22/03/2026
🐻 Bears Take on the Big Smoke 🏉
The Bears headed into the big smoke to face a slick, well-drilled West Mitchelton outfit 💪
With several players unavailable due to work and other commitments, our Reserves were short on numbers - taking the field with just 15 players.
Despite that, there were some exciting glimpses of attacking footy, and we can confirm the captain’s run was much improved from the last trial 😄 Plenty of positives to build on, and with a few more troops returning, we’ll only get stronger.Final score: 36–28 to West Mitchelton.
Our A Grade side followed, with 12 fresh players and the rest backing up from Reserves - a huge effort against the defending premiers 👊
It was a tough, back-and-forth contest. Handling errors hurt us early, and we went into the sheds trailing 16–12. The boys came out firing in the second half, focusing on the 1% efforts and turning the game around to take the lead 28–20 with some brilliant footy 🔥
Fatigue and limited numbers caught up with us late, along with resting a few key players, and we couldn’t quite hold on - but the effort and fight shown was something to be proud of.
🏅 President’s Players of the Day
Reserve Grade: Jayden Lee
A Grade: Alex Hinch
Plenty to take away from today - we regroup, reload, and go again
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