The Barbarians are facing an uphill battle as they prepare to face the highly-fancied Harbour Knights outfit in their coming encounter.
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The win-less Baa Baas will make the trip to Coffs Harbour for round four of the New England Rugby Union competition on Saturday and coach Scott Bremner is well-aware of the tough task they have at hand.
"They are one of the benchmark teams, no doubt about it so far in the competition," he said.
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"The combining of the two clubs, you end up with some pretty handy footballers playing through all their grades so it will be a tough contest but we will give it our best shot."
Injuries have already wreaked havoc on Bremner's side so far with seven going down in their round two match against St Albert's College. Bremner is hopeful a handful will return for the Coffs clash so they can begin building momentum.
"We have had a series of injuries which has slowed people down and taken away their ability to play or their effectiveness," he told The Armidale Express.
"I think there's a few teams in the competition that are very, very strong and then a few like ourselves that are competing.
"But we can only get better at what we are doing and it will hopefully cause a few upsets at the end of the season."
The Baa Baas second grade team have won their last two matches and Bremner has already dipped into their squad to fill the gaps in the top grade.
"There's a couple of fellas I'm half thinking they need to play first grade - they are playing very well in second grade - but I don't want to disrupt second grade too much because they are rolling along very well," he said.