One bad afternoon that led to a loss to eventual premiers Brisbane Boys College was all that stood between The Southport School and another GPS premiership.

TSS coach Mike Wallace admitted it's been hard to gauge exactly where his team is at ahead of round one, but welcomes back several key players from last year's campaign as his side looks to go one better.

Overview with Mike Wallace:

“We haven’t seen the kids for the past two weeks so hopefully they’ve been behaving themselves and doing some training,” Wallace told Rugby News.

“We’ve got a really good bunch of kids this year that have been working hard on the core fundamentals of our game. We’ve been trying to upskill the players right across the team and we’ve been focussing hard on that. We focus more on skill and team work than we do on structure and that’s continued this preseason.