K Rock Football | No matter how the final three rounds of the Bellarine season play out, Drysdale coach Ben Carmichael will be proud of what his team accomplished in 2026.

Seemingly out of the finals hunt entering the league-wide bye with a 3-9 win-loss record, the Hawks have climbed to seventh on the ladder, one win behind fifth-placed Anglesea.

“I’m just really proud of the group, to be honest,” Carmichael said, with injuries limiting the influence of reigning Ash medallist Ben Fennell and captain Mitch McGuire.

“From where we were, where you probably start to think, ‘we probably just don’t want to finish on three wins or four wins’.

“But we’re starting to get a little bit of continuity within our list on the park.

“Those guys that we played at the start of the year are showing real improvement now, just with some of the better players around them that have come back in.

“Although… it’s been a frustrating year in terms of the way we started and the way the season was going, to still be alive is exciting.”

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