K Rock Football | One need only be a casual follower of the Bellarine league to know that the past two decades have been a battle for Newcomb.

Multiple winless seasons, too many three-figure hidings to count, and times when some wondered whether the club once known as the Dinosaurs were headed for extinction.

But things have changed at Grinter Reserve.

From a time when Portarlington, which is on a similar upward trajectory, was the only team Newcomb was competitive against to now challenging for a first finals berth in 19 years, good times have returned to Coppards Road.

Since returning from the Covid pause, the Power have beaten every team in the competition except one.

In fact, you’ve got to go back to Round 13, 2007 for the last time Newcomb defeated Barwon Heads.

It’s now the most important hurdle for Tony Mirabella’s men to clear, with victory over the Seagulls putting the sixth-placed Power inside the top five with one round of the season to play.

And Mirabella, who re-signed as coach for next year earlier this week, isn’t shying away from what looms as the club’s biggest match since lifting the most recent of its six premierships in 2007.

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