Second place last year and centenary celebrations this year are fuelling Te Puna's quest for the 2019 Baywide premier rugby title.
The team lost their final to Te Puke last season, ending a strong year for the club, where its premier and development sides were unbeaten in the first half of the season. While the club's triple-figure milestone will not be marked until Labour Weekend, premier coach Aidan Kuka says it is important for the side to perform well this season and they have taken away some learnings from last season to implement into their 2019 season.
"We have been building to this as a club for five to 10 years. But it is not a weight or burden, we have to be cool and calm and put the processes in place that we have worked on at training," Kuka says.
Kuka says learning from the 2018 campaign is important for them to improve this year.
"As a club we set goals and it is probably just learning from where we went wrong last year and putting a lot more time into that this year.