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TORQUAY'S double chance hopes hinge on the final two weeks of the season after it was outgunned by the unbeaten Queenscliff in wet conditions on Saturday.
The fourth-placed Tigers, who are two points adrift of Drysdale on the Bellarine Football League ladder, face the Hawks and Ocean Grove over the next fortnight.
"We have to win the next two and we finish wherever we finish and we play whoever we have to play," Torquay coach Craig McCaughan said.
"We just have to play good footy from now on, it wasn't a great day for us and we just need to get back to playing good Torquay footy and get back to enjoying ourselves."
Torquay failed to score a goal after half-time as the heavy rain set in, eventually going down by 36 points in an old-fashioned slog.
The Coutas are looking increasingly unbeatable this year. Dauntingly for opposition clubs, such is the Coutas' depth, their reserves won easily with a team boasting interleague centre half-forward Ed Grout.
There is also Cameron Burnside and Roscoe Holmes, who have regularly featured in BFL team of the year sides.
Throw in Caleb Mason who came across from St Mary's this year, and the reserves is a very potent side. "We have a fair few in there that have played senior footy this year, I think five of them are premiership players," Limb said.
"I think that was a focus for us this week, we really need them to play finals footy and it was important that they got the win this week because it's been a while since the 12 o'clock side has played finals."
Limb's mantra of making players earn their stripes in the reserves creates healthy competition for spots, a sign of a great team.
Limb also said his highly skilled senior squad could also adapt to any conditions, as evidenced by Saturday's win in the driving rain.
'It was tough conditions, it made it really hard to kick a goal after the first quarter," Limb said.
"They kicked the first two goals in the first five minutes and I think it was good that the guys were able to fight back and keep them to one goal for the rest of the game.
"It was just contested footy and Torquay are a good contested footy side so we knew we were up against it to compete against them but I was really impressed that we were able to force stoppages."
This game itself wasn't great for spectators because of the trying conditions, but all the best signs for Queenscliff supporters came early in the day, with the reserves side smashing the previously undefeated Torquay.
In this side was Ed Grout who happens to be this year's interleague centre half forward.
Torquay tried to surprise the Coutas but the rain hampered any chance of the Tigers pegging back an early Queenscliff lead.
The clouds came over and rain came down in the second term, right when Torquay looked poised to put some damage on the scoreboard with the wind.
However, they only managed one goal and six misses, failing to capitalize.
This inaccuracy was disappointing for the Tigers coach Craig McCaughan, who in his two years at Torquay has never beaten Queenscliff.
"We knew it was going to be pretty ordinary and we just had to adjust and they did that a lot better than us," McCaughan said.
"You can start well but you've still got to kick with the breeze and we probably didn't capitalize enough in that second quarter and I think again our kicking let us down."
"Contested footy I rated pretty highly it was just our ball use, we were in there enough but we just didn't use the footy once we got it."
McCaughan praised the work of his hard working on baller Hamish Jarrad, who led younger players such as Matt Boag and James Darke in the absence of midfield leader Aaron Nesbitt.
"Hamish Jarrad was amazing but he just didn't have enough mates today, he had to do it by himself which was unfortunate," McCaughan said.
It's not all doom and gloom for Torquay, however they are now at the business end of the season and they will be desperate to finish top 3.
They face Drysdale and Ocean Grove in the two weeks before finals and these games will be a good example of what they will face going into finals.
"We have to win the next two and we finish wherever we finish and we play whoever we have to play," McCaughan said.
"We just have to play good footy from now on, it wasn't a great day for us and we just need to get back to playing good Torquay footy and get back to enjoying ourselves."
