palm Beach on Tuesday night we were right in that game. Same with the second half (against Surfers).

“We just need to get two solid halves together and I think we’ll be really competitive. We’re under no illusions that we’re going to come in and start beating all these teams. These teams have been together for years, we haven’t. That’s the fact of the matter.”

The Wallabies host fellow battlers Tweed United on Saturday.