12:00a.m. 8th March 2008

After what can only be described as the club’s lacklustre 2007, not many would have expected to see Beegees take the field in the Two Coast Cup quarter-finals.

But the side will run out against Burleigh at Beerwah tonight – despite having only played five minutes of football in the previous two rounds.

Beegees’ opponents in the home-and-away rounds, Gold Coast Knights, were booted from the competition after an opening round controversy.

A Knights’ player was red-carded early in the round one match, a decision which led to the Knights coach pulling an Indian cricket team impersonation – he put his side on the bus and took them home.

The Knights were duly shown the door, and the Beegees were given a free ride to the elimination end of the draw.

For Beegees’ player-coach Scott Grimshaw, the destination, not the journey is the important part.

“I’ll take a quarter-final berth any day, no matter how we got there,” Grimshaw said.

“We are a little bit under done, with only five minutes in two weeks – we couldn’t arrange any other games because the clubs are all involved in this tournament.

“It’s a good early test – I know it’s only pre-season so the result isn’t everything.

“I’m more looking at our performance and how we are progressing as a team.”

Burleigh is one of the form sides in the competition, boasting 11 goals from its first two matches.

Grimshaw said he was looking forward to pitting his side against the cream of the Gold Coast clubs.

“It will be nice to have a run against a top side – we’ll see how it goes, but we will be ready for them,” he said.

With the club admittedly in the midst of a rebuilding phase, Grimshaw said the coming season was an opportunity to build on 2007.

“We aimed not to come last, we achieved that. We were second from the bottom, but that’s not last,” he said.

“Mid to top half of the table this year would be brilliant.”

In the women’s competition, the Coast has secured four of the six positions in round three.